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NASA News, Sep 20, 2012

Record-setting female astronaut takes command of space station
NBCNews.com
The first female commander of the International Space Station was NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, who commanded the orbiting lab's Expedition 16 mission between fall 2007 and spring 2008. Whitson later served as NASA's chief astronaut and recently ...
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NBCNews.com
Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off for last time, heading to California
Christian Science Monitor
NASA retired its three-ship fleet last year after completing the U.S. portion of the $100 billion International Space Station, a permanently staffed research complex that is owned by 15 nations and flies about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth. IN ...
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Christian Science Monitor
SpaceX capsule to launch cargo to space station next month
NBCNews.com
A glitch with a Russian spacecraft has helped clear the way for a private capsule's first contracted cargo flight to the International Space Station early next month, NASA officials say. Russia's Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft was originally set to launch ...
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NASA Launches Private Space Taxi Certification Program
Space.com
With an eye toward breaking Russia's monopoly on flying crew to the international space station by 2017,NASA has launched a two-stage certification process aimed at ensuring commercial passenger spaceships currently under development will meet the ...
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NASA's retired shuttle Endeavour to buzz Stennis Space Center en route to ...
Mississippi Press (blog)
shuttle.jpg In this Wednesday, May 18, 2011 photo provided by NASA taken by one of the Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station, the space shuttle Endeavour prepares to dock with the facility. At sunrise Monday, Sept. 17, 2012 ...
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NASA Offers Opportunity To Use Communications Testbed On Space Station
Sacramento Bee
13, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is announcing opportunities for academia, industry and government agencies to develop and carry out research and technology demonstrations on the International Space Station using the newly installed ...
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Space Station Expedition 33 Crew Photo
Space.com
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams (front left) takes command of the International Space Station from cosmonaut Gennady Padalka (front right) during a ceremony marking the start of the Expedition 33 increment aboard the space station on Sept. 15, 2012.
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NASA Head Bolden: Warp Speed Ahead
U.S. News & World Report
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks at the headquarters of SpaceX, the private company that successfully flew to the International Space Station earlier this year. Former astronaut and NASA head Charles Bolden says the agency wants to one day ...
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U.S. News & World Report
NASA funds 8 robotics projects to push frontiers of space exploration
NBCNews.com (blog)
For example, NASA delivered a $2.5 million humanoid robot called Robonaut 2 to the International Space Station in February 2011. Robonaut 2, which was developed via a partnership with carmaker General Motors, is designed to be an autonomous ...
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NASA report reasons why companies picked for space-taxi development
Asbury Park Press
But Gerstenmaier said the company's experience flying cargo to the International Space Station under aNASA contract would give it an advantage when upgrading its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule for crewed flight. Gerstenmaier credited Boeing for a ...
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Sunita Williams takes over space station command
New York Daily News
Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka ceremonially handed over control of the space station to Expedition 33 Commander Sunita Williams in the Destiny laboratory Saturday afternoon during the traditional Change-of-Command Ceremony, NASA ...
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NASA's retired space shuttle Endeavour departs Monday for Los Angeles ...
Newser
FILE - In this Wednesday, May 18, 2011 photo provided by NASA taken by one of the Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station, the space shuttle Endeavour prepares to dock with the... (Associated Press) ...
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Female Astronaut Takes Command of Space Station
Discovery News
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, took charge of the International Space Station Saturday (Sept. 15), becoming only the second female commander in the orbiting lab's 14-year history. Williams ...
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Space station crew lands safely after shortened mission (+video)
Christian Science Monitor
Three other International Space Station crew members - veteran Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, NASA astronaut Sunita Williams and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide - remain in orbit. They are scheduled to be joined by another trio - Kevin Ford, ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Soyuz capsule safely ferries US, Russian crew back from International Space ...
CBS News
(CBS News) - Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA flight engineer bid their three space station crewmates farewell Sunday, strapped into their Soyuz ferry craft, undocked from the lab complex and fell back to Earth, making a pinpoint landing in Kazakhstan ...
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CBS News
NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Completes Triathlon In Space
Huffington Post
Sunita Williams is the U.S. commander of the Expedition 33 crew aboard the space station, which is orbiting Earth about 240 miles (386 km) overhead. She used exercise equipment, including a stationary bike, treadmill and strength-training machine ...
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'I'm glad to be done': Astronaut completes first space triathlon
NBCNews.com
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams has completed the first triathlon in space, running, biking and "swimming" along with athletes in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon held in Southern California over the weekend. "I'm happy to be done," Williams said from the ...
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Japanese resupply craft on track for re-entry after station departure
Spaceflight Now
Japan's third HTV cargo freighter is on track to plunge back into Earth's atmosphere as scheduled Friday after an unknown problem on Wednesday triggered an expedited departure from the International Space Station, according to a NASA spokesperson.
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Spaceflight Now
NASA's retired shuttle Endeavour heads west Monday
WTNH
At sunrise Monday, Endeavour will depart Kennedy Space Center for a museum in California, with a two-day stopover in Houston, home to Mission Control and the astronauts who flew aboard the replacement for the lost shuttle Challenger. Endeavour is the ...
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NASA requests proposals for Commercial Crew Transport System
High Performance Composites
NASA has requested proposals for the first of two contract phases to certify commercially developedspace systems in support of crewed missions to the International Space Station. NASA is also seeking proposals for its Small Business Innovation ...
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Former NASA historian says agency's future lies with unmanned projects
News & Observer
When NASA sent the first crew to the space station, it stressed this reflected both the agency's and our country's place in history. It emphasized this was the beginning of permanent human space habitation. It believed from then on humans would be in ...
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News & Observer
US, Russian trio lands in Kazakhstan after time in the space station
Fox News
The size of the three-person complement currently at the space station will be doubled when they are joined next month by U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin.NASA's Sunita Williams took over command at the ...
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NASA keeps Space Shuttle Endeavour in Brevard one more day
WTSP 10 News
We're finally able to show this space shuttle off," said NASA astronaut Kay Hire, who orbited Earth aboard Endeavour 217 times during the STS-130 mission in February 2010 and was at the Shuttle Landing Facility to watch Sunday's operation. ... When the ...
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WTSP 10 News
Astronaut Self-Portraits Show Space In All Its Glory
Business Insider
It was today's astronomy picture of the day. From NASA: Earlier this month, space station astronaut Aki Hoshide (Japan) recorded this striking image while helping to augment the capabilities of the Earth-orbiting International Space Station (ISS ...
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International Space Station Astronauts Land Safely In Kazakhstan
The Herald | HeraldOnline.com
Flight Engineer Joe Acaba of NASA, and Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin of the Russian Federal Space Agency, undocked their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the space station at 7:09 p.m. EDT and landed north of Arkalyk, ...
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NASA astronaut Sunita Williams completed a triathlon from on board the International Space Station on Sept. 16, 2012, using an orbital treadmill to complete the running portion. (NASA TV) ...
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NASA Offers Opportunity to Use Communications Testbed on Space ...
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WASHINGTON — NASA is announcing opportunities for academia, industry and government agencies to develop and carry out research and technology demonstrations on the International Space Station using the newly installed Space ...
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NASA Astronauts Use Toothbrush to Fix Space Station | India Journal
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They were trying to replace an electrical switching unit, but they couldn't bolt it to the outside of the station, the 'NBC News.Com' reported. This was actually an extra spacewalk tacked onto their mission after the stuck space station bolt ...
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NASA Requests Proposals for Initial Contracts to Certify Commercial ...
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Welcome guest | Login | Sign Up · Overview News · Headlines > News > NASA Requests Proposals for Initial Contracts to Certify Commercial Crew Transportation Systems ... WASHINGTON — NASA on Wednesday released a request for proposals for the first of two contract phases to certify commercially developed space systems in support of crewed missions to the International Space Station. Through these certification products contracts, NASA's Commercial Crew Program ( CCP) ...
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NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams Complets First Triathlon in Space ...
latino news. make latinos post your homepage | connect ... (Photo : Reuters) NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Expedition 32 flight engineer, takes part in the mission's third session of extravehicular activity outside the International Space Station in this NASA handout photo taken September 5, 2012. International Space Station commander Sunita Williams completed the first triathlon in space over the weekend by running, biking and “swimming” along with athletes in the Nautica Malibu ...
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International Entertainment News: Coverage Set For Space Station ...
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18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The departure of the third European Space Agency Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) cargo spacecraft from the International Space Station will be broadcast live onNASA Television beginning at ...
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NASA Selects Advanced Robotics Projects for Development ...
By Klaus Schmidt
“Robonaut, NASA's robotic crewmember aboard the International Space Station, is being tested to perform tasks to assist our astronauts and free them up to do the important scientific research and complex engineering taking place each day ...
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NASA's Last Space Shuttle Headed to LA | FOX8.com – Cleveland ...
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NASA managers will conduct a final review of space shuttle Endeavour early Wednesday before sending it on a cross-country flight. ... For Roger · Rizzo · Woollybear · FOX8.com – Cleveland news & weather from WJW Television FOX 8 ...
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Private companies, meanwhile, are trying to pick up where NASA left off regarding the International Space Station. [...] those businesses can provide spaceships for flying people, U.S. astronauts will need to rely on Russian rockets to get to the ...
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Nasa International Space Station: NASA's Space Launch System ...
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Space Station Followers ... 14, 2011, NASA announced a new ability for America's space program: a heavy-lift rocket planned to take the Orion spacecraft and send astronauts beyond into space than still before. And now, one year afterward, ...
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HOUSTON -- Three members of the Expedition 32 crew undocked from the International Space Stationand returned safely to Earth on Sunday, wrapping up a ...
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Soyuz TMA-04M lands in Kazakhstan | Space News, International ...
CBS News Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA flight engineer bid their three space stationcrewmates farewell Sunday, strapped into their Soyuz ferry craft, ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../091612_soyuztma04m_entry.html
Nasa Fixes Space Station With Toothbrush (PHOTOS)
Nasa has fixed a crucial power supply problem on the International Space Station with a toothbrush. ...The failure to install the unit had cut power on the space station by 25%, but now it's up and ..... Fox NewsFalsely Reports iPhone 5 Has.
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NASA Camera Catches UFO's Near Space Station Says AOL News ...
They say UFO's are showing up in a variety of places, allegedly on Mars, around Earth, and even in close proximity to the orbiting International Space Station.
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NASA Goddard To Host Live Student Session With International Space
News: GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center will host a question-and-answer session between local students and residents aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, ...
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NASA Goddard To Host Live Student Session With International Space
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NASA Camera Catches UFOs Near Space Station ... - Before It's News
NASA Camera Catches UFOs Near Space Station. Saturday, September 15, 2012 8:50. % of ...
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Toothbrush helps save the day for astronauts on space station ...
Compiled by Jamshid Ghazi Askar, Deseret News ... 16, 2001 file photo provided by NASA, shows the International Space Station as it orbits the Earth. American ...
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NASA Goddard To Host Live Student Session With International Space
ABC6 - Providence, RI and New Bedford, MA News, WeatherNASA Goddard To Host Live Student Session With International Space Station Residents. Member ...
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NASA TV To Cover Departure Of Japanese Cargo Ship From Space ...
6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Television will provide live coverage of the third Japanese ...NASA TV To Cover Departure Of Japanese Cargo Ship From Space Station Sept. 12 ... The News & Observer Sep 05, 12:37 PM ...
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