Apr 16 2014
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It's like staring at the night sky only instead of looking up to see stars and constellations, we're looking at the…
Jan 31 2012
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A few years ago, back when the Constellation Program was still alive, NASA engineers discovered that the Ares I…
Oct 16 2011
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This is NGC 2467, an energetic star-forming region found in the constellation Puppis. This image from the European…
Jul 25 2011
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Between those bizarre structures, the impossible colors up in the night sky, and the fact that this photo was…
Jun 27 2011
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The Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years in diameter, but that doesn't mean we're necessarily able to see…
Jan 24 2011
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Betelgeuse has been hogging the headlines lately, but what about the other stars in the constellation of Orion? This…
Sep 1 2010
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NASA's DM-2 rocket motor successfully fired for two minutes this week, pumping out a massive cloud of smoke while…
Apr 15 2010
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Obama's space plan is bad for the United States' future as a technological superpower. It's actually bad for the…
Mar 28 2010
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If anyone has an Ares 1 rocket they need launching, NASA has a brand new, never-been-used $500 million mobile…
Feb 5 2010
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Once upon a time, a President thought that taking humans "to the Moon and the planets beyond" was not only good for…
Dec 18 2009
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How close are we to long-term human habitation beyond low-Earth orbit? Colonies on the moon or Mars are still many…
Aug 14 2009
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A panel of space experts assembled by President Obama were expected to inform the White House today that unless they…
Jul 10 2009
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Looks like Flash Gordon came to Virginia this Wednesday. Here you have images and video of the spectacular Max…
Jun 25 2009
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While there are some naysayers who claim that Orion, Ares I and V are not the best option to take us back into real…
May 9 2009
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May 2019: Our scheduled return to the moon. There's plenty of laboring to be done on the Constellation Program…
Mar 30 2009
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NASA is now showing Orion—the spacecraft that will take humans to the Moon and Mars—at the National Mall in…
Feb 3 2009
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Western Digital may have announced the world's first 2TB 3.5" hard drive last week, but this week, Seagate fired back…
Dec 30 2008
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Accompanying a long piece on the future of NASA's Orion/Constellation system, the NYTimes threw together a nice…
Nov 9 2008
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Click to view November 9, 1967, T-minus 8.9 seconds: Thousands of gallons of kerosene and liquid oxygen begin…
Oct 24 2008
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Buzz Aldrin has stepped from his pedestal once again to talk about the space program. No longer content to bash…