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Science 2.0
March 27, 2018
The James Webb Space Telescope, originally scheduled to be completed in 2007, now might be ready in 2020. ... that the Clinton administration, which canceled the Superconducting Super Collider that had President Reagan's name attached, was creating its own "too big to fail" black hole for money.
The Hill
March 12, 2018
I am old enough to recall the shooting of President Ronald Reagan in March, 1981. For those who weren't around at the time, here's a fact you should know: President Reagan was accompanied by four armed men, all trained to respond to an attack on the commander in chief and dedicated to take a bulletÃÂ ...
Spaceflight Now
February 14, 2018
The Pegasus XL rocket with ICON was expected to launch from its carrier aircraft over the Pacific Ocean near the Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll in the ... An Ariane 5 rocket is set to launch next year with the James Webb Space Telescope, a joint U.S.-European-Canadian observatory valued atÃÂ ...
The Hill
February 11, 2018
The U.S. Navy is investigating a number of Japan-based sailors over allegedly using and distributing drugs. A spokesperson for the U.S. Seventh Fleet confirmed Sunday that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service was conducting the probe into sailors based in Yokosuka, where the USS Ronald ReaganÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 23, 2018
No Republican president in modern history accomplished more during his first year in the Oval Office than Ronald Reagan. Even so, President Reagan faced a hard road in his second year and a tough midterm election. Though the two men differ in almost every way, President Donald Trump faces aÃÂ ...
Newsy
January 18, 2018
Growing up, when your birthday rolled around and grandpa handed you a card stuffed with this year's crisp, cool Treasury Bond, you were probably bummed — but doing an important civic duty. Those little slips of paper literally keep the government running. Turns out that when the government "borrows"ÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 9, 2018
Despite Reagan's significant accomplishments, democrats nicknamed him "President Bozo" and "the president from Disneyland," marginalizing him as if he were some cartoon character rather than the proven leader who had already served as a successful two-term governor of California, the fifth largestÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 9, 2018
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) staffing is now lower than it was in former President Reagan's final year in office. An EPA spokeswoman said Tuesday that, as of Jan. 3, the agency had 14,162 employees, down from about 15,000 at the beginning of last year. That's even lower than the 14,400ÃÂ ...
The Hill
November 30, 2017
Senate Democrats on Thursday tweeted out a quote from former President Reagan about the importance of bipartisan debate, as Republicans seek to push through a tax bill this week. “A great national debate now begins. It should not be a partisan debate, for the authors of tax reform come from bothÃÂ ...
FITSNews
October 7, 2017
Eleven years and two months ago United States Senator George Allen of Virginia was a runaway favorite to win reelection in his race against Democrat James Webb. Then he had a “macaca” moment. During an August 2006 campaign stop near the Kentucky border, Allen noted to a crowd of his supportersÃÂ ...
The Hill
September 26, 2017
With the startling, positive outreach to the congressional Democratic leadership to forge an agreement on short-term funding of the government to avert a shutdown, increasing the debt ceiling and funding Hurricane Harvey relief, followed by further efforts to enlist Democrats on immigration reform and taxÃÂ ...
The Hill
September 18, 2017
Williams had tactical control of the fleet's cruisers, destroyers, Carrier Air Wing 5 and the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, while Bennett oversaw destroyers assigned to the 7th Fleet. “Both reliefs were due to a loss of confidence in their ability to command,” the statement said. Rear Adm. Marc Dalton,ÃÂ ...
The Hill
August 2, 2017
The Senate confirmed a slate of eight Pentagon nominees late Tuesday, including investment banker Richard Spencer to be Navy secretary. The confirmation of Spencer, a former Marine Corps pilot who breezed through his confirmation hearing last month, means only the Army awaits a Senate-confirmedÃÂ ...
CapitalGazette.com
April 2, 2017
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan appointed Jim as the assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs. Less than three years later, President Reagan nominated Jim to be secretary of the Navy, the first Naval Academy graduate and combat veteran to hold that position. In 2006, against all odds, and nineÃÂ ...
CapitalGazette.com
March 30, 2017
After former Navy Secretary and U.S. Sen. James Webb declined a Naval Academy Alumni Association award that would have been presented Friday, a female academy graduate who had opposed giving Webb the honor said she was "absolutely stunned that he did the right thing." We're not. Webb's longÃÂ ...
Breaking Defense
January 27, 2017
Reagan's second Navy Secretary was future Senator and presidential candidate James Webb (1987-1988). He was previously Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (1984-1987) and counsel to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (1977-1981). A Marine veteran of Vietnam, he earned theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 4, 2016
Nasa administrator Charles Bolden announced that the agency had finished construction earlier this week on the James Webb Space Telescope, an $8.8bn giant whose 18 gold-coated, hexagonal plates that span the length of a tennis court and which, from bottom to top, is as tall as a three-storey building.
collectSPACE.com
December 23, 2017
"Let me ask you," began Reagan, addressing McCandless and Stewart, "what's it like to work out there, unattached to the shuttle, maneuvering freely in space?" ... "I'm a proponent for extending the Hubble Telescope's use to until the James Webb Space Telescope is launched and confirmed as operating,"ÃÂ ...
KTLA
December 14, 2017
Missions launching in 2018, like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the James Webb Space Telescope, will enable further and closer study of planet candidates identified by Kepler. Compared with Kepler, TESS will use a similar transit method for observing planets when they pass in front of theirÃÂ ...
Salon
December 9, 2017
After decades of development, the nearly $9-billion James Webb Space Telescope is set for launch from French Guiana in spring 2019. Built in cooperation with the European and Canadian space agencies, Webb is NASA's biggest, costliest and most powerful observatory yet, boasting a 6.5-meter primaryÃÂ ...
San Antonio Express-News
December 3, 2017
The primary mirror of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is shown inside a cleanroom this spring at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, where it was undergoing cryogenic testing. In preparation for ... more. Photo: Chris Gunn /NASA /AFP Photo. Image 2 of 5. NASA engineers prepare to test theÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
November 29, 2017
The MUSE survey provides a tiny hint of what's to come, when NASA launches its next space telescope, the James Webb, in 2019, kicking off a veritable spectroscopy party. The Webb, an infrared-light observatory, will be capable of measuring the spectra of some of the most distant exoplanets, stars, andÃÂ ...
International Business Times
November 14, 2017
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is set to be launched in 2019, and the space agency has already chosen observation programs for the first five months of Webb's science operations. The programs were chosen from a pool of proposals accepted by Space Telescope Science Institute's call for earlyÃÂ ...
FITSNews
October 7, 2017
Eleven years and two months ago United States Senator George Allen of Virginia was a runaway favorite to win reelection in his race against Democrat James Webb. Then he had a “macaca” moment. During an August 2006 campaign stop near the Kentucky border, Allen noted to a crowd of his supportersÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
August 28, 2017
The James Webb Space Telescope is currently sitting inside a massive, sealed cryogenic chamber at the Johnson Space Center, a sprawling NASA facility in southeast Houston. In July, Webb began a 100-day stint in the vault-like chamber, which simulates the extreme conditions in space. Vacuum pumpsÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
May 2, 2017
The James Webb Space Telescope is ready for the next step in its journey to becoming the most powerful space observatory ever, tasked with glimpsing the oldest stars and galaxies in the universe. NASA has finished testing the telescope's 21-foot-tall, honeycomb-like gold-coated mirrors and scientificÃÂ ...
CapitalGazette.com
April 2, 2017
Less than three years later, President Reagan nominated Jim to be secretary of the Navy, the first Naval Academy graduate and combat veteran to hold that position. In 2006, against all odds, and nine months before the general election, Jim entered the race for the U.S. Senate in Virginia and stunned hisÃÂ ...
CapitalGazette.com
March 30, 2017
After former Navy Secretary and U.S. Sen. James Webb declined a Naval Academy Alumni Association award that would have been presented Friday, a female academy graduate who had opposed giving Webb the honor said she was "absolutely stunned that he did the right thing." We're not. Webb's longÃÂ ...
Breaking Defense
January 27, 2017
Reagan's second Navy Secretary was future Senator and presidential candidate James Webb (1987-1988). He was previously Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs (1984-1987) and counsel to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (1977-1981). A Marine veteran of Vietnam, he earned theÃÂ ...
Huffington Post
November 29, 2016
Named after former NASA administrator James Webb, this next-generation telescope ― generally referred to as JWST or Webb ― “will study every phase in the history of our universe, ranging from the first luminous glows after the Big Bang, to watching galaxies collide, to the formation of solar systemsÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 4, 2016
Nasa administrator Charles Bolden announced that the agency had finished construction earlier this week on the James Webb Space Telescope, an $8.8bn giant whose 18 gold-coated, hexagonal plates that span the length of a tennis court and which, from bottom to top, is as tall as a three-storey building.
Christian Science Monitor
July 4, 2015
Of all the 2016 presidential candidates who've entered the fray so far, James Webb may be the hardest to pin down. He's a highly-decorated Vietnam combat veteran who argued strongly against the latest American war efforts abroad. A Democrat who held high positions in the Reagan administration,ÃÂ ...
SpacePolicyOnline.com
October 23, 2017
The CAA meeting Tuesday-Wednesday looks especially interesting as the committee will learn about the recently-announced delay to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and the results of an independent review of its follow-on, the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
FITSNews
October 7, 2017
... ago United States Senator George Allen of Virginia was a runaway favorite to win reelection in his race against Democrat James Webb.
GeekWire
September 29, 2017
NASA says it's moving the launch date for its $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope from October 2018 to the spring of 2019, citing a ...
CapitalGazette.com
April 2, 2017
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan appointed Jim as the assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs. Less than three years later, President ...
CapitalGazette.com
March 30, 2017
After former Navy Secretary and U.S. Sen. James Webb declined a Naval Academy Alumni Association award that would have been presented ...
Breaking Defense
January 27, 2017
Reagan's second Navy Secretary was future Senator and presidential candidate James Webb (1987-1988). He was previously Assistant ...
The Guardian
November 4, 2016
Nasa administrator Charles Bolden announced that the agency had finished construction earlier this week on the James Webb Space Telescope, an $8.8bn giant whose 18 gold-coated, hexagonal plates that span the length of a tennis court and which, from bottom to top, is as tall as a three-storey building.
BBC News
November 3, 2016
Engineers have finished assembling the telescope that will succeed Hubble. The huge new observatory known as James Webb is on track to ...
Christian Science Monitor
July 4, 2015
Former Virginia senator James Webb disdains Washington politics but is ... A Democrat who held high positions in the Reagan administration, he won a US ... he served as assistant secretary of defense and Navy Secretary.
Defense One
August 31, 2017
... and defense speakers, including new Navy Secretary Richard Spencer. ... He mentioned the company's work on the James Webb spaceÃÂ ...
Scottsbluff Star Herald
August 21, 2017
Ryan Risinger and Abbey Reagan from Boulder, Colorado, view the .... “I'm also involved with the James Webb space telescope operation thatÃÂ ...
Newsweek
July 25, 2017
Newsweek published this story under the headline of "A New Immigration Policy” on August 3, 1981, as the Reagan administration planned toÃÂ ...
Southeast Missourian
July 10, 2017
... Sneed, Reagan Snider, Landon Southard, Omaryee Thomas, Aslyn Titus, ... Ty'Zharia Twiggs, Ava Vogelsang, James Webb, Jaron Whitaker,ÃÂ ...
CapitalGazette.com
April 2, 2017
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan appointed Jim as the assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs. Less than three years later, PresidentÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
March 24, 2017
The council continued to languish in the Ford, Carter, and Reagan ... James Webb, the former NASA administrator and namesake of a giantÃÂ ...
Huffington Post Canada
March 24, 2017
... Sidarth did with the Republican golden boy, George Allen. ... and by 2006 he was devoting himself to Democrat James Webb's Senate battle.
Military Times
March 24, 2017
The opposition was led by Naval Academy grads James Webb, retired ... (Reagan did not attend either the groundbreaking or the NovemberÃÂ ...
New York Times
March 17, 2017
... Bruce Weigl and James Webb, testified to publishers' long years of ... its amnesia about the Vietnam War only when Ronald Reagan — whoÃÂ ...
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