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30 August 2010
NASA Funds Experimental “Near Space” Vehicles
Commercial space companies Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems have been awarded a total of $475,000 to perform test flights of their experimental vehicles near the edge of space. The award is part of NASA's Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR), which seeks to develop commercial reusable transportation to near space for frequent, low-cost trips [...]
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27 February 2010
KSC Workers Rally to Continue Constellation and Extend Shuttle
About 2,000 people turned out for a "Save Our Space Exploration" jobs rally in Titusville, Florida on Saturday. Organized by union leaders, the event focused on preserving jobs at Kennedy Space Center, vital to the economy on the Space Coast. "Canceling the Constellation program is a movement away from what we Floridians [...]
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02 February 2010
The Faces of the "New Frontier" of NASA's Commercial Space Flight Plan
NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden introduced today five commercial space companies that NASA will use to support transport of crew to and from low Earth orbit as part of the Commercial Crew Development program. The firms were selected in an open competition for $50 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of [...]
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13 July 2009
A Tale of Two Launches
While space shuttle Endeavour's launch on Monday was scrubbed –again — due to weather, another launch took place later, which successfully launched the first commercial payload on board a rocket built by a commercial space company. SpaceX launched their Falcon 1 rocket from Omelek Island at Kwajalein Atoll to put a Malaysian RazakSAT satellite [...]
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