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Astronauts Face New Frontier: Unemployment

(Feb. 26) -- For 40 years, the American astronaut has been an icon of bravery and derring-do. But could these elite fliers be about to get their pink slips? Under a proposal by President Barack Obama, NASA's campaign to send astronauts to the moon would be canceled, and the spaceship NASA has been building to replace the...

Private Firms Look to Cash In on NASA Cuts

(Feb. 1) – With NASA's Constellation program cut from the budget President Obama proposed Monday, private companies have the chance to play a bigger role in the next space race. While the budget request for fiscal year 2011 eliminates the Constellation program – which would have replaced the space shuttle with...

Obama to Propose Stimulus for Outsourcing NASA

WASHINGTON (Jan. 31) -- Getting to space is about to be outsourced. The Obama administration on Monday will propose in its new budget spending billions of dollars to encourage private companies to build, launch and operate spacecraft for NASA and others. Uncle Sam would buy its astronauts a ride into space just like...

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Old Meteorite Reveals Clues In Red Planet Mystery

A meteorite that fell to Earth more than 40 years ago is helping scientists unlock clues regarding the makeup of Mars' atmosphere and its potential implications to help shape future missions to search for evidence of life on the Red Planet, a new study finds.

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05/31/12 SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth, ends historic trip Source: San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco CA The SpaceX Dragon supply ship returned to Earth on Thursday, ending its revolutionary nine-day voyage to the International Space Station with an old-fashioned splashdown in the Pacific.
05/31/12 SpaceX Dragon Returns to Earth Source: FOX - FOX 13 - Memphis TN The SpaceX Dragon supply ship returned to Earth on Thursday, ending its revolutionary nine-day voyage to the International Space Station with an old-fashioned splashdown in the Pacific.
05/31/12 UNH to analyze 'bellwether' solar event data from... Source: PhysOrg.com The solar event created what is known as a ground-level enhancement (GLE), which is a blast of high-energy particles registered by ground stations on Earth after a very large solar flare and/or another explosive mechanism known as a coronal mass ejection (CME).
05/31/12 Slideshow: Pinpoint splashdown ends first visit to... Source: Planet Analog (CMP) The Dragon cargo ship that last week became the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station floated back to Earth just before noon eastern time on Thursday (May 31), splashing down on target in the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles west of Baja California.
05/31/12 Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane to land Source: CW - KTLA 5 - Los Angeles CA After more than a year in space, the U.S. Air Force's secretive robotic space plane, the X-37B, is coming down soon.