NASA Faces House Hearings on Air Safety
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A House committee said it would hold hearings into why the agency is withholding 24,000 responses to a government-sponsored safety survey.
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NASA had briefly considered delaying next Tuesdayâs mission after an independent group of engineers raised concerns about microscopic cracks in three heat shield panels that protect the shuttleâs wings.
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NASA has previously said that the data, which comes from tens of thousands of interviews with pilots about safety issues, could damage the airline industry.
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NASA has commissioned a panel of experts to work out what went wrong with the Genesis space probe, which crashed to Earth on 8 September.
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NASA will review the way it screens astronauts for mental or medical problems after the arrest of astronaut Lisa Nowak on charges she tried to kill a romantic rival, the U.S. space agency said on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON - NASA Administrator Mike Griffin said his agency would abide by the restrictions the U.S. Congress has imposed on the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, a $500 million demonstration project aimed at fostering private-sector solutions to NASA's space station re-supply quandary.
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The government is to launch a review into whether there should be British astronauts to take part in space exploration.
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When a congressional committee holds a hearing next Wednesday, the subject will be the safety of the diabetes drug Avandia and whether federal drug regulators have paid close enough attention to its potential risks.
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By Traci Watson and Andrea Stone  NASA officials said Wednesday that they will review medical and mental-health screenings of the astronaut corps in response to allegations that astronaut Lisa Nowak tried to kill a woman she regarded as her romantic rival.
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Democratic lawmakers argued Tuesday that Congress should stop spending money on an aircraft that's never become airborne over two decades of research and testing. Republicans pushed for continued support.
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Leaders of the Senate Armed Services Committee asked the Defense Department on Friday to have its inspector general&#39;s office investigate the Air Force&#39;s effort to
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NASA is working to solve a potentially dangerous vibration problem in its next generation of launching vehicles.
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If NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) fireballs into Earth's atmosphere on its own, the reentry of that massive orbiting observatory violates the space agency's own safety standard.
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WASHINGTON -- NASAâs vision for space exploration received a boost in the Senate Sept. 22 when a budget panel approved $16.38 billion for the agency for next year, $200 million more than the White House requested.
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The CAIB report urged NASA to develop a way for astronauts during flight to inspect the orbiter and make emergency repairs to its insulation tiles and reinforced carbon-carbon panels.
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NASA engineers Monday were examining a problem with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. National Aeronautical and Space Administration officials say the observatory was placed in a protective safe mode at 7:34 a.m.
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NASA officials said today they will review their psychological screening process in the wake of an astronautâs arrest Monday.