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• Winging it in space

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 135
  This is just such a cool science experiment to get kids involved in science. U. COLORADO—When NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 students across the nation. The public, too, ...
  18 hours ago

• World’s First Space Clown Reaps Public Relations Bonanza

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 489
  Space clown drew more news coverage than Afghan mission CBC News Canada’s first space clown can brag that his recent trip to the cosmos generated at least 23 times more international news coverage this year than the country’s mission in Afghanistan. The figure comes from a media research group hired by Guy ...
  19 hours ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  21 hours ago

• Goddard Team Develops New Carriers for ISS

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  (NASA) – In a partnership that exemplifies the One NASA theme, Goddard Space Flight Center engineers teamed up with the External Payloads Group at Johnson Space Center and the ISS Payload Ground Processing support team at Kennedy Space Center to create the ExPRESS Logistics Carrier (ELC) Project. The ELC is an ...
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• Crew Prepares to Unpack Poisk

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  The Expedition 21 crew of the International Space Station wrapped up a busy week Friday that saw the docking of a new research module and preparations for the arrival of space shuttle Atlantis.The hatches to the newly-arrived Russian Mini-Research Module 2, or Poisk, were opened at 7:17 a.m. EST, enabling Flight ...
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• STS-129 Launch Countdown Begins Today

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  At today’s launch countdown status briefing held at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, managers reported space shuttle Atlantis, its payload and crew are ready for launch at 2:28 p.m. EST on Monday.NASA Test Director Charlie Blackwell-Thompson reported everything is progressing on schedule for Atlantis’ ...
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• Uh-oh: Space Station urine recycler breaks ahead of shuttle visit

  
  The Write Stuff — Authority: 537
  A potential hitch to the upcoming Atlantis space shuttle mission to the International Space Station has surfaced just days before launch: the outposts urine-recycling unit has gone on the fritz again, according to NASA officials. "The UPA (Urine Processing Assembly)...
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• A Bad Example of "One NASA"

  
  NASA Watch — Authority: 566
  New Accessories for a Retiring Shuttle Fleet , earlier post "NASA In a partnership that exemplifies One NASA, engineers at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. teamed up with engineers at NASAs Johnson and Kennedy Space Centers to design, build, and test five new ExPRESS Logistics Carriers, or ELCs, ...
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• Nanotech in Space: Rensselaer Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.The project, funded by the U.S. Air Force Multi University Research Initiative (MURI), seeks to test the performance of the new nanocomposites in orbit. Space Shuttle ...
  2 days ago

• Dutch Space to Build Solar Cells for Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus Freighter

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 489
  DUTCH SPACE BV PRESS RELEASE Dutch Space, leading space company in the Netherlands, signed a contract with Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) for the development of solar arrays for NASA’s new cargo missions to the International Space Station (ISS) to be carried out under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Service ...
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• STS-129 Astronauts Arrive at Kennedy Space Center

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  The six astronauts for space shuttle Atlantis’s STS-129 mission to the International Space Station are now at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew arrived at Kennedy’s Shuttle Landing Facility in a Shuttle Training Aircraft Gulfstream II jet at 12:35 p.m. EST.After arriving, STS-129 Commander Charles ...
  2 days ago

• Video Preview of Next Shuttle Mission

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 671
  The next space shuttle mission STS-129, slated to launch next Monday Nov. 16, is a "spare parts and stock-up" mission. And the needed extra parts and supplies delivered to the International Space Station by Atlantis will mean spare years on the station’s life once the space shuttle fleet is retired. The mission ...
  2 days ago

• Poisk Arrives at ISS

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 133
    International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA The Russian spacecraft carrying the Poisk module docked with the International Space Station today after a two-day trip from Earth. While Poisk has arrived, it is not yet ready to be used to dock spacecraft or for spacewalks. It will take at least until ...
  2 days ago

• New Russian Module “Poisk” Docks to Station

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  The new Russian Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM2), also known as Poisk, docked to the space-facing port of the Zvezda service module of the International Space Station Thursday at 10:41 a.m. EST. It began its trip to the station when it was launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on ...
  3 days ago

• RICERCA: INAUGURATO A CAGLIARI FASE 1, CENTRO PUBBLICO DI SPERIMENTAZIONE

  
  SALUTE DOMANI ? IL PORTALE DEL BENESSERE — Authority: 150
  prof. Giovanni Biggio Presentate oggi a Cagliari le attività di Fase 1 einaugurata l’Unità di Ricerca Clinica, dove si svolgeranno le sperimentazionidi fase I. Fase 1 srl è il primo centro pubblicoitaliano di ricerca farmacologica preclinica. Totalmente ...
  3 days ago

• November ISS sightings in Chicago

  
  Dean W. Armstrong — Authority: 99
  You can see the International Space Station in Chicago in the evening for the rest of the month. If schedules hold, you will also be able to see the Space Shuttle as it docks with the ISS, as the Shuttle should launch on the 16th. Heres the next 10 days .
  4 days ago

• A Remembrance Day Message from Space: Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk thanks veterans

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  Canadian Astronaut Robert Thirsk, currently aboard the International Space Station, recorded a video message from space, sharing his observations about Canadian John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields” and thanking Canada’s war veterans and the men and women serving with the Canadian Forces in this November 11 ...
  4 days ago

• Soyuz Rocket Takes Poisk Into Space

  
  Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science — Authority: 133
    International Space Station. Image credit: NASA A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the Poisk Mini-Research Module-2 launched from Kazakhstan this morning.  The Poisk will serve as a docking port for spacecraft visiting the International Space Station (ISS) and as an airlock for spacewalking astronauts.  The ...
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• New Russian Module on Way to Space Station

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 489
  A Russian Soyuz launches the new Poisk module to the International Space Station. NASA MISSION UPDATE The new Russian Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM2), also known as Poisk, launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan Tuesday at 9:22 a.m. EST. Thursday at 10:44 a.m., the MRM2 will dock to the ...
  5 days ago

• New Russian Module “Poisk” On Its Way to Station

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  The new Russian Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM2), also known as Poisk, launched aboard a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan Tuesday at 9:22 a.m. EST. Thursday at 10:44 a.m., the MRM2 will dock to the space-facing port of the Zvezda service module. Poisk is a Russian term that translates to search, seek and ...
  5 days ago

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