Small Rockets' Goals Are One Mile Of Altitude, Safe Return Of Payloads
The Aerospace Club of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, took first prize in the 2013 annual NASA Student Launch Projects challenge, in which student teams design, build and fly small rockets with science payloads to an altitude of 1 mile and return them safely to Earth.
Questions Raised About Safety, Security, Tax Expenditures
Some Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill are looking closely at NASA contracts that are designed to bolster the agency's Commercial Crew and Commercial Cargo programs, saying they could compromise safety and security. Questions are also being raised about the amount of tax money being spent on the programs.
NIAC Program Funds 'Cutting Edge' Concepts With Transformative Potential
NASA is looking for far-out ideas. NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program is seeking Phase II proposals for continuation of promising studies selected during the first phase of the visionary program. The NIAC program funds cutting-edge concepts with the potential to transform future aerospace missions
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