Topic: Barack Obama
NASA and aerospace company ATK Aerospace Systems successfully tested Tuesday the most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine ever, even though its future in the space program remains in doubt. A huge roar and massive flames accompanied the two-minute "static" or non-flight test of ...
A key Senate panel approved Thursday a 2011 budget proposal for the US space agency NASA that would extend the space shuttle program in a compromise from the Obama administration's demands. Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation ...
A key Senate panel approved Thursday a 2011 budget proposal for the US space agency NASA that would extend the space shuttle program in a compromise from the Obama administration's demands. Republican and Democratic members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation ...
Senate panel extends life of space shuttle, compromises with Obama on NASA's futurePresident Barack Obama's plan to send U.S. astronauts to an asteroid and other deep space destinations instead of returning to the moon has received a boost from a Senate panel ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate oversight committee unanimously passed a plan on Thursday to postpone retirement of the space shuttle as part of a job-saving compromise to the Obama administration's wish to end NASA's program to return astronauts to the moon. ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday outlined a space policy that offers an expanded role for foreign governments including possibly China and private companies in monitoring Earth's climate, tracking and removing orbital debris and protecting satellites. The strategy ...
President Barack Obama on Monday laid out an overarching new US policy on outer space, calling for more international and private sector cooperation on exploration, climate change and orbiting debris. The release of the new policy did not contain new, specific announcements, ...
The privately-owned American firm SpaceX Friday aborted a first bid to launch its Falcon 9 rocket, seen as a key step in developing commercial launchers to put astronauts into space. The launch was abandoned just a few seconds before blastoff, but the ...
The privately-owned SpaceX prepares for a first rocket flight on Friday, a key test in developing commercial launchers capable of servicing the orbiting International Space Station. President Barack Obama hopes the private sector will fill the gap in supplying the ISS between ...
The space shuttle Atlantis undocked on Sunday from the International Space Station (ISS) and headed back to Earth to complete its final mission after successfully delivering tons of supplies. The shuttle uncoupled from the orbiting space laboratory at 11:22 am (1522 GMT) ...
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