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, soyuz, bigelow-aerospace, 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, weapons, air-force, satellite, 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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science, space, tech, budget, nasa

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Yea !!!! Arizona's gun law is to making sure the people in Arizona can have enough right to buy guns from gun shop and sell its to Mexico drug dealer.
You give them weapon and they give you weeds, everybody know that.
Those law makers got some green under the table from gun dealers and drug dealers, why should they care what the future of good citizen will hold.
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brokinarrow, It would have taken us much longer to win if the French didn't bottle up Cornwallis at Yorktown and Luckily defeat the British in an navel engagement.
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I agree with brokinarrow.l I didn't realize a judge had jurisdiction over the military and don't think they should have. The Judge should be thrown out of court.
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