Obama Considering Ares Cancellation, Orion Scale Back [Space] (8)
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NASA better come up with some good reasons to keep Ares and Orion alive, because Barack Obama is no JFK: The office of the President Elect has send them a questionnaire asking some tough questions about our favorite space program. You know, the one which is supposed to take Humanity back to the Moon and go to Mars. In fact, the questionare goes as far as asking if NASA could redesign the Orion spacecraft so ...
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Darnell Clayton said:
If Obama cancels the Ares rocket (w/out a replacement), I might have to pick up Chinese.
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Mike said:
Well there goes Mars...shame we lack the impetus and the political courage of the 1960's. Whatever happened to going just because it's there?
Man Pleads Guilty To Sending U.S. Space Info To China [China's Space Program] (3)
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In what's bound to be embarrassing for the Chinese space program, the president of high-tech company AMAC International has pleaded guilty to giving China military data about fueling systems for space launch vehicles. Shu Quan-Sheng is a Chinese native who's a naturalized U.S. citizen. The incident puts a black smear on the country's otherwise extremely successful space endeavor. Shu admitted handing Beijing information about the design and development of a fueling system for space launch ...
Hubble Resumes Operations, Sends Back Picture of Lost Starfox 64 Level [Hubble Space Telescope] (9)
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The Hubble Telescope, which was quite nearly lost this month to a combination of old age and a fritzy 486, has resumed "regular science operations" today, and sent back this spectacular picture of a pair of galaxies engaging in some kind of celestial slow dance. The mission to replace the Science Instrument Command and Data Handling unit (SIC&DH), the temperamental system at the heart this whole debacle, is planned for April of next year. Until ...
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Jeremiah said:
So pretty!
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Lorin said:
This news is fantastic. Now if they can only schedule the computer upgrade, Hubble would have a real future. In the meantime, what is the next leap forward in visible-spectrum telescopes? Should we put one on the moon?
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