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Sally Ride, first US woman in space, dies at 61
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Space used to be a man's world. Then came Sally Ride, who blazed a cosmic trail into orbit for U.S. women. With a pitch perfect name out of a pop song refrain, she joined the select club of American space heroes the public knew by...
Tags: Technology, Kennedy Space Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barack Obama, Science and Technology
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Asteroid capture: NASA plans to drag space rock into lunar orbit
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on Thursday to outline the agency's plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around the moon. NASA...
Tags: Barack Obama, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology, NASA, Space Programs
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NASA chief views prototype ion engine for asteroid-capture mission; meets with engineers
AP Science WriterPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. Bolden checked on...Tags: Orion Space Mission, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology, Science, NASA
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NASA's JPL to 'lasso' an asteroid
A proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit in the Earth-moon system is a stepping stone to sending humans to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bolden visited the La Caņada...
Tags: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Google Inc., Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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NASA head Bolden to tour Langley Research Center Friday
HAMPTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will tour NASA-Langley Research Center Friday, where he’ll get a look at ongoing work and take a turn in a cockpit simulator. Bolden will visit Langley’s Air Traffic Operations Laboratory and join...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, NASA
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Third-grader names asteroid that is focus of NASA mission
Asteroid (101955)1999 RQ36 doesn't really roll off the tongue, but asteroid Bennu? That's an asteroid that a person, a country and the world can get excited about. This week, NASA announced that 9-year-old Michael Toler Puzio of North Carolina had won...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Satellite Technology, NASA
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Antares rocket blasts into orbit for first time in test for NASA
In its maiden flight to space, a commercially built 13-story rocket blasted off from a launch pad off the coast of Virginia in a test mission for NASA. The Antares rocket, developed by Orbital Sciences Corp., roared into orbit after launching Sunday...
Tags: Orbital Sciences Corporation, Science and Technology, Satellite Technology, Atlantic Ocean, Federal Aviation Administration
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Congress members urge NASA to spare planetary science funding
This post has been updated. See below for details.Don't cut planetary science funding, members of Congress urged NASA on Friday. In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), urged the space agency to maintain funding levels for...Tags: Adam B. Schiff, Barbara Boxer, U.S. Congress, Science and Technology, Adam Schiff
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Naval Academy astronauts return to inspire next generation
The course is Human Space Flight. The subject for today: analogues — the scenarios found in the world or contrived in the laboratory that NASA uses to simulate work and life aboard a space ship. Naval Academy professor Ken Reightler leads the...
Tags: Technology, Barack Obama, Science and Technology, Robert Heinlein, United States Naval Academy
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines
Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...
Tags: Amazon Kindle, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Jeff Bezos, Human Interest, Science and Technology
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NASA observation satellite blasts into orbit from Vandenberg
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE -- A 19-story white rocket successfully lifted a NASA science satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, located northwest of Santa Barbara. The picture-perfect launch, which took place Monday at 10:02 a.m. PST,...
Tags: Orbital Sciences Corporation, Ecosystems, U.S. Geological Survey, Satellite Technology, Conservation
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NASA will remain a leader in human spaceflight, top official says
NASA’s human spaceflight program is “alive and well,” NASA chief Charles Bolden told a committee convened to explore the space program’s future goals and direction. “Those who question whether we can still lead in space...
Tags: Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Barack Obama, Science and Technology, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NASA
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