Made in Space will fly the first 3D printer in space next year aboard a SpaceX Dragon freighter, which will deliver it for use by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, CTO Jason Dunn announced on Saturday.
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SpaceX Dragon to deliver 3D printer to ISS to enable fabrication of needed parts without having to launch them from Earth. Delete the scoop?
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Palazzo to push mission to moon
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Pork barrel politicking. Delete the scoop?
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NASA Chief Urges Congress to Fund Private Astronaut Taxis
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NASA Administrator Bolden tells it like it is: It's up to Congress to decide whether American access to the space station will be on American or on Russian vehicles. Delete the scoop?
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A planet's habitable zone depends on the thickness of its atmosphere. Delete the scoop?
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On Tuesday, NASA announced it had extended a deal with the Russian space agency Roscosmos to provide crew transportation services to and from the International Space Station.
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Senator Shelby of Alabama wants to kill commercial crew so that ALL the federal pork barrel spending will go to his constituents who are building SLS. Delete the scoop?
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Charles Bolden: Launching American Astronauts from U.S.
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The bill for the $70 million dollar seats to orbit should come out of the paychecks of the Congresspeople who voted against full funding of NASA's commercial crew program. Delete the scoop?
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[caption id="attachment_1007" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Fermilab was designed by Robert Wilson, a physicist who made an impassioned plea for basic research in front of a Congressional committee (Image: Wikipedia Commons)"] ...
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John Kelly: NASA still aiming for manned Mars mission
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John Kelly provides the rationale for asteroid capture instead of embarking on an all out program to land humans on Mars. Delete the scoop?
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“3D printing and in-space manufacturing will dramatically change the way we look at space exploration, commercialization, and mission design today.” said Aaron Kemmer, CEO and Co-Founder of MADE IN SPACE.
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3D printers in space could revolutionize the economics of creating space infrastructure. Delete the scoop?
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Aljazeera.com Mars One: Right target, wrong plan Aljazeera.com So, when the non-profit company Mars One started hitting the headlines, I was more than a little enthusiastic for this "one-way mission" that would be ultimately supported by reality...
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Experienced space journalist considers the Mars One plan to put colonists on Mars in 2023 to be doomed to failure, not least because of the inexperience of the company's leaders. 
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What's strange to me is that no one seems to be considering the lack of perspective to come back as a blocker. This type of mission has never happened before: suicide mission, yes but this is not suicide: it's isolation.
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Private Asteroid-Mining Project Launching Tiny Satellites in 2014 Space.com Planetary Resources, which counts Google execs Larry Page and Eric Schmidt among its investors, plans to loft a set of tiny "cubesats" to Earth orbit in early 2014, to test...
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Planetary Resources to launch prototype Arkyd 100 components into orbit next year. Delete the scoop?
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Korolyov, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 23, 2013
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Russia will deorbit on of its space station modules to make way for a new replacement. Delete the scoop?
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The Space Review To catch a planetoid The Space Review Nonetheless, it seems applicable to the announcement in NASA's fiscal year 2014 budget request earlier this month of a new “asteroid imitative” that includes the concept of moving a small near...
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
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NASA Administrator explains why we just agreed to pay Russia $70.6 million for each American, Canadian, Japanese, and European astronaut they launch and return to earth between 2015 and 2017. Would you believe he considers Congress to be responsible for the delay in the developement of an American capability to send humans into orbit? Delete the scoop?
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Beyond Earth's Atmosphere : Energy Needs For Space Colonization Forbes And long-term human settlement will follow at some point, mainly to development mineral and energy resources available on the Moon, but also to emplace protective systems aimed...
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By Mike WallSpace.comScientists searching for signs of life beyond our solar system should keep an open mind, for planets very different than Earth may well be habitable, a prominent researcher says.While it may seem natural to zero in on "alien Earths,"...
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Engineers sabotage Orion parachutes, causing partial failure to deploy properly. Capsule lands safely anyway. This is a confidence builder for the program. Delete the scoop?
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Penny-wise, pound-foolish Congress cut funding for American commercial space launch capability in order to fund M1 tanks that both the Secretary of Defense and top Army generals have said they don't need and don't want. Delete the scoop?
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NASA is paying $424 million more to Russia to get U.S. astronauts into space, and the agency's leader is blaming Congress for the extra expense. NASA announced its latest contract with the Russian Space Agency on Tuesday.
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Russia's monopoly on transporting humans to orbit enables them to really turn the screws on NASA. Isn't there any way we can accelerate the American commercial space efforts? How about adequate funding from Congress? Delete the scoop?
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Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo customers could be flying by the end of the year.
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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo fired its rocket motor for 16 seconds in the historic April 29, 2013 test flight.
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SpaceShipTwo goes supersonic on its furst powered flight. All indications are that the test flight was a complete success. A few more flights will expand the envelope and then it will power its way to space. Delete the scoop?
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Blue Origin patent discloses method for slowing down a reusable spacecraft for landing on planets with a substantial atmosphere. Delete the scoop?
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In a recent presentation to the human exploration and operations committee of the NASA Advisory Counsel (NAC), William Gerstenmaier, Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, over-viewed the challenges...
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NASA's Associate Administrator provides details on plans to capture an asteroid. Delete the scoop?
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Branson tells the Las Vegas Sun that SpaceShipTwo will break the sound barrier next Monday:
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XCOR CEO Jeff Greason inspects the Lynx main engine after a hotfire test while Chief Test Engineer Doug Jones looks on. (Credit: XCOR)
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This will revolutionize construction both in space and here on earth. The possibilities are astounding.