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NASA News, Oct 31, 2011




Space.com
NASA retired its 30-year space shuttle program in July, creating a gap in American human spaceflight capabilities. The agency is currently relying on Russian Soyuz vehicles to carry astronauts to the space station and back at a reported ticket price of ...
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Space.com
Russian Spacecraft Launched Successfully
Forbes
This is the first successful launch of a Soyuz rocked since a failed launch in April led to speculation that NASA might send the current crew of the International Space Station home until another launch vehicle was developed. The Russian spaceprogram ...
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Forbes
NASA Seeks Hosts for Space Station Interactive Education Events
Clarksville Online
Formal and informal education organizations can apply to host live interactive education downlinks with astronauts onboard the International Space Station. Proposals are being accepted for downlink opportunities during space stationmissions scheduled ...
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China considering sending first woman into space
Telegraph.co.uk
The experimental docking is part of China's preparation for building its first space station by 2020, where astronauts can live for several months, as they do on NASA's InternationalSpace Station or the former Russian Mir. If it is a success, ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
It's the Space Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: A NASA Worker's Halloween Tradition
Space.com
Here, Warren describes the motivation behind her gourd-gouging Halloween tradition for SPACE.com: This year, I carved a Halloween pumpkin of the mission patch for the InternationalSpace Station's Expedition 29. I'm proud to report that it's sitting in ...
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Space.com
Space station fly-by to create bright views
Enterprise-Record
Starting Tuesday evening and continuing through Friday the InternationalSpace Station will be putting on a bright show over Northern California. On Tuesday, the satellite will appear at about 7:28 pm in the north-northwest, andNASA predicts the space ...
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Michael Vanhooser Named Deputy Manager of Shuttle-Ares Transition Office at ...
NASA
During this period, he also served as project manager for the development of an International Space Station environmental monitoring system. Vanhooser has received numerous awards during his NASA career, including the NASAExceptional Service Medal in ...
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Vostok space beer makers are stout-hearted
San Francisco Chronicle
Held, 40, is an American aeronautical engineer who has worked on NASA'sHubble Space Telescope; 29-year-old Mitchell owns a successful gastro pub in Sydney. The unlikely duo has teamed up to craft a high-tech brew called Vostok 4 Pines Stout, ...
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China to Send First (Married) Female Astronauts to Space in 2012
PC Magazine
NASA launched its first woman in space, Sally Ride, in 1983, on the Challenger. However Russia launched the world's first woman in space in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova, who piloted the Vostok 6. For more from Sara, follow her on Twitter @sarapyin. ...
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Fear of a Chinese Moon
The Space Review
The extent of official Chinese human spaceflight plans, he said, is construction of a space station in low Earth orbit, which “are anticipated to fully employ the available fiscal, human, and technical resources of the Chinese human space flight ...
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The Space Review
Next Station Crew Travels To Launch Site
The Flame Trench
The next crew of the International Space Station arrived at a central Asian spaceport today in advance of a planned Nov. 13 launch toward the orbiting outpost. US astronaut Dan Burbank and two Russian cosmonauts -- Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton ...
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The Flame Trench
Closing the Clamshell on a Martian Curiosity
Universe Today
25 from Space Launch Complex-41 on Cape Canaveral Air ForceStation. Credit: NASA/Jim Grossmann And it won't open up again until a few minutes after she blasts off for the Red Planet in just a little more than 3 weeks from now on Nov. ...
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Universe Today
NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 30 October 2011
Space Ref (press release)
[The replaced VRU disks (#1021, #1023, #1024, #1025, #1026) were put in a Ziploc bag for return to SSIPC (Space StationIntegration & Promotion Center/Tsukuba)]. Sergey Volkov conducted the routine daily servicing of the SOZh system (Environment ...
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Space Ref (press release)
Mars: Consider yourself at home
RT
“Everybody realizes that it is time to reach out and explore the universe beyond low-Earth orbit,” says NASA astronaut Mark Polansky. “We have for many years – ten years at least – been on the International Space Station in low-Earth orbit which is ...
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Millions still without power...Protesters arrested in Richmond...Cain's denial
9&10 News
NASA is counting on Boeing and others to ferry cargo and astronauts to and from the international space station within a few years. Until then, the spaceagency will spend tens of millions of dollars per seat on Russian spacecraft. ...
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Katy Cat's Big Adventure – Katy of Delco SPCA
Delaware County Daily Times
Katy – leaped from my arms - out-spacing Space! Katy's leap was record breaking! Now I know what it feels like to be a NASA launch pad. Permit me to fill in with pertinent purr-tinents. In conducting our forepart walk, we passed between two parted ...
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Paige Ward: October Teen of the Month
Canton Repository
The International Space Station, because (even though it is not technically “in the world”) it is somewhere that very few people get to travel to. It has been a symbol of peaceful international relationships, an essential part of scientific advancement ...
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NASA Television Airs Space Station Cargo Ship Arrival
Space Ref (press release)
NASA TV coverage will begin at 5 am CDT, with launch scheduled for 5:11 am (4:11 pm Baikonur local time). The International Space Station (ISS) Progress 45 spacecraft will deliver almost three tons of food, fuel and supplies to thespace station three ...
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China Denies Involvement in Reported Hacking of US Civilian Satellites
TMC Net
The commission suspects “the Chinese military might have played a part in the hacks, citing Chinese military writings that advocate targeting enemyspace systems, 'particularly ground-based infrastructure, such as satellite control facilities,” ...
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Sandia's annular core research reactor conducts 10000th operation
PhysOrg.com
Other duties for ACRR include: reactor-driven laser experiments;space reactor fuels development; pulse reactor kinetics; reactor heat transfer and fluid flow; electronic component hardening; and explosive component testing. It is also routinely used ...
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PhysOrg.com
Photo: Crepuscular Rays Over India As Seen From Space
Space Ref (press release)
This astronaut photograph from the International Space Stationprovides an unusual viewing perspective from above the rays and a clear illustration of their parallel nature. The sun was setting to the west (image left) on the Indian subcontinent, ...
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Space Ref (press release)
Follow From the Wires
Salon
Right now, the United States doesn't have a way to transport people or cargo to the International Space Station. Since phasing out the space shuttle program earlier this year, NASA is relying entirely on Russia to get American and other astronauts to ...
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China key suspect in US satellite hacks: commission
DefenceWeb (press release)
The satellites cited in the report are used for climate and terrain monitoring by the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration and the US Geological Survey. A Landsat-7 earth observation satellite, built by NASA for the USGS, experienced 12 or ...
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DefenceWeb (press release)
Our leadership award winners speak
ITWorld Canada (registration)
NASA's "R2" is a humanoid robot that will help out with tasks around the International Space Station and maintain a Twitter account. - HP announced a major shakeup, killing its mobile OS and looking to get out of the consumer PC business. ...
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NASA Seeks Hosts for Space Station Interactive Education Events ...
By News Staff
NASA Seeks Hosts for Space Station Interactive Education Events. October 31, 2011 | Print This Post. NASA - National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration Washington, D.C. – NASA is seeking proposals from educators who are looking for ...
Clarksville, TN Online
DoD Buzz | NASA's high hopes for the commercial space game
By Philip Ewing
NASA was set to hold a news conference at noon Monday, but Big B couldn't wait — Boeing announced Monday it's setting up an office at Kennedy SpaceCenter, where it hopes to build a new crew capsule for tomorrow's spacefarers.NASA will let Boeing use the space shuttles' old ... The CST-100 will provideNASA with reliable, safe, and affordable transportation to the InternationalSpace Station and other destinations in Low Earth Orbit.” NASA, Boeing and Florida space industry ...
DoD Buzz
Boeing to Take Over NASA Space Shuttle Hanger « CBS St. Louis
By cadaniel2010
NASA is counting on companies like Boeing, Space Exploration Technologies Corp. and others to ferry cargo and astronauts to and from the InternationalSpace Station in three to five years. Until then, the space agency will continue to shell ...
CBS St. Louis
XE.com - Boeing brings space taxi jobs to Florida
Boeing Co will bring hundreds of jobs to Florida by basing a program to develop passenger spaceships at the Kennedy Space Center, first for NASA and later for commercial use, officials said on Monday. ... News Providers: Thompson Financial, AP, XFN-Asia, Daily FX, Reuters ... With the shuttle fleet's retirement, the United States is dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations that orbits 240 miles (386 km) above Earth. ...
XE Forex News
Boeing: Boeing to Establish Commercial Crew Program Office in ...
The CST-100 will provide NASA with reliable, safe, and affordable transportation to the International Space Station and other destinations in Low Earth Orbit.” "We are extremely pleased that Boeing will locate its Commercial Crew ...
Boeing: News Releases
Boeing To Use Shuttle Hangar for CST-100 Space Taxi
By Jason Rhian
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – NASA hosted an event on Monday, Oct. 31, at 10 a.m. EDT at Kennedy Space Center's Orbiter Processing Facility-3 (OPF-3) to announce a new partnership between NASASpace Florida and Boeing.Space Florida in turn will. ... Boeing's CST-100 is called a "space-taxi" and is being designed to carry both crew and cargo to both the International Space Station as well and other low-Earth-orbit destnations. Image Credit: Boeing. The CST-100 is currently ...
Universe Today
KSC, Boeing Announce Major Commercial Space Partnership ...
By Sources
The Boeing Company and NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) will announce Monday their intention to assemble a commercial space capsule that will create hundreds of much needed jobs on the Space Coast. ... West Orlando News Online 2011® Central Florida News, Info, Sports · Home · Orlando & Orange County · State / ... flatoday.net reports. The program seeks to develop commercial systems to shuttle astronauts to and from the International Space Station by end 2016. ...
West Orlando News Online 2011®...
China may send first woman into space | The Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse
China may send its first woman into space next year as part of a programme to build a space station by 2020, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday. The announcement came as China said it would ... The experimental docking is part of China's preparation for building its first space station by 2020, where astronauts can live for several months, as they do on NASA's InternationalSpace Station or the former Russian Mir. If it is a success, China will launch another two space craft ...
The Raw Story
Boeing to build spacecraft at shuttle hangar | Stock Market News ...
By Editor - Finance Top Stories
The agreement was announced Monday at Kennedy Space Center. The move is expected to create 550 jobs over the next four years. Since 2009, more than 4000 space jobs have been lost in the Cape Canaveral area as NASA closed out the ...
Rocket News
Astronaut snaps amazing pic as ISS cargo ship burns up over ...
By Phil Plait
Anyway, this Progress de-orbit comes on the heels of the successful launch of a Progress craft aboard a Soyuz rocket, taking pressure off both NASA and the Russian space agency to get supplies and people to and from ISS. That's good news ...
Bad Astronomy
Successful Russian launch eases space station fears | TG Daily
By Emma Woollacott
"We congratulate our Russian colleagues on Sunday's successful launch of ISS Progress 45, and the spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station," says Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for Human Exploration ...
TG Daily
NASA - NASA Seeks Hosts for Space Station Interactive Education ...
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... live interactive education downlinks with astronauts onboard the International Space Station.... NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending a ...
www.nasa.gov/home/.../HQ_11-368_Downlink_partners.html
NASA Seeks Hosts For Space Station Interactive ... - Yahoo! News
Read 'NASA Seeks Hosts For Space Station Interactive Education Events' on Yahoo! News. Contact: Ann Marie Trotta, Headquarters, Washington, ...
news.yahoo.com/nasa-seeks-hosts-space-station-interactive-ed...
NASA may extend Russian contract to fly to space station
Any new NASA contract could extend reliance on Russia while serving as reminder of the state of NASA in post-shuttle age.
www.orlandosentinel.com/.../os-nasa-russia-dependence-2011...
news iPads and Angry Birds launching to space station on Russian ...
iPads and Angry Birds launching to space station on Russian rockets ...NASA is however, assessing tablets for their possible future use in space. "The [U.S. ...
www.collectspace.com/news/news-102511a.html
Boeing to Build Spacecraft at NASA Shuttle Hangar
Boeing is taking over one of NASA's old space shuttle hangars to build a new capsule ... to and from the International Space Station in three to five years....
www.foxnews.com/.../boeing-to-build-spacecraft-at-nasa-shutt...
International Space Station Earth Video: Incredible Views Of Sea ...
Midwestern U.S. Night With Aurora Borealis (NASA, International Space Station, ... taken from the International Space Station | Manchester Newsand Weather ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../international-space-station-earth-...
NASA Robotic Undocks From Space Station - One News Page
NASA Robotic Undocks From Space Station.. Science on One News Page on Saturday, 29 October 2011.
www.onenewspage.com/.../NASA-Robotic-Undocks-From-Sp...
Renewal of NASA's International Space Station Advisory Committee ...
Renewal of NASA's International Space Station Advisory Committee Charter. 18th October 2011 · 0 Comments. 1318958868 76 Renewal of NASAs International ...
www.emortgagenews.info/renewal-of-nasas-international-spac...
Hurricane Rina Rages in Space Station Astronaut Video | Hurricane ...
Space station commander Mike Fossum captured video footage of Hurricane Rina, ... This image of Hurricane Rina was taken by NASA's Terra satellite on Oct. 24, ... Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and explorationnews on ...
www.space.com/13394-hurricane-rina-space-station-video.html
The Flame Trench space news and analysis: NASA approves ...
Space news and analysis from Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral... to and from the International Space Station by the middle of the decade.NASA ...
space.flatoday.net/.../nasa-approves-preliminary-design-of.htm.

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