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Business/Financial

How To Cut Your Commute To Mars: Engineers Study Constant Acceleration, Deceleration To Slash Half-Year Trip

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Monday, October 13th, 2008

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Continual Speedup, Slowdown Could Provide An Artificial Gravity, Eliminating Harm Weightlessness Causes Astronauts HAMPTON, Va. -- Engineers working on the next-generation Constellation Program spaceship system design are considering propulsion units that would slash the current half-year commuting time from Earth to Mars, a senior Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] executive said. This might be accomplished by having the future Ares V heavy-lifter rocket hoist propulsion units or extra propellant into Earth orbit. Then, when the Ares I rocket lifts the Orion…

Budget

House Appropriators Add Restrictions And Reporting Requirement To Battleship, Reject Cut

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Congress

House Appropriators Concerned With ‘Risky’ Reconciliation Approach To Fund Munitions, F-35 Plans

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Budget

Lawmakers Push Shipbuilding Accountability And Submarine Reports In House Appropriations Bill

The House Appropriations Committee’s mark of the FY ‘27 defense spending bill includes shipbuilding accountability provisions given increasing cost-to-complete requests and perennially delayed shipbuilding programs. The bill report said that […]

Congress

Six F-35Bs Delivered Without Radars Thus Far, Program Director Says

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