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NASA News, Mar 28, 2012

NASA faces serious challenges keeping the International Space Station relevant
Network World
The International Space Station might be a case of "if you build it they may not come" according to a government watchdog report out this week. The report states that the space agency has done a credible job of helping build the ISS (with a $50 billion ...
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International Space Station Nearly Struck by Space Junk: Six astronauts nearly ...
Chicago Tribune
NASA estimates there are about 19000 man-made objects orbiting earth--at orbital speeds, even a tiny particle can destroy satellites or cause serious damage to the space station. [See Spectacular Snapshots of Space] Early Saturday morning, ...
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Amazing NASA Video Shows Star Trails From Space
Mashable
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to sit in a space station orbiting Earth, just chilling and looking at the stars? Thanks to NASA astronaut Don Pettit who took some beautiful photos from the International Space Station, and photographer ...
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Hearing Airs Concerns with Sustaining Space Station and Fulfilling Research ...
Space Ref (press release)
Washington DC - The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology today held a hearing to review NASA's plans for conducting research aboard the International Space Station (ISS), and for ensuring essential spares, facilities, transportation and other ...
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Space Ref (press release)
'Billions' of habitable worlds in Milky Way
Toronto Sun
Fish-eye view of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in orbit as seen from the Russian Mir space station during the STS-71 mission on June 29, 1995. (NASA/Handout/Files) The India-Pakistan border appears as an orange line in this photograph taken by the ...
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Space exploration and the culture of innovation: an interview with Neil ...
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
That kind of surgery predates NASA but it became accurate and affordable in the presence of the technologies that NASA pioneered to dock the space station with the space shuttle. There are cordless power tools, which were invented because you can't ...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
NASA Bags 2012 Shorty Award for Best Government Twitter Feed
PC Magazine
By Damon Poeter NASA may not have space shuttles anymore, but the USspace agency does have another Shorty Award for canny use of social media on its shelf. The official @NASA Twitter account this week was named the winner of a 2012 Shorty Award in the ...
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Cargo Ship ATV-3, Huge Robotic Spacecraft, Visible In Night Sky
Huffington Post
By Wednesday (March 28), the spacecraft will arrive at the International Space Station, and both spacecraft may be visible together just before docking, weather permitting. The giant space delivery truck is the Automated Transfer Vehicle 3 (ATV-3), ...
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The Space Tweep Society where 'Tweeps' unite!
Washington Times
Photo by: Geoff Bergen MECO, the Space Tweeps mascot, was sent in patch form to the International Space Station. Photo by: Jen Scheer & Astronaut Ronald Garan, Jr. Washington, DC, March, 28, 2012— As I continue to showcase the state of NASA, ...
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Washington Times
Space Station Crew Set to Land April 27 – Roscosmos
RIA Novosti
Russia's space agency Roscosmos has set the date for the return of the Soyuz TMA-22 manned spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) to Earth for April 27, head of manned flight programs at Roscosmos Alexei Krasnov said on Wednesday.
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'Exploration, Inc.': Corporate America and the nation's exploration evolution
Washington Post
NASA / AP Astronaut Alan Shepard Jr., poses in the Mercury spacecraft at Cape Canaveral in 1961. Shepard was the first American to fly in space and one of only 12 Americans to walk on the moon. He died July 21, 1998, at the age of 74. The space race of ...
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Artemis: The ATV Whisperer
RedOrbit
ESA's Artemis communications satellite is in action again to ensure the safe arrival of Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle at the International Space Station with vital supplies. Containing fresh supplies of fuel, water, oxygen, air, food, ...
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RedOrbit
International Space Station Stars Look Prettier Than Earth Stars
WebProNews
By Drew Bowling · 2 hours ago · Leave a Comment Have you ever imagined what stars might look like while aboard the International Space Station? Well, they probably look like stars, right? But beyond that, there's some added beauty when you have the rim ...
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Congressional Candidate Jose Hernandez: Astronaut -- Or Not?
Huffington Post
Jose Hernandez, who is on record as having flown a 14-day mission as the flight engineer on Space Shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station in August of 2009, left NASA in January 2011. Hernandez, a first time candidate for ...
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ISS astronaut captures stunning 'star trail' photos (VIDEO)
WTOP
Don Pettit, a NASA astronaut currently aboard the InternationalSpace Station, took some beautiful, high-resolution photographs of the star-scape over Earth's surface, and the aurora borealis that dances across the atmosphere.
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WTOP
ATV-3 set to dock to ISS – minor antenna deployment issue now resolved
NASASpaceflight.com
Europe's Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) “Edoardo Amaldi” resupply craft is set to dock to the InternationalSpace Station (ISS) tonight (Wed 28th) at 10:33 PM GMT, following a five day free flight after its launch atop an Ariane V booster from ...
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NASASpaceflight.com
Military Wants Keys to Biological Clock
Discovery News
While in space, astronauts may see a sunrise and sunset every 45 minutes. Astronaut Ron Garan took this image of a sunset from the Space Station. Click to enlarge this image. No one really knows the details of how our body clocks work.
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Awesomely Beautiful Video Shows Star Trails as Seen From Space
Wired (blog)
There was one chief difference for Pettit, though: He took the pictures while an astronaut on the International Space Station. Pettit's experiment produced a series of amazing pictures, which photographer Alan Rivest then used to assemble a time-lapse ...
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US falling behind in battle for ultimate high ground — space
The Hill
Unfortunately, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is featured in none of these stories, which is unusual, given that the United States has long been the global leader. Sadly, these stories are all about China's escalating ambition ...
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Orbital Space Junk Missing International Space Station Turns out to be ...
The Spoof (satire)
The space junk that nearly hit the International Space Station (ISS) was erroneously reported to have been a discarded fragment from a Russian rocket booster. Upon further investigation it has been discovered that the space junk was actually the ...
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Station Crew Preps for Cargo Craft Arrival
Space Fellowship
The Expedition 30 crew of the International Space Station participated in an emergency drill Tuesday and continued cleaning up the orbital outpost's “closet” on the eve of the arrival of a European cargo ship. The EuropeanSpace Agency's Automated ...
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NAVARRETTE: Outer-space pettiness in Central Valley race
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
Jose Hernandez, seen working aboard the International Space Station in 2009, is running for Congress. A lawsuit seeks to prevent him from listing "astronaut" as his ballot designation. By RUBEN NAVARRETTE Jr. Who's afraid of a Mexican-American ...
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Planetary Billiards: Triple-Planet Manned Mars/Venus Flybys (1967)
Wired News
... space station missions and manned Mars landings and Venus orbiters. TheNASA-wide Planetary Joint Action Group (JAG) proposed in its October 1966 internal report that the first manned planetary flyby mission leave Earth in September 1975.
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Qualification Test of Small Li-Ion Battery for International Space Station
Space Ref (press release)
Delivery to NASA/Johnson Space Center is required within 8-9 weeks ARO. Delivery shall be FOB Destination. Offers for the items(s) described above are due by April 06, 2012 to LaToy Jones at latoy.j.jones@nasa.gov and must include, solicitation number, ...
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'It is time to travel beyond the Moon'
Gulf Daily News
IT is time to go beyond the Moon and set up a space station in Mars, Nasaastronaut Marsha Ivins said, as she gave career advice to students last night. As missions to Moon have been cancelled, "the future is looking beyond it to go to Mars, ...
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Pillow Astronaut: Mobile Space Apps Guide
By PillowNaut
NASA and ESA history, media, news and images. FREE! ISS CDR International Space Station on-orbit status, tasks, news, arrivals, and departures. $8.99 iStellar. HUGE Planisphere 1900-2099 with planets, stars that twinkle, constellations, ...
Pillow Astronaut
NASA SPACE NEWS: Barack obama suggests Soviets for 'space' on ...
By Gabriella Brianna
Not aware that a mic was producing him, Chief executive Obama requested confident Western Chief executive Dmitry Medvedev Wednesday for spaceuntil after Mr. Obama's re-election promotion to settle on rocket immunity. “On all these ...
NASA SPACE NEWS
Radio club talks out of this world
By Erin Hurley
ARISS is an international program coordinated by NASA and other organizations which sets up radio conversations between astronauts on thespace station and the public to educate them on outer space topics and amateur radio. Burbank ...
Mustang Daily - News for Cal...
'Billions' of habitable worlds in Milky Way | World | News | Ottawa Sun
The sun shines above the Earth's horizon with the International Space Stationin the foreground in this photo taken by spacewalker Ron Garan during the final spacewalk while a shuttle is docked to the station in this photo provided byNASA ...
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FLORIDA SPACErePORT: March 28, 2012
By ellegood
'It is Time to Travel Beyond the Moon' (Source: Gulf Daily News) It is time to go beyond the Moon and set up a space station in Mars, NASA astronaut Marsha Ivins said, as she gave career advice to students in Bahrain last night. As missions to ...
FLORIDA SPACErePORT
Amazing NASA Video Shows Star Trails From Space | ManmadeMag
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to sit in a space station orbiting Earth, just chilling and looking at the stars? Thanks to NASA astronaut Don Pettit who took some beautiful photos from the International Space Station, and...
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General: Space capability integral to all military operations | Defense ...
By Air Force News Agency
Space capabilities have become integral to all military operations, the commander of Air Force Space Command told reporters here during a Defense Writers Group. ... DefenceTalk | Defense & Military News – Forums – Pictures – Weapons .... The company says it provides full-service engineering, production and technical services for NASA, DOD, and commercial and academic space programs, and is supplying commercial cargo resupply services for the International Space Station.
DefenceTalk News and Videos
The Search for the Body's Keys to Time -- Science & Technology ...
NASA/Ron Garan While in space, astronauts may see a sunrise and sunset every 45 minutes. Astronaut Ron Garan took this image of a sunset from theSpace Station. No one really knows the details of how our body clocks work. But when the rhythms ... "If scientists can get a better grasp on how time factors into biological functions, the Department of Defense could potentially better preserve the health and readiness of the warfighter," Macedonia wrote in an email to Discovery News.
Signs of the Times
Amazing NASA Video Shows Star Trails From Space
By Stan Schroeder
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to sit in a space station orbiting Earth, just chilling and looking at the stars? ... NASA is releasing so many outstanding videos, such as time-lapse ones (those which we are in love with). Thanks a lot for sharing this post, Stan.. much appreciated! Time Lapse Italia.... Mashable is the largest independent online news site dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. With more than 20 million unique monthly visitors, ...
Mashable » Video
NASA Space Network to Begin New Design Phase For Ground ...
By Klaus Schmidt
The Space Network Ground Segment Sustainment effort successfully completed its Key Decision Point - B review at NASA allowing the project to proceed into Phase B of its lifecycle, the Missio.
International Space Fellowship
NASA - Japan Shares Space Station SMILES via Atmospheric Data ...
Did you panic when you heard in recent news that two massive solar flares from the Sun were hitting Earth's atmosphere?
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/.../SMILES_Research.html
NASA considering space station for Mars dry run - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: The International Space Station may provide the setting for a 500-day pretend trip to Mars in another few years.
news.yahoo.com/nasa-considering-space-station-mars-dry-run...
SpaceX, NASA Set Space Station Launch | News & Opinion ...
SpaceX teams with NASA for International Space Station mission, founder gets personal on 60 Minutes.
www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2401738,00.asp
Youngstown News, NASA considering space station for Mars dry run
News. News. Opinion. Opinion. Sports. Sports. Entertainment. Entertainment.... NASA said today that consideration is under way to use the space stationas a ...
www.vindy.com/.../nasa-considering-space-station-for-mars-/
NASA to launch small experiments from International Space Station ...
abc7news.com - KGO Bay Area News · KGO-TV San Francisco, CA ... NASAto launch small experiments from Space Station. Tuesday, March 20, 2012.NASA to ...
abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/technology&id...
NASA considering space station for Mars dry run | www.wftv.com
The International Space Station may provide the setting for a 500-day pretend trip to Mars in another few years.
www.wftv.com/news/news/local/nasa...space.../nLYPh/
NASA Eyes Mock Mars Mission on Space Station | Mars Exploration ...
NASA is considering using the International Space Station to practice for a trip... six months," space station program manager Mike Suffredini said during anews ...
www.space.com/14970-nasa-mock-mars-mission-space-station...
NASA considering space station for Mars dry run - Boston.com
FILE - This May 23, 2011 photo released by NASA shows the InternationalSpace Station at an altitude of approximately 220 miles above the Earth, taken by ...
www.boston.com/.../nasa_considering_space_station_for_mars...
NASA: Space debris forces astronauts into escape capsules | WTVR ...
The debris was predicted to pass about 23 kilometers (14.2 miles) from thespace station, NASA said. “The Expedition 30 crew aboard the InternationalSpace ...
wtvr.com/.../nasa-space-debris-forces-astronauts-into-escape-c...
NASA Invites Questions Via Twitter For Space Station News ...
HOUSTON, March 19, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time,NASA will take questions from Twitter during news briefings about upcoming ...
www.prnewswire.com/.../nasa-invites-questions-via-twitter-for...
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