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13 November 2008
Man Facing 15 Year Jail Term for Ripping Off NASA, Endangering Shuttle Crew
Oh dear. This is a tough lesson in "don't sell NASA defective goods!" It would appear that even NASA suffers from common infliction of shoddy contractors. Have you ever hired a plumber to find the leaking got worse? Have you hired a landscaping company who accidentally ripped up your prize hydrangeas? Have you purchased a passive [...]
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30 September 2008
Hubble Malfunction Pushes Atlantis Service Mission into 2009
The fifth and final service mission to the Hubble Space Telescope is to be postponed until January as a mystery malfunction on Saturday crippled the observatory's ability to transmit data to Earth. The STS-125 mission was set to launch in two weeks so essential upgrades to Hubble could be carried out, but Space Shuttle Atlantis [...]
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29 August 2008
NASA is Making Preliminary Plans to Extend Shuttle Launches Beyond 2010
According to an internal email, NASA staff have been instructed to initiate a study into extending the operational lifetime of the Shuttle to bridge the 5-year gap between planned Shuttle retirement and Constellation commencement. In an apparent U-turn in the US space agency's policy, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has ordered a feasibility study to assess [...]
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19 August 2008
Fay Forces Shutdown of NASA's Kennedy Space Center
Topical Storm Fay has made landfall along Florida's southwest coastline and is working inland. Officials at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have decided to close down operations for 24 hours as a precautionary measure. Kennedy's 15,000 staff have been instructed to stay at home, although a small number of emergency personnel remain on site to monitor [...]
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23 June 2008
US Senator: NASA Job Losses Could Generate Jobs for Russian Space Program
It's not good news, but it could be worse. On Monday, NASA announced that it anticipates shedding 3,000-4,000 jobs in two years once the Space Shuttle fleet is retired to make way for the Constellation Program. This is obviously terrible news for the staff, scientists and engineers and their families, but it is in improvement [...]
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08 May 2008
Legendary Astronaut John Glenn Speaks Out On Shuttle Decommissioning
On Tuesday, to help out with the 50-year anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, clips from 100 hours of restored archive footage of NASA missions were made public. At the screening, John Glenn, America's first astronaut to orbit the Earth, watched the clips and had time to reminisce over the administration's "Glory Years". [...]
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13 February 2008
Spies Caught Selling Shuttle Secrets to the Chinese
You wouldn't think espionage would have much of a place here in Universe Today, but you'd be wrong. Four people in the US were arrested recently, accused of selling selling secrets to the Chinese. And what were they selling? Details about the space shuttle and other US aerospace programs.
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07 December 2007
Shuttle Launch No Earlier Than Saturday
The crew of STS-122 and the Columbus science module will have to wait a little longer for their ride to space. The launch of space shuttle Atlantis has been pushed back to no earlier than Saturday, December 8. After assessing the problem with the engine cutoff sensors that scrubbed Thursday’s scheduled liftoff, NASA’s [...]
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31 August 2007
NASA is Certain There Were No Drunk Astronauts
Now what should we believe? A NASA safety review released on Wednesday says that there's no evidence that astronauts were drunk when they flew into space. The review was conducted by NASA chief of Safety and Mission Assurance Bryan O'Connor, who looked into the last 20 years of NASA spaceflights.
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13 August 2007
NASA Mulls Orbital Shuttle Repair
As it was approaching the International Space Station, the space shuttle Endeavour performed a back flip maneuver to expose its underside to the station residents. The astronauts captured high-resolution images of the shuttle's underbelly, and uploaded them to NASA analysts to see how the shuttle fared during takeoff. Not well, apparently.
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09 August 2007
Endeavour is Off to the Space Station
Thanks to the improved weather, the space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from Florida's Cape Canaveral on Wednesday right on schedule, at 2236 UTC (6:36 pm EDT). Within minutes, the shuttle had released its solid rocket boosters and external fuel tank, and was drifting right on target towards Friday's encounter with the International Space Station.
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07 August 2007
Weather Looks Good For Endeavour's Wednesday Launch
Weather in Florida this time of year can be dramatic. Thunderstorms, rain and lightning can appear at any time - and that's not good for launching space shuttles. Fortunately, a heat wave has swept across the area around Cape Canaveral, holding off the typical thunderstorm conditions, and improving Endeavour's chances for blasting off on Wednesday.
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26 July 2007
Drunk Astronauts Were Allowed to Fly
Now this is a NASA scandal that I never saw coming. Apparently twice in the past, shuttle astronauts were permitted to fly, even though they had levels of alcohol in their system so high they posed a risk to the shuttle mission. What?! Aviation Week is reporting that an independent 8-person panel was convened to study [...]
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03 May 2007
Train Carrying Shuttle Parts Derails
A Union Pacific train carrying space shuttle parts derailed on Wednesday, injuring six people. The train derailed when the wooden trestle it was traveling across collapsed, near the Tombigbee River in western Alabama. The train was carrying 8 solid rocket booster motors and two end cones for future shuttle missions. These are interchangeable parts, and would [...]
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