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NASA News, Apr 11, 2012

Amazing photo: Cargo vehicle docks with space station over Earth's city lights ...
Christian Science Monitor
By Space.com Staff / April 9, 2012 In this image the EuropeanSpace Agency's ATV-3 approaches the International Space Station. Credit: NASA Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured an extraordinary photo of an unmanned European cargo ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Astronauts to play game created by Tyngsborough middle schoolers
Boston.com
By Alli Knothe, Globe Correspondent What is there to do with five items in aspace station to show the difference between Earth's gravity and the station's microgravity? A team of students at Tyngsborough Middle School won third place in NASA's Spaced ...
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Private space company considers Texas launch site
Houston Chronicle
NASA hopes to use the Falcon-Dragon combo for hauling cargo and possibly astronauts to the International Space Station, once the shuttles stop flying. SpaceX, or Space Exploration Technologies, was founded eight years ago by Elon Musk, ...
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Station crew to celebrate Gagarin anniversary
Florida Today
The NASA screen grab shows (left to right) US astronaut Don Pettit, European astronaut Andre Kuipers and US astronaut Dan Burbank during a news conference today. / NASA CAPE CANAVERAL – A multinational crew aboard the International Space Station will ...
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NASA Announces Student Winners in Space Game Design Challenge
Sacramento Bee
The students designed science-based games that will be played by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The games illustrate and apply Newton's laws of motion by showing the differences between Earth's gravity and the microgravity ...
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Commercial space companies pushing back against NASA certification
al.com (blog)
By Lee Roop, The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Commercial space companies are pushing back against NASAdeciding if their rockets are safe enough to carry commercial crews to the International Space Station, according to the spaceagency's ...
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al.com (blog)
Watch the International Space Station fly over Baltimore tonight
Baltimore Sun (blog)
By Scott Dance Baltimoreans can get a nice look at the International Space Station tonight – late enough to be visible but early enough for the kids to watch before bedtime. On board are two NASA astronauts, three Russian cosmonauts and a European ...
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SpaceX proposes Texas site for future rocket launches
Fox News
SpaceX WASHINGTON – Details about a launch facility Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) is considering building in Texas emerged April 9 in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) document detailing an environmental review that must precede ...
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US space program is not dead; it's working toward new goals
Austin American-Statesman
The priorities that Congress and the White House established in the landmark 2010 NASA Authorization Act set an achievable, long-range plan for America to write the next great chapter in space exploration and to create exciting new commercial ventures ...
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Space Shuttle Discovery To Make Last Flight With A Fly Over Washington Metro Area
AvStop Aviation News
By Jim Douglas April 11, 2012 - NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Discovery mounted atop will fly approximately 1500 feet above various parts of the Washington, DC metropolitan area on Tuesday, April 17 for its last flight.
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AvStop Aviation News
Startup News: NASA Space Apps Challenge in NYC and Outer Space, Hacker School...
Betabeat
It's official: NYC is now one of the spots for NASA's Space Apps Challenge, a two-day development event happening in cities on six continents and aboard the International Space Station. The codeathon-style event focuses on how technology can address ...
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Elon Musk talks space on Jon Stewart's show
msnbc.com
Musk, the chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), appeared Tuesday on Stewart's The Daily Show to discuss the company's upcoming test flight of an unmanned capsule to the International Space Station.
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msnbc.com
SpaceX is considering coastal Texas town for rocket launch site
Joplin Globe
Texas has long been associated with the nation's space program because of the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston. But that's the mission control center, not a rocket launch site. Only four US states — Virginia, California, Alaska and Florida — have ...
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First Cut At New Exploration Plan Coming Soon
Aviation Week
He started his presentation with an endorsement of the plan to use commercial vehicles to fly cargo and perhaps eventually crew to the International Space Station, freeing NASA to develop the Orion crew capsule and the heavy-lift Space Launch System to ...
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Aviation Week
Private Lunar mission and the future of space tourism
Space Daily
The first breakthrough in the realm of private space flight occurred in 2001 when Dennis Tito, an American multimillionaire flew to the International Space Station as a third member of the crew aboard Russian Soyuz space ship. The first space tourist ...
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The Dawn of the Era of Private Human Spaceflight
Huffington Post (blog)
... of reaching the International Space Station. SpaceX was contracted in 2008 by NASA under its Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program to transport resupply to the astronauts on the ISS, since the US Space Shuttle would get retired.
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Discovery ready to go to Smithsonian
MyFoxOrlando.com
NASA is hiring astronauts. You can even apply online at a … NASA astronaut Ronald Garan, Jr. returned from the International Space Station … Have you ever wished that a shooting star won't end up hitting and killing you? … KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.
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This Space For Rent
Iowa City Owl
It's been forty years since the last moon-landing made by NASA, and while the governmental space program has no direct plans of their own to get back to our orbiting celestial body, companies such as Space Adventures and Google have reignited the race ...
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ATV-3 Unmanned Spacecraft Launched To Visit International Space Station
TopNews United States
As per recent reports, it has been revealed that the EuropeanSpace Agency's spacecraft, Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) has been launched last week to International Space Station(ISS). It has been unveiled that the world's largest spacecraft has...
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TopNews United States
Company eyes Texas for private space launches
Bryan College Station Eagle
The company is working to demonstrate that its big Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule can ferry supplies to the International Space Station now thatNASA has retired its shuttle fleet. In 2010, SpaceX became the first private business to launch a ...
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Chinese Space Program Leaps Forward, Set To Deliver Women to Space
International Business Times
The step is believed to be a pivotal stage in preparations for creating a future space station. The Shenzhou 9 mission is slated to carry 3 taikonauts to the Tiangong module. The mission will choose from 7 candidates, 2 of which are women.
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International Business Times
Why you'll never go to space prison
io9
Space prisons are a huge part of science fiction, because eventually we'll run out of places on Earth to put our worst criminals. Mass Effect 2 features a prison ship. And this Friday sees the release of Lockout, in which a snarky hero goes inside a ...
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NASA rocked by global warming rebellion
American Thinker (blog)
Here it is: We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon ...
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SpaceX Considering Building 'Commercial Cape Canaveral' In Texas
RedOrbit
One of the US companies looking to establish a private-sectorspace transportation system is considering building a personal airfield in southern Texas, according to an FAA document posted on Tuesday. According to Adi Robertson of The Verge, Space ...
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RedOrbit
Cuts in Defense Budget for Space Fence Program Will Impact Homeland, National ...
HSToday (blog)
At that speed, even a small object can do serious damage to satellites orspace stations. And NASA predicts that space vehicles now face a roughly 1-in-250 chance of a catastrophic collision with this debris. That might not sound like much, ...
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Exclusively in the new print issue of CounterPunch
CounterPunch
Now all satellites are powered by solar panels, as is the International Space Station. But RTGs using Plutonium-238 have remained a source of on board electricity for space probes such as Cassini which NASA launched to Saturn in 1999.
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NASA Expert Speaks On Coal-fired Power Plants, Climate Change
RedOrbit
“Obama had the chance to say, 'OK we're going to fight our fossil fuel addiction' and take on the big corporations, but instead he concentrated on health,” Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told the paper.
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RedOrbit
Cargo capsule set for launch : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
The unmanned Dragon capsule and its Falcon 9 rocket, both privately developed by the SpaceX corporation, are due for launch on April 30 (USA time) on a combined test flight and cargo flight to the International Space Station(ISS). NASA is providing seed money to SpaceX and a second company, Orbital Sciences, to develop and operate unmanned craft that can keep the ISS resupplied in the post-shuttle era. SpaceX is intending to field a manned version of Dragon later this ...
Space and Astronomy news daily...
China Forges Space Ties With Europe | Moonandback
By otmikhail
European and Chinese Space Agency director's have open up a dialogue discussing possibilities to collaborate in space and at the International Space Station. ... News. China Forges Space Ties With Europe. by david baker. Late last week ESA Director General Jean Jacques-Dordain had informal discussions with Wang Zhaoyao, the recently named head of China's MannedSpace Engineering Office, about possible cooperation over human space flight activity, inviting the prospect ...
Moonandback
H3+: the Molecule that Made the Universe « physics4me
By physicsgg
Above, new stars burst into being in the star-forming nebula Messier 78, imaged by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. (Image credit: .... NASA HoldsNews Conference with Station Crew Members April 5, 2012. Three of the six crew members ...
physics4me
ATV-3 Unmanned Spacecraft Launched To Visit International Space ...
By Sarabjit Heera
As per recent reports, it has been revealed that the European Space Agency's spacecraft, Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) has been launched last week to International Space Station (ISS). It has been unveiled that the world's largest ...
TopNews United States
NASA to Fly Atomic Clock to Improve Space Navigation ...
By Klaus Schmidt
NASA, DSAC. When people think of space technologies, many think of high-tech solar panels, complex and powerful propulsion systems or sophisticated, electronic guidance systems. Another critical piece of spaceflight technology, however, ...
International Space Fellowship
HCC Southeast hosts STEM Symposium
By Martinsr
Former NASA Astronaut Jose M. Hernandez will deliver the keynote address. His journey from a non-English-speaking migrant field worker to the International Space Station is sure to captivate the audience. After attaining his Master's degree ...
NewsWireHouston.com
[APK] NASA App v1.33 [by NASA] for Android
By BluSky
Current NASA Mission Information - Launch Information & Countdown clocks - Current Visible Passes for the International Space Station (ISS) - ISS and Earth Orbiting Satellite Tracker - NASA Twitter Feeds from around the agency -News and ...
DreamStrikes | The Mobile Community
NASA - NASA Seeks Hosts for Space Station Interactive Education ...
NASA is seeking formal and informal education organizations to host live in-flight ... of explorers and astronauts aboard the International Space Station(ISS). ... NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending ...
www.nasa.gov/home/.../HQ_12-105_Hosts_Ed_Downlinks.ht...
NASA Holds News Conference with Station Crew ... - SpaceRef
Three of the six crew members living aboard the International Space Stationwill take questions from reporters during a news conference on Wednesday, April ...
www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=36627
International Space Station crew capture stunning photo | WTVR ...
International Space Station crew capture stunning photo. Posted on: 11:03 am, April 3, 2012, by Carrie Rose. IMAGE: NASA. RICHMOND, Va. (WTVR) – The ...
wtvr.com/.../international-space-station-crew-capture-stunning...
Astronauts Shoot Millionth Photo From Space Station - ABC News
Millionth photograph from International Space Station. NASA image. When astronauts go up into space, they admit, they spend a lot of their free time looking ...
abcnews.go.com/.../astronauts-shoot-millionth-photo-from-spa...
Robot Cargo Ship's Space Station Arrival: Big Pic : Discovery News
NASA. April 7, 2012 -- Astronauts aboard the International Space Stationcaptured an extraordinary photo of an unmanned European cargo ship as it docked to ...
news.discovery.com/space/atv-docks-space-station-120407.html
Brown Urges NASA Leadership To Reconsider Contract For The ...
Brown Urges NASA Leadership To Reconsider Contract For The InternationalSpace Station National Laboratory. Florida Center Picked to Fulfill Contract is Not ...
www.brown.senate.gov/.../brown-urges-nasa-leadership-to-rec...
Private Space Company Considers Texas Launch Site
Founded a decade ago by Elon Musk, the co-founder of PayPal, SpaceX plans to launch a cargo-carrying spacecraft to the International Space Station late this ...
www.hispanicbusiness.com/.../private_space_company_consid...
Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | The human factor: Space station ...
File photo of the International Space Station. Credit: NASA The exercise will lead to a voice communications delay, expanded autonomy for the space station ...
spaceflightnow.com/news/n1203/29marsanalog/
Amazing photo captures robot cargo ship's Space Station arrival
28, 2012: The European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle-3 (ATV-3) approaches the International Space Station.NASA Astronauts aboard the ...
www.foxnews.com/.../amazing-photo-captures-robot-cargo-sh...
CASIS and Using the Space Station - NASA Watch
References to CASIS in House Hearing on Space Station Utilization ... Wolf suggested that NASA needs to look at CASIS carefully saying "if they are not with it in 30-45 days we should pull it and give it to NSF". Bolden ... Categories: ISS News ...
nasawatch.com/archives/2012/03/casis-and-using.html
Ohio Delegation Calls on NASA To Fire ISS Nonprofit ... - Space News
The international space station (ISS) taken during STS-130 from the SpaceShuttle Endeavour. Credit: NASA photo Enlarge Image. WASHINGTON — Members ...
www.spacenews.com/.../120405ohio-delegation-calls-nasa-fire...
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