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Popular Mechanics April 2003 Paul Eisenstein |
Biggest Engine Ever Built It was the largest, most powerful rocket ever built and, having served as the launch platform for the Apollo manned moon mission, probably qualifies as the most famous rocket as well.  |
IndustryWeek June 22, 2011 |
Heavy Lifting 'Facts' don't add up in a recent article about the Saturn V Rocket.  |
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.  |
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.  |
Popular Mechanics June 2009 Joe P. Hasler |
17 Steps to the Moon and Back: Anatomy of a Moonshot Here are the critical events that had to go right with the Apollo 11 launch, and what would have happened had they gone wrong.  |
Popular Mechanics September 2009 |
Behind the Scenes With the World's Most Ambitious Rocket Makers In late 2001, Tom Mueller was sacrificing his nights and weekends to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine in his garage.  |
Popular Mechanics January 29, 2010 David Noland |
Rebel Engineers Sit With NASA to Chart Future of Manned Space President Obama will officially reveal his budget, and his plans for NASA, on Monday, Feb. 1. NASA officials deferred answers to questions until after the budget is released.  |
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.  |
BusinessWeek October 28, 2010 Paul M. Barrett |
NASA: Lost in Space After 30 years, the Shuttle program will end. How do you outsource the astronaut business?  |
Popular Mechanics April 27, 2009 Davin Coburn |
Rocket Record: The Largest, Heaviest Amateur Rocket Ever Launched Steve Eves broke two world records Saturday, when his 36-ft tall, 1,648 lb rocket was the largest and heaviest amateur rocket ever launched and recovered successfully.  |
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  |
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.  |
Wired December 2001 Richard Martin |
From Russia, With 1 Million Pounds of Thrust Why the workhorse RD-180 may be the future of US rocketry...  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2006 |
Letters DDC-I also a well-established safety-critical software provider... Scrapping the Saturn V rocket a tragic mistake...  |
Popular Mechanics February 8, 2010 Rand Simberg |
The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere The author believes that NASA's new path, outlined by the president's budget, holds promise of real progress.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Sandra Upson |
Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back  |
Popular Mechanics October 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt |
Mining The Moon An Apollo astronaut argues that with its vast stores of nonpolluting nuclear fuel, our lunar neighbor holds the key to Earth's future.  |
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.  |
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.  |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2009 Rich Smith |
Wanna Bet on a Moonshot? If NASA doesn't decide to go to the moon, will Congress takes the Augustine Commission's advice to help subsidize private space-flight providers in hopes that will ultimately be the cheaper route for exploration?  |
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 October 27, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Critics and Proponents Wait Out NASA's Ares 1-X Rocket Delay Severe winds and bad weather delayed NASA's first Ares 1-X rocket test today. The launch, which will culminate in a 6-minute flight to test the new hardware, will pick up again tomorrow at 8 am.  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 |
Video Games 101 Book Reviews: Smartbomb: The Quest for Art, Entertainment, and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution by Heather Chaplin and Aaron Ruby... Saturn: The Complete Manufacturing and Test Records by Alan Lawrie and Robert Godwin...  |
| AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come.  |
Popular Mechanics November 2, 2009 Rand Simberg |
Ares' Continued Technical Problems and Money Troubles: Guest Analysis There is a bigger concern; one not previously discussed publicly in a program that has had several as-yet-unresolved technical concerns in its four-year history.  |
Wired September 22, 2008 Vince Beiser |
Use Big Robots -- and Big Rockets Carolyn Porco has been criticizing the space program's shuttle-centric approach for years, and now the agency is finally listening to her. Here are points she would make if she were granted an audience with the president.  |
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 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.  |
Geotimes July 2004 Jay Chapman |
Sliding into Saturn Late Wednesday night, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft silently slipped through the outermost rings of Saturn and entered into orbit. By early Thursday morning, Cassini began transmitting strikingly elegant close-up images of Saturn's rings.  |
National Defense June 2007 Grace Jean |
U.S. Space Initiatives Fall Short on Ambition For a perspective on the nation's science and technology status, one need look no further than President Bush's initiative to send Americans back to the moon by 2015.  |
Chemistry World August 2009 Richard Corfield |
One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role  |
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?  |
Popular Mechanics January 27, 2010 Joe Pappalardo |
What Happens If NASA's Constellation Program Dies? Reporters at the Orlando Sentinel created a stir today by breaking news -- citing anonymous sources -- that President Barack Obama's budget will not include any funds for hardware for NASA's human space flight program.  |
Wired May 22, 2009 Sarah Douglas |
NASA's Icy-Hot Rocket Engine Rocket engines don't get much cooler than this.  |
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.  |
National Defense February 2012 Eric Beidel |
Booster Sought To Launch and Launch Some More When rocket boosters propel a vehicle into space, it usually is a one-time deal. Parts of a launch system burn up, fall into the ocean or remain in an orbital graveyard never to be used again.  |
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 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.  |
Science News October 29, 2005 |
Spooky Sounds of Saturn These NASA Jet Propulsion Lab Web pages provide sound files based on magnetometer data from Cassini spacecraft observations of Saturn's moon Enceladus and more.  |
Geotimes December 2005 |
Highlights 2005 -- Space Rovers still trucking... New "planetary" neighbors... Back to space...  |
Popular Mechanics October 12, 2009 Erik Sofge |
8 Experts Weigh in on the Future of Human Spaceflight It's now up to NASA to consider the findings, and offer specific recommendations to the Obama administration.  |
Popular Mechanics June 2006 Jennifer Bogo |
Beholding Saturn This mosaic of 126 images from Cassini is the most detailed, natural-color view of Saturn ever made. NASA's imaging specialist explains the stunning view from the Cassini spacecraft.  |
Geotimes May 2005 Laura Stafford |
Saturn's New Moon In a small space between Saturn's rings, scientists discovered a previously unknown moon, currently known as S/2005 S1, from the images sent back to Earth from Cassini less than a year after the spacecraft began orbiting Saturn.  |
Popular Mechanics March 11, 2009 Tom Jones |
An Astronaut's Letter to President Obama: Six Space Policy Musts Looming decisions facing the president will make or break America's status as the world leader in space. Here is some advice for Obama on what he needs to do to keep NASA on the right trajectory.  |
Popular Mechanics February 1, 2010 Michael Belfiore |
Human Space Flight Needn't Rely on NASA: Guest Analysis Is Obama's just-released NASA budget the "death march for the future of U.S. human space flight," as Senator Richard Shelby proclaims on his website today? Or is it in fact a new beginning for the space agency?  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2006 |
Does NASA Need A Better Launch Site? It is unlikely that NASA will ever willingly relocate from Kennedy to somewhere like the Mojave -- if nothing else, there is simply too much infrastructure, aging though it is, which the agency can't afford to replace with its normal operating budgets.  |
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2008 Michael Milstein |
NASA Makes Space U-Turn, Opening Arms to Private Industry The agency seems to be shifting course, as NASA officials insist that the budding commercial spacecraft fleet represents the only way the United States can realize its dreams of solar-system conquest on schedule and at an affordable cost.  |
Popular Mechanics September 11, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
How to Make a (More) Environmentally Friendly Rocket Fuel Every NASA space shuttle launch leaves a huge cloud of exhaust in its wake, and some nasty chemicals lurk in the exhaust.  |