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Asteroid capture: NASA plans to drag space rock into lunar orbit
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on Thursday to outline the agency's plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around the moon. NASA...
Tags: Space Programs, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology, Barack Obama
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NASA chief views prototype ion engine for asteroid-capture mission; meets with engineers
AP Science WriterPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. Bolden checked on...Tags: Space Programs, Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Science and Technology
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NASA's JPL to 'lasso' an asteroid
A proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit in the Earth-moon system is a stepping stone to sending humans to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bolden visited the La Caņada...
Tags: Space Programs, Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Google Inc.
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NASA boss likes view from Langley
— Nestled inside a cockpit simulator, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden guided a passenger jet through a pea soup fog and touched down on the airport runway with nary a bump. Workers at NASA Langley Research Center hope he can navigate a budget...
Tags: Space Programs, Budgets and Budgeting, NASA, Federal Aviation Administration, Aerospace Manufacturing
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NASA head Bolden to tour Langley Research Center Friday
HAMPTON -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will tour NASA-Langley Research Center Friday, where he’ll get a look at ongoing work and take a turn in a cockpit simulator. Bolden will visit Langley’s Air Traffic Operations Laboratory and join...Tags: NASA, Air Transportation Industry
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Third-grader names asteroid that is focus of NASA mission
Asteroid (101955)1999 RQ36 doesn't really roll off the tongue, but asteroid Bennu? That's an asteroid that a person, a country and the world can get excited about. This week, NASA announced that 9-year-old Michael Toler Puzio of North Carolina had won...
Tags: Space Programs, NASA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Satellite Technology, Science and Technology
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Antares rocket blasts into orbit for first time in test for NASA
In its maiden flight to space, a commercially built 13-story rocket blasted off from a launch pad off the coast of Virginia in a test mission for NASA. The Antares rocket, developed by Orbital Sciences Corp., roared into orbit after launching Sunday...
Tags: Space Programs, Science, NASA, Atlantic Ocean, Federal Aviation Administration
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Congress members urge NASA to spare planetary science funding
This post has been updated. See below for details.Don't cut planetary science funding, members of Congress urged NASA on Friday. In a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), urged the space agency to maintain funding levels for...Tags: Space Programs, Budgets and Budgeting, NASA, Barbara Boxer, Science and Technology
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Naval Academy astronauts return to inspire next generation
The course is Human Space Flight. The subject for today: analogues — the scenarios found in the world or contrived in the laboratory that NASA uses to simulate work and life aboard a space ship. Naval Academy professor Ken Reightler leads the...
Tags: Space Programs, NASA, United States Naval Academy, Engineering, Science and Technology
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines
Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...
Tags: Space Programs, Amazon.com Inc., NASA, Bodies of Water, Petroleum Industry
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NASA observation satellite blasts into orbit from Vandenberg
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE -- A 19-story white rocket successfully lifted a NASA science satellite into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base, located northwest of Santa Barbara. The picture-perfect launch, which took place Monday at 10:02 a.m. PST,...
Tags: NASA, Conservation, U.S. Geological Survey, Satellite Technology, Ecosystems
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Year in Review: JPL reaches Mars, Leko let go, a new market sprouts up
“We're safe on Mars.” La Caņada Flintridge's connection to the heavens made for a sensational story in 2012, as Jet Propulsion Laboratory safely landed the NASA rover Curiosity on the Red Planet. JPL engineer Al Chen made the announcement...
Tags: Space Programs, Carol Liu, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, NASA, Conservation
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