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July 12, 2013

NASA And JAXA Leaders Discuss Space Cooperation

Agency Heads Discuss Joint Work On Asteroid Capture Mission

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and the president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) met in Washington Wednesday, July 10, to discuss the importance of international cooperation in space, especially the continued support for the International Space Station.

Pictures The Result Of Three Years Of IBEX Imagery

Like a comet, the solar system has a tail. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has for the first time mapped out the structure of this tail, which is shaped like a four-leaf clover. Scientists describe the tail, called the heliotail, based on the first three years of IBEX imagery in a paper published in the July 10 edition of the Astrophysical Journal.

Mission Should Look For Signs Of Past Life, Demonstrate Technology For Future Human Exploration

The rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 should look for signs of past life, collect samples for possible future return to Earth, and demonstrate technology for future human exploration of the Red Planet, according to a report provided to the agency.

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Piper Aircraft has completed flight tests of a Piper Archer powered by 93 octane premium unleaded automotive gasoline. Piper worked with Airworthy AutoGas LLC, Phoenix, AZ, to prove the concept in a test flight regime conducted from the company's Vero Beach manufacturing campus. The FAA announced Wednesday that it plans to publish "soon" the final rule that will increase the qualification requirements for first officers who fly for U.S. passenger and cargo airlines. SpaceX has released a video of a June 14 test of its Grasshopper, which flew 325 m (1066 feet)--higher than Manhattan's Chrysler Building--before smoothly landing back on the pad. All this... and MORE in t

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House Subcommittee Approves NASA Reauthorization Bill

Maintains Priority Programs And Provides Consistent Direction To NASA, Does Not Fund Asteroid Retrieval Mission

The Space Subcommittee of the House Science Committee on Wednesday approved a draft bill to reauthorize programs at NASA for two years, including a topline budget of $16.8 billion dollars for the agency, which the subcommittee chairman says is consistent with the requirements of the Budget Control Act.