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Month: October 2009
Unreasonable Rocket Tries – But Fails

This video shows Unreasonable Rocket’s first launch attempt for the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge level one prize. The rocket known as Blue Ball made a valiant effort but ran out of fuel at the end and came done with a sharp thud to the ground and appears to have damaged one of its legs. The team, a father and son combo, Paul Breed and Paul Breed, decided not to […]

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  • October 31, 2009
Dispute Erupts Over Lunar Lander Challenge Decision

Masten Space Systems Qualifies for $1 Million Prize “Masten’s qualification flight came at the final Lunar Lander Challenge flight window on Friday morning. During previous windows on Wednesday and Thursday the vehicle experienced communications and plumbing issues. After a small fire on Thursday afternoon the team spent most of the night engineering a solution to a small leak. The solution worked and the team successfully flew the required profile on […]

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  • October 31, 2009
More KSC Layoffs Announced

330 more workers at Kennedy Space Center slated to lose jobs, Orlando Sentinel “While the debate continues in Washington over the future of NASA’s human spaceflight plans, contractors at Kennedy Space Center are pressing ahead with plans to lay off hundreds more workers as the date of the space shuttle retirement looms. Boeing Co. announced Friday it will shed 330 jobs at KSC, starting in January and continuing in stages […]

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  • October 30, 2009
Moving On To New Things In Space

An Astronaut Explains How We’ll Fall In Love With Space Again, Leroy Chiao, Gizmodo “The Constellation Program was a reasonable path, five years ago, when the Vision for Space Exploration was first formulated. Since then, budget shortfalls have caused significant delays. Moreover, the goals evolved into a focus on getting astronauts back to the Moon, to the development of the Ares family of rockets and the Orion spacecraft. The public […]

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  • October 30, 2009
Ares 1-X First Stage Damaged

NASA assessing dented booster from Ares 1-X launch, Spaceflight Now “Photographs taken by the recovery crew show the four-segment shuttle booster floating upright in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after splashdown. An initial inspection, sources said, revealed the sort of paint blistering that is typically found on shuttle boosters, along with a good sized dent in the lower segment that was photographed by divers.” 30 October 11:48 am EDT update: NASA […]

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  • October 30, 2009
When Others Discover What We Have Forgotten

Coming soon: Nigerians in space?, Global Post “Nigeria really does have a space agency. The west African nation’s National Space Research and Development Agency is already celebrating its 10th anniversary. And as America and Europe’s space agencies set their sights on joint exploration of Mars, Nigeria has big plans of its own: It wants to send a Nigerian up into space in 2015, making Nigeria home to the first black […]

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  • October 30, 2009
Everyone@NASA Should Have A Facebook Page

Facebook for scientists: Map your expertise, Indiana University “Indiana University has received more than $1.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate on a $12.2 million, seven-university project designed to network researchers around the country. While the proposed new networking system will contain authentication mechanisms to protect sensitive data and intellectual property, it is being described as a Facebook for scientists.” NIH funds a Facebook for scientists, FCW […]

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  • October 30, 2009