Tag: NASA

New Rocket Engine

New Rocket Engine

HUNTSVILLE, AL. — Engineers and managers at Marshall Space Flight Center on Thursday completed a critical design review for NASA’s newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X. The J2-X, developed for NASA by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne of Canoga Park, Calif., is the first element of NASA’s Constellation Program aimed at returning to the moon and [...]

November 14, 2008 | 0 Comments More
Moon Mission Delayed

Moon Mission Delayed

LOS ANGELES — NASA has delayed the launch of an unmanned spacecraft to the moon to scout for potential landing sites for astronauts. The moon craft is the first step in NASA’s program to send astronauts back to the moon and beyond. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter was supposed to blast off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., [...]

August 14, 2008 | 0 Comments More

NASA’s 50th birthday

U.S. House honors NASA’s 50th birthdayPosted by Staff reports July 11, 2008 1:35 PMCategories: Government The U.S. House of Representatives approved a resolution today honoring the 50th anniversary of NASA. NASA was established on July 29, 1958, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer said in [...]

July 11, 2008 | 0 Comments More
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