--NASA intends to resume on May 1 the orderly shutdown of the shuttle program, amove directed toward carrying out national space policy while safely flying ninemore missions by the end of next year. Initiated in 2004, thestep-by-step shutdown was put on a temporary hold last year by ...
NASA shut down space shuttle Endeavour for the final time on May 11, 2012, but not before giving collectSPACE.com the chance to photograph the retired spacecraft's powered-on flight deck. (Image credit: collectSPACE.com/Robert Pearlman) NASA pulled the plug on its last powered space shuttle...
President Barack Obama to terminate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) "Constellation" program could result in more than $1 billion in shutdown costs for contractors Lockheed Martin Corp. and Alliant Techsystems Inc.Wall Street Journal - Eastern Edition...
词汇拓展astronaut capsule private announce mission短语搭配shut down focus on make sureNASA has chosen nine astronauts to ride the first business capsules(航天仓) into space. Theseastronauts will travel to the International Space Station. They will ride in capsules built by two privatecompanies.The co...
Because of this inevitability, NASA decided it was time to scale back operations on Voyager 2 by shutting down its plasma science instrument. Doing so, however, took much longer than it does to exit a computer program on Earth. At over 12.9 billion miles from its home planet at about 48-...
Eleven months after the Columbia exploded, President George W. Bush announced that the space shuttle program would be shut down once the International Space Station was completed in 2010 (in fact, it took another year). In preparation NASA invited companies to help supply the station. By this ...
NASA test-fired its Space Launch System (SLS) lunar rocket engines on Saturday but they shut down earlier than planned, the space agency said.The "hot-fire" test at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi was supposed to last a little over eight minutes – the time the engines would burn...
Here’s a replay of the first hotfire test of the Space Launch System core stage, which was cut short a little more than a minute into a planned eight-minute firing. The rocket and engines safely shut down. NASA plans a post-test media briefing tonight.https://t.co/B639YAgQecpic.tw...
Proxmire saw to it that the entire Saturn V production and assembly line was shut down in the early 1970s, requiring even the destruction of the machinery and tooling necessary to build the rocket… In his grief over the destruction of his biggest and best rocket, Wernher von Braun, who lo...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. space agnecy NASA has been back in business after the country ended a record 35-day government shutdown, but it may take a little longer to return to normal operations. "We did everything we could to preserve as much of the agency as possibl...