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WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA selected four companies to perform a variety of construction services at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va.(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The selected contractors are Grimberg/Amatea Joint Venture of Leesburg, Va.; Meltech Corp. of Landover, Md.; Northeast NICC Joint Venture of Falls Church, Va.; and Biscayne Contractors of Alexandria,...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Dec. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Design work has begun on a new master plan to transform NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex into a place where explorers of all ages can tour America's spaceport to engage with the people and machines that shape the future of our world. PGAV Destinations, a global leader in the planning and design of cultural and entertainment destinations, was selected by Delaware North Companies Parks & Resorts at KSC, Inc., operators...

The Taurus II stage one core structure arrived safely at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Friday, December 3.The arrival at Wallops marked the end of a journey that began in Ukraine, where the core was manufactured. The journey included a trip by rail in Ukraine and then by ship across the Atlantic Ocean. It reached the shore of the United States at the Port of Wilmington in Delaware. From there, it was transported via a specially designed trailer to the Wallops Flight Facility.The core is...

The annual NASA Student Launch Projects rocketry challenge, now under way, promises to send aloft more rockets than ever before in its 11-year history. And some of them, for the first time ever, will splash down in the Atlantic Ocean instead of dropping into a North Alabama cornfield.More than 500 student rocketeers from 26 states will take part in the 2010-11 launch projects. Nineteen middle school and high school teams will tackle the Student Launch Initiative, while 33 college and...

CAPE CANAVERAL AFS, Fla., Nov. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 here at 5:58 p.m. EST today. Designated NROL-32, the mission is in support of national defense. This was the fourth Delta IV Heavy launch and the 351st launch overall in Delta program history. A Delta IV Heavy demonstration flight occurred in December 2004, the first Air Force operational...

Construction on the world's first commercial passenger space terminal is expected to be completed sometime next year, with flights set to begin launching within 18 months, according to a Wednesday evening article by Dennis J. Carroll of Reuters.Spaceport America, as it has been dubbed, will be located near the town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. According to Carroll, a two-mile long runway was completed at the facility in October, and an air-fire rescue center and an over 100,000...

The Air Force said that a U.S. space surveillance satellite was launched late Saturday from the central California coast. Officials from Vandenberg Air Force Base said in a news release that the Minotaur 4 rocket launched at 9:41 p.m. Pacific time while carrying the Space Based Space Surveillance satellite launched. The satellite was designed to detect and monitor space debris, as well as satellites and other space objects that could threaten national security, communications and weather...

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that the country hopes to launch manned rockets from its new Vostochny cosmodrome located in the far east of Russia as early as 2018. "The first manned flights from the cosmodrome should take place in 2018-2020," Putin was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. Russia currently uses the Soviet-built Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan for its manned space missions and other commercial launches.  Currently, Russia pays...

Inspiring young minds is at the heart of NASA's outreach education program. Engaging young males who are at risk is a special bonus. This year, NASA kicked off a program to support President Barack Obama's "Educate to Innovate" initiative in order to boost interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, education particularly for underrepresented students across the nation.Education specialists based at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida had an opportunity...

CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Fla., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket successfully launched the Advanced Extremely High Frequency-1 (AEHF-1) satellite for the Air Force at 7:07 a.m. EDT today from Space Launch Complex- 41. The AEHF constellation of four satellites will provide 10 times greater capacity and channel data rates six times higher than that of the existing Milstar II communications satellites. AEHF-1 will be joined by the next two AEHF...