Stuck Pin Delays Shuttle's Trek to Launch Pad (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - NASA engineers successfully freed a stuck metal pin on the space shuttle Atlantis late Tuesday, but the work delayed plans to roll the spacecraft out to its Florida launch pad this week. Arrest reopens mystery of missing Calif. couple (AP)
McCain to Bush: Keep Space Shuttle Options Open (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - WASHINGTON ? Acknowledging that a NASA authorization bill is unlikely to be enacted this year, three Republican senators ? including presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.) ? have written President George W. Bush imploring him to direct NASA to hold off for at least a year taking any action that would preclude the agency from flyin...... Scientists See Moon as Research Outpost, Training Ground (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - MOFFETT FIELD, California — One of the host of challenges facing NASA as the agency plans to rekindle robotic and human exploration of the moon is the development of a corps of investigators and technologies suitable for long-term missions akin to the research stations that dot Antarctica. US-Russia chill threatens NASA space program (AFP)
Suborbital Rocket Carrying NASA Experiments Crashes off Wallops Island (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - WASHINGTON — An Alliant Techsystems (ATK) ALV-X1 suborbital rocket carrying two NASA hypersonic flight experiments was destroyed by range officials shortly after its Friday launch from the U.S. space agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's eastern shore. NASA destroys rocket after failed launch (AP) AP - NASA destroyed an unmanned experimental rocket carrying a pair of research satellites Friday when it veered off course shortly after an early morning liftoff. Report: More Support, Testing Needed for NASA Exploration (SPACE.com)
Parachute Test Fails for NASA's New Spaceship (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A mock-up of NASA's Orion space shuttle successor twisted, tumbled and fell from thousands of feet up after a parachute failed to inflate properly during a July 31 test.
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AFP - Space telescopes have captured images of a mammoth collision between two galaxy clusters that have shed some light into the universe's mysterious dark matter, NASA said.
AP - Linda Sohus was a towering blonde fantasy buff who liked to paint unicorns. Her husband, Jonathan, was a diminutive computer programmer working at a NASA lab who shared his wife's passion for science fiction.
AFP - The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said.
SPACE.com - The technology storehouse supporting
NASA's effort to launch astronauts back to the moon by 2020 is dependent on
proper funding and clear mission goals, but lacks a comprehensive testing plan,
according to a new report.
