Finally, Congress should be very chary about the growing sentiment for international cooperation on space programs.
NPR's Martin Kaste reports several billionaires are now pouring cash into private space programs.
Cuts to space programs: The most exciting space developments are from our 1990s billionaires.
In vetoing the three space programs, the President laid down a marker.
These are trying times for both the Russian and American space programs.
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In addition to its recommendations on the NASP, the paper addresses needed changes in a variety of civilian, military and commercial space programs.
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Both Koreas see the development of space programs as crucial hallmarks of their scientific prowess and national pride, and both had high-profile failures before success.
Just a month ago, President Clinton wielded his new line-item veto to kill three space programs on the grounds that they could be put to military uses.
With no manned government rockets ready to go, US space programs could be outsourced to private companies who have no means to profit off such costly endeavors.
That included military space programs, which experts believed would be required to preserve the peace during what was expected to be a prolonged period of diminished tensions.
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He said cooperation between the two space programs is fine and that "things have been getting better" since two cosmonauts salvaged power aboard the battered station three weeks ago.
Nazi aerospace engineers pioneered the jet engine and their early work on rockets laid the foundations for the post-war space programs of both the United States and the Soviet Union.
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Now, with Stratos successfully complete, future space programs from NASA, the Air Force or any other agency has much fresher technology and a more recent collection of data to rely on.
"There's often a lot of reluctance to accept alternatives, including commercial solutions, because they are seen as threats to the big space programs, " says Mark Dankberg, chief executive of ViaSat Inc.
Joanne Maguire, overall head of the company's space programs, said in an interview that the Orion capsule is slated to blast off on top of a heavy-lift version of the U.S. military's Delta IV rocket.
But the mis-steps of the Clinton era are a cautionary lesson for Obama and his successors, because they demonstrate that when it comes to space programs, a few errors can cause billions of dollars in damage and many years of delays.
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You develop your space center, open space exploration programs ranging from the early probes and space planes to projects that are based on possible future developments.
The Clementine II, Kinetic-Kill Anti-Satellite and Military Space Plane programs are the technological seed corn for such crucial capabilities as space-based missile defenses, neutralizing enemy satellites and having prompt, reliable and inexpensive access to and use of space.
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Second, the success of all human space flight programs is intimately tied to the success of Station.
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To address these issues, NASA needs the full funding for the President's FY 1999 request for the Space Station and Space Shuttle programs.
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Two, more money to fund its space exploration programs.
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The Center for Security Policy today released a major paper outlining a comprehensive approach to U.S. space policy and programs designed to assure long-term American access to and exploitation of outer space.
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All three had concerns that the space agency science programs were losing out in the push to return humans to the moon.
So, over the years, its collections have evolved to include more art, its programs to offer more changing exhibitions, and its buildings expanded twice to provide more space for galleries, programs, a bigger gift shop, a glass-enclosed atrium where visitors may rest their eyes between gallery visits, and so on.
By moving everyone to the more efficient digital system, the government hopes to free up additional bandwidth space for public safety awareness programs and advanced wireless use.
But we believe in terms of the assets and the technology that's being developed, that we can still dominate space, given some of the programs under way.
For example, most of the readers of this space have viewed and probably created Webinar programs.
Our current programs and vehicles for exploring space have brought us far, and they have served us well.
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Republicans insist that government funding is essential for basic science or for big projects like supercolliders, space stations, computer network security, energy programs, and nanotechnology.
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If we want employees to participate in programs we have to provide time, space and creative outlets for individual expression, complex schedules and age appropriate activities.
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