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NASA halts space station spacewalk after water leak in astronaut's helmet
WPEC
(AP) -- NASA aborted a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Tuesday because of a dangerous water leak in an astronaut's helmet that drenched his eyes, nose and mouth. The leak was so bad that Luca Parmitano, Italy's first spacewalker, couldn ...
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NASA, International Space Agencies Note Benefits of Space Station During ...
Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON, July 17, 2013 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The International Space Station (ISS) partner agencies released a statement Wednesday on the benefits of the space station during natural disasters on Earth.
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International Space Station cargo ship demonstration set to launch from Va. in ...
Washington Post
A NASA contractor says it will ferry supplies from Virginia to the International Space Station in late September in what the company hopes will be the first of many resupply missions. Dulles-based Orbital Sciences Corp. says its Cygnus spacecraft is ...
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NASA still perplexed by astronaut's flooded helmet
Boston.com
The Associated Press In this image from video made available by NASA, astronaut Karen Nyberg assists astronaut Luca Parmitano remove his space suit after the aborted spacewalk aboard the InternationalSpace Station on Tuesday, July 16, 2013.
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NASA's OPALS to Beam Data From Space Via Laser
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen transmission of scientific data. The Optical Payload for ...
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NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members
MENAFN.COM
HOUSTON -- NASA and its international partners have appointed three International Space Station crew members to round out future expeditions to the orbiting laboratory. NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Japanese Exploration Aerospace Agency (JAXA) ...
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NASA's Human Research Program Studying The International Space Station's ...
BioNews Texas
One important focus of research on the International Space Station (ISS) is NASA's Human Research Program to study better the space station's microbiome. Human beings like other complex biological organisms are host to vast ecosystems made up of ...
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Space Station Ocean Imager Available To More Scientists
Wall Street Journal
Proposals requesting new uses of the instrument will be evaluated by the International Space StationProgram, NASA's Science Mission Directorate, the HICO project scientist and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space. Oregon State University ...
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NASA cuts space walk short
WQAD.com -- Quad Cities News & Weather from WQAD
The spacewalk outside the International Space Station was planned to last for six and a half hours, but ended after one hour and 32 minutes, said NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries. That makes it, according to NASA's website, the second shortest spacewalk ...
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NASA still perplexed by Italian astronaut's flooded helmet, searching for ...
Greenfield Daily Reporter
Engineers in Houston, meanwhile, conducted their own investigation into what should have been a routine, yet still risky, maintenance job outside the International Space Station. But a day after one of NASA'smost harrowing spacewalks in decades ...
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NASA aborts spacewalk after leak into astronaut's helmet
Reuters
Thinking it might be his drink bag leaking, Parmitano drained the bag, but in the weightless environment ofspace, blobs of liquid continued to collect in his helmet. "Where's it coming from?" Parmitano said. "It's too much. Now it's in my eyes." With ...
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NASA aborts spacewalk due to water leak in astronaut's helmet, deemed too ...
Greenfield Daily Reporter
In this image from video made available by NASA, astronauts discuss the aborted spacewalk aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. A dangerous water leak in the helmet of Luca Parmitano, bottom center facing camera in white ...
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NASA, lawmakers at odds on cooperation with China
Orlando Sentinel
WASHINGTON — Most Americans know how the space race began: with the 1957 launch of Sputnik by the U.S.S.R. But fewer remember how it all but ended: a 1975 mission in which an Apollo spacecraft docked with its Soviet counterpart in low Earth orbit.
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NASA has aborted a spacewalk at space station because of water leak in ...
Washington Post
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has aborted a spacewalk at space station because of water leak in astronaut's' helmet. Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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NASA Figures Out How To Drink Coffee In Space With The Zero-Gravity Coffee ...
International Business Times
NASA astronaut Catherine Coleman performing the Interior Corner Flow experiment aboard the International Space Station. NASA John H. Glenn Research Center. Coffee, and other liquids, can't be easily controlled in space. On Earth, filling a glass with ...
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Private spacecraft's first space station launch set for September
NBCNews.com (blog)
14 and 19 to send its first cargo ship Cygnus spacecraft on a demonstration flight to the space stationfrom NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia. The mission will launch on Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket, which made its first test ...
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Spacewalk emergency among dangers of space station life
USA TODAY
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA survived a close call at the International Space Station on Tuesday when aspacewalking astronaut could have drowned in his spacesuit helmet — an incident that pointed up the dangers encountered daily building, living and ...
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Astronauts tackle chore backlog on spacewalk
San Francisco Chronicle
Scientists noticed unusual discoloration on its radiators and requested photos of the instrument, which is anchored to the station. Parmitano found it awkward to secure a protective cover over a docking port used by NASA's space shuttles until their ...
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Space Station Benefiting Natural Disaster Responders
RedOrbit
This publication highlights the contributions the space station has made in Earth observation and disaster response, education, and human health. NASA says the ISS can provide an immediate benefit to regions that have experienced natural disasters ...
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NASA cuts spacewalk short due to water leak in helmet
NBCNews.com
NASA aborted a planned six-hour spacewalk by two astronauts outside the International Space Stationon Tuesday when one of the spacewalkers reported "a lot of water" inside his spacesuit helmet, a potentially scary situation. Italian astronaut Luca ...
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NASA aborts spacewalk after water leak drenches Italian astronaut
10TV
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An Italian astronaut has escaped a dangerous problem on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. About an hour into the spacewalk today, Luca Parmitano reported "a lot of water" leaking into his helmet, ...
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Space Station launch from Wallops Island set for September
Bethany Beach Wave
The mission is the last milestone in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services agreement between Orbital Sciences and NASA. If successful, it will clear the way for Orbital to begin regular cargo resupply missions to the space station. The company ...
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Source of leak in astronaut's space suit remains a mystery
Washington Post (blog)
Update 5:00 p.m.: NASA officials said they had yet to ascertain the source of a water buildup inside Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet during a spacewalk outside the international space station Tuesday. In this image from video made available ...
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NASA's Johnson Space Center: Inspiration for Innovation
Silicon Hills News
This week I am attending a NASA Social event Wednesday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston along with 29 others from around the country. We will visit Mission Control and learn about astronaut training and the International Space Station which NASA ...
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NASA aborts spacewalk after water leak in astronaut's helmet
Daily News - Galveston County
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER — A water leak in Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet briefly rendered the spacewalker unable to hear or speak Tuesday, forcing NASA to abruptly curtail a mission aboard the International Space Station. Parmitano made it ...
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Astronaut's leaking helmet forces NASA to scrub spacewalk
Computerworld
Computerworld - After just an hour of what should have been a six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk, an astronaut's helmet leak forced NASA to cancel the mission on the International Space Station this morning. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Luca Parmitano ...
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NASA, Japanese space agency discuss cooperation
indiablooms
“NASA has enjoyed a long-standing, mutually beneficial relationship with Japan in space exploration activities and we look forward to further discussions about our asteroid initiative,” said Bolden. "We currently have more than 35 active agreements ...
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Congressional showdown looms on NASA funding
Bethany Beach Wave
The debate comes as NASA's Wallops launch facility in Eastern Virginia has ramped up its activity, including a planned September launch of an Antares rocket to help supply the International Space Station. The Senate bill funds continuing work on NASA's ...
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American Astronautical Society, NASA to discuss space electronics, exploration ...
Avionics Intelligence
Special guests include: NASA Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations William Gerstenmaier and station program managers from the Canadian, European, Japanese, and Russianspace agencies. In a recorded presentation, Nobel ...
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NASA Aborts Spacewalk After Leak in Astronaut's Helmet
Voice of America
NASA cut short a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Tuesday after water began building up inside the helmet of an Italian astronaut. Luca Parmitano was conducting his second career spacewalk when he reported feeling water on the back of ...
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Virginia will connect with the International Space Station in September 2013
wtvr.com
(WTVR) – Virginia will take its place in American space history in September, as Orbital Sciences plans to launch its Antares rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore. In a statement ...
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NASA aborts spacewalk to clear water from suit
CNN
... Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to add CNN's video to your playlist. Sign in. No statistics available yet. Report. Published on Jul 16, 2013. NASA aborted a spacewalk in the International Space Stationbecause water was pooling inside an astronaut's ...
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House bill kills NASA mission to snag asteroid
Florida Today
The GOP bill also would require that at least one of the aerospace companies NASA is assisting as part of the Commercial Crew program be ready to fly astronauts to the International Space Station by Dec. 31, 2017. There's no guarantee that whatever ...
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NASA Astronaut Tom Marshburn Discusses Spaceflight At Newseum During ...
RedOrbit
Marshburn will appear in person to answer Newseum visitors' questions while astronauts Chris Cassidy ofNASA and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency are conducting a planned 6 1/2-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station in ...
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NASA Looks To Partner With Private Space Industry | WebProNews
By Mike Tuttle
Spacewalk Cut Short by Wardrobe Malfunction. Early this morning, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy exited the International Space Station to conduct assembly and maintenance on ...
Top News - WebProNews
NASA's Program to Beam Data From Space via Laser | WebProNews
By Mike Tuttle
NASA will use the International Space Station to test a new communications technology that could dramatically improve spacecraft communications, enhance commercial missions and strengthen transmission of scientific data. The Optical ...
WebProNews
Sen. Richard Shelby will vote against $18 billion for NASA, $1.6 ...
By Lee Roop | lroop@al.com
The Senate subcommittee's budget also appropriates $775 million to commercial space programs, but at Shelby's initiative withholds $250 million until NASA does a study that certifies how long the InternationalSpace Station will be usable ...
Real-Time News from Huntsville
How to Drink Coffee in Space - Peter Kafka - News - AllThingsD
By Peter Kafka
Maybe, for whatever reason, you're not very interested in consuming much news this morning. May we suggest instead a video that combines zero gravity, the International Space Station, and coffee, brought to you by NASA? Pretty cool.
AllThingsD

NASA, Space Station Partners Announce Future Crew Members ...
NASA and its international partners have appointed three International Space Station crew members to round out future expeditions to the orbiting laboratory.
www.nasa.gov/.../nasa-space-station-partners-announce-future...
NASA cuts spacewalk outside International Space Station short ...
The spacewalk outside the International Space Station was planned to last for six and a half hours, but ended after one hour and 32 minutes, said NASA ...
fox6now.com/.../nasa-cuts-spacewalk-outside-international-spa...
NASA has aborted a spacewalk at space station because of water ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has aborted a spacewalk at space station because of water leak in astronaut's' helmet.
www.sfgate.com/.../NASA-has-aborted-a-spacewalk-at-space-s...
SN Blog | Fresh Ammunition for Commercial Crew Proponents in ...
The July 8 report, “NASA's Efforts To Maximize Research on the International Space Station,” notes that once any one of the three private space taxis now under ...
www.spacenews.com/.../36155sn-blog-fresh-ammunition-for-...
NASA Has Aborted a Spacewalk at Space Station ... - ABC News
NASA Has Aborted a Spacewalk at Space Station Because of Water Leak in Astronaut's' Helmet.
abcnews.go.com/.../nasa-aborted-spacewalk-space-station-wate...
Broken Helmet Ends NASA Spacewalk: 5 Facts You Need to Know ...
This morning NASA ended a space walk on the International Space Station early because a leak developed in astronaut Luca Parmitano's helmet.
www.heavy.com/.../leaking-helmet-nasa-spacewalk-internation...
Space Station Spacewalk Cut Short due to Water Leak - NASA Watch
Both astronauts returned safely to the confines of the Space Station. ... You can watch the post-EVA activities on NASA TV. Categories: Astronauts,; ISS News ...
nasawatch.com/.../2013/.../space-station-s-1.html?...
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