Today: NASA News, Nov 26, 2013

Nov 26, 2013

NASA News, Nov 26, 2013

Chris Cassidy takes the coolest selfie picture while on a space walk during his mission to the International Space Station. (Photo by NASA/Released)

NASA Astronauts To Chat Live From Space Station With US Students
RTT News
The 20-minute Earth-to-space call will be broadcast on NASA Television and run on its website, the space agency said in a press release. NASA said linking ...
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Armed with Science

NASA Hails Success of Commercial Space Program
HispanicBusiness.com
A little more than two years after the end of the Space Shuttle Program, the United ... companies to sendNASA astronauts to the space station as soon as 2017.
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New Step Brings NASA Closer To Launching Astronauts Again
RedOrbit
“Our American industry partners have already proven they can safely and reliably launch supplies to the space station, and now we're working with them to get ...
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RedOrbit

Happy Birthday, Space Station!Nanowerk
(Nanowerk News) The Space Station is the largest cooperative project ever carried out in science, involving NASA, ESA, Roscosmos, the CanadianSpace ...
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Nanowerk

NASA outlines the final steps in plan for next manned spaceshipsNBCNews.com (blog)
As promised, NASA issued the formal invitation on Tuesday for a competition leading ... its station crew rotation requirements," the agency said in a news release. ... At the same time that NASA is turning overspace station transport services to ...
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Bringing space down to earth: 15 years of the ISSChannel 4 News
Fifteen years ago the first module of the international space station was launched on board a Russian rocket. Channel 4 News explores how the ISS has opened ...
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Channel 4 News

Hi-Def Space Selfies Coming To Your Web Browser SoonNational Geographic
Space buffs can expect to to ogle stunning near-real-time Earth views ... Credit:NASA ... cameras are on their way now to the International Space Station. There ...
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National Geographic

Millionaire revises plan for Mars flyby in 2018: Now it's up to NASANBCNews.com
"This partnership is a new model for a space mission," Tito told lawmakers on ...Taber MacCallum, Inspiration Mars' chief technology officer, told NBC News. ....resupply operations to the International Space Station, and NASA has issued a ...
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Clarksville Online

NASA puts out call for commercial space taxisChatham Daily News
Despite budget uncertainties, NASA on Tuesday issued a solicitation for a commercially operated spacetaxi to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station ...
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International Space Station Celebrates 15th Birthday in OrbitSpace.com
By Megan Gannon, News Editor | November 20, 2013 08:45am ET ... 4, 1998, NASA's space shuttleEndeavour launched Unity, sometimes called Node 1, ...
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Happy 15th birthday, International Space StationWAAY
Today, NASA said the ISS spans the area of a football field, including the end ... Mission Operations Laboratory Director Jay Onken said in a news release.
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NASA Astronaut, Food Scientist Discuss Thanksgiving in SpaceDigitalJournal.com
He logged 146 days in space as part of space station expeditions 35 and 36 ... space. To arrange an interview, news media representatives should contact Seth ...
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International Space Station Celebrates 15th AnniversaryRedOrbit
After a couple weeks, Zarya met up with NASA module Unity, which was launched aboard space shuttleflight STS-88. Astronauts attached Unity to Zarya, setting ...
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NASA Administrator Bolden to Hail Success of Commercial Cargo ...HispanicBusiness.com
Through COTS, NASA's partners Space Exploration Technologies Corp. ... Keywords for this news article include: NASA , Space Station , Orbital Sciences ...
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NASA chief scientist visits Jet Propulsion LaboaratoryPasadena Star-News
(Photo: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) ... ISS-RapidScat, a scatterometer that will be mounted outside the International Space Station, will launch in April.
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29 satellites launched from Wallops IslandThe News Journal
NASA's Minotaur launch lights up sky: NASA and the U.S. military launched a record payload of 29 ... MOLLY MURRAY/THE NEWS JOURNAL ... Melvin, who flew on two space shuttle missions to the International Space Station, said a key ...
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Washington Post

NASA Asks Public to Detect AsteroidsOutside Magazine
In NASA's Tournament Lab and ISS Longeron Challenge, the agency asked more than ... coders to calculate the ideal angle for the solar panels on the International Space Station. The winners took home $30,000 in prizes, reports NBC News.
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Outside Magazine

Nyberg returns home from space stationWDAY
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) - Life is slowly returning to normal for NASA Astronaut and Vining ... In an interview with WDAY 6 News Wednesday, Karen talked about the ... After a rocky re-entry and roller-coaster ride through space, Karen says it took ...
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Space industry faces choice for next directionThe Japan Times
NASA retired the space shuttle so that it could devote resources to bold, ...Musk's car company has been in the news recently because of three car fires, and ...
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Washington Post

The International Space Station still shines brightlyAlabama's News Leader
Humans have lived on the Space Station continuously since 2000. It all began, however, on this ... NASAoperates a web site that will help you locate the ISS.
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Astronaut Karen Nyberg: "I've accomplished the dream I set out for"CBS News
(CBS News) NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg is back on Earth after nearly half a ... She's the 50th woman to go to space, and this latest voyage meant leaving her ... to Earth after living and working on the InternationalSpace Station since May.
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NASA and Planetary Resources partner on asteroid-hunting contestsNBCNews.com
Lewicki compared the concept to the NASA Tournament Lab and its ISS ... of solar panels on a virtual International Space Station to maximize total power output. ... of NASA's near-Earth object observation program, said in Thursday's news ...
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The Soviet cosmonaut survival kit that makes NASA look like wimpsNEWS.com.au
Most revealing about the piece is the news that Russian cosmonauts STILL carry semiautomatic guns inspace. On-board the ISS (International Space Station) ...
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NASA Television Airs Launch, Docking of Space Station Cargo ShipEIN News (press release)
The Progress 53 craft is scheduled to complete its automated docking to the aft port of the space station'sZvezda service module at 5:28 p.m. EST Nov. 29.
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NASA astronauts speak to SJA students in LaPlace, soccer camp set ...NOLA.com (blog)
NASA astronauts speak to SJA students in LaPlace, soccer camp set in ... The astronauts explained what life on the space station is like and the jobs they ...
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This Is What a Laser From the Moon Looks Like (Photo)Space.com
By Megan Gannon, News Editor | November 19, 2013 03:03pm ET ... The recent image released by the European Space Agency shows a laser signal from ... A NASA station at White Sands, New Mexico, picked up the signal — the first-ever ...
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How to watch SpaceX's landmark commercial satellite launchNBCNews.com
The spacecraft will fly within a mile of the space station on Wednesday "to test an upgraded automated rendezvous system," NASA officials said in a statement. If all goes well, the ... This report was updated by NBC News. Email Tariq Malik at ...
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ABC News

Committee Democrats Comment on the National Space ...HispanicBusiness.com
... Space and Technology Committee issued the following news release: Today, the President signed The National Space Transportation Policy, ... "I am pleased that there are many similarities between the NASA Authorization Act of 2013 ... U.S. government crew transport to and from the International Space Station (ISS); ...
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Nature World News

New players in space raceDAWN.com
Old Space is Nasa, cautious and halting, supervising every project down to the last ... Right now, American astronauts can get to the international space station only by ... By arrangement with The Washington Post/Bloomberg News Service ...
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The New Space Race: First Manned Mars Mission could Launch in ...Sudan Vision
To make things cosier for the space pioneers, Tito is looking for one male and one female ... Billionaire Tito, the first space tourist who funded his own trip to the Space Station in 2001, said this ... A NASA heavy rocket will hurl the astronauts into orbit (if NASA agrees), and then a ... By Yahoo News, 13 hours 37 minutes ago ...
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Sudan Vision

Concordia students looking for help to launch self-healing satellite ...Canada.com
A micrometoroid strike observed on a space shuttle window after the STS-35 mission. ... that can be bad news for any satellite or space station that gets in their way. ... NASA is thinking about protective shielding for long duration flights to an ...
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Canada.com

In Pictures: International Space Station celebrates 15 yearsGlobalnews.ca
By Nicole Mortillaro Global News ... November 20 marks 15 years since the International Space Station(ISS) was ... (All photographs, courtesy of NASA). NASA.
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Crowdfunded nanosatellites unleashed in orbitNBCNews.com (blog)
A picture taken from the International Space Station shows a Japanese-built launcher ... "Pretty exciting to see live," NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins (@AstroIllini) wrote in a ... amount of relief and excitement that is going on," he told NBC News.
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REMINDER: International Space Station Turns 15EIN News (press release)
The World's Leading Source of Business & Political News ... LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwired) -- 11/20/13 -- The Canadian Space Agency, the ... the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) andNASA are launching a global ... Since the launch of Zarya, the first module of the International Space Station (ISS), ...
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NASA Advances Effort To Launch Astronauts Again From US Soil To ...Eurasia Review
“The U.S. commercial space industry has made tremendous progress designing ... will enable NASA to acquire a capability to transport crews to the space station, ... Eurasia Review is an independent newsagency and entirely self-financed.
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First Satellite Developed By High Schoolers Sent Into SpaceKERA News
closeNews podcasts; Use iTunes · Use a different player ... NASA's PhoneSat, a 4-by-4-inch CubeSat satellite, will use an Android smartphone as its motherboard. ... The first satellite ever developed by high school students to make it to space is ... "The idea is that schools around the world can have a limited ground station ...
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Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana Available for ...EIN News (press release)
19, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Robert Cabana, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and veteran space shuttle astronaut, will be ...
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'Selfie' Declared The Word of the Year After Mainstream Use ...RYOT
During the six-hour, 28-minute spacewalk, Hoshide and NASA astronaut Sunita... a camera on the International Space Station's robotic arm, Canadarm2. ...has been declared word of the year for 2013 by Britain's Oxford UniversityPress.
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