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NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that suggest a head-on collision between two asteroids. Astronomers...

Here are some answers to questions from NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver at the February 1 NASA Budget Teleconference. Questions are paraphrased. Where is NASA...

Information and statements from NASA officials can be found here: NASA Budget Information

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The Orlando Sentinel is reporting that the Constellation program will be replaced with “a new $6 billion project to develop commercial rockets capable of taking...

The Orlando Sentinel reports: “NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the Moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there —...

Category: Fiction Reviewed by: Ted Spitzmiller Title: Project Mars: A Technical Tale Author: Wernher von Braun NSS Amazon link for this book Bookfinder.com link for...

The Wall Street Journal reports: “The White House has decided to begin funding private companies to carry NASA astronauts into space, but the proposal faces...

EADS Astrium, Europe’s largest space company, is joining the growing list of companies interested in the potential of space solar power. The company is seeking...

The Online Journal of Space Communication, a project of the Society for Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) which is hosted online by Ohio University, has partnered...

The National Space Society (“NSS”) congratulates one of its own, Tim Pickens, on the sale of his successful pioneering NewSpace company, Orion Propulsion, Inc. (“OPI”),...

December 17th – 18th, 2009, Mojave, CA, USA and Yecheon-gun, ROK: The Yecheon Astro Space Center announced today that it has selected XCOR Aerospace as...

On December 7, 2009, in a star-studded ceremony at the Mojave Spaceport in Mojave, California, Virgin Galactic’s new commercial suborbital spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo (manufactured by Scaled...

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