Tag: NASA

Beltway Confidential

Sanctioned Russian official controls company that builds rocket engines to launch U.S. spy satellites

Charles Hoskinson · April 25, 2014 4:00 am

File-This Oct. 9, 2003, file photo shows John C. Houbolt explaining the size of different rockets required to launch various methods for landing on the moon at Grainger Engineering Library in Urbana, Ill. Houbolt, an engineer whose contributions to the U.S. space program were vital to NASA's successful moon landing in 1969, has died. He was 95. Houbolt's family confirmed his death Tuesday, April 15, 2014, at a Maine nursing home of complications from Parkinson's disease. (AP Photo/News-Gazette, John Dixon, File)

NASA: Engineer vital to moon landing success dies

Washington Examiner · April 20, 2014 3:30 am

The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-12M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station (ISS) blasts off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Steven Swanson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Space station arrival delayed for US-Russian crew

Nataliya Vasilyeva · March 26, 2014 11:08 pm

Mark Moody, an employee of Lockheed Martin Corp., works on preparations for a brace for the Dream Chaser mini-space shuttle designed by Sierra Nevada Corp. - one of three companies working on spacecraft to get NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Shuttle. Lockheed Martin also has two other, unrelated, projects at Michoud Assembly Facility in eastern New Orleans - a campus where thousands of people worked in the 1980s to build space shuttle fuel tanks. (AP Photo/Janet McConnaughey)

Parts for new mini-shuttle being built at Michoud

Janet McConnaughey · March 25, 2014 10:27 pm

A Way to Sanction the Russians

Daniel Halper · March 22, 2014 10:10 am

Expert Prediction: The Sky Is Falling

Geoffrey Norman · March 20, 2014 1:41 pm

Beltway Confidential

NASA study: Economic inequality could lead to economic collapse

Charlie Spiering · March 19, 2014 12:00 am

Energy and Environment

NASA campaign launched from Va to study polar ice

Washington Examiner · March 13, 2014 2:51 am

NASA struggles to manage its smartphones, report finds

Kelly Cohen · March 7, 2014 12:00 am

NASA plots daring flight to Jupiter’s watery moon

Seth Borenstein · March 4, 2014 6:07 pm

EXography: Federal agencies spend millions on first-class flights

Michal Conger, Luke Rosiak · March 4, 2014 5:00 am

Beltway Confidential

Russia’s leverage on the U.S. extends all the way to outer space

Charles Hoskinson · March 1, 2014 12:00 am