Quantcast
Channel: Popular Science - constellation program
Browsing all 14 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

An Unlikely Victim of Space Shuttle's Demise: Florida's Economy

Blast Off, Cash Off? courtesy of NASAJournalists have already spilled gallons of ink and hogged terabytes of bandwidth with stories about the implications of switching from the Space Shuttle to the new...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

NASA Tests All-Composite Material Version of its Orion Space Module

The Composite Crew ModuleNASAIt must be fun to be NASA. In an attempt to make a lighter, stronger and safer crew vehicle for future manned space missions, they've been beating up on an all-composite...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New Obama Budget Reported to Axe Constellation, Future Moon Missions

NASA's Doomed Workhorse Rocket, The Ares I Rumor has it the Obama administration's new budget will quash development of the Ares I and Ares V rockets. NASABad news on the Constellation front this...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

NASA Budget: Constellation Officially Canned, But The Deep-Space Future Is...

The Ares I-X The Constellation Program rockets will fly no more, but "aggressive" research into heavy-lift rockets should take us closer to manned missions in deep space. NASARumors circulated last...

View Article

NASA Introducing "Moonbase Alpha", a 3-D Game Set on the Moon

A meteor strikes, damaging solar arrays and life support systems, and as you watch the billowing dust cloud move ominously toward your lunar camp, you have to restore critical systems and oxygen flow....

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Senate Bill Defies Obama's NASA Plans, Restores Constellation and Adds Extra...

Final Tank Rolls Out The (perhaps) final space shuttle external fuel tank rolls out of Michoud Assembly Facility near New Orleans on Thursday. The Senate is working on a bill that would roll back some...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

House NASA Bill Cuts Funding for Commercial Space, Could Undermine...

NASA Remains Adrift, Awaiting a Mandate from the GovernmentMeanwhile, Boeing unveils new renderings of its own CST-100 capsule, contracted to ferry passengers and cargo to the ISS The U.S. Senate...

View Article

An Unlikely Victim of Space Shuttle's Demise: Florida's Economy

Journalists have already spilled gallons of ink and hogged terabytes of bandwidth with stories about the implications of switching from the Space Shuttle to the new…

View Article


NASA Tests All-Composite Material Version of its Orion Space Module

It must be fun to be NASA. In an attempt to make a lighter, stronger and safer crew vehicle for future manned space missions, they've been beating up on an all-composite…

View Article


New Obama Budget Reported to Axe Constellation, Future Moon Missions

Bad news on the Constellation front this morning: the Orlando Sentinel reports this morning that sources inside the Obama administration say the budget proposal to be…

View Article

NASA Budget: Constellation Officially Canned, But The Deep-Space Future Is...

Rumors circulated last week, but now it’s official: NASA won’t be sending manned missions back to the moon any time soon. But in what may seem like a gutting of NASA moon-…

View Article

NASA Introducing "Moonbase Alpha", a 3-D Game Set on the Moon

A meteor strikes, damaging solar arrays and life support systems, and as you watch the billowing dust cloud move ominously toward your lunar camp, you have to restore…

View Article

Senate Bill Defies Obama's NASA Plans, Restores Constellation and Adds Extra...

The space shuttle program ain't over till Congress says it's over. A Senate committee is working on a bill that would add an extra shuttle flight next year, as well as defy…

View Article


House NASA Bill Cuts Funding for Commercial Space, Could Undermine...

The U.S. Senate appeared to have cobbled together a compromise with the White House concerning NASA's immediate future as of late last week, but a new House Science Committee…

View Article
Browsing all 14 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images