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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 02, 2010 – Russia is preparing to launch a Progress cargo spaceship on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Monday.
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Jakarta (AFP) Jan 29, 2010 – The Indonesian government has apologised to a woman who lost her leg when a military rocket slammed into her house after a test launch, an official said Friday.
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 02, 2010 – It’s clear by now that America’s grand plans for returning astronauts to the Moon have been quashed, at least in the short term. The Constellation program, originally created to land astronauts there by 2020, is no more. …
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Paris, France (ESA) Feb 02, 2010 – The intense public debate on how rapidly the Himalayan glaciers are retreating highlights the necessity for the constant monitoring of glaciers worldwide by satellites.
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3D Measurements Of Apollo 14 Landing Site
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 02, 2010 – Can we measure the size and shape of equipment and other objects on the moon using orbital images from the current Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission?
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Paris, France (ESA) Feb 02, 2010 – Space is a hostile environment for living things, but small organisms on the Expose-E experiment unit outside Europe’s Columbus ISS laboratory module have resisted the solar UV radiation, cosmic rays, vacuum and varying temperatures for 18 months. …
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Research On Global Sun Block Needed Now
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Calgary, Canada (SPX) Feb 02, 2010 – Internationally coordinated research and field-testing on ‘geoengineering’ the planet’s atmosphere to limit risk of climate change should begin soon along with building …
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Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 02, 2010 – India is building a spacecraft for mobile applications that will enable use of satellite phones without dependence on foreign players, a top space scientist said. …
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NASA, White House still working details of space plan
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NASA and senior White House officials are still tweaking the new U.S. space policy unveiled Monday, and it could be months before the agency can announce a definitive plan for procuring commercial rockets and space capsules for human voyages to low Earth orbit.
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NASA selects winners of first commercial crew contest
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NASA awarded $50 million in stimulus money to five companies Monday, a small sum of seed money but a critical first step in the agency’s new capacity as a supporter of commercial human spaceflight.
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Budget slashes NPOESS weather satellite program
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The White House is proposing major changes of the U.S. government’s troubled next-generation weather satellites, cutting the NPOESS program in half and directing NOAA and the Air Force to continue developing their own weather observatories.
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New Video Shows Solar Eclipse from Space
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A spacecraft in Earth orbit recently captured a rare view of a solar eclipse from space.
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NASA’s Far-Out New Plans
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President Obama’s new proposal for NASA’s future calls for abandoning the status quo and investing instead in innovative new projects. Here are some of the most far-out ideas that could come to pass under the new NASA plan.
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Welcome to the “No Boundaries” project, developed by NASA and USA TODAY Education. No Boundaries helps students explore careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), while learning about NASA — the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. …
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For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a ‘primordial soup’ of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later. Today the ’soup’ theory has been over turned …
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The X marks the spot of a suspected head-on collision between two asteroids imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope’s new-and-improved Wide Field Camera.
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On This Day – Feb 03:
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1965 – Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1966 – 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
1966 – 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1984 – 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1994 – STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1995 – STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
Born On This Day:
1938 – Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut
1939 – Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut 1958 – Joe Frank Edwards, Jr., Richmond, Virginia, Cmdr USN/astronaut, STS 89 |
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