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The space shuttle Endeavour, atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), is seen shortly after takeoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The SCA, a modified 747 jetliner is flying Endeavour to Los Angeles where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center. This is the final ferry flight scheduled in the...
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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities under way around the world. NASA’s retired shuttle orbiter Endeavour receives weather clearance at daybreak to begin a...
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Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities under way around the world. In Florida, a less than promising weather outlook keeps NASA’s retired shuttle orbiter Endeavour...
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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities under way around the world, plus a summary from the weekend. In Cape Canaveral, Fla., NASA delays until Tuesday the...
Three U. S. and Russian astronauts descended safely to Earth aboard a Soyuz spacecraft late Sunday, following a 125-day mission to the International Space Station.
Helicopter born Russian recovery forces quickly greeted U. S. astronaut Joe Acaba and cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin, following their touchdown at 10:53 p.m., EDT in Kazakhstan, north of Arkalyk.
All three men appeared to be in good spirits, according to NASA spokeman Josh Bylery, who was among the recovery forces.
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On Oct. 1, theU. S.government will enter the 2013 fiscal year without a budget — not so unusual in recent years as lawmakers attempt to deal with mounting deficits and pressures to increase spending.
A likely Continuing Resolution, legislation that cleared the U. S. House on Thursday, promises to hold spending across the government at 2012 levels for six months beyond Oct. 1 — allowing the November presidential and congressional elections to come and go — if necessary, to ensure some stability.
But on Jan. 2, the CR could give away to a new law, the Budget Control Act of 2011, passed with bi-partisan support by the House and Senate to impose a mandatory $1.2...
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Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. In Washington, policymakers, astronauts and the public gather to pay tribute to Apollo 11 commander...
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Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. In Washington today, the nation honors Neil Armstrong, who died in August following a heart ailment...
The Andromeda Galaxy. Image Credit/NASA
NASA and the agency’s prime contractors for the Space Launch System and Orion/Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the primary elements of the first U. S. human deep space exploration capability since the Apollo program and potential major new science initiatives, stressed the need for stable budgets before a House oversight panel on Wednesday.
However, that may be...
As big as a 14-story building – that’s the size of a newly discovered space rock that is now labeled as a “potentially hazardous asteroid” – which means that it could collide with Earth in the distant future.
Asteroid 2012 QG42 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona on August 26, 2012.
This Thursday – that’s tomorrow evening U.S. time —...
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