Latest Space News 2010-01-29 *Delivered Daily! Echoes of Apollo
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Australian National Radio Interview about the Moon Dish Rescue. Australian ABC’s Saturday AM program with an interview with ABC’s BRENDAN TREMBATH and Echoes of Apollo Global Events Manager, ROBERT BRAND |
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TV Interview to Save Moon Dish | Echoes of Apollo Space News
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TV Interview to Save Moon Dish Here is a TV story started by Echoes of Apollo talking about the closure of the NASA dish that brought the world the images of Neil Armstrong first steps walking on the moon. …
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NASA Gives ‘Go’ for Feb. 7 as Final Space Shuttle Night Launch
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Space shuttle Endeavour is set to begin a 13-day flight to the International Space Station with a Feb. 7 launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff is planned for 4:39 a.m. EST, making this the final scheduled space shuttle night launch.
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NASA astronaut to donate flag to 9/11 memorial
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NEW YORK (AP) — An astronaut is donating an American flag that traveled aboard the NASA space shuttle Atlantis to New York City in honor of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack.
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Are The Largest Stars Born Like Our Sun
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Hilo HI (SPX) Jan 28, 2010 – Explaining how the most massive stars are born, deep within their stellar nurseries, is one of the most persistent mysteries in modern astronomy. Now, observations at the Gemini …
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Route 66: Cassini’s Next Look At Titan
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Los Angeles CA (JPL) Jan 28, 2010 – Sixteen days after last visiting Saturn’s largest moon, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft returns for another look-see of the cloud-shrouded moon – this time from on high.
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 28, 2010 – For the first time, astronomers have found a supernova explosion with properties similar to a gamma-ray burst, but without seeing any gamma rays from it. The discovery, …
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ISRO Has Received ‘Several’ Payload Proposals For Chandrayaan-II
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Jan 28, 2010 – Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) would finalise in a couple of months the payloads from the international community to be carried on Chandrayaan-II moon mission, the space agency’s chairman K Radhakrishnan has said. …
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India plans manned space mission in 2016
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Bangalore, India (AFP) Jan 27, 2010 – India will launch its first manned space mission in 2016 in a bid to match space pioneers such as Russia and the United States, a top official said Wednesday.
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 – In 2009, it was found that some polar regions of the Moon are the coldest places in the solar system. It’s even colder there than distant, frozen Pluto! Some craters are permanently blocked from sunlight, and apparently lack sources of heat from underground. …..
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Russia working on new booster rocket
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Moscow (UPI) Jan 27, 2009 – The design for a new booster rocket for the next generation of Russian manned spacecraft should be completed in August, an official said Tuesday.
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Safety paramount as NASA enters period of upheaval
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NASA managers have a challenging balancing act ahead of them this year as they oversee the last five missions of the space shuttle program and prepare the agency for a future that is increasingly cloudy and uncertain.
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Proton blasts off with Russian military payload
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A Proton rocket launched overnight Thursday with a Russian defense ministry satellite to relay communications between troops and military commanders.
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America’s 1st Commercial Spaceport Blooms in the Desert
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New Mexico’s Spaceport America is turning into reality as America’s first commercial spaceport runway takes shape.
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President Obama to Propose Abandoning NASA’s Moon Plan
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President Barack Obama will ask Congress to abandon NASA’s current plans to return U.S. astronauts to the moon, but extend the space station through 2020
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NASA Extends the World Wide Web Out Into Space
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week – personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection.
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Two solid rocket boosters were installed on Jan. 15, 2010, on the Delta IV Launch Vehicle that will carry GOES-P into space. Credit: NASA
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The material blasting out at close to light speed suggests a powerful central engine inside the supernova, say researchers (Source: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF)
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Student of the Week Competition (up to and incl. Y12):
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Echoes of Apollo is starting a “Student of the Week” competition for up to Y12. Best answer to the following question (and feel free to use the Internet, but don’t copy it) will have their profile on display on our website and on Facebook. Make sure you have permission to do so. Sure, we started with a hard question, but that is life – others will be easier!Q: Is the moon moving closer to earth or further away and what is the major reason?
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SCIENCE with a TWIST:
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Special Feature:
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If you have an iPhone, you need this application. Echoes of Apollo supports MissionClockand the direction they are taking for the space enthusiasts with future services. Get it now and always know what is happening in space
Apollo 13 Re-enactment on iPhone MissionClock Mission Clock and Echoes of Apollo announce collaboration on Apollo 13 re-enactment on the 40th anniversary of Apollo 13’s historic flight.
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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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1959 – First jet passenger service across the United States begun by American Airlines with Boeing 707’s.
1964 – Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1976 – Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1984 – Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
Born on this Day:
1939 – O P Kolomitsev, cosmonaut
1942 – Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut, Soyuz 38 |
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