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Obama trims US space ambitionsWashington (AFP) Jan 30, 2010 Facing budgetary constraints, President Barack Obama will scale back US space ambitions, abandoning plans to return to the moon by 2020 and confining NASA to lower orbits for years to come. The shift will be unveiled Monday when Obama presents his 2011 budget blueprint to Congress, according to an external White House advisor. "Constellation is dead," the advisor told AFP on Friday, referring to a program that envisioned using Earth's nearest neighbor as a base for manned expeditions to Mars. ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Feb 01, 2010The Commercial Spaceflight Federation is issuing the following statement applauding NASA's anticipated announcement of a $6 billion competitive, commercial crew program and welcoming the President's show of support for NASA with his significant planned increase for NASA's overall budget: Bretton Alexander, President of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation: "NASA investment in the co ... more  
San Francisco (AFP) Jan 29, 2010As Apple takes a bruising over the moniker of its latest creation some technology analysts are shrugging off the fuss over the name to focus on what's inside the iPad: a speedy new chip. Critics and fans have been filling the 60-day void between this week's unveiling of what Apple chief executive Steve Jobs hailed as a "revolutionary" device and the time the first models will begin shipping ... more  
Irinjalakuda, India (PTI) Feb 01, 2010Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on Friday said ISRO should take steps to bring down the cost of the payload of a space craft from $2,000 per kg now. "One of the main challenges before the space agency was to bring down considerably the cost of the payload from its existing price," Mr. Kalam said in his inaugural address at a reception accorded to ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan at his n ... more |
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First UK Service Pilot Flies F-35Patuxent River MD (SPX) Feb 01, 2010 A Royal Air Force officer on Tuesday became the first active-duty service pilot from the United Kingdom to take to the skies in a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). RAF Squadron Leader Steve Long piloted BF-2, the second short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) F-35B, over Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., logging the aircraft's 18th mission. Long departed at 9:55 a.m. EST and flew the aircraft to 20,000 feet, before landing 1.3 hours later. Both th ... read more |
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