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		<title>Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) Award!</title>
		<link>http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=549</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Masten Space Systems Wins NASA Suborbital Contract
MOJAVE, Calif., August 31 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; Masten Space Systems, a leader in vertical take off, vertical landing (VTVL) rocket vehicles, announced a contract today with NASA’s new Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) program. The initial contract is for four flights of test payloads on Xaero, Masten’s next-generation vehicle currently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Luck and Black Skies to SpaceX Today</title>
		<link>http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=536</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone at Masten Space is wishing SpaceX good luck and black skies today! 
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		<title>Masten Space Re-Lights Rocket Engine in Flight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 22:18:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Masten Space Re-Lights Rocket Engine in Flight
MOJAVE, Calif., May 26 /PRNewswire/ &#8212; Masten Space Systems, a leader in vertical take off, vertical landing (VTVL) rocket vehicles, successfully demonstrated in-air engine re-light capability today at the company&#8217;s test facility in Mojave, CA.  Xombie, Masten&#8217;s most-flown vehicle, carried out the test Wednesday and became the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XCOR and Masten Announce Strategic Relationship for  NASA Landers Business</title>
		<link>http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=529</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 13:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 25th, 2010, Mojave, CA, USA:  XCOR Aerospace and Masten Space Systems, two of the leaders in the New Space sector, have announced a strategic business and technology relationship to pursue jointly the anticipated NASA sponsored unmanned lander projects. These automated lander programs are expected to serve as robotic test beds on Earth, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Hiring!</title>
		<link>http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=524</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 14:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colinake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve opened the hiring doors a bit wider! If you dig around, you&#8217;ll find a new Careers page, and added a handful of job descriptions for positions we&#8217;re looking to fill shortly. There are some very exciting things brewing for Masten Space Systems &#8211; things we can&#8217;t talk about publicly, but if you join the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSS Provides Flight to New Mexico Student Team</title>
		<link>http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=521</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:34:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>colinake</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boulder, Colorado – February 18, 2010 – Masten Space Systems announced that it is offering the winner of the Next-generation Suborbital Research Conference 2010 Student Suborbital Experiment Competition a free zero gravity flight. The winning proposal was New Mexico State University’s “Experimental Validation of a Robotics-Based Inertial Property Identification Algorithm for Orbiting Spacecraft.”
The flight will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Person Of The Year: The Space Entrepreneur &#8211; Aviation Week</title>
		<link>http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=511</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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Person Of The Year: The Space Entrepreneur &#8211; Aviation Week


The quiet work of space entrepreneurs is becoming reality, and metal and fire are streaking through the upper atmosphere into low Earth orbit. (Photo: Chad Slattery)&#8230;.
Working quietly in the background since the days of viewgraphs, a group of space entrepreneurs has long been pitching far-fetched ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking to 2010</title>
		<link>http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=502</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have had an incredible year. All the components and subsystems have finally come together into 2 flying vehicles. We designed and built the 750-LIT all aluminum engine, reworked Xombie from a 4 engine vehicle into a single engine vehicle, built Xoie in just 6 weeks, and cleaned up the NG-LLC. 2010 promises to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring Internship</title>
		<link>http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=501</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As always, no moment like the last. As our internship page says, December 6 is the deadline for applications for the spring internship. That&#8217;s Sunday.
Please feel free to share with anyone you think might be interested. It&#8217;s a little known fact, but we don&#8217;t actually require interns to be current students.
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		<title>Video from NGLLC Awards Ceremony</title>
		<link>http://masten-space.com/blog/?p=498</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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