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floridatoday.com - Space IMAX hitching ride to Hubble6 Oct 2008 at 1:26am The Write Stuff Bill Clinton: Obama's space policy is a "very big deal"2 Oct 2008 at 12:00am Former President Bill Clinton on Wednesday praised Sen. Barack Obama?s space policy as being good for Florida and America. ?He has a plan to support the space industry, which I think is important n... NASA must have better plan for end of shuttle era, report finds 30 Sep 2008 at 3:05pm WASHINGTON -- NASA has not given Congress enough information on how much it will cost to retire the space shuttle and transition to a new spacecraft, in part because agency officials still are unsu... Shakeup in Kennedy Space Center management 30 Sep 2008 at 11:45am NASA announced on Tuesday that Bill Parsons, a former Marine and the ninth director of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is leaving the agency in mid-October to "pursue opportunities in the priv... Michoud space shuttle workers get pink slips 30 Sep 2008 at 11:21am EDITOR'S NOTE: This story from WDSU in New Orleans (noted first by NASAWatch.com) of shuttle worker layoffs there comes hard on the heels of a new NASA authorization act passed by Congress at the w... Deaming of a white Red Planet 29 Sep 2008 at 3:36pm WASHINGTON -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Spacecraft soil tests experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid... Phoenix probe sees snow on Mars 29 Sep 2008 at 3:18pm WASHINGTON -- A space probe on Mars recently witnessed an event rarely seen in Florida: snow. Here's the NASA release: NASA MARS LANDER SEES FALLING SNOW, SOIL DATA SUGGEST LIQUID PAST WASHINGTON -... NASA delays Atlantis mission to the Hubble Space Telescope 29 Sep 2008 at 3:08pm NASA managers decided on Monday to delay the long-awaited launch of shuttle Atlantis to fix the Hubble Space Telescope to a yet to be determined date after the orbiting observatory suddenly stopped... Glitch on the Hubble threatens to delay Shuttle Atlantis launch 29 Sep 2008 at 2:01pm A critical system that collects and transmits data from the Hubble Space Telescope to scientists on the ground failed over the weekend, threatening to delay until next year the long-awaited Oct.14 ... Congress agrees to Soyuz waiver 29 Sep 2008 at 11:47am WASHINGTON -- Weeks of lobbying appear to have paid off for NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. On Saturday, the Senate passed a massive spending bill that included a provision that authorizes NASA... SpaceX: Fourth launch attempt is 'successful' 28 Sep 2008 at 8:40pm Apparently, the "fourth time's a charm" for Elon Musk and his rocket company SpaceX. After going 0-3 in his first three attempts, Musk and SpaceX are announcing tonight that they successfully launc... |