Thwarted earlier this year by a series of technical problems
onboard the orbital observatory, NASA announced this week the space
shuttle Atlantis' STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space
Telescope has been rescheduled to launch May 12, 2009.
Wyoming-based composites analysis firm Firehole Technologies has
partnered with XCOR Aerospace to help with the construction of
XCOR's two-seat Lynx suborbital launch vehicle.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company and NASA recently took a
small step backward, in order to make one giant leap forward and
help prepare for future missions to the moon and to Mars.
Two-Year Delay Blamed On "Testing And Hardware Challenges"
NASA's much-touted Mars Science Laboratory will spend more time
on Earth than originally planned. The space agency announced
Thursday the MSL will launch two years later than previously
planned, in the fall of 2011. The original target launch date of
October 2009 "no longer is feasible" due to "testing and hardware
challenges that must be addressed to ensure mission success."
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