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NASA News, Nov 28, 2011


Space junk alert called off for space station crew
msnbc.com
NASA said a piece of Chinese space junk would fly harmlessly past the InternationalSpace Station and called off an alert for the three crew members in orbit. On Tuesday afternoon, Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston told the ...
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NASA's Next Mission: Deep Space
InformationWeek
The plan puts growing emphasis on the privatization of space transportation, for both unmanned cargo delivery to the International Space Station and eventually passenger flights. Boeing, Blue Origin, Paragon Space Development, Sierra Nevada, ...
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Space exploration 2011
Washington Post
The final shuttle launch of the space program was July 8. Dick Clark / NASA via AP Atlantis's external fuel tank is released after the space shuttle's successful launch into its final mission, a 12-day journey to the international space station. ...
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Looking for a Space Job
Space Daily
Nevertheless, plans are in the works for new government and commercial space transportation systems that will hopefully come online in a few years. In the meantime, the Russians are providing rides to the space station. NASA's astronaut office thinks ...
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Silverton's Don Pettit is preparing for his third trip to outer space
Statesman Journal
ISS astronauts spend only half of their time in Houston. The other half finds them training outside of Moscow and in Japan and Europe in order to learn on-orbit operations of NASA's international partners for the space station.
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NASA and National Science Foundation are spared from big budget cuts
Washington Post
In return, though, the quest to ferry astronauts to the international space station aboard American-built spacecraft took a hit that may delay launch of the vehicles beyond NASA's target date of 2016. The deal resolves a budget fight that erupted this ...
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Russia May Join NASA-European Mars Mission After Probe Loss
BusinessWeek
As well as this month's malfunction to the Mars-bound Phobos-Grunt probe, Russia lost its most powerful telecommunications satellite and a cargo-supply ship destined for the International Space Station in August. The National Aeronautics and Space ...
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Space Pictures This Week: Green Flash, Saturn Storm, More
National Geographic
The capsule carried NASA astronaut Mike Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, and Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa back to Earth after the three men had spent more than five months aboard the International Space Station. ...
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National Geographic
Congress Spares Hubble Space Telescope Successor
Voice of America
Related Articles Space Crew to Enjoy Thanksgiving Feast in Orbit The lone American on board thespace station plans to share some traditional holiday fare with his two Russian crew mates NASA: Evidence of Water on Jupiter's Moon Europa NASA Hails New ...
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Thanksgiving in Space? Five-Year-Old Turkey
Discovery News
Oleg Kotov and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson open a delivery of fresh fruit and vegetables on the International Space Station in May, 2010. Click to enlarge this image. Aged beef? Sure, why not? Five-year-old peas? Not so much. ...
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Boeing Tapping Heritage Programs for Space Taxi Design
Space News
With the retirement of the space shuttles this summer, the United States is dependent on Russia to fly astronauts to the space station, at a cost of more than $60 million per person. NASA currently is investing $316.2 million among four firms, ...
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Space News
Shuttle Launch Director To Depart NASA
The Flame Trench
The steady hand who led NASA's shuttle launch team through the assembly of the International Space Station, the recovery from the 2003 Columbia accident and the retirement of the shuttle fleet is departing the nation's space agency this week after ...
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Sparks company hopes space chase proves lucrative
CanadianBusiness.com
Part of SpaceDev's portfolio was the Dream Chaser, which is based on NASA's HL-20 design. The HL-20 originally was designed as an escape craft for the International Space Station. But the project ultimately was scrapped due to budget cuts. ...
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Plutonium shortage threatens future space research
CBS News
We now have to have the Russians get us to the space station, we can't explore the moon the way it was when I was a boy, and now we're going to take away our ability to explore the deep-outer solar system. It's very disappointing, and it's debilitating ...
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Space Lab Student Competition On YouTube Attracts 5500 Teams
RedOrbit
Space Lab, supported by ESA, was initiated by YouTube, NASA, Japan's JAXA spaceagency, Space Adventures and Lenovo. It challenges students around the world to design a science experiment to be performed on the International Space Station. ...
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RedOrbit
NASA Opens Spacewalk Training Pool
Aviation Week
By Mark Carreau HOUSTON — The enormous water tank that until recently was used to prepare shuttle astronauts for the spacewalking assembly of the International Space Station will reopen its doors in December to provide offshore oil and gas workers ...
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Aviation Week
Participate in the NASA ISS National Lab Education Project Workshop
Space Ref (press release)
As a key feature of the 2011 NASA Education Stakeholders Summit, the International Space Station National Laboratory Education Project, or ISS NLEP, will be announcing opportunities for new educational activities and partnerships during a workshop ...
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Debris might give space station a close shave, @NASA says #cnn
CNN (blog)
CME - coronal mass ejection: a burst of solar winds, plasma and magnetic fields released intospace. Not the same as a solar flare. Lightyear (ly) - As defined by the International Astronomical Union: the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one ...
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Central Square teacher aims for the stars through the 'Teacher in Space' program
Syracuse.com
The competition is a cooperative effort of NASA and computer company Lenovo. The two winning experiments will be conducted aboard the International Space Station and live streamed on YouTube. Competition is open to students ages 14 to 18 from ...
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Syracuse.com
Nasa rover to seek out clues on Mars
Independent Online
The 20-story-tall booster built by United Launch Alliance lifted off from its seaside launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 10:02am EST (1502 GMT). It soared through partly cloudy skies into space, carrying Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory on ...
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Independent Online
SpaceX Expanding Florida Facilities To Meet Launch Demand
Space News
About 40 percent of that business is for NASA, which has hired the company, also known as SpaceX, to fly cargo to the international space station beginning next year. A demonstration flight is scheduled for launch in January. ...
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Space News
Cheese blasted into space for Dutch astronaut
Digital Spy
A Dutch astronaut has been sent 5kg of his favorite cheese for his next trip into space. 53-year-old Andre Kuipers wrote to the makers of Old Amsterdam cheese requesting some samples for a five-month mission on board the International Space Station. ...
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Turkey a la zero gravity: Thanksgiving dinner on the International Space ...
Daily Mail
This was Thanksgiving a la zero-gravity as enjoyed by the three new members of the International Space Station yesterday. They arrived just in time to partake in the holiday celebrations with a weightless twist, including NASA's own irradiated smoked...
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Daily Mail
The East Edition: Launch for International Space Station
my.hsj.org
14, a US and Russian space shuttle took off for a space station from Kazakh. The shuttle took off at 8:14 am for their mission to the International Space Station. The take off dates were delayed for a while because of a recent crash of the rocket. NASA ...
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NASA Tests Aerojet AJ26 Engine at Stennis Space Center
Space Ref (press release)
AJ26 engines will be used to power Orbital's Taurus II rocket for International Space Station cargo supply missions. Orbital is part of NASA's ongoing Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract. The AJ26 flight engines are being tested ...
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Space station hams land safely | Southgate Amateur Radio News
They spent 167 days in space and 165 days on the complex. Volkov, a two-time station crew member, now has accumulated 366 days in space. Before leaving the station, Fossum handed over command to NASA's Dan Burbank, KC5ZSX, ...
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Debris may prompt space station astronauts to take shelter – This ...
By jasonhanna
The International Space Station's three astronauts may need to take shelter Wednesday morning because of approaching debris, NASA said Tuesday. The debris, a 4-inch piece of a weather satellite that China destroyed with a missile in 2007 ...
This Just In
Space Debris No Threat to Station Crew | International Space ...
By Klaus Schmidt
... guest | Login | Sign Up · Overview News · Headlines > News > Space Debris No Threat to Station Crew ... The next International Space Station Update on NASA Television is scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday. Meanwhile, the three-person ...
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Space station crew land safely in Kazakhstan (Lead)
Space station crew land safely in Kazakh...The landing capsule carrying Russian cosmonaut Ser..."The condition of the crew after the decent a...After a preliminary medical check-up at a mobile h...Soyuz TMA-02M undocked from the ISS ...
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Video: Something to be thankful for - new images of Earth seen from ...
By Lee Roop, The Huntsville Times
What some are calling the most beautiful video of Earth taken so far from the International Space Station. ... international space station View full sizeThis May 23, 2011 photo made by Expedition 27 crew member Paolo Nespoli from the Soyuz TMA-20 following its undocking and released by NASAshows the International Space Station and the docked space shuttle Endeavour, left, at an ...Breaking News from The Huntsville Times stories with the most comments in the last 7 days. ...
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The Flame Trench space news and analysis: Station Crew Boards ...
By Todd Halvorson
A multi-national crew in orbit since June aims to depart the International Space Station tonight, setting off for an atmospheric reentry and landing in more than half-a-foot of snow on the frigid steppes of north-central Kazakhstan. Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, U.S. astronaut ... The weather at the landing site, located about 35 miles northeast of the Arkalyk, has been "fairly severe,"NASA mission commentator Rob Navias said this afternoon. A half-foot of fresh snow piled on already ...
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NASA Video - Coming Back Down to our Fragile Oasis | Southgate ...
Watch the NASA video the journey home from the International Space Station, Ron Garan KF5GPO, Alexander Samokutyaev and Andrey Borisenko Expedition 27 an 28. http://www.nasa.gov/news/highlights/Peter_Gabriel_Oasis.html · Tweet ...
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Soyuz with three astronauts lands in Kazakhstan - seattlepi.com
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts back from the InternationalSpace Station touched down safely in the snow-covered steppes of Kazakhstan early Tuesday morning. NASA astronaut Michael Fossum, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa of Japan's JAXA space agency landed at the break of dawn some 90 kilometers (56 miles) north of the town of Arkalyk at 8:26 a.m. (0226 GMT) after spending 165 days in space.
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NASA SPACE NEWS: Giant-Sized Webb Space Telescope Model to ...
By Gabriella Brianna
3:36 AM Gabriella Brianna , Posted in NASA News , 0 Comments. Baltimore's Maryland Science Center is going to be the "landing site" for the life-sized full-scale model of NASA's James WebbSpace Telescope, and it's free for all to see. ...
NASA SPACE NEWS
NASA SPACE NEWS: NASA's Chandra Contributes to Black Hole ...
By Gabriella Brianna
New details about the birth of a famous black hole that took place millions of years ago have been uncovered, thanks to a team of scientists who used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory as well as from radio, optical and other X-ray ...
NASA SPACE NEWS
NASA - Space Station Trio Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
Three Station crew members safely returned to Earth on Monday, wrapping up ... HOUSTON -- Three International Space Station crew members safely returned to ... NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by ...
www.nasa.gov/.../HQ_11-394_Expedition_29_Landing.html
NASA - SAGE III-ISS Picks Up Where Others Left Off
NASA's Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III has reached its third ... An astronaut took the photo from the International Space Station. Credit: ...
www.nasa.gov/centers/langley/news/.../SAGEIII-ISS.html
Space junk may force space station crew to take shelter - NASA ...
The three astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) may have to take shelter inside Russian ... The station crew were informed by Mission Control, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, at 1906 ... Other news of the day ...
en.rian.ru/science/20111123/168958843.html
NASA News: Space Station Trio Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
NASA News: Space Station Trio Lands Safely in Kazakhstan. HOUSTON -- Three InternationalSpace Station crew members safely returned to Earth on Monday, ...
www.aviationnewsreleases.com/.../nasa-news-space-station-trio...
NASA - NASA Sharing Underwater Training Facility With Petroleum ...
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... NASA will continue training InternationalSpace Station crews there for space walks. ... NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending a blank ...
www.nasa.gov/home/.../HQ_11-384_NBL_Raytheon.html
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NASA News & Events ... Do you dream of flying in space? Now is your chance. ... 11.13.11 - NewSpace Station Crew Members Launch from Kazakhstan. ...
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Soyuz landing completes space station's first crew change in six ...
American, Russian and Japanese crew members make first mannedlanding since retirement of Nasa space shuttlesA Russian ... months on the International SpaceStation (ISS) in the first manned landing since Nasa ... Get science news via ...
esciencenews.com/.../soyuz.landing.completes.space.stations.fi...
Russian spacecraft docks to space station Photos ... - Yahoo! News
View Russian spacecraft docks to space station pictures on Yahoo! News. See Russian spacecraft docks to space station photos and find more pictures in our ...
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Space junk may force space station crew to take sh... - Silobreaker
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Space Station crew can stay put despite debris | News - Home
A piece of debris hurling through space no longer presents enough of a threat to force the International Space Station crew to move, NASA said.
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