NASA and its partners expect to decide Sunday whether International Space Station astronauts should perform a spacewalk early in the week to move a work platform stuck on rails outside the orbiting research complex. “The robust funding levels achieved in the omnibus will support the continuing development of America’s new space exploration systems – leading to the launch of Exploration Mission-1 in 2018”.
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Jeremy Irons’ Role Revealed For ASSASSIN’S CREED
It is most likely that the first footage of the long-awaited film could be released on March 25, 2016 . He’ll uncover the secret of the Assassin Order and its mission to stop the evil Templar organization.
Full funding of Commercial Crew should allow NASA to meet its ambitious goal of sending astronauts to the space station within two years.
Australia clears Abbot Point coal terminal expansion in a win for Adani
Queensland’s government has warned Indian mining giant Adani it must finance the controversial Carmichael coal mine on its own. “All dredge material will be placed onshore on existing industrial land”, the spokesman reportedly said.
“Traditionally the Congress has not provided the president with all the money he wants for NASA, but now they’re providing significantly more”, said Dale Ketcham, Space Florida’s chief of strategic alliances. The figure also exceeded the Obama administration’s request of $18.5 billion and comes as a welcome Christmas present for the chronically underfunded entity.
Claudio Ranieri not thinking about Leicester’s Premier League title chances
Branislav Ivanovic , Pedro and Oscar scored the goals to lift them to 15th, albeit still only four points above the bottom three. Many Premier League observers will suggest that the Foxes will not be able to carry on this form for the rest of the season.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule and an upgraded version of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft won’t go into service until 2017 at the earliest, but NASA has to put in its orders well in advance to get the ball rolling. The problem must be fixed before the arrival of an unmanned Russian Progress cargo ship on December 23. As a result, NASA could have the the 2016 budget exceed the budgets for at least half a decade before.
In total, a spending bill for Nasa’s budget in the fiscal year 2016 has been set at $19.285 billion (£13 billion), which is $756 million more than the budget Nasa requested and nearly $1 billion above an amount that was put forward in June but never passed by the US Senate. Right now USA astronauts have to hitch a ride into space on a Russian Soyuz rocket, and each seat costs the United States about $75 million. NASA will identify at a later time which company will fly a mission to the station first.
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“I think that both companies along with NASA recognize that having two healthy and robust systems for American transport of crews is vitally important”, says NASA’s Rebecca Regan. Congress, this week, may take decision to pass the massive spending bill, according to reports. Previous versions of the bill showed hundreds of millions of dollars of less funding, however, Congress eventually chose to match what was asked; the first time this has ever happened with the Commercial Crew program.
