ContributorNetwork – NASA conducted a workshop on the Global Exploration Roadmap, the plan for the human exploration of the moon, near Earth asteroids, and eventually Mars in San Diego, California on Nov. 14-16. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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NASA Space Exploration Workshop Discusses Moon vs. Asteroids (ContributorNetwork)
Is Obama’s OMB Planning to Cancel NASA’s Planetary Exploration Program? (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – Recently Robert Zubrin, the head of the Mars Society, published an op-ed in the Washington Times in which he accused the Obama administration’s Office of Management and Budget of plotting to terminate planetary science at NASA. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Bolden Travels to JSC to Discuss Space Shuttle Display, Space Exploration Program (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden journeyed to the Johnson Spaceflight Center in Houston to view a mockup of the Orion Multi Purpose Crew Vehicle and to try to rouse moral in the NASA and contractor workforce, still reeling from post shuttle layoffs. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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White House Science Czar John Holdren’s Three Shaky Pillars of Space Exploration (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – Space Politics is reporting that White House Science Czar John Holdren complained at a recent meeting of the NASA Advisory Council at the NASA Ames Research Center about the lack of enthusiasm for Obama’s space policy. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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John Marburger and His Vision for Space Exploration (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – Very few people outside of political and space circles remember John Marburger, the White House science adviser for President George W. Bush, but if Americans every settle the high frontier of space, Marburger will have been a driving spirit for it. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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NASA, ESA Consider Joint Vehicle for Deep Space Exploration (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – NASA and the European Space Agency are in discussions aimed at creating a joint space craft that combines the Multi Purpose Crewed Vehicle, formally known as the Orion, and the Automatic Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for deep space missions, according to Aviation Week. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Art Contest Demonstrates Hope for Future Space Exploration (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – Among the many little-noticed news stories is one about a recent international student’s art competition, in which students created art to give us their vision of future space exploration. After all, not all timely news stories are disasters and tragedy, some show the hope that is deeply embedded in world cultures. Yahoo!...
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Newt Gingrich Prefers Space Prizes Over NASA Projects to Continue Exploration (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – One of the things that makes the presidential candidacy of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich notable is that he is one of the few American politicians who has given a great deal of thought to space issues. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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The Exploration And Colonization Of Space: By Humans Or By Machines?
UFO sceptics would have you believe that interstellar space travel is at best highly improbable, and at worst impossible. Therefore, UFOs cannot represent the technology of a space-faring race of extraterrestrials. Hogwash! Unfortunately for the sceptics, fact number one is that one doesn’t need any wormhole or theoretical ‘warp drive’ or other ‘Star Trek’...
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Rep. Bill Posey Argues for More Funding for NASA Space Exploration (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – In a recent hearing before the House Budget Committee in preparation for a 2012 budget, Rep. Bill Posey, Republican of Florida, made the case for more funding for NASA’s human space flight programs. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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GOP Lawmakers: Cut NASA Earth Science, Fund Human Space Exploration (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – One aspect of a drive for an austerity budget is that programs begin to compete against one another for support and attention. Thus a fight has broken out over which NASA program gets cut, space exploration or climate research. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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NASA’S Lunar Spacecraft Completes Exploration Mission Phase
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, will complete the exploration phase of its mission on Sept. 16, after a number of successes that transformed our understanding of Earth’s nearest neighbor. LRO completed a one-year exploration mission in a polar orbit approximately 31 miles above the moon’s surface. It produced a comprehensive map of the...
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