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Debate: Obama's Space Privatization Plan Is a Costly Mistake

(April 15) -- President Barack Obama is in Florida today to argue his case for privatizing the human spaceflight program. It will be a tough sell. The president's vision for privatizing American space exploration may sound appealing initially, but it rests on flawed assumptions and could result in the United States...

Debate: A Space Program for the Rest of Us

(April 15) -- While my admiration for and gratitude to Neil Armstrong and other astronauts and NASA officials from the Apollo era know no bounds, that doesn't mean they are the first people to whom I would go for space policy advice. The job of an astronaut or a flight director requires a certain skill set, but it doesn't...

Space Shuttle Launch Called 'Most Beautiful' Ever

(April 5) -- The oldest and trustiest space shuttle in NASA's fleet, Discovery, blasted off today from Cape Canaveral, Fla., carrying a crew of seven and an 8-ton stockpile of supplies destined for the International Space Station. NASA called the predawn launch "spectacular," "picture-perfect" and its "most visually...

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...

NASA Chief Takes Heat for Not Shooting for Moon

WASHINGTON (Feb. 2) – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden won a Distinguished Flying Cross as a combat pilot in Vietnam, but this week he's caught in a different kind of crossfire. Bolden inherited a program to return to the moon a full half-century after the first lunar program. On Monday, the White House canceled...

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04/19/12 After Discovery's final journey, space shuttle lands... Source: The Washington Times - Washington DC The Space Shuttle Discovery, which in its 27 years logged more than 148 million miles, regularly withstood 3,000-degree temperatures and circled the Earth more than 5,000 times, finally came to rest on Thursday.
09/28/10 Nelson: Human-spaceflight program is 'teetering on the... Source: Orlando Sentinel - Orlando FL U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson warned Monday that if Congress does not pass NASA legislation this week, America's human-spaceflight program could be "teetering on the edge" of disaster.