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Under the plan, NASA would scrap the costly Constellation program aimed at returning Americans to the moon. Gone would be the Ares I rocket and the Orion crew capsule. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Trouble flares Feb 10, 2010
The satellite navigation concept is embodied currently by the US GPS system and Russia's Glonass network, with contenders to come in the form of Europe's Galileo constellation and China's Compass system. It depends on what is - at its root - a simple triangulation calculation. (BBC News)
Your views: Letters to the editor (Feb. 10) Feb 10, 2010
Last weekend, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden answered questions for the first time since the cancellation of the Constellation moon program. Bolden took responsibility for the controversy and said NASAs workforce was not better prepared because he didnt listen to his people. (Florida Today)
Is Obama's space plan the end of manned space exploration? Weigh in! Feb 10, 2010
Unless there is an unexpected shocking turnaround with Obama breathing new life into either Constellation or the space shuttle program, you can kiss the American manned space program goodbye ... Looks like the Constellation program will get a congressional look giving false hope to KSC workers ... If the Constellation program does not get restarted. (Florida Today)
Will NASA return to the moon? Feb 9, 2010
Budget would cancel Constellation, a program to send people back to the moon ... If passed by Congress, the budget would eliminate Constellation -- NASA's project to send humans back to the moon by 2020 ... Constellation was to follow NASA's space shuttle program, which, after about 30 years of taking astronauts to space, is scheduled to end later this year, following five more flights. (CNN -- Tech)
Probing Exoplanets from the Ground Feb 9, 2010
On Aug. 11, 2007, Swain and his team turned the infrared telescope to the hot, Jupiter-size planet HD 189733b in the constellation Vulpecula ... This artist concept shows the planetary system called HD 189733, located 63 light-years away in the constellation Vulpecula. (Science Daily)
NASA head concerned about possible job losses Feb 9, 2010
President Obama's proposed budget would cancel the Constellation lunar program ... The proposed budget -- which aims to tighten the nation's purse strings in certain areas while increasing money used to create jobs -- would cancel NASA's Constellation program, which had sought to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020 ... Bolden said he hopes to recoup about 1,000 jobs by persuading Congress to keep some or all of the Constellation's Ares program, and that he was involved in talks on Capitol... (CNN -- Tech)
Shuttle Endeavour Blasts off for Space Station Feb 9, 2010
The Constellation program was intended to develop a successor spacecraft to the shuttle, which could carry astronauts to the moon. They could then use a lunar base to launch manned missions to Mars. (Newsmax)
Your views: Finger-pointing over NASA (Feb. 7) Feb 8, 2010
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and KSC Director Bob Cabana are giving the thumbs-up to President Obamas budget reductions and the Constellation cancellation ... Now his politically correct attitude is Obama was right in canceling the Constellation because NASA wasnt headed in the right direction ... The Augustine panel found that Constellation wouldnt fly a lunar mission until 2028, if ever. (Florida Today)
New Plan for NASA Feb 8, 2010
The Obama administration plan, if enacted by Congress, would cancel the Constellation program for returning astronauts to the Moon, but would greatly increase funding to develop new technologies that could enable future human missions to the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and Mars ... But NASA's Constellation Moon program was underfunded and unsustainable according to experts ... The committee, which included former astronauts, engineers, and experts from the aerospace industry, spelled out in... (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Kelly: Space plan boldly goes nowhere for area Feb 8, 2010
Unless there is an unexpected shocking turnaround with Obama breathing new life into either Constellation or the space shuttle program, you can kiss the American manned space program goodbye. What a joke. (Florida Today)
Space shuttle delay Feb 8, 2010
The Constellation programme was intended to develop a successor spacecraft to the shuttle, which could be used to carry astronauts to the moon where they would use a lunar base to launch manned missions to Mars ... The Constellation programme was intended to develop a successor spacecraft to the shuttle, which could be used to carry astronauts to the moon where they would use a lunar base to launch manned missions to Mars. (iAfrica.com)
Engineering careers still wave of future Feb 8, 2010
The shuttle program is down to its final handful of launches, and President Barack Obama has ended NASA's Constellation rocket program in favor of spending more on science and a plan to fund commercial space companies, which will receive $6 billion over the next five years. While several Brevard County aerospace companies are preparing to lay off hundreds of engineers, Northrop Grumman is deepening its efforts to encourage top students to study engineering. (Florida Today)
Moon program is on the shelf, but new NASA budget still has scientists excited Feb 8, 2010
What killed the Constellation program [to return to the moon] was years of underfunding since President Bush announced it in 2004, said Jeffrey Hoffman, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and former astronaut who made five space shuttle flights ... It would cancel the Constellation program, which included the Ares I rocket that was to launch crews, the Ares V rocket to carry unmanned heavier loads, and the Orion crew capsule ... Draper Laboratory, a nonprofit research and... (Boston Globe)
Clouds force NASA to delay shuttle launch Feb 8, 2010
In an hourlong news conference, Bolden accepted the blame for the way the NASA workforce was informed of President Obama s plans to dismantle the Constellation moon exploration program. In the proposed budget that was released Feb. 1, Obama set NASA on a new post-shuttle path. (Boston Globe)
Instruments to Study Space Weather Set for NASA Launch Feb 8, 2010
8, 2007) As NASA revamps Launch Complex 39B to host the new Orion spacecraft and Ares I rocket of the Constellation Program, engineers are preparing to install a new kind of departure system to evacuate. (Feb. (Science Daily)
Poor weather delays US shuttle launch Feb 8, 2010
The Constellation program was intended to develop a successor spacecraft to the shuttle, which could be used to carry astronauts to the moon where they would use a lunar base to launch manned missions to Mars. Constrained by soaring budget deficits, Obama submitted a budget to Congress that encourages the agency to instead focus on developing commercial transport alternatives to ferry astronauts to the ISS after the shuttle program ends. (Yahoo! Asia News)
U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour Blasts Off From Kennedy Space Center Feb 8, 2010
NASA's back-to-the-moon Constellation program is a casualty under the new budget plan. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. (ABC News -- Business)
SARS spurs China to act on AIDS Feb 7, 2010
The White House wants to cancel NASA's 'Constellation' programme and develop advanced technologies instead New Scientist takes a closer look at what it all means. 22:31 03 February 2010 6 comments. (Yahoo News -- SARS)
Our views: Cosmic spirit (Feb. 6) Feb 7, 2010 Observatory sets spring open houses Feb 7, 2010 NASA chief defends shift to new capabilities Feb 7, 2010 First Internet, Now Bay Window at Space Station Feb 7, 2010 NASA Head: We're Not Abandoning Mission Feb 7, 2010 > read more Feb 6, 2010 Endeavour may be among last manned flights as NASA mission shifts Feb 6, 2010 To questions that dogged astronomers, a Sirius solution Feb 6, 2010 Private firms 'high-risk' Feb 6, 2010 Endeavour Set for Sunday Liftoff as Space Shuttle Program Winds Down Feb 6, 2010 The DBJ on CBS4: Orion cuts Feb 5, 2010 Space to thrive Feb 5, 2010 Space Station Gets the Deluxe Treatment Feb 5, 2010 Obama's budget boosts NASA Ames Feb 4, 2010 Answers to pressing questions on NASA's future Feb 4, 2010 No shooting for moon, but budget good for Ames Feb 4, 2010 Get with the program, Bolden tells NASA workers Feb 4, 2010 NASA watchdogs wary of new course for agency Feb 4, 2010 Obama budget oozes uncertainty for NASA Feb 3, 2010 Climate retreat Feb 3, 2010 Bolden denies abandoning human spaceflight Feb 3, 2010 Our views: The big unknowns (Feb. 3) Feb 3, 2010 Obama budget halts moon return Feb 3, 2010 NASA will invest in robotic missions Feb 3, 2010 NASA grieves over canceled program Feb 3, 2010 Hubble Catches End of Star-Making Party in Nearby Dwarf Galaxy Feb 3, 2010 NASA drops moon plan and refocuses vision Feb 2, 2010 Obama Scrubs NASA's Manned Moon Missions Feb 2, 2010 Next moon mission will be joint venture Feb 2, 2010 Orion cut off in Obama budget Feb 2, 2010 NASA Moon Mission Scrubbed Feb 2, 2010 > read more Feb 2, 2010 ISS in the plans until at least 2020 Feb 2, 2010 Budget scraps effort to return to the moon Feb 2, 2010 Obama ends Bush signature return-to-moon program on anniversary of Columbia shuttle disaster Feb 2, 2010 February skies: Celestial jewels for starry-eyed lovers Feb 2, 2010 Obama's budget scuttles NASA's moon mission Feb 2, 2010 Shuttle artifacts seek good homes Feb 2, 2010 NASA budget cut would hit ATK Feb 2, 2010 Phased Out: Obama's NASA Budget Would Cancel Constellation Moon Program, Privatize Manned Launches Feb 2, 2010 President's budget would hit NASA, Alabama hard Feb 2, 2010 Obama cuts moon travel, links NASA to private firms Feb 2, 2010 Moon... Shot: Obama Budget Cuts Moon, Mars Feb 2, 2010 Obama may scrap NASA moon mission Feb 1, 2010 Nelson: Build a heavy-lift rocket Jan 31, 2010 Obama trims US space ambitions Jan 31, 2010 This Week's Sky at a Glance Jan 30, 2010 Pamela Geller Jan 30, 2010 NASA plan will be battle Jan 29, 2010 Obama budgetnixes return-to-moon Jan 29, 2010 Obama puts NASA on dark side of moon Jan 29, 2010 February skywatch Jan 29, 2010 Innovative Technique Can Spot Errors in Key Technological Systems; Early Alerts for Satellites, Weather Instruments Jan 29, 2010 Despite expected budget infusion, thousands at KSC lose Jan 29, 2010 Obama aims to ax moon mission Jan 29, 2010 Star's Jets Travel Close to Speed of Light Jan 28, 2010 NASA sets Feb. 7 launch date for Endeavour Jan 28, 2010 Brevard seeks sign of vision for space Jan 28, 2010 Political Grapevine Jan 28, 2010 Sources: NASA wont get $1B budget boost Jan 26, 2010 Night Sky Events for February Jan 25, 2010 Levitating Magnet for Clean Energy? Jan 25, 2010 A winter wonderland ... look up! Jan 24, 2010 Stunning New Image of Cat's Paw Nebula Jan 24, 2010 Spectacular X-Ray Tails Surprise Astronomers Jan 23, 2010
This has been a painful week at NASAs Kennedy Space Center, where workers are reeling after President Obama canceled the Constellation moon exploration program. Instead, hes tasked private industry to send astronauts into orbit aboard commercial rockets in a landmark shift that carries risks and potential rewards. (Florida Today)
Bolden in for a battle Feb 7, 2010
But it cancels NASA's Project Constellation, which was developing Ares rockets and Orion spacecraft for a U.S. return to the moon. In the past six years, NASA spent $9 billion on Constellation; the administration is asking for $2 ... Bolden had no estimate for how many additional jobs will be lost as a result of the Constellation cancellation. (Florida Today)
If it's cloudy Friday, professor Scott Shaw will present "The Brightest and Furthest: GRB090423," about a gamma ray burst detected April 23 in the constellation Leo. Originally published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Sunday, February 07, 2010. (Athens Banner-Herald)
6) on the eve of the launch of Space Shuttle Endeavor, Bolden defended the decision last week to end further development of the next-generation Constellation system that would have been used to return to the moon ... Acknowledging that the space agency mishandled the politics of the Constellation announcement, which touched off a firestorm of criticism among lawmakers, Bolden said, "I'll take the heat," adding, "Was it screwed up? Yes it was." ... Bolden said NASA would still seek to make use of... (EETimes)
While the White House scrapped NASA's moonward-ho Constellation program, the space station got an extension until at least 2020, with the promise of more relevant research. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the goal is to make full use of the space station as "the national lab it was envisioned to be.". (Newsmax)
Says Development of Heavy-Lift Launch Vehicles Will Continue Despite Grounding of Constellation Moon Program ... The Constellation moon program, developed by NASA during the Bush administration, was canceled, and while the space agency will get an additional $6 billion over the next five years to spur development of a commercial manned launch capability, a long-range goal for exploration beyond low-Earth orbit was not specified ... He argued some form of a powerful new rocket likely would fly... (CBS News)
It aligns with the constellations of the zodiac ... Learn your way around the constellations ... For an easy-to-use constellation guide covering the whole evening sky, use the big monthly map in the center of each issue of , the essential magazine of astronomy. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Shelved is the Constellation program, which would have employed the Ares 1 rocket and Orion capsule to carry crews beyond the Earth's orbit, to which NASA's manned flights have been confined since the last lunar mission in 1972. In four years, NASA has spent about $9 billion on Constellation ... But Ares had shimmy issues and Constellation was short on financing and years behind schedule, with the earliest flight no sooner than 2015. (The Palm Beach Post)
Look above Sirius for the bright constellation Orion ... Whole-sky maps Easy-to-use maps of stars and constellations across the entire evening sky are available at the website. (Boston Globe)
The annual report also warned it would be "unwise" to drop NASA's Ares 1 rocket, part of the costly Constellation project that was effectively killed by the budget plans, and hand over the ferrying of astronauts to the ISS to private industry. ASAP was set up by Congress in 1967 after a flash fire ripped through a command module during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle, killing three astronauts on board. (iAfrica.com)
(Even if Constellation were saved from the budget ax, it would not be ready for manned launches before 2015 under the most optimistic scenarios ... Obama's budget request would scrap Constellation but spare another massive project: the ISS. After more than a decade of construction and tens of billions of dollars, under existing plans and budgets, just years after completion; the president wants to fly the station through at least 2020 ... He added that Constellation's proposed cancellation came... (Scientific American)
The shift scraps the President George W. Bush-era Constellation program. Constellation intended to return U.S. astronauts to the moon by 2020 and prepare NASA for Mars missions ... Instead of Constellation, NASA now proposes to have commercial companies lead the development of new space vehicles for U.S. astronauts. (Denver Business Journal, CO)
The back-to-the-moon programme, Constellation, with its Ares rocket (pictured), fell victim to Barack Obama s need to find cuts ... The office also said Constellation had sucked money from other, more scientific programmes, such as robotic space exploration and Earth observation ... Much has been made of the fact that NASA will, as a consequence of Constellation s cancellation, have to rely on private firms to send its astronauts to the international space station once the space shuttle is... (The Economist)
While the White House scrapped NASA's moonward-ho Constellation program, the space station got an extension until at least 2020, with the promise of more relevant research. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the goal is to make full use of the space station as "the national lab it was envisioned to be." "There's so much we need to know before we can venture safely out of low-earth orbit for the long term," Bolden, a former shuttle commander, said after the budget was released Monday. (CBS News)
But to save $50 billion, NASA is -- the Constellation program -- while it expands partnerships with private companies and other nations to explore space ... The Constellation program is so 1960s. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Question: How many jobs will be lost at Kennedy Space Center due to the retirement of the shuttle fleet and the cancellation of the moon program, Constellation ... Bolden said it would have cost a fortune to resurrect a Constellation program that aimed to simply repeat the Apollo missions of 50 years ago ... Question: NASA and contractor employees have worked on the Constellation for six years. (Florida Today)
Lewis Braxton III told reporters during a briefing that he foresees increased support for the center's major research and high-tech programs, and predicted that none of the 2,500 government workers and contractors employed at Ames will lose their jobs because of the terminated Constellation program, in which Ames played a modest role. The president's budget proposal must go through Congress, but Braxton said he expects Ames to get increased support because of the center's major work developing... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
He said he understood many were upset, but that neither he nor the president intended to back down on plans to cancel the Constellation program and hand responsibility for operating rockets to private companies ... The proposal to end the Constellation program, starting with the Ares I rocket and Orion spacecraft, was announced Monday with the release of Obama's proposed 2011 fiscal year budget ... Explaining the decision to abandon Constellation, Bolden said that in the current "dire" fiscal... (Florida Today)
President Barack Obama's proposed budget, released Monday, would end the Constellation program aimed at returning astronauts to the moon aboard an Ares rocket ... Leaders at NASA and private space firms argue that they can field a new crew transport system before 2017, when the Constellation program's rocket was to be ready ... The Kennedy Space Center already anticipates losing 7,000 workers with the shuttle retirement, so eliminating the Constellation program sparks more concerns. (Florida Today)
Constellation's demise likely to trigger more than the predicted 7,000 layoffs at KSC ... NASA would invest in new technologies for the eventual human exploration of the solar system, but its Project Constellation, which aimed to return astronauts to the moon by 2020, would be killed ... "If the Constellation program ends, then the number of jobs we expect to remain due to Constellation, affiliated projects and resulting new business would also be lost," said Lisa Rice, president of Brevard... (Florida Today)
Never before had such a constellation of groups and institutions come together: civil society, faith groups, business and industry, the investment community, scientists, engineers and professional organisations. Even the UN itself, which ran an unprecedented "seal the deal" campaign, called for urgent action. (BBC News -- Science)
The proposal would terminate the Constellation program of an Ares rocket and Orion crew module that aimed for a return to the moon ... Lawmakers who represent the states where Constellation work is done reacted harshly and vowed to continue the programs funding ... But Bolden said it would have cost a fortune to resurrect a Constellation program that aimed to simply repeat the Apollo missions of 50 years ago. (Florida Today)
The hearing will be the opening salvo in a protracted fight as bipartisan lawmakers from states where NASA has major operations including Florida try to overturn the presidents decision to kill the Constellation moon program and replace it with commercial rockets to ferry astronauts to orbit ... Still, attempting to reinstate Constellation may prove a waste of time ... And that doesnt include the complexities of designing a new manned spacecraft to replace Orion, which the White House... (Florida Today)
NASA's Constellation Program, which includes this Orion space capsule currently under development, would be axed under President Obama's proposed 2011 budget ... The Constellation Program aims to take astronauts back to the moon by 2020 ... Obama's budget -- which aims to tighten the nation's purse strings in certain areas while increasing money used to create jobs -- would cancel NASA's Constellation Program, which had sought to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020. (CNN -- International)
CAPE CANAVERAL If NASA does land on the moon again in the next decade, it may be the work of an unmanned robotic explorer, not an astronaut crew as the Constellation program envisioned. The agency's proposed 2011 budget cancels the return-to-the-moon program, dubbed Constellation. (Florida Today)
Doug Cooke, NASA's associate administrator for , said NASA must remain focused as the Constellation program closes down and shifts into a new phase of human spaceflight ... NASA's Constellation program workers will continue their efforts under the space agency's current 2010 budget, Cooke said ... But until then, NASA engineers are taking a close look at the lessons learned from their five years pursuing the moon with the Constellation program. (MSNBC -- Technology)
The galaxy resides on the fringe of the M81 group of galaxies, located about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. "The galaxy looks weird because an interaction with the M81 group about a billion years ago stripped some gas from the outer parts of the galaxy, forcing the rest of the gas to rush toward the galaxy's center, where it is has little organized spiral structure," Williams says. (Science Daily)
NASA's budget proposal would put moon landings on hold by canceling the Constellation program ... The budget request, released Monday, would scrap NASA's Constellation program to build the Orion spacecraft and Ares rockets for new a $9 billion investment to date ... Scrapping Constellation Announced in 2005, NASA's Constellation program aimed at retiring the space shuttle fleet this year and replacing it with new capsule-based vehicles (called Orion) designed to launch on Ares 1 rockets,... (MSNBC -- Technology)
Constellation's demise would mean that NASA will have no plans for manned space flight beyond the final shuttle launch in fall 2010 ... The news has actually been expected since last September, when an independent panel known as the Augustine Committee determined that Constellation would require large budget increases to land even a handful of astronauts back on the moon before 2020 ... U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to scrap the program is based on Constellation being "over budget,... (National Geographic)
The agency hopes to share the cost of such expensive missions after deciding the Constellation program's exclusively American focus was unsustainable. "We believe the next time we go to the moon -- our seventh time, the first for others -- we will be doing it together (with international partners)," Associate Administrator Lori Garver said. (Florida Today)
Together with rockets being developed separately, Orion was part of Constellation program meant to replace the space shuttles that NASA is scheduled to retire after five more flights this year. So this budget cancels the Constellation Program, including the Ares I and V rockets and the Orion crew exploration vehicle, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in remarks prepared for a press conference this afternoon ... The Constellation program was created in response to the Bush... (Denver Business Journal, CO)
While I support NASA, manned space exploration, and hope for lunar and/or Mars missions in my lifetime, I can't say I'm sorry to see Constellation scrapped ... I'm not sorry to see the Constellation program shelved; it was an unimaginative revamping of NASA's old 1970s rocket/moon capsule combination with its snale-pace speeds. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
The Obama administration plan, if enacted by Congress, would cancel the Constellation program for returning astronauts to the Moon, but would greatly increase funding to develop new technologies that could enable future human missions to the Moon, near-Earth asteroids, and Mars ... But NASA's Constellation Moon program was underfunded and unsustainable according to experts ... The committee, which included former astronauts, engineers, and experts from the aerospace industry, spelled out in... (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Funding would have been diverted to the Constellation program, which is now proposed for cancellation. Bolden said the extension -- supported by a presidential committee that reviewed human spaceflight plans last summer -- would spur broader participation in science research, test technologies needed for deep space missions and improve Earth observations. (Florida Today)
WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is killing Constellation, NASA s ambitious back-to-the moon program ... 5 billion over the next two years to shut down Constellation ... When the president says he s going to cancel Constellation, I can tell you that to muster the votes and overcome that is going to be very, very difficult, Nelson said. (Boston Globe)
However, officials were quick to point out the failures of the Bush administration's moon program, called Constellation. It included the construction of two types of rockets, Ares I and , and an crew capsule. (FOX61, CT)
Moving northeast from the Pleiades we find the constellation of Auriga the Charioteer ... It is almost impossible to use Cancer itself as a guide to find M44 because the stars of the constellation are so faint. (Casper Star-Tribune, WY)
The budget numbers will show that the administration effectively plans to kill the Constellation program that called for a return to the moon by 2020 ... Former NASA administrator Michael Griffin, who championed the Constellation program, views the Obama budget as disastrous for human space flight. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer for the Franklin Institute, talks about the Obama administrations decision to cancel the Constellation program, which would get astronauts to the international space stations and return them to the Moon by the year 2020. Most popular. (MSNBC -- Technology)
The Ares project was part of NASA s Constellation program. The federal government would have to pay millions to Constellation contractors in order to end the program, according to news reports. (Twin Cities Business Journal, MN)
Phased Out: Obama's NASA Budget Would Cancel Constellation Moon Program, Privatize Manned Launches: Scientific American ... Phased Out: Obama's NASA Budget Would Cancel Constellation Moon Program, Privatize Manned Launches ... The 1-X, a test rocket for Constellation components, was launched in October 2009. (Scientific American)
The administration's budget doesn't include money for the Constellation program, which includes the Ares rocket being managed by the Marshall center at Redstone Arsenal ... NASA already has spent more than $9 billion on Constellation. (WSFA.com, AL)
In a 2011 budget blueprint for the US space agency unveiled on Monday, Obama proposed dropping the massively over-budget Constellation program former president George W. Bush implemented to develop a new-generation rocket aimed at returning Americans to the moo 00004000 n by 2020. The White House said it wanted to ground Constellation because it was too costly, used outdated technology, and would not be ready to ferry humans to the moon before 2028 ... But Congress has to approve the budget... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
The Constellation project -- ordered by President Bush in 2004 to return astronauts to the moon and eventually send them to Mars -- would be canceled ... James Kohlenberger of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy joined in: "While we are canceling Constellation, we are not canceling our ambitions for exploration." ... Build new heavy-lift rockets with improved materials -- but not the Ares I and Ares V boosters from the Constellation project. (ABC News)
The US administration has planed to kill the Constellation programme of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that called for the re-launch of a space shuttle to the moon by 2020. The budget is a death knell for the Ares 1 rocket, NASA's planned successor to the space shuttle. (India Times, India)
The proposed budge 00004000 t will effectively ask Congress to kill Project Constellation, which is developing Ares rockets and Orion spacecraft to return astronauts to the Moon by 2020 ... Investing in a super-sized rocket would leverage the $9 billion NASA spent on Project Constellation over the last six years. (Florida Today)
"Constellation is dead," the advisor told AFP on Friday, referring to a program that envisioned using Earth's nearest neighbour as a base for manned expeditions to Mars ... The Constellation program was launched in 2004 by then-president George W. Bush after the Columbia space shuttle mission ended in disaster with the death of all seven crew members in 2003 ... NASA is estimated to have already spent a little over nine billion US dollars on Constellation, including 3. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Learn your way around the constellations ... For an easy-to-use constellation guide covering the whole evening sky, use the big monthly map in the center of each issue of , the essential magazine of astronomy. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
The White House budget proposal, slated to be released Monday, strips all funding for NASA s Constellation program, a plan to resume manned moon landings by. Jan 25, 2010 Abe Foxman has come out against a great and wonderful friend of the Jews, Rush Limbaugh. (Newsmax)
The Obama plan would effectively kill NASA's Project Constellation -- a program the nation has invested $9 billion in over the last six years; one that big, politically important states from Florida to California have a stake in ... Those priorities would come at the expense of the Constellation program for human space flight, which a presidential commission warned in October has been under-funded and was not going to meet its targets ... Constellation was being developed as the replacement to... (Florida Today)
The money in the presidents budget is not enough to follow through with NASAs Constellation moon landing plan initiated by President George W. Bush in 2004 ... While the Constellation program is dead, exploration is not dead, and thats really important, Logsdon said ... That is unacceptable," Nelson said. We need a plan that provides America with uninterrupted access to space while also funding exploration to expand the boundaries of our knowledge.In a statement, Rep.... (MSNBC -- Technology)
While the Constellation moon program "is dead, exploration is not dead and that's really important," Logsdon said. AP. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
February nights are loaded with bright stars and constellations, none more prominent than Orion, the celestial hunter. Orion is one of the easiest constellations to find ... That's Orion's belt and, once you've found that, it's a simple matter to pick out the rest of the constellation. (AZCentral -- Travel)
28, 2010) An innovative computational technique that draws on statistics, imaging and other disciplines has the capability to detect errors in sensitive technological systems ranging from satellites to weather instruments. The patented technique, known as the Intelligent Outlier Detection Algorithm, or IODA, is described this month in the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. (Science Daily)
"Budgets are very tight," said former astronaut Sally Ride, who served on a presidential panel that determined NASA's current Project Constellation -- the post-shuttle program -- is on "an unsustainable trajectory." ... NASA since 2004 has invested $9 billion in developing the Constellation program's Ares I and Ares V rockets and the Apollo-style Orion crew capsule for missions to the moon, Mars and, in the event no commercial means becomes available, the International Space Station ... But... (Florida Today)
White House insiders say Obama budget axes Constellation program, plan to return astronauts to the moon - CTnow ... There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all ... Last year, lawmakers prohibited NASA from canceling any Constellation programs and starting new ones in their place unless the cuts were approved by Congress. (FOX61, CT)
(June 27, 2007) In just the past six weeks, two supernovae have flared up in an obscure galaxy in the constellation Hercules. Never before have astronomers observed two of these powerful stellar explosions occurring. (Science Daily)
you won't even post my comments about how you are ignoring the big fat elephant in the room by the name of Obama and the death of Constellation. Post a Comment. (Florida Today)
NASA's current post-shuttle program aimed at returning U.S. astronauts to themoon is behind schedule because billions of dollars that had been budgeted for the Constellation project were not appropriated by Congress. A presidential panel convened last year said NASA would need a significant budget increase to carry out any "meaningful" human space exploration. (Florida Today)
The Orlando Sentinel reports that President Obama's upcoming budget proposal has no money for the constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. Instead, NASA will develop a rocket system that will take humans and robots beyond low Earth orbit, but that could take years. (Fox News)
"It was a wise choice at the time, but times have changed," Crawley said last October, referring to Ares I and rest of the Constellation program NASA designed in response to a 2004 presidential mandate to retire the shuttle and return humans to the moon by 2020. "The budgetary environment is much more tight, and the understanding of the cost and schedule to develop the Ares I has matured.". (MSNBC -- Technology)
Deep Sky Objects and Constellations to View This Month ... The Big Dipper in the Ursa Major Constellation ... This constellation is a staple in the night sky. (Suite101.com)
(July 19, 2006) The European Space Agency's spacecraft constellation Cluster has hit the magnetic bull's-eye. The four spacecraft surrounded a region within which the Earth's magnetic field was spontaneously. (Science Daily)
We also look at a few globular clusters and the impressive Ring Nebula in the constellation Lyra. The venerable Rhode Island astronomy club, Skyscrapers, opens its rural Seagrave Observatory in North Scituate every clear Saturday night for public viewing unless we re snowed in, says president Bob Horton. (Boston Globe)
NGC 6334 lies about 5500 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion) and covers an area on the sky slightly larger than the full Moon ... 5, 2009) ESO has just released a stunning new image of a field of stars towards the constellation of Carina (the Keel). (Science Daily)
The gas tail is located in the southern hemisphere near a constellation called Triangulum Australe, in a giant cluster of galaxies called Abell 3627. It is associated with a galaxy known as ESO 137-001 which is about 219 million light years from our own Milky Way Galaxy. (Science Daily)
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