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Flotsam and jetsam in Earth orbit, most of it the residue from old satellite explosions, is so profuse that former astronaut John Glenn, on observing the sun glinting off the pieces, once likened it to flying through a cloud of lightning bugs. But given NASA's heightened safety awareness since the 2003 loss of Space Shuttle Columbia, one piece of debris - caught on video and measuring just 2 inches by 5 inches - was enough to cause another high-profile hitch in a series of operational setbacks for Space Shuttle Atlantis...
...million Cost of the solar array that NASA astronauts installed on the International Space Station last week during a 61/2-hr. spacewalk...
...Shuttle Successor Orion set to blast off by 2014 NASA has awarded Lockheed a multibillion-dollar contract to build the next manned space vehicle. Orion's design is winning praise, but skeptics wonder if future Administrations will fund...
...Lockheed Martin was a good choice for a few reasons. First of all, a NASA contract can be the sweetest of government plums. The projects can go on for decades (look at the 30-year shuttle program) and cost overruns are usually tolerated and even expected. That may not do the federal deficit any favors, but a company that can score a $2 billion deal and know full well that it may turn into $3 billion by the end of the contract term is a company with a lot of happy shareholders. Lockheed Martin has not shared much...
...first lunar landing program, from the inception of NASA to the final, Apollo 17 landing, spanned four presidents - Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon - and repeated changeovers in Congress. The same steadfastness will be required of present and future political leaders if the new ships are to get off the gorund. Anything less than a multi-generational commitment to the new program will waste the government?s money - and try the public?s patience...