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The Third Reich had plans for a Rocket Plane that would be able to drop nuclear bombs on American soil. Multiple V-2 rockets would have launched the “Silver Bird” on a two mile long track, getting high up in the atmosphere before it’s internal rocket engines would have pushed it to Mach 30. It was [...]
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Bigelow Aerospace is proposing a scaled down version of NASA’s own Orion project. They claim they can have it up and running by 2013, while NASA’s projected date of March 2015 for getting Orion in space is seen as fuzzy at best.
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NASA somehow has gotten hold of $50 Million of the 9% of the federal stimulus money being spent in 2009 and is using it “to seed development of commercial passenger transportation service to space.” NASA does some good stuff, but they couldn’t agree on the basic specs without spending more than $50 million dollars. Given [...]
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They use the more PC term, “De-Orbit”, which means letting the incredibly expensive International Space Station drop out of orbit and burn. Any large leftover chunks are supposed to fall into the Pacific Ocean. The station has cost $100 billion to put into orbit, build and maintain, so far. No plans to replace it with [...]
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The U.S. Air Forces has dropped the ball on this one. It is reported that GPS satellites could start dropping next year, and the USAF, who maintains the system, may not have replacement satellites ready for launch. This is seriously bad project management on the part of the USAF. This is a vital system that [...]
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Key budgeting decisions have to be made by the incoming administration about NASA no later than April 30, 2009. The ability to get into orbit is vitial for multiple reasons, including National Defense, technology, economics, weather predictions, and the standing of the United States in the international community.
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US based Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, became the first private company to success fully put a payload into orbit. Their liquid fuel rocket, Falcon1 put a payload into orbit from a US military facility on Omelek Island in the Kwajalein Atoll yesterday. It was their fouth try, but if it was easy, everyone would be doing [...]
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Google has purchased the exclusive rights among online mapping sites to the new GeoEye-1 satellite. The GeoEye-1 will allow Google to obtain images with 50cm of resolution. So be careful of what you have in your backyard folks, because everyone will be able to see where you left your lawnmower.
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