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floridatoday.com - Space For SpaceX, a 'lesson learned' from valve failure12 Mar 2010 at 2:05pm The Write Stuff» Orlando Sentinel ? The Write Stuff Lawmakers want another NASA study11 Mar 2010 at 6:51pm WASHINGTON — More than a dozen U.S. House members today called on the White House to abandon its plans to cancel NASA?s Constellation moon rocket program and urged the agency to study ways it could... Musk: Chalk up SpaceX Falcon 9 aborted test to growing pains 11 Mar 2010 at 5:41pm Falcon 9 on its Cape Canaveral launchpad. Credit: Chris Thompson/SpaceX Elon Musk, the CEO and founder of the rocket upstart SpaceX, Thursday announced that a balky valve was to blame for thi... Astronauts Memorial Foundation urges Obama to keep human spaceflight 10 Mar 2010 at 11:13pm The Astronauts Memorial Foundation recently sent a letter to President Barack Obama to urge him to “vigorously support uninterrupted continuation of human spaceflight and ensure U.S. leadership in ... Kosmas, Posey aim to extend shuttle era 10 Mar 2010 at 4:16pm WASHINGTON — Two Florida lawmakers with ties to Kennedy Space Center introduced legislation today that would increase NASA?s budget, likely extend the space shuttle era past its planned retirement ... SpaceX? static fire: the official story 9 Mar 2010 at 8:57pm It was a spin start system failure that forced an early shutdown Tuesday of SpaceX’ long-awaited static fire test of the Falcon 9 rocket. A static fire test is an important milestone in a ... Space shuttles need $200m a month to keep flying, says NASA 9 Mar 2010 at 4:19pm By Marcia Dunn CAPE CANAVERAL (AP) – With space shuttle retirement just months away, a senior NASA manager said Tuesday it wouldn’t be hard to add more flights, provided the nation is willing to ke... SpaceX test of Falcon 9?s engines is aborted 9 Mar 2010 at 2:25pm SpaceX had hoped to perform a 3.5-second live-fire test of all nine engines of its Falcon 9 rocket today, but the firing was aborted and the test was scrubbed shortly after 2 p.m. today, according ... NASA?s future: Obama to come to Florida for ?space summit? 7 Mar 2010 at 12:06am Breaking news tonight. The Sentinel has learned that President Barack Obama plans to hold another summit — like the one on health care — only this one will focus on the future of the space program.... Alex Sink: ?No Florida issue more important than the Space Coast? 6 Mar 2010 at 4:11pm ROCKLEDGE – Florida Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Alex Sink made the obligatory campaign stop in Brevard County on Saturday to hear from state aerospace leaders about the impending economic cris... Bolden: It?s not a Plan B, it?s Plan A (version 2.0) 5 Mar 2010 at 4:09pm WASHINGTON — In a memo sent to staff late Friday, NASA chief Charles Bolden again denied reports that his agency was developing a so-called ?Plan B? that would serve as an alternative to the contro... |