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• NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation And Sensing Satellite Confirms Water on the Moon

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  Preliminary data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, indicates the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater. The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon. The LCROSS spacecraft and a companion rocket stage made twin impacts ...
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• Students send microbe experiment on space shuttle Atlantis

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Washington, November 14 (ANI): An experiment by college students that will study how microbes grow in microgravity is heading to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis.Undergraduate and graduate students at Texas Southern University in Houston developed the experiment that will fly as part of the STS-129 mission. The ...
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• NASA weighs Ares alternatives, including an heir to the Saturn V

  
  The Write Stuff — Authority: 537
  In Fridays Orlando Sentinel and on our websites main Space News channel, we carry a story about how NASA engineers are poring over designs for a new affordable and quick heavy lift rocket capable of exploring the solar system. Among...
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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 ...
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• Inventors to Compete for $400,000 in NASA Astronaut Glove Challenge

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  Reporters and the public are invited to attend the 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge on Nov. 19 at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.The $400,000 prize challenge is a nationwide competition that focuses on developing improved pressure suit gloves for astronauts to use ...
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• Blast Off!!! (A guest post from Little J)

  
  Wisconsin Mommy — Authority: 121
  On Saturday, we went to visit Kennedy Space Center. It was really cool cause its all about space - which I love. Someday I am going to travel into space!! While we were there, we met Mac who has worked at NASA for over twenty years. (Thats longer than Ive been alive!) Mac gave us a private tour and let us see ...
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• NASA shuttle contractor cancels merit raises for all employees

  
  The Write Stuff — Authority: 537
  EDITORS NOTE: After being alerted to an error by a reader, I have corrected this post to make it clear that USA is scrapping merit pay increases for its employees, not bonuses. Apologies for the confusion. RB CAPE CANAVERAL -...
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• NASA May Drop Ares I-Y Test Flight

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  Written by Nancy AtkinsonJust one week after the first test flight test of the Ares I-X rocket, NASA says it may decide to cancel a follow-up launch called Ares 1-Y, which wasn’t scheduled until 2014. Reportedly, program managers recommended dropping the flight because, currently, there isn’t the funding to get an ...
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• Pad Preps Continue; STS-129 Crew Returns to JSC

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  Launch Pad 39A technicians at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will install the cargo for the STS-129 mission into space shuttle Atlantis’ payload bay today.The payload consists of Express Logistics Carrier 1 and 2, holding about 28,000 pounds of supplies and spare parts for the International Space ...
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• KSC Director to workers: Have faith and keep working hard

  
  The Write Stuff — Authority: 537
  In a sober internal memo tinged by uncertainty about the future of U.S. human spaceflight plans but optimistic that NASA will be back launching rockets sooner rather than later, Kennedy Space Center director Bob Cabana told Florida employees Tuesday to...
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• Picture of the Day – Payload Arrives at the Pad

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the canister containing the payload for space shuttle Atlantis’ STS-129 mission to the International Space Station is secured in the Payload Changeout Room at Launch Pad 39A. Inside the canister are Express Logistics Carriers 1 and 2.© Matt for International Space ...
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• Rocket Launch Key to Next Generation GPS

  
  GPSReviewsBlog.com — Authority: 142
  Ares 1-X, NASAs first rocket in its "new frontier" Constellation space exploration program, rose from its launch pad and pierced the sky Oct. 28 at Kennedy Space Center, FL - buoying hopes that the door had been flung open to a great future in deep space exploration. The United States had a tall order for the 1.8 ...
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• STS-129 Crew Set to Arrive at Kennedy

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the STS-129 launch team is getting ready for the final part of training called the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test, or TCDT, which will prepare space shuttle Atlantis, the mission’s astronauts and the Kennedy team for the flight to the International Space ...
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• Cocoa Beach Hotels

  
  sherrill brown recommends — Authority: 139
  Cocoa Beach Florida is six miles long and barely one mile wide. Cocoa beach is a very different and fun packed holiday destination. Cocoa beach is one popularly known as the quintessential beach town. As an all year popular tourist destination,  beach vacation packages offer many options for the tourists. Its a very ...
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• Atlantis’ Payload is Delivered; Astronauts Return to Kennedy

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the cargo for space shuttle Atlantis’ mission to the International Space Station was moved to Launch Pad 39A overnight and will be installed into the shuttle’s payload bay.Technicians will finish testing Atlantis’ waste collection system, or toilet, this weekend and ...
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• 330 more workers at Kennedy Space Center slated to lose jobs

  
  The Write Stuff — Authority: 537
  While the debate continues in Washington over the future of NASAs human spaceflight plans, contractors at Kennedy Space Center are pressing ahead with plans to lay off hundreds more workers as the date of the space shuttle retirement looms. Boeing...
  2 weeks ago

• Visiting Kennedy Space Center

  
  Toddler Planet — Authority: 413
  My husband and I have always wanted to go to Kennedy Space Center together. We wanted to go when we were in college.  We wanted to go when we were in graduate school (but by the time we were married and ready to travel, we were writing our dissertations). We wanted to go when we worked for NASA (but we worked for ...
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• NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis ready to launch on November 16

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ares I-X Launch Image Gallery

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 584
  Written by Nancy AtkinsonThere are some great images of Wednesday’s Ares I-X launch. Most notable is this one of the bow shock that formed around the 327-foot-tall rocket as it went supersonic at about 39 seconds into the flight. Liftoff of the 6-minute flight test from Launch Pad 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space ...
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• NASA’s Ares I-X rocket successfully launches

  
  ICM Commercial & Business News — Authority: 434
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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