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Lockheed extends its IT services work at NASA
Lockheed Martin Corp. will continue providing several computer services to NASA under a contract extension that has an estimated value of 230 million.NASA Changes Mission, KSC Hopes To Retain Workers
The president's new budget allows NASA 6 billion over the next five years but none of the money will be allocated to the Constellation moon program. Tuesday, February 2, 2010.
Obama Budget Plan Grounds NASA Despite Increased Funding
President Obama's 2010 budget proposal for NASA would net the space agency 100 billion over the next five years, though none of it would go toward flying astronauts back to the moon.NASA Unveils Future Plans
The fallout from President Barack Obama's proposed budget continues as Central Florida digests the fact NASA is scrapping manned missions to the moon for the foreseeable future.Could NASA be Grounded Indefinitely?
According to a Time article, Obama's latest budget proposal would provide over 100 billion in funding to NASA, but does not allocate any of it to continue the Ares rocket testing through the Constellation-project which was geared toward a 21st century lunar landing and eventually Mars. Projects the 100 billion would be allocated for include extending the life of the ISS, better robotics, new flight techniques, and unmanned spacecraft. Sound off in our Forums and let us know what you think! The initiative, for now at least, is more about what NASA plans to cancel than what it plans to pursue. The six-year-old Constellation program, which had been focused on developing new boosters, Apollo-like orbiters and a 21st century lunar lander, all with the goal of making long-term stays on the moon possible, will be scrapped, after 9 billion and a single flight of the Ares 1 booster last October. The longer-term goal of venturing out to Mars is being tabled along with it.
Johnson Space Center is important NASA
Houston's Johnson Space Center will remain at the heart of manned space operations for the coming decade despite the President Barack Obama's proposal.
Obama's NASA Budget Would Cancel Constellation Moon Program, Privatize Manned Launches
The president wants to scrap NASA's space shuttle successor, now in development, and relax the agency's focus on returning to the moon.
NASA drops moon plan and refocuses vision
President Barack Obama's 2011 budget request has effectively shut down NASA's five-year effort to return astronauts to the moon, leaving the U.S. space agency with lofty goals but no firm deadlines to once again send humans beyond Earth orbit.NASA picks companies to study commercial crew transport
US space agency NASA on Monday named five aerospace companies to come up with concepts for transporting humans into orbit under plans announced by the Obama administration to shift responsibility for transportation into space to private . .
Is it the end of the world? Nasa picture suggests Dubai globe is sinking back into the sea
This stunning picture of the world was actually snapped outside Earth's orbit. The stunning image of the man-made archipelago was taken by an astronaut on board the International Space Station.
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