Latest Space News 2009-11-28 *Delivered Daily!*
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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 sky and glided to a “picture-perfect” landing at the Kennedy Space Center Friday to close out a successful 11-day space station mission, bringing astronaut Nicole Stott back to Earth after 91 days in space.
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Houston TX (PTI) Nov 27, 2009 – In a discovery that may solve the mystery behind the source of moon’s water, an evidence from NASA’s LCROSS mission suggested that much of it was delivered by comets that slammed into the Earth’s satellite billions of years ago.
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Soyuz TMA-17 Crews Take Final Tests Before Flight To ISS
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 27, 2009 – The main and backup crews for the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will begin on Thursday their final tests at a space training center near Moscow.
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Long Beach CA (SPX) Nov 27, 2009 – Preparations are moving forward at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan for the fourth Land Launch mission, the first of a satellite for Intelsat. Liftoff on November …
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Dhaka, Bangladesh (XNA) Nov 27, 2009 – Bangladesh wants to enter space-age soon as the government plans to launch a satellite into the space for the development of the country’s telecommunications services.
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Newark NJ (SPX) Nov 27, 2009 – NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million …
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Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Nov 27, 2009 – The U.S. Air Force will launch the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 37 here Dec 2.
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The Hague, Netherlands (SPX) Nov 27, 2009 – A global enabler of communications on the go, SES WORLD SKIES has announced Astel has tapped its NSS-6 satellite to deliver the first high-speed mobile broadband and phone services to train passengers traveling the busiest commuter rail in Kazakhstan.
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Deep-Space Maneuver Positions MESSENGER For Mercury Orbit Insertion
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Laurel MD (SPX) Nov 27, 2009 – The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft completed its fifth and final deep-space maneuver of the mission today, providing the expected velocity change needed to place the spacecraft on course to enter into orbit about Mercury in March 2011.
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London (AFP) Nov 26, 2009 – A Briton accused of hacking into US military and NASA computers faces extradition to the United States after the British government Thursday rejected last-ditch requests to block the move.
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China is set to launch its second lunar probe next October in preparation for an unmanned moon landing by the end of 2012, space program officials were quoted Friday as saying.
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Apollo 12 Returns – T minus 40 Years
Despite the lightning strike that may have caused problems with the parachute, the Command Module Yankee Clipper
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