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NASA News, Jan 18, 2012



NASA Hosts DC Tweetup With Space Station Astronaut Ron Garan
MarketWatch (press release)
The event will take place in the James E. Webb Memorial Auditorium at NASAHeadquarters, 300 E St. SW in Washington. Garan spent 164 days in spaceduring the Expedition 27/28 mission to the International Space Station. He and his crewmates launched ...
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Space Inc: NASA to boldly go with private firm
Sydney Morning Herald
This NASA photograph released on January 17 juxtaposes Earth's oldest satellite with one of its youngest. The Moon is thought to have been formed 4.6 billion years ago. The International Space Station started orbiting Earth in 1998. ...
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The USA Science & Engineering Festival Offers Future Explorers an Out-Of-This ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Festival attendees can also explore and take pictures with one of America's newest spacecraft -- a Merlin rocket engine developed by SpaceX -- a companyNASA recently contracted to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station. ...
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Someone Made a Horror Movie in Space, and NASA Won't Let Anyone See It
The Mary Sue
While on board the International Space Station for some light sightseeing, he used his own money and spare time to produce an eight-minute short film, a sci-fi horror movie called Apogee of Fear. But NASA is refusing to let it see the light of day. ...
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The Mary Sue
US to hold talks with EU to limit space debris
Fox News
13, the International Space Station dodged a softball-size piece ofspace debris. Further, NASA's dead UARS satellite slammed into the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean in September, and Germany's defunct ROSAT craft re-entered over the Indian Ocean a ...
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Fox News
Plainville teen's idea to make snowflakes in space picked for YouTube Space ...
Boston.com
So she designed an experiment designed to tackle that complex scientific question, an experiment that may be conducted later this year by an astronaut on the International Space Station, which is orbiting 250 miles above the Earth....
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Trojan infiltrates Japanese space agency
TG Daily
The Japanese space agency (JAXA) has positively identified a Trojan on an employee's terminal that may have gained access to a cargo shuttle used to resupply the International Space Station(ISS). Dubbed Kounotori, or White Stork, the Japanese ...
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TG Daily
Station Crew Transfers Cargo, Preps for Robotics Competition
Space Fellowship
The International Space Station's Expedition 30 crew – Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Don Pettit, Andre Kuipers, Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and Oleg Kononenko – focused Tuesday on transferring cargo, performing experiments and ...
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A Space Moonrise (and the PromISSe of a New Future) - Universe Today
San Francisco Luxury News
AndrĂ© arrived at the Space Station on December 23 along with Expedition 30 crewmates Oleg Kononeko and Don Pettit. In addition to conducting over 45 experiments for ESA, NASA and JAXA during his five months in orbit, AndrĂ©'s PromISSe mission will help ...
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San Francisco Luxury News
Here's a stat to embolden NASA cynics
Houston Chronicle (blog)
The sole bright spot I can find in the future is that China has been very clear and relatively consistent about their goals in space. They have just launched the first part of their space station and successfully docked with it. ...
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Houston Chronicle (blog)
Russia Asks If US Radar Ruined Space Probe
ABC News
... US radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe that plummeted to Earth, Russian media reported Tuesday, but experts argued that any such claims were far-fetched. NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs also said the USspace ...
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ABC News
Hold-down Test of Orbital's Antares Rocket Slips to April as Pad Work Continues
Space News
Antares, formerly known as Taurus 2, is the rocket Orbital will use to launch the cargo-carrying Cygnus tug to the international space station under its $1.9 billion Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract with NASA. Orbital is supposed to begin ...
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Space News
Clarkson grad returns to Houston after year-long assignment at NASA headquarters
North Country Now
He says that the quickest answer is to watch a video just released by NASApublic affairs called “Orion – Factory to Flight.” It shows an Orion capsule test flight that he is helping to lead, in addition to his International Space Stationmission ...
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NASA spaceport breaks ground for shuttle display
KOIN Local 6
Space shuttle Atlantis blasts off from launch pad 39A at Kennedy SpaceCenter July 8, 2011 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. This lift-off was the last in the 30-year-old shuttle program. After 14 days at the International Space Station, Atlantis landed at ...
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Athletic strides, academic excellence spell success for San Jacinto College ...
Your Houston News
Just around the corner, NASA worked to catapult its Space Shuttle Program and increase the nation's presence in space. Meanwhile, right up SpaceCenter Boulevard, Pasadena students were looking to advance their education and career at what was known as ...
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Local Beat
Corsicana Daily Sun
Mike Fossum, NASA astronaut and husband of the former Melanie London, will speak at 1 pm in the Great Hall of First United Methodist Church. Fossum will speak about his recent six-month stay aboard the International Space Station, where he served first ...
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WORLD - News of the Day From Across the Globe
San Francisco Chronicle
NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs also said the US space agency was not using the military radar equipment in question at the time of the Russian equipment failure. 6 Tourists slain: Five tourists in a German-Austrian tour group have been killed in northeast ...
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Paul Pillar
The National Interest Online (blog)
NASA, for example, does things for which the current state of the technology makes them too unprofitable or risky to be attractive to private enterprise. Once the government space program has blazed a technological trail, private enterprise may follow ...
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NewsDaily: SpaceX delays trial run to space station
By Irene Klotz
Space Exploration Technologies, a startup space transportation firm hired byNASA to fly cargo to the International Space Station, is delaying a planned February 7 test flight to allow more time to prepare for the mission, a company... 23, 2011 ( Reuters) — A Russian communications satellite fell to the ground on Friday soon after it was launched, adding to a string of disasters that have haunted the country's space industry, Russian news agencies reported on Friday, quoting military ...
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NASA Hosts DC Tweetup With Space Station Astronaut Ron Garan ...
NASA Hosts DC Tweetup With Space Station Astronaut Ron Garan. ... Garan spent 164 days in space during the Expedition 27/28 mission to the International Space Station. He and his crewmates launched April 4, ...Companies in the news: ...
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Station Crew Transfers Cargo, Preps for Robotics Competition ...
By Klaus Schmidt
The International Space Station's Expedition 30 crew – Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Don Pettit, Andre Kuipers, Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoly Ivanishin and Oleg Kononenko – fo. ... Burbank and Pettit, both NASAastronauts, configured bowling-ball-sized free-flying satellites known as Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites, or SPHERES, for a student competition scheduled for Monday, Jan. 23. During the Zero Robotics SPHERES ...
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FLORIDA SPACErePORT: January 18, 2012
By ellegood
There is “an intensity of interest in competitive alternatives” at the U.S. Air Force and NASA, particularly in launch capabilities for resupply of the International Space Station, O'Keefe said on the sidelines of the EADS New Year's press ...
FLORIDA SPACErePORT
Astronaut Safety VP Bowersox Quits SpaceX at Parabolic Arc
By Doug Messier
Bowersox joined SpaceX in June 2009 after a successful career at NASA. ...“His experience in the U.S. astronaut corps, and aboard the International Space Station, will be invaluable in shaping the future of commercial manned spaceflight.” Space News quotes SpaceX spokeswoman Kirstin Grantham as saying that Bowersox's responsibility had been split among several people and that Hans Koenigsmann has been named as the company's vice president of mission assurance. ...
Parabolic Arc
mikemcguff.com blog: David Sadof joins Third Rock radio at NASA.gov
By mike@mikemcguff.com (mikemcguff)
RFC Media has tapped noted music explorer and expert discographer David Sadof to join the programming team of Cruze and Donna McKenzie in the creation of the infinite playlist that supplies NASA's Third Rock – America'sSpace Station ...
mikemcguff.com blog
NASA - NASA Hosts DC Tweetup With Space Station Astronaut Ron ...
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... Garan spent 164 days in space during the Expedition 27/28 mission to the International Space Station. ...
www.nasa.gov/home/.../HQ_12-022_Garan_Tweetup.html
iTWire - NASA snaps "amazing" pixs of space station crossing Moon
NASA snaps amazing pixs of space station crossing Moon.
www.itwire.com/.../52052-nasa-snaps-qamazingq-pixs-of-spac...
Video: Nasa recruiting new astronauts for International Space Station
Nasa has released a video of Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank encouraging new ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Nasa-recruiting-new-astronauts-for-In...
Stunning photos capture Space Station passing moon
According to a recent NASA news release, amateur photographers can snap pictures of the space station from their own backyards. Sightings times and ...
www.abc15.com/.../stunning-photos-capture-space-station-pas...
Layer 8: NASA's alternative space "station" rocks your smartphone
NASA Apps for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad and Android gets a rock station. ...NASA said its Third Rock Radio - America's Space Station, is a collaboration with RFC ... NASA features and news items are embedded throughout theNASA App ...
www.networkworld.com/.../nasa’s-alternative-space-station-ro...
Space Station Succcessfully Dodges Cosmic Junk « CBS Miami
(Source: NASA) The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-133 crew ... The Associated Press contributed to this report.) ...
miami.cbslocal.com/.../space-station-succcessfully-dodges-cos...
Space Station Dodges Space Junk From Satellite Crash | Fox News
The International Space Station dodged a piece of space junk Friday, Jan. ...to main content: Fox News/Fox Business (Article Page: FoxNews/SBC/Latino/Fox Business) ... In November 2011 NASA was considering sending the three station ...
www.foxnews.com/.../space-station-moved-to-dodge-space-ju...
Spectacular Space Station Moon Dash: Big Pic : Discovery News
Discovery News > Space News > Spectacular Space Station Moon Dash: Big Pic ... for a NASA photographer at Johnson Space Center in Houston to capture ...
news.discovery.com/.../big-pic-space-station-moon-transit-120...
Space Station Dodges Space Junk from Satellite Crash | Orbital ...
NASA commanded the International Space Station to dodge a piece of spacejunk Friday (Jan. 13), a move ... Latest News About Space Junk and Orbital Debris ...
www.space.com/14233-space-station-dodges-space-junk.html
Space station dodges space junk from satellite crash
Potential space debris conjunctions are not uncommon for the space station. In November 2011 NASA was considering sending the three station crewmembers at ...
www.foxnews.com/.../space-station-moved-to-dodge-space-ju...
NASA Hosts DC Tweetup With Space Station Astronaut Ron Garan
Garan spent 164 days in space during the Expedition 27/28 mission to the International Space Station. He and his crewmates launched April 4, 2011, ...
uspolitics.einnews.com/.../nasa-hosts-dc-tweetup-with-space-st...
SpaceX delays trial run to space station
NASA has hired SpaceX, as well as a second company, Orbital Sciences Corp to fly supplies to station after the retirement of the space shuttles last year. ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-usa-space-business-idUSTRE80G22G2...
MECC to host Space Station downlink preview next week- Kingsport ...
The Times News Online 2012. ... The robot was shipped to the Space Stationvia space shuttle last year. ... She transferred to what has been dubbed the “space brakes” project after a prior assignment on NASA's multipurpose crew vehicle ...
www.timesnews.net/.../mecc-to-host-space-station-downlink-pr...
Space station to dodge superfast debris - UPI.com
The International Space Station will need to dodge a small but superfast piece of orbiting communication debris ... United Press International - News. ...NASA astronaut Mike Fossum during a spacewalk outside the InternationalSpace Station ...
www.upi.com/Science_News/.../UPI-40381326448800/
Space Station Avoids Possible | Amazing News
Space Station Avoids Possible Collision Earlier this week NASA announced that they were expecting to ... As featured on NewsNow: Weird and Wonderfulnews ...
amazingnews.org/space-station-avoids-possible/563527/
NewsDaily: SpaceX delays trial run to space station
Space Exploration Technologies, a startup space transportation firm hired byNASA to fly cargo to the International Space Station, is delaying a planned February 7 test flight to allow more time ... NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking news ...
www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre80g22g-us-usa-space-business/
Amazing photos show space station crossing moon - Technology ...
4 from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. ... The International SpaceStation is the largest spacecraft ever built, with a main truss that is longer than a ... Follow SPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration newson Twitter ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../amazing-photos-show-space-station-c...
Space station moves up and out of way of debris
History of NASA' s Space Shuttle Discovery. Click here ». NASA News. ISS moves out of way of debris. The International Space Station has moved up and out of ...
www.myfoxorlando.com/.../011312-space-station-moves-up-a...
Solar Arrays Installed on SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft | Commercial ...
For its first mission to the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft ... and NASA missions such as the Hubble Space telescope use solar arrays, ...
www.comspacewatch.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=39527
Nasa's Skylab Space Station - Bio, News, Photos - Washington Times
Latest news and commentary on Nasa's Skylab Space Station including photos, videos, quotations, and a biography.
www.washingtontimes.com/topics/nasas-skylab-space-station/

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