Congress Examines NASA Budget, Space Station, and Relations With Russia

Results of Principal Nasa Studies on Space Station Uses and Functional Requirements

The NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations

The NASA Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) mission will place two spacecraft into solar orbits with sufficient separation to provide remote sensing instruments with a stereoscopic view of the heliosphere extending from the lower solar corona to beyond one astronomical unit. Analysis of the stereographs returned from the two spacecraft will allow solar physicists to infer the thre...

Policy: Budget could send space science off in new directions at NASA.

The budget outline the White House unveiled on 28 February caps a week of startling news for NASA. On orders from the White House, NASA managers last week told Congress they intend to cancel plans for a Pluto flyby and a mission to study the solar wind. The agency is also following orders to make major cuts to the international space station after acknowledging huge cost overruns in the orbitin...

a reappraisal in russia and america relations

the united states and russia are two important actors in international system. the geography of their national interests is global and extra-regional; therefore, the quality of their relationship affects the security of international system. it can create security or can cause insecurity in international system. after the disintegration of soviet :union: there has been more interaction between ...

NASA CONFERENCE on SPACE TELEROBOTICS

Mechanical Engineering Department University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA Abstract Robot manipulators are designed to perform tasks which would otherwise be executed by a human operator. No manipulator can even approach the speed and accuracy with which humans execute these tasks. But manipulators have the capability to exceed human ability in one particular area; strength. Through an...