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• SpaceX Announces the Falcon 9 - A Fully Reusable Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle

  ...making Falcon 9 the most cost efficient vehicle in its class - worldwide.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Sep 09, 2005

• NASA Mars Rover Climbs Husband Hill

  Like any journey that starts with the first step, Spirit started to roll, and headed toward the hills.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Sep 08, 2005

• NASA Administrator Mike Griffin Addresses AIAA Space 2005

  They are all heroes for "getting back on the horse" that we all know will throw us again...

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Sep 01, 2005

• Why The NASA Shuttle Must Continue To Fly

  NASA Administrator Mike Griffin and The New Times Trade Words

  Opinion by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 24, 2005

• NASA'S Swift Satellite Finds Newborn Black Holes

  Stars are exploding two, three and sometimes four times in the first minutes following the initial explosion.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 19, 2005

• Our Milky Way Galaxy - As You've Never Seen It Before

  The Milky Way, it turns out, is no ordinary spiral galaxy.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 18, 2005

• Next NASA Shuttle Launch Scheduled For March 2006

  Engineers have come to grips with the fact that is impossible to eliminate the tank foam problem.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 18, 2005

• NASA Scientists Discover New Method For Predicting Solar Weather

  "It's not only interesting scientifically, but has broad implications for society."

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 17, 2005

• 100 Million Dollars To See The Dark Side Of The Moon

  Space Adventures Offers Private Voyage to the Moon

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 11, 2005

• Back From Space - NASA Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely In California

  ...ending one of the most publicly followed space missions since the days of the moon landings.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 09, 2005

• t/Space Tests Space Vehicle Parachutes in Pacific Ocean Drop

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 04, 2005

• Solar Radiation Danger May Delay Manned Mission To Mars

  The astronaut would have absorbed lethal doses of radiation within just 10 hours.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 03, 2005

• Saturn's Moon Enceladus An Icy Mystery - Cassini Update

  This is as astonishing as if we'd flown past Earth and found that Antarctica was warmer than the Sahara.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Aug 02, 2005

• Burt Rutan and Virgin Group form The Spaceship Company

  Virgin Group and Scaled Composites partner to provide sub-orbital commercial tourist flights by 2008.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Jul 29, 2005

• New Planet Found Orbiting Beyond Pluto

  As if that wasn't impressive enough, this new "planet" is being orbited by a small moon.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Jul 29, 2005

• No Shuttle Flights Until Debris Problem Resolved

  Clearly, with the event we had, we were wrong.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Jul 27, 2005

• "We have liftoff!" NASA Shuttle Discovery Thunders Into Orbit

  A perfect launch.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Jul 26, 2005

• The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - More Than Just A Pretty Robot

  The mission will return more data about the red planet than all other Mars missions combined.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Jul 23, 2005

• NASA Prepares For Tuesday Launch Of Shuttle Discovery

  NASA has indicated that mission managers may go for a launch even if the sensor anomaly reoccurs...

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Jul 21, 2005

• NASA's Shuttle Fleet - Concerns and Compromises

  Mike Griffin may decide that the shuttle Discovery will fly before the end of the month - problem or no problem.

  News by Bennett Dawson — on Jul 18, 2005