NASA Sits on Air Safety Survey
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After The Associated Press disclosed details Monday about the survey and efforts to keep its results secret, NASA's chief said he will reconsider how much of the survey findings can be made public. (article 4)
Hoping to tap the innovation and daring of small aerospace and biomedical companies, NASA has created and funded a nonprofit venture capital firm that will invest government money in promising but underfinanced companies. (article 3)
The fund, called Red Planet Capital, is the government's third experiment with venture capitalism, after similar efforts sponsored by the CIA and the Army. (article 3)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - More than two weeks after Discovery's blastoff battered the launch pad, NASA is close to nailing down its repair strategy and insists the damage can be mended in time for the next space shuttle flight. (article 1)
NASA plans to send Atlantis to the launch pad at the end of August, for an early October liftoff to the Hubble Space Telescope. (article 1)
Most of the bricks were still scattered over the ground Monday, many of them in fragments, resembling the aftermath of a volcanic eruption. (article 1)
The most likely repair is installing steel mesh over the 75-by-20-foot area where the bricks came off and then spraying on a heat-resistant covering. (article 1)
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Source articles
- NASA close to nailing down launch pad repairs (boston.com, 06/16/2008, 337 words)
- FOXNEWS.COM HOME > SCITECH (FOX News, 06/17/2008, 14 words)
- NASA Invests in Its Future With Venture Capital Firm (Washington Post, 06/17/2008, 893 words)
- NASA Sits on Air Safety Survey (Washington Post, 06/18/2008, 368 words)
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