Saturday, 28 February 2009

IAF Daily News

Obama continues Bush space plan, adds extra money

President Barack Obama is proposing moderate increases in space spending. Obama emphasizes global warming research and continues plans to retire space shuttles next year while eventually returning astronauts to the moon.
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China To Allow Domestic Groups To Help Build Lunar Probe

China's State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence will be taking contributions from qualified institutions, such as universities, to help build the nation's first lunar probe, which is expected to land on the moon by 2012.
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NASA Selects Orbital’s Pegasus Rocket for NuSTAR Space Science Satellite

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced that NASA has selected its Pegasus XL rocket to provide the launch service for the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) satellite in 2011.
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