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NASA Announces Long Term Plans for the Moon
NASA announced new details about its lunar ambitions today, providing details about other nations will get involved in a return…
NASA is Go for Hubble Repair
Finally some good news for the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA announced a new space shuttle mission to repair and upgrade…
NASA’s Wise Satellite Moves Ahead
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer team got the good news this week when their space telescope was approved for construction.…
New Crew Exploration Vehicle Named Orion
NASA officially announced today that the crew exploration vehicle will be named Orion. This is the new capsule that will…
NASA Invests in SpaceX and Rocketplane Kistler
NASA has announced a $500 million investment in two aerospace companies: SpaceX and Rocketplane-Kistler to help develop vehicles capable of…
James Van Allen Dies
Renowned space scientist Dr. James A. Van Allen died this morning at the age of 91. Although he had a…
Genesis 1 Carrying a NASA Experiment
Bigelow Aerospace's inflatable Genesis 1 habitat has a stowaway on board; an experiment for NASA called Genebox. This shoebox-sized experiment…
NASA Renames New Exploration Vehicles
NASA announced its new names for the next generation of its human space exploration program, which will return astronauts to…
$250,000 Prize for Semi-Autonomous Robots
As part of its Centennial Challenges, NASA has encouraged inventors from outside the agency to demonstrate out of the box…
Airborne Infrared Telescope Gets Another Chance
During the recently announced NASA science cutbacks, several missions were cut or dramatically scaled back. One mission that was on…