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Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 John McHale |
`Fly me to the moon...' and the Space Station, too Designers of Orion, the next manned space vehicle from NASA that will service the International Space Station and return man to the moon, are using open-architecture designs for the avionics and crew cockpit.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2009 John McHale |
Human Space Flight Gets Increase in 2010 NASA Budget Request NASA human space exploration programs, such as the Constellation program to return to the moon, receive increases in the 2010 NASA budget request, while space shuttle funding dwindles as NASA officials plan to retire the fleet in 2010.  |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 David Noland |
Mission to the Moon: How We'll Go Back -- and Stay This Time From ensuring a safe launch to getting the vehicle back on the ground, here's an inside look at some of the toughest challenges NASA's engineers are now confronting with the new Orion shuttle.  |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 David Noland |
Moon Man: Buzz Aldrin's Advice on NASA's Orion Mission Buzz Aldrin offers his thoughts on the next mission to the moon.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale |
The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.  |
Fast Company December 1, 2007 Charles Fishman |
To The Moon! (In a Minivan) How NASA and Lockheed Martin are building a successor to the Space Shuttle - using off-the-shelf technology and plain old pragmatism.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2010 John McHale |
U.S. Navy Avionics Systems Embrace Open Architectures Designers of avionics equipment for U.S. Navy aircraft see obsolescence as their biggest obstacle in meeting the steady demand for upgrades and retrofits of existing aircraft. Their solution is open architecture.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2009 |
Ball Selects Aitech Real-Time Embedded Components for Ares I Rocket Aitech delivered its S950 single-board computer and S750 PCI mezzanine card for a triple-redundant embedded computing configuration to provide flight control redundancy in the instrument avionics flight computer.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale |
Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade.  |
Popular Mechanics December 12, 2007 Alex Hutchinson |
NASA Will Tinker With Open-Source Rocket for Return to Moon The "brains" of the Ares I rocket that will be built by Boeing, but the specifications will be open-source and non-proprietary, so that other companies can bid on future contracts.  |
Popular Mechanics April 2009 Michael Belfiore |
7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle NASA's Orion won't be ready until at least 2015, but the current space shuttle is due to retire next year. Meet the seven international spacecraft from the world's space fleet that could inherit the job of ferrying supplies into space.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Rhea |
Money for space Space exploration is becoming politically fashionable again, and advanced technology firms would be well advised to get on board while the getting is good.  |
Popular Mechanics December 23, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
NASA'S Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Ready for Its April Launch, but Will It Help the U.S. Return to the Moon? The orbiter is more than just another satellite looking at moon rocks -- this mission is one of the first steps in NASA's mission to return humans to the moon, and use the moon as a springboard to reach beyond.  |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon.  |
Geotimes July 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Jetting Through Space President Bush announced on Jan. 4, 2004, his vision to return humans to the moon, Mars and beyond. Without the Cold War era impetus, however, NASA is searching for new ways to motivate development of innovative new vehicles to fly humans to the moon.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John McHale |
Boeing to Develop New Electronic Circuits for Extreme Space Environments Boeing is part of a team that received a NASA contract to develop a reliable, cost-effective electronic technology that helps robotic and human space missions operate in environments of extreme cold and space radiation.  |
The Motley Fool September 1, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Lockheed Blasts Off A new NASA contract increases Lockheed Martin's advantage over rival Boeing. Investors, take note.  |
Popular Mechanics September 14, 2009 Rand Simberg |
Launch System Skepticism Grows at Space 2009: Guest Analysis This week, at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics annual meeting on space in Pasadena, Calif., several technical papers have more to say on the subject of getting back to the moon with existing launch systems.  |
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland |
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives.  |
Popular Mechanics September 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking.  |
Popular Mechanics November 16, 2009 |
The Retirement of the Space Shuttle--And What's Next for NASA We look back at coverage of the technology behind the Constellation Program and the development of the International Space station as well as news surrounding the Space Shuttles  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 David A. Mindell |
The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut How do you justify human spaceflight?  |
Popular Mechanics February 2009 |
NASA & Its Discontents: Frustrated Engineers Battle with NASA over the Future of Spaceflight The economic crisis, growing tensions with Russia and political change in Washington are already prompting calls to rewrite the space agency's plan.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John Rhea |
President Bush's Space Vision: Is This Trip Necessary? NASA has finally unveiled details about its proposed $104 billion plan to return astronauts to the moon by 2018, but critics detect a demonstrably uncertain sound of this trumpet.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2007 |
Over the Moon NASA announced its reinvigorated mission for the 21st century, part of which is to build a permanent base on the moon.  |
Popular Mechanics February 1, 2008 Thomas D. Jones |
5 Years Later, 5 Hard Lessons From the Columbia Shuttle Disaster: Resident Astronaut As NASA readies Atlantis for a Feb. 7 launch to the International Space Station, it observes a week packed with painful memories of three spaceflight tragedies: Apollo 1, Challenger and the fifth anniversary of the loss of Columbia.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2008 |
Military & Aerospace Electronics Acquires Avionics Conference and Exhibition Military & Aerospace Electronics magazine and its parent company PennWell have purchased the Avionics conference and exhibition, and will operate the Avionics conference next March in Amsterdam.  |
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Tom Jones |
Launching NASA on a Path to Nowhere: Analysis The president released his FY 2011 budget Monday, and his policy for NASA's human spaceflight program sets the nation on a course to second-class status in space.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale |
Electronic Pieces of NASA's Next Mars Mission Are Coming Together Designers of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is beginning a new phase in preparation for a launch in August 2007. Phoenix team members are beginning to add complex subsystems such as the flight computer, power systems, and science instruments to the main structure of the spacecraft.  |
IndustryWeek February 17, 2010 Peter Alpern |
NASA Tool Could Cross Over to Manufacturing HyperSizer analysis optimizes design architectures, predicts performance of composite materials.  |
Wired July 20, 2009 John Brandon |
Torture Chamber: NASA Tests Next-Gen Craft for Space Blast For the past two decades, rocket scientists have been trucking prototypes to NASA's Space Power Facility for test flights. But to accommodate the agency's latest vehicle, Orion, the facility is going to require some remodeling.  |
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Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water.  |
Popular Mechanics January 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
NASA Renegades Pitch Obama Team New Post-Shuttle Plan During a morning meeting at NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. with Obama administration transition team members, a handful of advocates today pitched an idea to scrap NASA's existing post-shuttle plan.  |
Popular Mechanics May 26, 2009 Joe P. Hasler |
Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface?  |
Wired May 2003 Tom McNichol |
The Race Back to the Moon Astropreneurs are counting down for a return to Apollo country. The first small step: a satellite atlas of the lunar surface. The next giant leap: ice mining, helium farming, and a launchpad to the solar system.  |
The Motley Fool November 9, 2007 Rich Smith |
Turn on Your Space Radar Following NASA's discovery of a new solar system similar to our own, discover these companies engaging in space exploration: Boeing... Lockheed... Limited Technology... Raytheon... General Electric... L - 3... Northrop Grumman...  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 |
Honeywell to Enhance Flight Safety on Indian Air Force's C-130J Hercules Military Aircraft Honeywell engineers are designing and developing a military version of the company's Traffic Collision Alerting System, as well as other key safety and mechanical systems, for the Indian air force C-130J program.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 James Oberg |
Internal NASA Documents Give Clues to Scary Soyuz Return Flight Engineers are attempting to reconstruct the 19 April Soyuz descent from the ISS.  |
Popular Mechanics October 28, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Rooting for NASA's Ares I Rockets: Analysis This week, all eyes were on NASA as it conducted the first flight of the Ares I, the first launch vehicle the agency designed since the Space Shuttle. October also witnessed progress in other space launches  |
Geotimes December 2006 |
Top Space News Stories of 2006 Titan's Earthly and Unearthly Features... Space Technologies Fly, Lift and Roll on...Deep Impact Still Impresses... etc.  |
Popular Mechanics April 23, 2008 Rand Simberg |
How Clinton, Obama and McCain Could Change U.S. Space Policy: Geek the Vote Guest Analysis What are the chances that a President McCain, Clinton or Obama will support NASA's plan as is? Here's a closer look.  |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.  |
InternetNews November 22, 2004 Colin C. Haley |
IBM Flies Into Aerospace Electronics IBM has notched an electronics and engineering deal from Honeywell, a major win in Big Blue's push with aerospace and defense contractors.  |
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson |
It's Not All Bad News When It Comes to the Health of the U.S. Space Industrial Base The health and welfare of the companies that produce spacecraft, payloads, rockets and ground stations for everyone from NASA to intelligence agencies has been the source of much hand-wringing during the past few years.  |
The Motley Fool October 6, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Investors Win, Taxpayers Lose in Aerospace Merger The Boeing-Lockheed Martin monopoly could lead to higher prices and lower quality. Investors, take note.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2009 |
Show Products Product highlights for the avionics and military shows in San Diego, June 1-2, 2009.  |
Popular Mechanics October 23, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
5 Surprise Passages From the Full Augustine Report There are significant vulnerabilities outlined in the report on our current space programs.  |
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman |
Dream Job Alert! NASA Puts Out Call For New Astronauts NASA today put out a call for new astronauts, including those who might support a future manned mission to Mars.  |
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Michael Milstein |
Inside NASA's Plan to Bomb the Moon and Find Water Water is a key ingredient in the agency's plans to establishing a permanent outpost there because it can be broken down into oxygen for lunar bases and fuel for rockets.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 John Rhea |
The $10 billion NASA market NASA's budget for fiscal year 2006 envisions spending $10 billion for new competitive opportunities with industry, academia, and the agency's own field centers -- with the big-ticket item being the President's plan for returning humans to the Moon and exploring the planets.  |