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Opinion: Is Congress About to Hand Russia the Keys to Space?

(July 22) -- With the coming retirement of the Space Shuttle, the most immediate issue in human spaceflight is how to get U.S. crews to the International Space Station. When the decision was made in 2004 to retire the shuttle, the plan was to have a small "gap" starting this year, during which the Russians would provide...

Opinion: SpaceX Launch Shows Promise of Private Space Travel

(June 7) -- Much was riding on the launch Friday of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, including the credibility of private spaceflight's fiercest critics. Ever since the administration's NASA budget proposal was announced in early February, some of the space community has been up in arms about its plan to cancel NASA's...

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...

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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NASA Space Station Codes Were On Stolen Laptop

A laptop stolen from NASA last year was unencrypted and contained command and control codes for the International Space Station on it, the agency's inspector general told a United States House subcommittee yesterday (Feb. 29).

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Phillip B. Crook: WATCH: Glee's 24 Gayest Moments

If the American Family Association thought that the first season of Glee was morally opposed to (supposed) traditional family values, then they must have really lost it when season 2 rolled out a full-on buffet of gleefully gay moments for viewers to devour.

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