Week In Space

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It’s been a given that the retirement of the space shuttle would lead to mass layoffs at NASA and its contractors. Job cuts are now beginnning to hit the aerospace workforce, primarily because of the budgets for Fiscal Year 2010, which begin the process of shuttle-to-Constellation transition. Making matters worse, United Launch Alliance […]

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 In the news this week, the first European Automated Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, docked with the International Space Station last thursday. The cargo ship carried over 7500 pounds of supplies fro the Expedition 16 and 17 crews. Also, NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is entering final testing and preparation for launch […]

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This week we look at some events that will affect the space industry in Florida. A partnership between the state and Google Lunar x-Prize, Orbital Sciences Corp. wining the NASA COTS contract and a proposal from Kennedy Space Center to bulid two new launch pads at KSC for private launch providers.
Space Florida has […]

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Atlantis rolls back to the Vehicle Assembly buliding for hal damage repairs; April or May launch seems likely. The first USAF Atlas EELV mission was successfully launched by United Launch Alliance and placed six experimental satellites into orbit. Construction of the South American Soyuz launch complex got underway at the Guiana Space Centre […]

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Atlantis forced to roll back to VAB; New Horizons gets gravity assist from Jupiter; STEREO provides new insight into Coronal Mass Ejections; Construction of Soyuz launch site in South America begins. In commentary this week, we examine the budget reductions NASA faces in FY 2007, its impact to the Orion crew exploration vehicle, […]

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This week, the space shuttle Discovery successfully completed STS-121 and brought to a conclusion NASA’s post-Columbia return to flight efforts. In this special program, We take a look back at the past 3 1/2 years and how that provides a frame of reference for NASA’s future exploraiton of the Moon, Mars and beyond.
STS-121 […]