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NASA News, Jan 04, 2012

NASA Tests Parachutes for New Deep Space Capsule
Space.com
NASA hopes the Orion-SLS combo is launching astronauts to deep space by 2021. With its iconic space shuttle fleet retired, NASA now relies on Russian Soyuz vehicles to ferry its astronauts to and from the International Space Station. ...
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Space Station Crew Anticipating SpaceX Dragon's Arrival
Universe Today
Illustration: NASA / SpaceX. In a media chat on Wednesday three crew members from the International Space Station said they are anticipating the historic arrival of SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship to the ISS next month. “For all of us, we're very excited ...
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Universe Today
Booking a Flight to Space, With Travel Insurance
New York Times
Until now, space tourism has been limited to the ultrawealthy: just seven people have paid tens of millions of dollars each for a trip to the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket. But that could change this year, when Virgin Galactic ...
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New York Times
Follow The Quadrantids Meteor Shower Online [LIVE VIDEO]
Mashable
In its last year of operation, the shuttle also finished one of its key tasks: complete assembly of the International Space Station. It's certainly earned its retirement, which the orbiters spend in numerous museums throughout the country. As NASA was ...
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Expedition 31/32 Space Station Crew Conducts Briefing, Interviews
Sacramento Bee
NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the briefing live. NASAastronaut Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin are set to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft March ...
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NASA Creates 3-D Maps From Apollo Lunar Images
InformationWeek
They can be viewed via the NASA Lunar Mapping and Modeling Portal (LMMP) and Google Moon feature of Google Earth. [ The space agency is outfitting InternationalSpace Station astronauts with Android-controlled robotic assistants. ...
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International Space Station visible over Louisville this week
WDRB
The flyovers are brief and must be viewed at precisely the right time. According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the station will be visible over Louisville at the following times.
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Space travel should not be a top priority in this economy
StateHornet.com
America already relies on Russia to get to the International Space Station now anyway. The projected budget for NASA in 2012 is $18.7 billion. A large portion of their budget should go to other, more pressing needs. Higher education, rehabilitation for ...
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Norristown boy attends Space Camp
The Times Herald
He spent the week training with a team that flew a simulated Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Once aboard the ISS, the crew participated in experiments and successfully completed an extra-vehicular activity (EVA), ...
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New Year Brings Computer Upgrades For Station
Space Fellowship
With assistance from Flight Engineer Don Pettit, Kuipers donned a cap fitted with sensors to record his brain activity as he worked through a series of tasks for this European Space Agency experiment. On the Russian side of the station, Flight Engineer ...
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Images: Ice Varieties along the Antarctic Coast As Seen From Space
Space Ref (press release)
Varied forms of ice appear in these images from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite and the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite. These natural-color images both show ...
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Space Ref (press release)
Race for the prize
The Engineer
China's plans up to 2020 were outlined in a white paper which took in the development of a space-station in low Earth orbit, similar to the old Soviet station Mir, building on its current construction of a prototype station, Tiangong-1, ...
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The Engineer
Astronaut with roots in San Carlos floats into Pasadena
Contra Costa Times
When he learned that a friend's father was working on early designs for a space station, he said, "Tell him I want to live up there someday." He would get his wish. After studying engineering at UC Berkeley and the University of Houston, ...
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10 Tech Research Projects to Watch
PCWorld
The NASA/GM prototype left Earth in February to take up permanent residence at the International Space Station. R2 successfully moved aboard the ISS for the first time on October 13 and has since undergone tests on November 4 and December 15. ...
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Did you see the 'fireball' over Huntsville this morning?
al.com (blog)
(NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- A rare meteor brighter than the planet Venus streaked over Huntsville early Tuesday morning, Jan. 3, according to an observation station at Huntsville's Marshall Space Flight Center. ...
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al.com (blog)
NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 3 January 2012
Space Ref (press release)
The Hungarian/Belgian experiment involves two principal experimental tasks: Visual Orientation and Visuomotor Tracking, plus additional, standardized EEG tasks performed as a means of assessing general effects of the space station environment on EEG ...
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Space Ref (press release)
Transportation Department (DOT); Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) (F.R. ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
... Working Group to prepare a study on the availability of commercial insurance sufficient to meet the needs of NASA's Commercial Crew Program commercial providers for missions transporting NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station .
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Local quotes tell the story of 2011
Charlotte Observer
Chris Chilelli, Cabarrus County Schools' science curriculum specialist since 2005 and a former educational designer at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on his hopes that a NASA-inspired challenge, in which students must build a glider using a ...
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Expedition 31/32 Space Station Crew Conducts Briefing, Interviews
Broadcast Newsroom
NASA Television and the agency's website will broadcast the briefing live. NASAastronaut Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin are set to launch to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft March ...
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Spacewatch: The bright tailed Christmas comet of the year
The Guardian
Nasa astronaut Dan Burbank, above the Earth's atmosphere in his role as commander of the International Space Station, may have had a grandstand view, but before long ground-based observers were reporting as much as 30° of tail. ...
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The Guardian
Coffee Waste Gasification Brewing Up Energy in US
Waste Management World
"This project is an extension of work performed by the EERC for NASA, which explored the conversion of waste from a space station and future Martian and lunar bases into heat and power," explained deputy associate director for research Chris Zygarlicke ...
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Most believe U.S. won't become fully paperless
ITWorld Canada
NASA's "R2" is a humanoid robot that will help out with tasks around the InternationalSpace Station and maintain a Twitter account. RIM's market share slide continuesBy: Jeremy Kirk (02 Jan 2012)LONDON -- Handsets using Android and Apple Inc.'s iOS ...
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Letters | Wednesday, Jan. 4
Kansas City Star
Now the US doesn't have its own rocket and has to rely on Russia to get our men inspace. In 2020 America will pull out of the International Space Station. How can we be on top if other countries are in charge of the sky? Space exploration has given ...
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Dryden Supported Many Aspects of Space Shuttle Missions
By sheldon
The WATR provided telemetry, radar, voice communication and video support of shuttle missions to NASA's Johnson Space Center, support that continues today for the International Space Station. During the more than 30-year orbital program ...
International Space Shuttle Station...
Getting the ISS National Research Laboratory In The News | Culture ...
By Sheril Kirshenbaum
“What have we learned from the research performed on the International Space Station?” “Why don't we hear about the ISS research and other space missions in the news?” These are among the questions that I'm asked when I give talks ...
Culture of Science
Dawn Obtains First Low Altitude Images of Vesta - NASA SPACE ...
By Gabriella Brianna
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit. The images, obtained by the framing camera, show the stippled and lumpy surface in detail never seen before, piquing the ...
NASA SPACE NEWS
China To PutAstronauts on Moon | Astronauts To Land On Moon By ...
By Debjyoti Bardhan
The proposed Chinese space station. This is probably the worst news for NASA's spaceprogram. It is still to recover from the retirement of the space shuttle fleet and is dependent heavily on the Russians for trips to and from the space station. ...
Techie Buzz
NASA - NASA Kennedy Space Center 2011 Review, Look Ahead
In 2011, NASA's Kennedy Space Center helped launch a new era in space ... The shuttle and its six astronauts delivered to the International Space Station the .... To receive status reports and news releases issued from the Kennedy Space ...
www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/news/.../release-20111222.htm...
Soyuz docks with space station; Russians ... - CBS News.com
12/23/2011 03:25 PM Filed in: Space News | International Space Station | Russian ...by European Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers on his left and NASA ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../fc71cdf3aac5bef42a2a32930d49e588-3...
Comet Lovejoy awes NASA astronaut aboard International Space ...
Comet Lovejoy as seen from the International Space Station on December ... You are here : Home » Space News » Comet Lovejoy awes NASA astronaut ...
americaspeaksink.com/.../comet-lovejoy-awes-nasa-astronaut-a...
Space station commander captures unprecedented ... - PhysOrg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- International Space Station Commander Dan Burbank captured ...Science and technology news ... Provided by JPL/NASA (news : web) ...
www.physorg.com/.../2011-12-space-station-captures-unprece...
NewsDaily: New crew arrives at International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Friday with a trio of ... NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking news ... Space Station with EuropeanSpace Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, NASA astronaut Don Pettit ...
www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre7bm12d-us-space-station/
The Flame Trench space news and analysis: NASA: No Impact ...
NASA officials say a Soyuz 2.1b rocket crash today should not impact InternationalSpace Station operations because its failed third stage is significant different ...
space.flatoday.net/.../nasa-no-impact-expected-from-soyuz.ht...
NASA: Expedition 30 Docks To The Space Station ... - Staple News
After launching in their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft to the International Space Station, Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko, NASA Flight Engineer ...
www.staplenews.com/.../nasa-expedition-30-docks-to-the-spac...
Russia Botches Another Rocket Launch : Discovery News
NASA said the Soyuz-2 accident is "unlikely to have any effect on operations to the International Space Station," agency spokesman Joshua Buck told Discovery ...
news.discovery.com/.../russia-botches-another-rocket-launch-1...
Revised Orbcomm Launch Schedule Drops Satellite ... - Space News
Credit: Space News photo by Abby Brack Enlarge Image ... SpaceX and NASA, along with the other space station partners, had been discussing for months ...
www.spacenews.com/.../122911-revised-orbcomm-launch-sch...
How astronauts celebrate Christmas in space - Technology ...
The six astronauts aboard the International Space Station can't come home for the ...More space news from msnbc.com. Image: Walheim and rose. NASA file ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../how-astronauts-celebrate-christmas-s...
New crew arrives at International Space Station | Reuters
NASA revamps, delays commercial space taxi work ... The rocket and its payload crashed in Siberia, according to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-space-station-idUSTRE7BM12D20111...
NASA SHOULD BE ASHAMED: ANOTHER SOYUZ ROCKET FAILS ...
The International Space Station is now faced with another crisis as an investigation will have to take ... http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1112/ 23soyuzmeridian/ ...
aviationintel.com/?p=4868
Questions Wanted! SPACE.com Chats With Space Station Crew ...
Burbank, commander of the space station, is one of two NASA astronauts currently ...Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on ...
www.space.com/14115-space-station-crew-interview-questions...
Look for Space Station Pass Wednesday Night - Silobreaker
Published Jan 02 2012 by Maui TV News. Look for Space Station Pass Wednesday Night. Weather permitting, the International Space Station will put in an appearance in Hawaii skies on ... 11, from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. ...
www.silobreaker.com/look-for-space-station-pass-wednesday-...
Space station commander captures a unique view of Comet Lovejoy ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - NASA released photographs today of Comet Lovejoy taken from the International Space Station. The images were taken Wednesday, Dec ...
blog.al.com/space.../space_station_commander_captur.html
Space Plan From China Broadens Challenge to US
Coupled with China's earlier vows to build a space station and put an ... By contrast,NASA's direction tends to shift with every change of presidency. ...
www.nytimes.com/.../china-unveils-ambitious-plan-to-explore...
Booking a Flight to Space, With Travel Insurance
Ms. Culver, who has worked as a mission controller at NASA and now gives motivational talks, has always wanted to go to space; she applied four times to ...
www.nytimes.com/.../spaceflights-prepare-to-expand-customer...
Questions Wanted! SPACE.com Chats With Space Station Crew Wednesday
Burbank, commander of the space station, is one of two NASA astronauts ... FollowSPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on Twitter ...
www.space.com/14115-space-station-crew-interview-questions...
  
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