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Moon TV Dish to be Stowed – Forever | Echoes of Apollo Space News
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Save our Space-comms Systems (SOSS). Moon TV Dish to be Stowed – Forever
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LONDON (Reuters) – Romance may happen every day, but finding true love in London is as rare as aliens in the galaxy, says one London-based economist. Peter Backus, a teaching fellow of economics at the
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 – We could be less than a year away from the launch of Tiangong-1, China’s first space laboratory. We’ve been expecting this launch for years, but relatively little is still known about this mission.
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Paris, France (ESA) Jan 20, 2010 – ESA’s Herschel observatory is back to full operation following the reactivation of its HiFi instrument. HiFi, having been offline for 160 days while engineers investigated …
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Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 – Most searches for planets around other stars, also known as exoplanets, focus on Sun-like stars. Those searches have proven successful, turning up more than 400 alien worlds. However, Sun-like stars aren’t the only potential homes for planets.
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www.space-travel.com
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 – At NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launch officials at the Space Shuttle Program’s Flight Readiness Review decided to move forward with the targeted launch date of Feb. 7.
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Four Years And Counting
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 – NASA’s New Horizons mission team marks four years of flight today – and their Pluto-bound spacecraft is sleeping right through the celebration.
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www.marsdaily.com
Lisbon, Portugal (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 – Hundreds of Portuguese high school students were recently given a distinct privilege: a look at what future Mars missions could look like, as described by former NASA astronaut |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 – Sols 2137-2143 – Spirit remains embedded at the location called Troy on the West side of Home Plate. Extrication drives were tried on sols 2138, 2140 and 2142 (Jan. 7, 9 and 11, 2010).
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Opportunity Leaving Marquette Behind
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 – Sols 2118-2124 – Opportunity spent Sols 2118 to 2121 (Jan. 7-11, 2010; no sol number corresponds to Jan. 8 because no noon at Opportunity’s location fell during that date’s …
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 – NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named William Wrobel as director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., and director of the center’s Suborbital and Special Orbital Projects Directorate. …
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Orbital gives update on Taurus 2 rocket development
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Orbital Sciences is still hoping for a March 2011 debut of the company’s medium-lift Taurus 2 rocket, but challenges with facility construction and delays in ground testing could push the first launch later into next year, a senior manager said.
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Cooling line fix on track for Endeavour’s launch
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Work to modify hoses needed to route ammonia coolant to and from a new space station module is running on or ahead of schedule and the new lines should be delivered to the Kennedy Space Center in time for an on-schedule launch Feb. 7, officials said Wednesday.
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Musk refutes report slamming safety standards
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A commercial space pioneer and a former astronaut are answering claims by an independent advisory panel that private companies do not meet NASA human-rating standards and last year’s presidential review of the space program did not adequately consider safety.
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Private Space Stations Edge Closer to Reality
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Bigelow Aerospace is gearing up for a full-scale assault on space to build private space habitats.
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Astronauts in Space Concerned for Haiti Earthquake Victims
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Space station astronauts have sent a heartfelt message to Haiti earthquake victims.
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Earth Causes Asteroid-Quakes
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Asteroids may want to think twice before they swing too close to Earth. A new study has found that our planet can cause seismic tremors, or asteroid-quakes, if the space rocks stray too close.
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Public Invited to Pick Pixels on Mars – Scientists Taking Suggestions on Where to Image the Red Planet
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The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will soon be taking photo suggestions from the public.
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www.physorg.com
The Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) is a vast region of star formation. This new portrait of NGC 6334 was created from images taken with the Wide Field Imager instrument at the 2.2-m MPG/ESO telescope at the …
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www.physorg.com
(PhysOrg.com) — The next car comes down the conveyor belt ready for the dashboard to be added. Speed and position are controlled as if it were a spacecraft docking automatically with the International Space Station. …
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Group Formed to Save Iconic Moon Dish PRESS RELEASE: 10-001 Jan. 21, 2010 Sydney — The Moon dish that brought the Apollo 11 moon walk images to the
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Science Music Videos
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Official song for the 40th celebrations of the Apollo missions, written and performed by Jolly Hollie, Song recorded by request for Echoes of Apollo; NASA’s Space Community and music lovers around the world! |
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We Are All Connected
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Special Feature – STARWALKER TV Astronaut Reality Show
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As part of the wonderful world of Starwalker, we’re having spacesuits designed by fashion designers, specific details in the early New Year, stay tuned! |
US - Kids In Micro-g!
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Watch newly posted video discussions with ISS Astronauts about the Kids In Micro-g! Student experiment design challenge, life aboard ISS, example onboard
microgravity demos and use of the scientific method in designing a Kids In Micro-g! experiment. |
Special Event – Florida USA
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The event will be held in Melbourne, FL in the USA on Fri Jan 22nd – Sat Jan 30 so if you are coming to Robot Love let our good friend Lloyd Behrendt know you’re coming. Echoes of Apollo believes that we must engage with art and music and all the emotions if we are to engage with the “everyday” person and make space “everyday” … more art, more music, more love… | Art Exhibit and Group Show
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On This Day
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1951 – Westinghouse J-40 jet engine (7,500 pounds dry thrust) completed 150-hour Navy qualification test.
1976 – Commercial service of Concorde begins with London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes
1979:- Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer). Unless a new planet is discovered, Neptune will remain outermost planet since on August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) formally downgraded Pluto from an official planet to a dwarf planet.
2004 – NASA’s MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
Born On This Day:
1908: Bengt Stromgren, Goteborg Sweden, astrophysicist, studied gas cloud
1930: Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russia, cosmonaut 1950: Joseph R Tanner, Danville, Illinois, astronaut, STS 66, 82, sk: 97 |
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