NASA Says $19 Million Toilet System Is Really a Bargain
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The Russian-built loo is efficient, cheaper than building a new system from scratch and can transfer astronaut urine to a device that can produce drinking water.
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NASA administrator Sean O'Keefe said Wednesday the cost of fixing all that ails the space shuttle fleet could top &#36;2.2 billion &#151; double the estimated price tag given to Congress a year ago.
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Flush with a newly approved $16.2 billion budget, NASA will be able to flesh out a way to save the Hubble Space Telescope, choose a new spacecraft and develop new ways to get back to the moon, Administrator Sean O&#39;Keefe said Tuesday.
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The president's proposed $2.9 trillion spending plan includes a nice boost for the space program, but cuts environmental protection. Maybe we can move to Mars. Luke O'Brien reports from Washington.
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With a whole universe to explore and dozens of potential targets in the solar system to examine in closer detail, spending $3.3 billion on an 11-year
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NASA would get &#36;16.4 billion next year under a bill a Senate committee approved Tuesday, reversing a decision by House lawmakers to cut the space agency's budget below this year's levels.
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Anyone who wants to go into space will be able to do so soon, as long as they&#39;ve got a spare Â£100,000 that is. That&#39;s how much a seat will cost on a new service from Sir Richard Branson&#39;s company, called Virgin Galactic.
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WASHINGTON - A U.S. Senate panel has recommended providing $17.45 billion for NASA next year, or about $150 million more than the White House requested.
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The defense-related work is estimated to be worth $200 billion.
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Ewww... someone is marketing toilet water!
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Blog: Space Adventures says the cost of a flight to the International Space Station aboard the Russian Soyuz rocket will go up as much as $20 million in coming years because of inflation.
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By TARA GODVIN  HONOLULU - Long renown as a place for fun, Hawaii hopes to become a place for serious investment in space exploration with an agreement signed this week with the California-based NASA Ames Research Center.
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OUTLOOK FOR HUBBLE: The newest report on a plan to save the popular, aging space telescope by repairing it with a robot says it would cost $2 billion and have just a 50-50 chance of working.
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It'll be cheaper to build a permanent moon base and keep it running, than it will be to get to the moon. Just don't ask how much, NASA's boss says.
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Under the omnibus bill funding the remaining FY 2005 appropriations (HR 4818), the House and Senate conferees gave NASA a substantial downpayment on the President&#39;s Space Exploration Initiative.
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WASHINGTON &mdash; NASA awarded Zero Gravity Corp. a $4.7 million, one-year contract to conduct parabolic flights aboard its specially modified Boeing 727 jetliner to provide brief periods of weightlessness for agency experiments and personnel.
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New Yorkâs shiny new public toilet calls to mind not a Port-O-Let, but rather the sort of room one imagines adjoined the personal quarters of Capt. James T. Kirk on the Starship Enterprise.