NASA News, May 08, 2013

NASA Extends Contract For Russian Transportation To Space RedOrbit NASA signed another contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) to continue using its services for transporting crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The move is a reminder of how the US still has no transportation to ... See all stories on this topic » RedOrbit

Space Station Is Big Step Toward Mars, Astronaut Says Space.com A NASA astronaut sees his work aboard the International Space Station as a means of bringing humanity a little closer to setting foot on Mars. During a 25-minute webcast Tuesday (May 7), members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and ... See all stories on this topic »

Senators briefed on the latest from the International Space Station Los Angeles Times and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took a break from earthly political matters Tuesday to talk to NASAastronaut Tom Marshburn, one of two Americans aboard the International Space Station. Marshburn, who has been at the space station since December 2012, said ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA chief urges congress to fund private astronaut taxis CBS News On Tuesday (April 30), NASA announced that it will pay $70.7 million each for six more seats aboard Russian Soyuz space capsules. The $424 million deal keeps Americans launching to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz through 2016, with ... See all stories on this topic » CBS News

To the space station and beyond with Linux ZDNet NASA really has decided to drop Windows from the laptops on the International Space Station (ISS) in favor of Linux, and the first humanoid robot in space, R2, really is powered by Linux. robonaut This isn't science-fiction. This is R2, the first ... See all stories on this topic » ZDNet

Astronaut spies 'bullet hole' in space station Fox News NASA scientists regularly track pieces of space debris larger than 4 inches across in order to avoid potentially destructive collisions. Radar systems track these larger pieces of space junk to alertspace station operators and satellite controllers to ... See all stories on this topic »

Three-year space odyssey opens new frontiers - Sydney Morning Herald Sydney Morning Herald Canberra will be soon be able to communicate further into the universe with Tidbinbilla's newest communication antenna, known as Deep Space Station 35, due to be lifted into place on Friday morning. The 34-metre dish has cost $US55 million, and taken ... See all stories on this topic »

Mars draws closer - Philly.com Philly.com NASA says it hopes to land astronauts on the planet within the next two decades, and the agency is developing a heavy-lift rocket and a new space capsule to achieve this goal. It has even established an optimal time frame for this ... Investment ... See all stories on this topic » Philly.com

The Day NASA's Fermi Dodged a 1.5-ton Bullet Space Fellowship As McEnery worked through her inbox, an automatically generated report arrived from NASA'sRobotic Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis (CARA) team based at NASA's Goddard SpaceFlight Center in Greenbelt, Md. On scanning the document, she discovered ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA Invites Media To Speak With 'Dark Matter' Detective Sacramento Bee Trent Martin, Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) project manager for NASA, and astronaut Stan Love also will participate in the event, and answer questions about NASA's involvement and how the International Space Station enables AMS research. See all stories on this topic »

Roscosmos For More... (ISS Transportation) SatNews Publishers Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for full crew transportation services to the International Space Station in 2016 with return and rescue services extending through June 2017. NASA is facilitating development of a U.S. commercial crew space... See all stories on this topic » SatNews Publishers

Astronaut spots ' bullet hole ' in International Space Station caused by rock ... Daily Mail Space station operators and satellite controllers are then alerted to any potential collisions. According to Nasa, 'collision with these particles can cause serious damage or catastrophic failure to spacecraft or satellites and is a life-threatening ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Space Food Gross Out: Tasting Food from The International Space Station YouTube Chefs David Chang and Traci Des Jardins joined us at NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory to spice up food on the International Space Station. While they were tasting, they happened upon a couple of less than delectable options. Watch what happens ... See all stories on this topic »

Paying More For Flights? Try $70.6 Million Per Seat Gadling As the space shuttle program came to an end in 2011, NASA began relying on the Russian SpaceAgency to ferry astronauts and supplies back and forth from the International Space Station (ISS). But even NASA, OK with paying $65 million per seat, did not ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA signs deal for Russia to ferry U.S. astronauts into space UPI.com WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- NASA says it has entered into an agreement with Russia to ferry U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station aboard Russian Soyuz space capsules. Under the deal announced Tuesday, six astronauts will be taken to the ... See all stories on this topic » UPI.com

Russia Charging NASA $70 Million Per Rocket Seat Sci-Tech Today The U.S. will pay Russia about $70 million a seat to fly astronauts on round trips to the InternationalSpace Station for six astronauts in 2016 and the first half of 2017, an 11 percent increase over previous per-seat pricing. NASA's chief, Charles ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA Television To Air Space Station Soyuz Landing IT News Online WASHINGTON, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Television will provide live coverage May 12-14 as three crew members aboard the International Space Station end five months in orbit and return to Earth for a scheduled landing May 13. See all stories on this topic »

PICS: Nasa Captures Strange 'Blue Clouds' Above The Marshall Islands Huffington Post UK In this image provided by NASA polar mesospheric clouds in the Northern Hemisphere are featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 31 crew member on the International Space Station June 13, 2012. In both the Northern and Southern ... See all stories on this topic »

Space Shuttle's Robotic Arm Goes on Display at Canadian Museum Space.com It was one of five Canadarms that were delivered to NASA between 1981 and 1993. The arms helped the shuttle program build the International Space Station, service satellites and repair the HubbleSpace Telescope; they also served as helping hands in ... See all stories on this topic »

Space agency's administrator Charles Bolden said Mars was 'ultimate ... Daily Mail In 2010, Mr Obama proposed that NASA follow the International Space Station program with a human mission to an asteroid by 2025. The agency has been developing a heavy-lift rocket and deep-space capsule capable of carrying astronauts beyond the ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA's Spacesuits Through the Years: Photos Discovery News With the end of the space shuttle program, NASA began working on a spacesuit that astronauts could wear for forays into deep space, beyond where the space station flies. Last month, the agency awarded an 18-month, $4.4-million contract to ILC Dover to ... See all stories on this topic »

Piecing Together PhoneSat Images Space.com A view of the iPhone 4 SpaceLab for iOS app that will be delivered to the International Space Stationon NASA's last-ever shuttle mission STS-135 aboard Atlantis. The two iPhone 4s will be the first iPhones in space. space.coms webby award image ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA extends crew flights on Russian Soyuz and Bolden blames Congress for ... The Birmingham News - al.com (blog) WASHINGTON - NASA has signed a $424 million contract extension with Russia to transport astronauts to the International Space Station in 2016 and bring them back through June 2017. Some estimates say that works out to about $70 million a seat, up from ... See all stories on this topic »

Russia Charging NASA $70 Million per Spaceship Seat Money Talks News (blog) Ferrying American astronauts in Soyuz space capsules to the International Space Station through early 2017 will cost $70.7 million per seat (round trip) — about $8 million more per seat than NASA has been paying under a contract that runs through 2015. See all stories on this topic » Money Talks News (blog)

Canadarm unveiled at museum, but first Canadian in space Garneau feels ... Montreal Gazette Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, the current commander of the International Space Station, helped inaugurate the exhibit from orbit. The CSA negotiated with NASA the return of the space shuttle Endeavour's Canadarm. The Canadarm was used on ... See all stories on this topic » Montreal Gazette

First flight of Cygnus cargo craft delayed to September Spaceflight Now The COTS program is a public-private partnership in which NASA is paying Orbital up to $288 million for development of the privately-owned Cygnus spacecraft, which will supply food, experiments and spare parts to the space station. Once Orbital ... See all stories on this topic » Spaceflight Now

Russia raises price for trips to space station Washington Post NASA's ability to send crews into orbit ended with the closing of its shuttle program in 2011. Even before then, the United States had been relying on Russia to take some astronauts to the space station. SpaceX has begun making cargo shipments to the ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA satellite snaps spectacular images of volcanic eruption Christian Science Monitor Today, NASA picks up images of the Earth's surface from its satellites and the International Space Station on a daily basis. As of May 3, the agency has received 1,670,082 views of the Earth, including 1,189,393 from the space station. Prior to the... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Australia is part of New Horizon mission for Pluto exploration - ITWire.com iTWire The Deep Space Station 35 (abbreviated DSS-35) is a 34-meter dish. DSS-35 is part of the Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, which consists of one 70-meter dish and two existing 34-meter dishes. NASA only has one southern hemisphere ... See all stories on this topic »

Canadarm on display: Space shuttle robot arm unveiled at Canadian museum collectSPACE.com May 2, 2013 — The original Canadarm, the Canadian-built robotic arm that for 30 years was used to reach out from NASA's space shuttles to deploy and capture satellites, support spacewalking astronauts and help assemble the InternationalSpace Station, ... See all stories on this topic » collectSPACE.com

NASA Ultrasound Chosen For Space Technology Hall Of Fame Sacramento Bee The enabling technologies were derived from the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity project, which produced a specially designed ultrasound currently installed on the InternationalSpace Station. It was developed through collaboration among ... See all stories on this topic »

Humanity Stuck On Earth or Private Space Flights To Infinity & Beyond? Rambling Thoughts (blog) “Since the end of our Space Shuttle Program in 2011, NASA has relied on the Russian SpaceAgency (Roscosmos) for the launch and safe return of astronauts to and from the InternationalSpace Station (ISS) aboard its Soyuz spacecraft. While our Russian ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA's 2030s Mars mission may not involve a landing Examiner.com He suggested that NASA's current program that includes subsidies for commercialspace craft, research on the International Space Station, technological development, and a daring plan to snag an asteroid, bring it to lunar orbit, and then visit it with ... See all stories on this topic » Examiner.com

'Ultimate destination': NASA sets Mars walk as top priority — RT News By RT After NASA's manned moon landing in 1969 the US space agency is now focusing its resources on sending humans to Mars by 2030, outsourcing near-Earth missions to private contractors, NASA'schief announced Monday. ... “all racing to see who gets to the finish line and who wins a contract to carry American astronauts and our partner astronauts to the International Space Station, hopefully by 2017,” Bolden said. On April 30 NASA said that it renegotiated a $424 million contract ... News RSS : Today

NASA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Skylab and Life Off Earth ... NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America's first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency managers planning future space missions. SpaceRef ISS Top Stories

Texas Students to Speak Live With Space Station NASA Astronaut NASA Expedition 35 astronaut and flight engineer Chris Cassidy aboard the International Space Station will conduct a live air-to-ground talk with students of ... News media representatives are invited to attend the event, and can do so by ... www.nasa.gov/.../HQ_M13-066_ISS_Downlink_Texas.html

NASA - NASA Television to Air Space Station Soyuz Landing NASA Television will provide live coverage May 12-14 as three crew members aboard the InternationalSpace Station end five months in orbit and return to ... NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending ... www.nasa.gov/.../HQ_M13-071_soyuz_landing_coverage.ht...

NASA - NASA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Skylab and Life Off Earth NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America's first space station Monday, ... a current astronaut and agency managers planning future space missions. ... NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by ... www.nasa.gov/.../HQ_M13-070_Skylab_40th_Anniv..html

Looking up at the International Space Station - Las Cruces Sun-News In 1984, President Ronald Reagan directed NASA to build the International Space Station (ISS). The living ... By Pat Hynes / For the Sun-Newslcsun-news. com ... www.lcsun-news.com/.../looking-up-at-international-space-stat...

NASA Signs $424 Million Russian Crew Launch Extension for ... The extension provides for the training, launch and return of six astronauts assigned by NASA and itsspace station partners during the one year amendment ... spacecoalition.com/.../nasa-signs-424-million-russian-crew-lau...

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Texas Talks Space - Blogs - NASA I enjoy participating in such events because not only I can share the latest space station research and technology news, but it also gives me a chance to gauge ... blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/.../posts/post_1367241093311.html

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