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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is headed by administrator Michael Griffin. The agency has a budget of $17.3 billion and operates 10 centers, including the Kennedy Space Center about 45 minutes east of Orlando. The agency plans to mothball the current space shuttle program after the last launch in 2010. Then it will begin work on the Constellation program, with the first launch scheduled for 2015.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is headed by administrator Michael Griffin. The agency has a budget of $17.3 billion and operates 10 centers, including the Kennedy Space Center about 45 minutes east of Orlando. The agency plans to mothball the current space shuttle program after the last launch in 2010. Then it will begin work on the Constellation program, with the first launch scheduled for 2015.
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Cadavers in space
NASA used three cadavers in tests last year at Ohio State University on the Orion capsule that is to take astronauts back to the moon about 2020. Real bodies are necessary to monitor the effects of the descent on internal organs and the spinal cord,...Tags: Ohio State University
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Don't buy into drilling
The current drive by President Bush and the oil companies to increase offshore drilling should ring familiar, for it mirrors the administration's manipulation of public opinion in preparation for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. After the shock of the Sept....Tags: Government, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Saddam Hussein, Heads of State
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Heavenly bodies converge for NASA
HOUSTON — File this one under "e" for "ewww factor." NASA has used human cadavers to test the new Orion space capsule that is supposed to take astronauts back to the moon sometime around 2020. Three cadavers were used in experiments at Ohio...Tags: Space Programs, Ohio State University
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Colleagues remember Jerome Holtzman
A small envelope would come once in a while, familiar Evanston return address on the outside, familiar insight on the inside. Any word from Jerome Holtzman was welcome. He was a gruff man but a gentleman, a newspaper bulldog but an old softie, a U.S....Tags: Government, American League, Radio Industry, Toronto Blue Jays, O'Hare International Airport
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Paul Sullivan remembers Jerome Holtzman
Tribune staff reporterJerome Holtzman was not only a sportswriting legend, but a friend and a mentor to many aspiring baseball writers, including this one. We traveled together in my early years on the White Sox beat in the mid-1990s, and I'd often have to come help fix his...Tags: Chicago White Sox
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Jupiter dominates summer sky
Maryland WeatherThis fine spell of dry weather is providing Marylanders with a great opportunity for stargazing. We got home late last night after dinner with the honeymooners and I couldn't help noticing what a great show the moon and Jupiter were putting on...... -
At the solar system's edge
Sun reporterPhysicist Rob Decker is obsessed with a region of space that has an ominous name: the termination shock. It's out there, at the very edge of the solar system, 90 times as far away as Earth is from the sun. It is the region where solar wind comes to a...Tags: Space Programs, Applied Science, Weather Reports, Natural Science, Astronomy
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'Duck!' won't save the day
Sun reporterAn asteroid hurtles toward Earth, threatening devastation. A team of attractive young scientists and engineers launches a rocket that crashes into the asteroid and knocks it off course - just in the nick of time. But wait. The crash pushes the giant...Tags: Government, Space Programs, National Government, Johns Hopkins University, Disasters
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NASA considers Japanese-made craft
TOKYO — NASA has begun unofficial negotiations with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on purchasing the H-2 Transfer Vehicle, an unmanned cargo transfer spacecraft developed in Japan, as the successor to its space shuttles, which are to...Tags: Space Programs, Technology, Rocketry
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