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Hailing from Woodland Avenue in Melrose — where his parents still live — Michael Interbartolo III has been the Space Shuttle technical assistant for the Space Transportation Vehicle (STV) Division at NASA’s Johnson Space Center since May 2006.Read More at Melrose Free Press…

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NASA is developing new spacecraft, the Ares rockets and Orion crew capsule, to deliver astronauts to the ISS and send them on their way to the moon. The first test flight of the spacecraft, Ares I-X, is scheduled to launch in spring 2009.Read More at SpaceRef…

ALTON - Space capsules rarely are seen by River Benders unless they are visiting a museum, but one landed this week in the front yard of a North Alton home.Read More at The Telegraph…

Alliant Techsystems was awarded a Sounding Rocket Program Three contract with potential value of $250 million from the U.S. Air Force to provide launch vehicles and engineering and integration services for intercept systems and atmospheric sounding rocket experiments.Read More at PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance…

The media has, over the last several months, devoted some coverage to the thrust oscillation problems and other issues with the Ares 1. That brings to mind two questions about projects like these. How does an outside observer know if a project like this is succeeding or failing?Read More at The Space Review…

The 50th anniversary of NASA offers a tremendous hook for publicity for the space agency, an opportunity to celebrate what it has accomplished and—perhaps more importantly, given the transitions the agency is undergoing—what it plans to do in the future.Read More at The Space Review…

Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon, has issued a stark warning that America must invest now in the space agency Nasa, or surrender leadership of space exploration to Russia and China.Read More at Daily Telegraph…

NASA’s Orion shuttle successor is at the heart of the Constellation plan to return to the moon. Credit: NASA.Read More at SPACE.com…

CAPE CANAVERAL — NASA will start repairing serious damage at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A today, but the work isn’t expected to delay the planned Oct. 8 launch of a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.Read More at Florida Today…

WASHINGTON: Martian dirt was apparently good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said yesterday as they announced the results of a soil analysis collected by the US Phoenix Mars lander.Read More at The Australian…

NASA will start repairing serious damage at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A today, but the work isn’t expected to delay the planned Oct. 8 launch of a Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.Read More at USA Today…

Shuttle program managers today approved a plan to strip away fire bricks from damaged sections of the “flame trench” at launch pad 39A, to erect a steel grid over the exposed concrete back wall and to spray on a thick coating of heat-resistant Fondu Fyre to protect the structure from super-hot shuttle booster exhaust.Read More [...]

NASA will start fixing a damaged Florida launch pad Friday in preparation for the October launch of space shuttle Atlantis in a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.Read More at MSNBC…

NASA settled Thursday on a $2.7 million repair plan to keep a 40-year-old shuttle launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida intact until the winged space ships are retired in 2010.Read More at Houston Chronicle…

NASA settled on a go-forward plan today for repairs to the damaged flame trench at Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A, and officials say the work will not trigger a delay in the planned Oct. 8 launch of Atlantis and seven astronauts on NASA’s fifth and final Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.Read More at [...]

DIRT on Mars is good enough for asparagus to grow in, NASA scientists said as they announced the results of a soil analysis.Read More at The Australian…

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved a NASA authorization bill this week that would forbid the U.S. space agency from retiring the space shuttle before completing all remaining missions, including an additional flight to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) to the International Space Station.Read More at SPACE.com via Yahoo! News…

Montgomery Native Rajiv Doreswamy Selected for Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program at NASA’s Marshall CenterRead More at SpaceRef…

Woodstock, Ala., Native Robert Champion Selected for NASA Senior Executive Service Candidate Development ProgramRead More at SpaceRef…

End of shuttle launches in 2010 means at least 5 years of lean times for area around Cape Canaveral.Read More at Fox News…

ATK Conducts First of a Series of Tests for the Ares I-X First Stage Separation SystemRead More at SpaceRef…

“So there is a lot going on. You are making it happen. Through the spring we’ve had the chance to interact with agency leadership on a number of occassions, and they have been uniformly complimentary of the work you have done.”Read More at SpaceRef…

NASA aims to locate new engineering work at Kennedy Space Center after shuttle retirement in 2010 to offset a significant drop in launch jobs, the agency’s chief said Monday.Read More at Florida Today…

Washington, June 24 : NASA engineers and scientists have completed a milestone review that will help determine the systems needed to return humans to the moon and establish a lunar outpost.Read More at New Kerala…