Boeing Lobbies for NASA Project
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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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THE WINNER: Lockheed Martin Corp. beat out a competing team made up of Northrop Grumman Corp. and Boeing Co. for a contract to design and build the next-generation crew exploration vehicle, Orion, which NASA hopes returns astronauts to the moon by 2020, and later to Mars.
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NASA engineers studied two potential technical problems that could influence the scheduled launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, even as the countdown for the Thursday blastoff continues.
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Was it a bluff? Or is Boeing just being generous?
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PARIS -- The head of Boeing Co.'s commercial aircraft unit yesterday backed a call by rival Airbus to work closely on producing more environmentally friendly planes, but said real progress was the responsibility of jet engine makers, rather than plane builders.
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NASA officials will try again today to send off the space shuttle Atlantis on a long-delayed mission to resume construction of the international space station.
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NASA is studying the potential of future cooperation with the suborbital tourism firm Virgin Galactic on a variety of fronts, agency officials announced Wednesday.
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A proposal for the UK to join the International Space Station project is put forward by a group of scientists and engineers.
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Even as it works to put the scandals of 2004 to rest, aerospace giant Boeing Co. has turned its attention to the mounting challenges for 2005, chief among them slowing defense spending that could hobble the industry&#39;s largest programs.
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To: RADIO-TELEVISION EDITORS  Contact: Bob Jacobs of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358- 1600   WASHINGTON, Feb.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Boeing&#39;s massive new Delta 4 Heavy rocket lumbered from its seaside pad Tuesday afternoon, beginning a mission designed to prove the vehicle is capable of lofting super-sized military satellites into orbit.
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Facing increasing budget pressures, the US Air Force is considering asking rivals Boeing Co. (BA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Lockheed Martin Corp.
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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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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will decide whethe
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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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SEATTLE -- Boeing Co. has snagged hundreds of orders for its new 787 with a sales pitch that leans heavily on the light, sturdy carbon-fiber composites replacing most of the aluminum on the plane, meaning less fuel and fewer maintenance costs.
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Boeing's huge Delta 4-Heavy rocket, set for lift-off on Saturday, may play a role in life after the space shuttle.