Boeing to Build Upper Stage of NASA&#39;s Ares I Rocket
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WASHINGTON - NASA announced Tuesday that it has selected Houston-based Boeing Space Exploration to build the upper stage of the Ares I rocket the United States will use to launch astronauts into orbit after the space shuttle retires.
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LOS ANGELES Boeing and defense contractor Northrop Grumman say they&#39;ll bid as a team to compete for NASA&#39;s manned and robotic space exploration program.
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Northrop Grumman Corp. and Boeing Co. have formed a partnership Tuesday to compete in a deal to build NASA&#39;s next manned spaceship -- a deal with multi-billion dollar potential, according to reports.
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Boeing successfully launched the most powerful unmanned rocket ever on Tuesday when the 71-metre long Delta IV Heavy lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying a fake satellite into orbit.
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By GARY PERILLOUX  Boeing is lobbying Louisiana officials this week in a bid to win a multibillion-dollar rocket assembly project at NASA's Michoud facility in east New Orleans.
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By Daily Record Staff  The Orion capsule, NASA's planned successor to the space shuttle, passed its first major construction milestone as the U.S. space agency and primary contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. set baseline system requirements.
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NASA&#39;s space shuttle Discovery moved a step closer toward launch Monday as engineers worked to join the orbiter with the twin rocket boosters and fuel tank that will aid its flight into space next month.
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One of the most powerful rockets ever constructed, a massive Boeing Co. Delta IV Heavy vehicle that is designed to be able to lift supersized military satellites into orbit, was successfully launched Tuesday at Cape Canaveral.
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Lockheed Martin Corp. on Monday announced that it will launch its Atlas V rocket on Dec. 17 as planned, while Boeing Co. waited to reschedule a launch of its Delta
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A massive new Boeing rocket lumbered from its seaside pad Tuesday on a mission to prove the vehicle is capable of lofting super-sized military satellites into orbit.
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Already a leading launch area for scientific balloons in northern Europe, operations at Sweden's Esrange launch facility will expand next year with NASA's decision to use it for launches of its largest scientific balloons, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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NASA&#39;s X-43A scramjet will on Monday undergo its third test flight during which scientists will attempt to push the vehicle to Mach 10.
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WASHINGTON, June 6  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has issued a request for proposal for key guidance, navigation and control hardware for the new Ares I crew launch vehicle. The upper stage instrument unit avionics will be used during the Ares I ascent.
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Two aerospace giants, Boeing Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp., said on Tuesday they will form a partnership to compete for the contract to build NASA's next manned spaceship.
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WASHINGTON NASA&#39;s ready to roll out an improved rocket fuel tank designed to prevent problems that helped destroy the space shuttle Columbia.
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U.S. antitrust authorities on Tuesday approved the planned merger of the government rocket launch units of Lockheed Martin Corp.  and Boeing Co.
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Preparations are on track for the launch of a new NASA Mars  lander early next month to search for subsurface water and potential life in the red planet&#39;s arctic northern  region.