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Latest Space News 2009-11-30  *Delivered Daily!*

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Astronaut Reality Series Set to Begin
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Three ISU students have developed a reality show that will select two astronauts to fly into orbit aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.

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Two Successful Rockets With Experiments In Weightlessness
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Esrange Space Center, Sweden (SPX) Nov 30, 2009 – During the last [...]

Latest Space News 2009-11-29  *Delivered Daily!*

Special Feature – This Could be You!:

Astronaut Reality Series Set to Begin
www.parabolicarc.com
Three ISU students have developed a reality show that will select two astronauts to fly into orbit aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.

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Herschel telescope ‘fingerprints’ colossal star
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It has allowed Herschel to identify the different types of molecules and atoms that [...]

Apollo 12 Moon Dust Experiements
NOTE, this post has some errors and needs to be read with that in mind. I believe that they are especially in the NASA content. Please note the letter from Prof Brian O’Brien at the end of this post.
Moon Dust – it is a crucial part of what we must overcome [...]

Latest Space News 2009-11-28  *Delivered Daily!*

Special Feature – This Could be You!:

Astronaut Reality Series Set to Begin
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Three ISU students have developed a reality show that will select two astronauts to fly into orbit aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.

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Shuttle glides back to Earth with seven astronauts
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The shuttle Atlantis dropped out of a crystal clear Florida [...]

Latest Space News 2009-11-27  *Delivered Daily!*

Astronaut Reality Series Set to Begin

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Three ISU students have developed a reality show that will select two astronauts to fly into orbit aboard a Soyuz spacecraft.

Kazakhstan Plays Down Baikonur Spat
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Astana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Nov 26, 2009 – Kazakhstan moved to play down a spat with Russia over a delay in [...]

Latest Space News 2009-11-26  *Delivered Daily!*

Internet routing blasts into space

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Cisco space router onboard Intelsat satellite to test orbital IP network

Australia’s first ‘iPod’ marks 60th birthday › News in Science (ABC Science)
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The CSIRAC – Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research organisation Automatic Computer – is housed in the state’s museum and has today been granted heritage listing [...]

Apollo 12 Returns – T minus 40 Years
Despite the lightning strike that may have caused problems with the parachute, the Command Module  Yankee Clipper returned to Earth on November 24, 1969, at 20:58 UTC (3:58pm EST, 10:58am HST), approximately 500 miles (800 km) east of American Samoa. Apart from the lightning strike during the launch, one [...]

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Latest Space News 2009-11-25     Delivered Daily!

NASA Assessing New Roles for Ailing QuikScat Satellite
Source: www.physorg.com
(PhysOrg.com) — NASA mission managers are assessing options for future operations of the venerable QuikScat satellite following the age-related failure of a mechanism that spins the scatterometer

Cassini Captures Ghostly Dance of Saturn’s Northern Lights (w/ Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) — In the first video [...]

Space News 2009-11-24 – Daily

The Space Review: Dysfunctional space advocacy
Source: www.thespacereview.com
Now is a critical time for NASA’s future, but are space advocates capable of influencing the outcome? (credit: J. Foust)

Russia Launches Cosmos-Series Military Satellite
Source: www.spacewar.com
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 23, 2009 – Russia’s Space Forces on Friday launched a Soyuz-U carrier rocket with a Cosmos-series [...]