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NASA Postpones Second Round of Space Station Supply Contract Awards, Drops Boeing
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in NASA, Ares, Constellation, Spaceflight, Shuttle, Orion, Space, Marshall Space Flight Center, Heavy Lift Vehicle, Stennis, Orbital Sciences, ATK, SLS, MPCV, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Obama, Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle, Space Launch System, United Launch Alliance, Delta IV, Space Exploration, ULA, Vision for Space Exploration, astronaut, Aerojet, space shuttle, EFT-1, Delta-IV Heavy, SLS, EM-1, QM-1, Orbital ATKOrbital ATK Signs Contract to Provide Launch Abort Motor for Orion
On Tuesday, July 7, Orbital ATK signed a contact with Lockheed Martin to provide the solid rocket motor for the launch abort system of NASA’s Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. The $98 million contract will fund the development and qualification tests of the launch abort motor as well as its first two operational flights on Orion. […] More
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This week, NASA announced the selection of 12 partnerships within the commercial industry to help develop the exploration capabilities needed to pioneer humans to deep space destinations. Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships, or NextSTEP, will work alongside NASA to advance concept studies and technology development projects in three key areas: advanced propulsion, habitation, and small […] More
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First Mission to Dwarf Planet Set for Ceres Arrival, Sees Surprising ‘Bright Spots’ Beyond Compare
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft is about to become history’s first mission to visit a dwarf planet, and it’s being greeted by “bright spots” on Ceres‘ surface that truly have “no analog in the Solar System,” Prof. Chris Russell, principal investigator for the Dawn mission, based at the University of California, Los Angeles, told AmericaSpace exclusively. It […] More
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Ceres Shows Mystifying Faces and Perplexing White Spots to NASA’s Dawn
A fresh set of images of dwarf planet Ceres from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows it coming sharper into focus but still holding onto her mysterious nature rather tenaciously, especially with regard to the perplexing “white spots,” the mission’s lead scientist told AmericaSpace. Indeed for the scientists “the white spots are a source of frustration for […] More
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Impressive 13 Missions On Tap for ULA in 2015
As it enters its ninth year of operations since its formation as a merger between Boeing and Lockheed Martin in December 2006, United Launch Alliance (ULA)—the Centennial, Colo.-based operator of the Atlas V, Delta IV, and Delta II boosters out of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., and Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.—will attempt to […] More
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Dawn’s Greatest Glimpse Yet of Ceres Hints at Startling Revelations Soon to Come
We’ve wondered about Ceres‘ nature and true identity for over two centuries, ever since it was discovered on New Year’s Day, 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi of Italy. It’s been alternately classified as a planet, asteroid, and more recently as a dwarf planet. Just gander in amazement at the greatest glimpse yet of the infant world […] More
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Huge Prospects for Science and Humans to Mars: Conversation With Hubble Astronaut/NASA Science Chief John Grunsfeld (Part 2)
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL — “A great path” lies ahead for “science and launching humans to Mars,” says astronaut and NASA science chief John Grunsfeld, during Part Two of a wide-ranging conversation with AmericaSpace at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in the midst of the maiden launch of NASA’s new Orion deep space capsule. Be […] More
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Space Travel Risks Minimized by Capsules: Conversation With Hubble Astronaut/NASA Science Chief John Grunsfeld (Part 1)
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL — Everyone in the space business knows it’s a “risky business” and will remain so for the foreseeable future. And no one knows that better than the astronauts and cosmonauts who bravely volunteer to place themselves and their souls in the utmost peril, strapped on top of rockets loaded with mammoth quantities […] More
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NASA’s Revolutionary Dawn Spacecraft Begins Final Approach Phase to Dwarf Planet Ceres
After a seven-year trek, and at the dawn of a new year, NASA’s revolutionary Dawn spacecraft has begun the final approach phase to dwarf planet Ceres for an unprecedented examination of this mysterious and never-before-visited world. Coincidentally, Ceres was discovered on New Year’s Day, Jan. 1, 1801, by Giuseppe Piazzi of Italy. Ceres is the […] More
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Mandatory Ascent Abort System Launch Test Lies Ahead Before Orion’s First Crewed NASA SLS Blastoff
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL — Before our astronauts will ever be allowed to step inside and soar to space aboard NASA’s new Orion deep space crew capsule, a critical test flight proving out the efficacy of the in-flight launch abort system and hardware must first be flown. “We cannot put people on board of Orion until […] More
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Orbital Contracts Russian RD-181 Engines to Launch Future Antares Flights
When an Orbital Sciences Corporation Antares rocket exploded seconds after liftoff on the company’s third contracted NASA resupply flight to the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 28, 2014, the first thing that came to everyone’s mind was the 40-year-old Soviet-era Russian NK-33 engines (refurbished by Aerojet Rocketdyne and redesignated as the AJ-26) used to […] More
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Orbital Sciences Contracts ULA’s Atlas-V for Cygnus CRS Flights Until Upgraded Antares is Ready
When Orbital Sciences Corporation launched their Cygnus Orb-3 ISS resupply mission for NASA, nobody would have thought the flight would end in a spectacular explosion, but that’s exactly what happened, and in the time since Orbital has dusted the dirt off their shoes and implemented a contingency plan to overcome the setback quickly in order to […] More
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