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Tuesday, Dec 30
The Future of NASA
Ares I is part of a new system of spacecraft being designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to replace the nation???s aging space shuttles. The Ares I and its Orion capsule, along with a companion heavy-lift rocket known as the Ares V, are meant for travel to the Moon an...
Thursday, Nov 20
NYT writer drinks NASA water distilled from the finest astronaut pee and sweat.
The system, created at a cost of about $250 million, will recycle about 93 percent of the water used aboard the station. The cost of lifting supplies up to orbit is so high, though, that NASA estimates the system could pay for itself in as little as two years. Similar systems would be essential...
Tuesday, Oct 14
A second home in Russia for American astronauts
Over at the New York Times, John Schwartz has a new installment in a series of pieces about current cooperation between Russia and America in space exploration: Star City has become an important second home for Americans working with their Russian counterparts, and it is about to become...
