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 will also try to determine whether âindications of concernâ in Capt. Lisa M. Nowakâs case were overlooked.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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Vibrations in NASAâs new rocket may cause severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.
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The chairman of the nation's independent transportation safety agency said Wednesday that she is concerned about the growing impact of outside lobbying and lawsuits on the organization's ability to investigate accidents fairly and quickly.
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The agency is trying to figure out how an embarrassing error eluded the review process, apparently resulting in the crash of the Genesis space capsule in Utah last month.
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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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LOS ANGELES -- The historic suborbital flights of SpaceShipOne have ignited interest in space tourism, but the budding industry and federal regulators must still resolve questions ranging from ensuring the safety of people on the ground to informing
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The decision on how to fix the aging Hubble Space Telescope -- or whether to do it at all -- could hinge on how much it costs and which part of NASA pays for the repair, aeronautics experts said on Wednesday.
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CLEVELAND, OH  -- As NASA readies the space shuttle fleet to fly again,  the agency's risk management teams are also paying attention to risk issues that  affect the International Space Station.
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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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The White House on Thursday defended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi against Republican criticism that her desire to fly in an Air Force transport plane is an extravagance
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NASA will decide whether to try a Saturday night launch of space shuttle Discovery at a crucial morning meeting before fueling the spacecraft.
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At a congressional hearing on the conduct of NASA Inspector General Robert W. Cobb, the embattled official aggressively attacked an investigation by the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency into his management of his office. Cobb had been accused by numerous former and current members of...
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Congress wants to protect fliers from getting stranded on the tarmac, but industry experts say that could make things worse
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Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding results from an unprecedented national survey of pilots that found safety problems like near collisions and runway interference occur far more frequently than the government previously recognized.
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As NASA readies the space shuttle fleet to fly again, the agency&#39;s risk management teams are also paying attention to risk issues that affect the International Space Station.