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NOAA Withdraws from European Satellite Collaboration

By Joel Spark on December 9, 2011

The United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) informed European authorities on November 27th that it would be unable... Read more →

Press Releases

Bolden on NASA’s Space Program

By Staff Writers on December 9, 2011

Charles Bolden, NASA administrator (Credits: NASA). Recently, I had the privilege of participating in a bipartisan congressional event that... Read more →

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Backyard Space Jet To Be Uganda’s First

By Tereza Pultarova on December 9, 2011

The first African Space Shuttle is being built in the backyard (Credits: African Space Research Program). The African Space Research Program is... Read more →

News

Possible Identities of Chinese Astronauts Revealed

By Joel Spark on December 8, 2011

A pair of international space observers claim to have discovered the names of China’s second group of astronauts, or “taikonauts” the... Read more →

Media

Robotics Engineers Explain Roadmap for Crewed Mars Mission

By Merryl Azriel on December 8, 2011

Damon Landau and Nathan Strange, robotics engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, recently published a proposal in Scientific American for... Read more →

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NASA Space Debris Chief Minimizes Phobos-Grunt Threat

By Michael J. Listner on December 8, 2011

Artist's rendition of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, now in decaying Earth orbit. (Credits: stuff.co.nz) The ill-fated Russian space probe... Read more →