NASA Will Award $1.6 Billion to Speed the Development of Commercial Space Taxis

Seeded on Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:23 PM EDT (Popular Science - )

Likely prompted in no small part by last month’s Progress cargo ship crash in Russia, NASA has announced a $1.6 billion contract running through 2014 to develop complete end-to-end cargo and crew transportation between Earth and the International Space S …

technology, russia, nasa, bigelow-aerospace, soyuz, space-x, private-space-industry

SASSA, the Military's New Satellite Self-Defense System

Seeded on Fri Sep 23, 2011 3:17 PM EDT (Popular Science - )

A new satellite defense technology is about to get its first real-world test in orbit, and while we naturally don’t get to know much about it just yet, the Air Force has confirmed that a classified satellite launching sometime in the near future will carry the awkwardly nam …

technology, space, air-force, satellite, weapons, star-wars, defense-system

Building Our Space Infrastructure

Wed Sep 14, 2011 2:19 PM EDT

Building Our Space Infrastructure A Project to Change the World The construction of the Interstate Highway System, spanning from 1956 to 1974 and costing $114 billion dollars (1) (or $522 billion in 2011 dollars) was initially hatched as a national defense project. T …

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