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• Video Preview of Next Shuttle Mission

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  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 ...
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• New Module for ISS Launches

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  Soyuz rocket with Poisk. Credit: NASA TV A new module for the space station blasted off today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan at 9:22 a.m. EST. The Poisk (which means "explore" in Russian) is a combination docking module/airlock/future research module. It will meet up with the ISS on Thursday at 10:44 ...
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• NASA’s Plan to Irradiate Monkeys Raises Cruelty Concerns

  
  80beats — Authority: 653
  If NASA ever wants to send astronauts on long-term space flights , it needs to know how radiation will affect the crew. Testing humans obviously isn’t going to happen, so NASA is funding a round of experiments to study how radiation effects monkeys, the first time monkeys have been used as test subjects by NASA ...
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• LROs Closer Look at Apollo 11 Landing Site

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  Latest look at Apollo 11 site from LRO. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University Here are the first images of the Apollo 11 landing site since the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter dropped into its 50 km mapping orbit . The sun is almost straight overhead on this image so theres no real shadows visible. Whats ...
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• Planetary Society to Launch Three Separate Solar Sails

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  LightSail-1 Artists rendition of LightSail-1 by Rick Sternbach. Credit: Planetary Society On the 75th anniversary of astronomer Carl Sagans birth, the Planetary Society announced their plans to sail a spacecraft on sunlight alone by the end of 2010. Called LightSail, the project will launch three separate ...
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• What Really Happened on Apollo 13?

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  Apollo 13 crew reflects on the mission from David Meerman Scott on Vimeo . Hear the story of what really happened on Apollo 13 from two of the astronauts who were on board, Jim Lovell and Fred Haise. Lovell provides great detail on the history of the oxygen tank and why it exploded, and both Lovell and Haise ...
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• Lightnings Found to Produce 10% of Atmospheric NOx Greenhouse Gas

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 136
  Every year, scientists learn something new about the power of lightning. With the helps of the satellites they have created a lightning map for the globe, which shows that Rwanda has the most flashes per square kilometer, while the flashes at the polar regions occur rarely. Every year, 1,2 million flashes occur around ...
  5 days ago

• Laser-Powered Robot Climbs to Victory in the Space-Elevator Contest

  
  80beats — Authority: 653
  A laser-powered robot took a climb up a cable in the Mohave Desert in Wednesday, and pushed ahead the sci-fi inspired notion of a space elevator capable of lifting astronauts, cargo, and even tourists up into orbit. The robot, built by LaserMotive of Seattle, whizzed up 2,953 feet (nearly 1 kilometer) in about ...
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• Masten wins $1 million X-Prize on Last Possible Day

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  The X-Prize competition for building a lander vehicle capable of making a simulated landing and liftoff on the Moon has come to a close, with the 1st place, $1 million award going to Masten Space Systems for their vehicle, Xoie (pronounced like the name Zoey). Armadillo Aerospace came in a close second, and ...
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• Space Junk Threatens Future Missions

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  The U.S. Air Force began upgrading its ability to predict possible collisions in space after two satellites collided in February 2009, and has now done a collision analysis on over 800 maneuverable satellites. They hope to be able to track 500 more non-maneuvering satellites by years end. But maneuverable ...
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• Bonk! Hard Landing Dents New NASA Rocket Booster During Test Flight

  
  80beats — Authority: 653
  NASA’s Ares I-X experimental rocket completed its first test flight—but the successful endeavor ended on a sour note. The rocket’s first booster stage, which splashed down in the ocean as planned six minutes after launch, was found to be significantly dented when divers reached the mammoth cylinder to prep it ...
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• Video: Buzz Aldrin speaks at the 2009 Texas Book Festival in Aus...

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 463
  Aldrin speaks in Austin on the Apollo 11 moon landing, life after NASA, and the future of space flight. (via Michael Castellon)
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• India’s space programmes based on its needs: Outgoing chief

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  By Venkatachari JagannathanChennai, Oct 31 (IANS) India does not look at other Asian countries like Japan and China as competitors in the space sector as its programmes are based on its needs, said Madhavan Nair, who retired Saturday as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).“Our programmes are ...
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• For a Real Blast, Strap a Nuclear Reactor to a Spaceship

  
  80beats — Authority: 653
  The Russian space agency has proposed a powerful new way to get a spacecraft to Mars or beyond: just put a big ole nuclear reactor on board. The head of the agency, Anatoly Perminov, just proposed this new class of nuclear-powered spaceships for manned missions to explore our solar system. “The project is aimed ...
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• NASA launches new-era rocket – the Ares 1-X: news video report

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 137
  NASA launches new-era rocket  Ares 1-X: a news video report by Al Jazeera’s John Terrett - 29 Oct 2009 U.S. space agency NASA has launched a prototype rocket designed to replace the aging Shuttle fleet and one day to carry men back to the Moon. The Ares 1-X blasted off from Cape Canaveral in the southern U.S. ...
  2 weeks ago

• NASA’s Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly-modified Launch Complex 39B until splash down of the rocket’s booster stage nearly 150 miles ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  80beats — Authority: 653
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Will Russias Next Rocket be Nuclear?

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 668
  RD-0410 NTP Engine developed by Russia in the 1960s. Credit - Dietrich Haeseler Russias space agency chief is proposing to build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine. Reportedly, Anatoly Perminov told a government meeting Wednesday that the preliminary design could be ready by 2012. It would take about nine ...
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• Ares I-X Test Rocket

  
  Intute blog — Authority: 129
  New Nasa rocket prepares to fly (BBC) NASA’s Ares I-X: Why Launch Empty $450-Million Rocket? (National Geographic) NASA Completes Assembly of Ares I-X Test Rocket (NASA) Ares rocket passes milestone amid growing uncertainty (Spaceflight Now) NASA Completes First Test Rocket to Replace Shuttle NASA’s aim ...
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• UAE hosts workshop on water resource management

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Abu Dhabi, Oct 26 (IANS) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is hosting a workshop to discuss water resource management, WAM news agency reported Monday. The Arab Water Academy is co-sponsoring the workshop with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and USAID. The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center will use its experience in ...
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