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NASA DLR Agreement Signing (201012080001HQ) Image by nasa hq photo NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, seated right, and Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the Executive Board, German Aerospace Center (DLR), sign a Framework Agreement on cooperation in aeronautics and the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, at NASA Headquarters in [...]

NASA DLR Agreement Signing (201012080004HQ) Image by nasa hq photo NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, right, Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the Executive Board, German Aerospace Center (DLR), and Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, left, are seen Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Paul E. Alers) Ex-Astronauts Caution Congress Testifying with them was [...]

Top NASA official 'rooting for' China's success in space exploration By Jeff Poor – The Daily Caller In June 2010 NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden, Jr., a retired Marine Corps major general, told Al Jazeera that one of his goals was “to reach out to and engage the Muslim world, making better known its historic [...]

On This Day In World Weather History – 15 October … NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io. 2002 – SPACE: In northern Russia a Soyuz-U rocket carrying a EU research communications satellite exploded several seconds after liftoff from a launch pad, killing one soldier. … Read more on iWeather Online [...]

Chinese Space Station Tiangong-1; A Wake-up Call for NASA? The mission, to send aloft the first module for China's space lab coincides with the retirement of NASA's shuttle program. The Tiangong-1 is an unmanned craft containing the first module on the Chinese space lab being launched on a Long March 2F rocket … Read more [...]

External Tank Was Backbone Of Shuttle Launches External Fuel Tank 138, or ET-138, helped launch NASA's last space shuttle flight, Atlantis' STS-135 mission, on July 8, from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center. Though not the last tank built for the Space Shuttle Program, it was the last flight … Read more on Space [...]

Former shuttle program director Utsman dies Former NASA shuttle program director Thomas Earl Utsman of Cocoa Beach died Oct. 4 at age 75. Utsman retired from NASA in 1995 as special assistant to the Kennedy Space Center director. The University of Michigan graduate spent much of his 34-year … Read more on Florida Today

Mars Exploration Endangered by Bureaucratic (In)Action But for reasons unknown, somewhere in the administration somebody is refusing to release the letter that would allow the head of ESA to collaborate with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. Why on Earth would you refuse to allow over $ 1 billion of … Read more on The Planetary Society [...]

Space Shuttle Discovery Launch Part 2 Image by vladeb STS-133 launch on February 24th, 2011. Shot on an iPhone at the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex. Soyuz Crew Launches To ISS To Resume 16, the NASA-led Space Station Control board approved plans to resume launches of the Russian spacecraft on Nov. 14, a schedule that [...]

Florida Fights Launch of Manned Missions from Virginia [Florida Today] Credit: Orbital Sciences composite Enlarge Image Space and economic development officials in Florida are weighing in against a proposal by NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia to consider launches of human spaceflight missions, … Read more on Space News ISS managers prepare for possible de-crew [...]