NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 22 November 2004“Update on reboost underperformance: The Russian Commission looking into the 11/17 reboost underburn has unanimously determined that both onboard hardware and software involved […]
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The Hammer Visits JSC
22 November 2004: Congressman Delay to Discuss NASA Budget at NASA JSC“Congressman Tom DeLay (R-Texas), joined by local Houston community leaders, will discuss NASA’s budget with media at 2 p.m. […]
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Blogging from Mars
22 November 2004: News From Antarctica: Personal web sites share Ice with world, The Antarctic Sun“There are dozens of unofficial web sites spawned each season by Antarctic program participants. These […]
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McCain On Earmarks
21 November 2004: Meet The Press, NBCSEN. JOHN McCAIN, (R-AZ) “… We’ve got to have some kind of way of challenging these earmarks. We’ve got to have the president perhaps […]
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Budget Update
20 November 2004: Roll Call of Senate and House votes21 November 2004: NASA receives spending boost, Orlando Sentinel“Lawmakers approved a massive budget package Saturday that includes $16.2 billion for NASA […]
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H.R. 5382: House Passes, Senate Delays
21 November 2004: Editor’s note: The Senate did not take up H.R. 5382 before adjourning. There is one last chance for them to do so in December when they recovene. […]
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Comments from Frank Sietzen on NASA Budget
“In the pre-dawn hours Saturday morning, a House-Senate conference committee reversed itself and agreed to fully fund $16.2 billion for NASA’s FY05 budget. The conferees had been moving towards a […]
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Swift is on its way
20 November 2004: NASA Successfully Launches Swift Satellite“NASA’s Swift satellite successfully launched today aboard a Boeing Delta 2 rocket at 12:16 p.m. EST from Launch Complex 17A at the Cape […]
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Jim Muncy's Thoughts on HR 5382
“Dear Space Advocates & Correspondents: This afternoon the House of Representatives had a 40 minute debate on legislation designed to advance the U.S. commercial human spaceflight industry. It was a […]
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Last To Go Alone (?), First To Go Twice (?)
18 November 2004: S. RES. 470: Honoring the life of astronaut Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr.“Whereas Gordon Cooper was the first man to go into space for a second time;” Editor’s […]