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• Russian Rocket Takes Module to ISS

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  From SpaceFlightNow A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the plains of Kazakhstan Tuesday with the International Space Stations newest addition, a module doubling as a docking port for visiting spacecraft and an airlock for spacewalking astronauts. The 168-foot-tall booster roared away from Launch Pad No. 1 at the ...
  12 hours ago

• How many in space?

  
  Tales From An Open Book — Authority: 121
  I’m a big space fan.  I’ll read anything about space, NASA, or astronauts and I love a good space movie anytime.  So it made me wonder, how many people are in space right now? Of course, there are always websites to answer these burning questions.  A site called “How Many People Are In Space Right [...]
  18 hours ago

• Space Worms to Help in Muscle Atrophy Research

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  Some 4,000 passengers are riding along with the crew of space shuttle Atlantis when it departs Earth later this month. The extra spaceflight participants are thousands of microscopic worms. Those worms are flying to help experts in human physiology understand more about what triggers the body to build, and also lose ...
  1 day ago

• Device Like ‘Star Trek’ Replicator Might Fly on Space Station

  
  My Green Meadows — Authority: 142
  Image via Wikipedia Space explorers have yet to get their hands on the replicator of “ Star Trek ” to create anything they might require. But NASA has developed a technology that could enable lunar colonists to carry out on-site manufacturing on the moon, or allow future astronauts to create ...
  4 days ago

• Alert! Space Station: Close Encounters of the Space Debris Kind

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  The six person crew of the International Space Station (ISS) got the word by ground control: move into two Soyuz capsules attached to the orbiting complex later today. The worry is that the crew may be in some danger due to a close flyby of orbiting space junk – seemingly, now a constant and growing worry by ISS ...
  4 days ago

• Poisk poised for live NASA TV space station docking

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 142
  NASA Television will air the docking of the newest Russian module to the International Space Station starting at 9 a.m. CST 12th November.
  4 days ago

• Japan Successfully Tests Unmanned Space Transfer Vehicle

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  Japan has successfully tested the state of the art unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV), that has been developed to supply essential items to the International Space Station (ISS). The test was completed when the autonomous vehicle re-entered earth’s atmosphere heating the vehicle surface at 2000 degrees centigrade. ...
  1 week ago

• How Space Junk is Like a Buzzard

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  From Wired In a paper to be published in Acta Astronautica, physicist Philip Metzger of NASAs Kennedy Space Center and colleagues describe a technique to plot the paths and determine the densities of worrisome detritus kicked up during launch. This method could help flight engineers know instantly which pieces of ...
  1 week ago

• Space Exploration Not an Exact Science!

  
  Fire Earth — Authority: 434
  Astronaut Feces Dumped Over New Zealand Japan’s HTV-1 Dumped a Large Load of Astronaut Sewage and Trash in Tasman SeaThe agency said their space vehicle had maneuvered successfully reentering the atmosphere at about 6:26 am JST on November 2, some 120 km above New Zealand, and completing its  mission of  unmanned ...
  1 week ago

• New Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Promo Pulled – 411mania.com

  
  OnlyDedicatedServers.com — Authority: 140
  New Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Promo Pulled – 411mania.com New promo receiving even more bad press for Activision. According to gameindustry.biz , the latest promo for Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 has been pulled after creating quite a stir. The promo spoofs an interest group called F.A.G.S. (Fight Against ...
  1 week ago

• Europe Eyes Use of Space Station for Global Climate Change Research

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  The European Space Agency (ESA) is on the lookout for ideas to use the International Space Station as a platform to conduct research into global climate change. ESA issued on October 30 a Call for Ideas - a CFI for short -- to gauge the interest in deploying remote-sensing instruments for global change experiments on ...
  1 week ago

• Easter Island compounds, space internet and more, October,2009

  
  To the Future with Love — Authority: 112
  NewScientist Just check out this cool robot! Its adorable! Today: NASA Research to Help Aircraft Avoid Ocean Storms, Turbulence Researchers test new space Internet system on International Space Station Augmented Reality: Science Fiction or Reality? (w/ Video) Invisibility cloak could protect against earthquakes ...
  1 week ago

• The Lingering Problem of Space Junk

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  From Space.com A piece of space junk orbiting Earth has forced NASA to tweak upcoming plans for the Friday departure of Japans first cargo ship to the International Space Station. The debris, a wayward chunk of an old Russian satellite, poses no risk to the space station, but could be a threat to the H-2 Transfer ...
  1 week ago

• Shattered Horizon, one small step for FPS-kind

  
  Multiplayergames.com — Authority: 136
  Key artwork for Shattered Horizon Futuremark Games Studio released a new trailer showcasing the first in-game footage for Shattered Horizon , their latest multiplayer tactical FPS for the PC . The premise behind the game is fairly simple, yet opens up an entire world of possibility: a terrible ...
  1 week ago

• NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis ready to launch on November 16

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, October 30 (ANI): NASA has given its go ahead for the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on November 16.Atlantis is targeted to begin an 11-day flight to the International Space Station (ISS).Atlantis’ launch date was announced on October 29 at the conclusion of ...
  1 week ago

• NASA’s Ares I-X rocket successfully launches

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 435
  NASA’s new prototype rocket, Ares I-X, launched yesterday (28 October) on its second attempt from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ares I-X rocket was initially scheduled to launch on Tuesday but poor weather conditions meant the rocket was unable to take off in the allotted four-hour window. It is the ...
  1 week ago

• Ares 1-X Test Flight a Success, Says NASA

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 142
  Wednesdays test fight of the Ares 1-X, a prototype for the spacecraft envisioned by NASA as a replacement for the shuttle, was a success, space agency officials declared after the mid-day splashdown. The 327 foot long Ares 1-X lifted off from NASAs Kennedy Space Center at 11:30 a.m., climbing to an altitude of about ...
  1 week ago

• NASA’s Newest Rocket Launches As The Weather Clears

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 599
  The Ares I-X prototype rocket, that is considered to be one of the biggest accomplishments of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) finally took off from the Kennedy Space Center launch pad after multiple weather delays. The Ares I-X rocket is expected to be the much awaited replacement for NASA’s ...
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• NASA’s next generation rocket makes booming debut

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, Oct 29 (DPA) A giant next generation space rocket Wednesday shot off its launchpad at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida in the US for its very first test flight.The 100-metre tall Ares I-X rocket sped into the sky over the Florida coast trailing a plume of flames and steam in a trial [...]
  1 week ago

• Liftoff! NASA’s New Rocket Takes to the Sky in a Successful Test Flight

  
  80beats — Authority: 655
  This morning, NASA’s experimental Ares I-X rocket blasted off a Florida launch pad and roared through the atmosphere, successfully executing the first test flight of the rocket that may carry astronauts to the International Space Station and beyond once the space shuttle is retired. However, debate over the ...
  1 week ago

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