Lunar Orbiter, Mars Science Laboratory to Be Launched Over Next
Two Years
NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos have agreed
to fly two Russian scientific instruments on NASA spacecraft that
will conduct unprecedented robotic missions to the moon and
Mars.
Alliant Techsystems announced Thursday Michael J. Bloomfield,
former NASA astronaut and deputy director of NASA flight
operations, has been named Vice President, Constellation Systems in
its Launch Systems Group. ATK also announced the opening of its new
office in Houston, TX which will be headed by Bloomfield.
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
President Paul Nielsen tells ANN the organization will mark the
50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik I Thursday... as well as
reflect on the impact the small satellite had on the world in the
years since.
Blueprints for an outpost on the moon are shaping up, NASA tells
ANN. The agency's Lunar Architecture Team has been hard at work,
looking at concepts for habitation, rovers, and space suits.
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