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Feb 8, 2012

NASA News, Feb 08, 2012

NASA calls for new taxis to fly to Space Station
Reuters
By Irene Klotz | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA is looking for at least two US firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, program managers said on Tuesday. NASA plans to invest $300 ...
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Janice Voss, shuttle astronaut, remembered for NASA contributions
Christian Science Monitor
Janice Voss began her NASA career while still a student at Purdue University. Janice Voss was one of six women to fly at least five times on the space shuttle. By Robert Z. Pearlman,SPACE.com / February 8, 2012 Astronaut Janice Voss is pictured on the ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Space Station Earth Videos Released By NASA Show Aurora Borealis In Time-Lapse ...
Huffington Post
The Johnson Space Center notes that some of the videos (including "Mexico to New Brunswick" and "Aurora over Northern US and Canada," but not "Moonset over the Atlantic Ocean") "were taken at the rate of one frame per second, therefore the slower speed ...
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Astrogenetix and NASA Sign Agreement to Continue Developing Medicines inSpace ...
MarketWatch (press release)
This SAA commits to providing the critical resources needed to continue utilizing the International Space Station (ISS) and to further the development of important on-orbit microgravity vaccines and therapeutic drug experiments.
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6300 wannabe astronauts flood NASA inbox
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By Brid-Aine Parnell • Get more from this author NASA has received the second-highest number of astronaut applications ever for the 21st astronaut class when more than 6300 people signed up to be spaceinvaders. NASA astronaut Mike Fossum in spacewalk ...
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The Miraculous NASA Breakthrough That Could Save Millions of Lives
Gizmodo
There are no hospitals in space. The closest ER is back on Earth, and astronauts can't exactly jump in a cab to get there. So what happens if the sun burps out a massive blast of radiation while an astronaut is space-amblin' by? The NASA ...
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ESA's space station cargo craft 30 days from launch
Spaceflight Now
"Every cubic centimeter of the carrier is at full capability," said a European Space Agency fact sheet. The ATV is the space station's largest resupply vessel following the retirement of thespace shuttle. It's also loaded with more than 3000 pounds ...
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Spaceflight Now
NASA Officials Participate in 2nd Annual White House Science Fair
Sacramento Bee
NASA has developed a wide variety of education programs that use the inherent excitement of space exploration and science to inspire students and generate interest in STEM. "Programs like this science fair help students develop critical skills and get ...
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SpaceX to launch two AsiaSat satellites via Falcon 9 in 2014
NASASpaceflight.com
The balance is concentrated on NASA contracts, as SpaceX push towards their commercial resupply (CRS) of the International Space Station (ISS). The AsiaSat launches will be conducted by the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, lifting off from Florida's Cape ...
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Robert A. Citron dies at 79; space visionary
Los Angeles Times
He even organized a 20-member expedition to watch the Russian space station Mir reenter the Earth's atmosphere. "Bob had an intense passion for opening the space frontier to humanity," said Charles Miller, former senior advisor for commercial space at ...
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Los Angeles Times
Station Crew Checks Out Spacesuits, Conducts Research
Space Fellowship
Tuesday marked a busy day for the International Space Station'sExpedition 30 crew as cosmonauts and astronauts worked together to prepare for an upcoming Russian spacewalk. Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Oleg Kononenko spent most of their day ...
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Space taxis needed by Nasa
The New Age Online
Nasa is looking for at least two US firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station, program managers said on Tuesday. Nasa plans to invest $300 million to $500 million in each of the firms selected ...
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Skylab IV Splashed Down On This Day: Five Things The Most Complaining Space...
Houston Press (blog)
Before they got adjusted, Mission Control transferred to them the same busy schedule as their predecessors in the space station," writes. He says NASA mandated at least one veteran per crew on all ensuing missions. The Skylab IV astronauts not only ...
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New Mexico Space Grant: Operating at the margins and making it work
Las Cruces Sun-News
NASA White Sands Test Facility has operated successfully at the margins of the space industry since the Apollo program. They had to be efficient and focused. They prevented problems and what you didn't see is the story of their success.
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NASA Spinoff 2011 Unveils Benefits of NASA Technologies on Earth
Sacramento Bee
This year's Spinoff includes a special section to celebrate the commercial technologies that resulted from NASA's 30-year Space Shuttle Program. Also featured are spinoffs that have come from the construction of the International Space Station and work ...
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ULA Completes Critical Milestones Toward Certifying Atlas V for Human Spaceflight
Space Daily
ULA looks forward to continued work with our spacecraft customers andNASA to develop an early US crew space transportation capability providing safe, reliable, and cost-effective access to LEO and the International Space Station," Sowers said.
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So you want to be an astronaut?
Chicago Tribune
Space-bound American astronauts must hitch a ride with the Russians to the International Space Station where they ... conduct science experiments and fix the toilet. You might expect that NASA wouldn't find many takers for a less-than-dazzling mission.
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Chicago Tribune
ISS managers working to realign busy launch manifest following ongoing delays
NASASpaceflight.com
International Space Station (ISS) Program managers at space agencies around the world are currently in the process of ironing out an extremely complex and busy integrated schedule of comings and goings at the station, in light of recent delays to Soyuz ...
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NASASpaceflight.com
Satcoms Help Astronauts Communicate From The Space Station
RedOrbit
Seeing ESA astronaut André Kuipers on the InternationalSpace Station is a regular occurrence these days. You turn on your TV or check Twitter and there he is. Since there are no cables trailing from the Station to Earth, just how does this happen?
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RedOrbit
Houston, the Eagles are landing in Katy
Your Houston News
Fossum, US Air Force (retired), joined NASA in 1993 and was selected for astronaut training in 1998. He has served on two space shuttle missions and returned on Nov. 21 from the six-month Expedition 29 on the International Space Station where he served ...
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NASA Spinoff 2011 Unveils Benefits of NASA Technologies on Earth
MMD Newswire (press release)
WASHINGTON (MMD Newswire) February 7, 2012 -- NASA's Spinoff 2011 publication, now available online, reveals how the space agency's ingenuity and partnerships have saved thousands of lives, generated billions of dollars, and created thousands of ...
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Western Europe at Night
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Rebecca Horne A night time view of Western Europe taken by the Earth-orbiting International Space Station crew shows the ISS's robotic arm and solar arrays in the foreground. Belgium and the Netherlands can be seen at bottom center, the North Sea at ...
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Rather Than Race To The Moon, The US Should Set Its Sights On Mars
Forbes
That last comment referred to the fact that last September, two months after the final Shuttle mission halted the US ability to put Americans in orbit, a Tiangong-1 rocket inserted the first module of a planned Chinese space station from a launch site ...
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Santorum, Romney Reject Reagan's Space Legacy
Yahoo! Contributors Network
Reagan's space legacy is more attuned to the position Newt Gingrich is taking than the rhetoric of Romney or Santorum. Reagan proposed before a joint session of Congress what eventually became the International Space Station.
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Breathtaking video shows Earth at night from the ISS
DVICE
These recently released videos (put together from series of still images) show the space station flying over Mexio, the central and eastern United States, and Canada and the Aurora Borealis at night. These sequences of frames were taken at the rate of ...
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NASA astronaut Janice Voss dies, flew five space ... - CollectSpace
"Just got the very sad news that U.S. astronaut Janice Voss passed away last night," the Association of Space Explorers, an international organization representing more than 350 individuals who have flown in space, wrote on Facebook. "Our thoughts go out to her family and friends." ... flight in the program's 30 year history. She flew with the first commercial lab, rendezvoused with Russia's Mir space station and helped create the most complete digital topographic map of the Earth.
collectSPACE Space History News
Astronaut Janice Voss KC5BTK – SK | AMSAT-UK
By M5AKA
TV News Report on ISS Contacts. Posted on 08/02/2012 by M5AKA. Astronaut Janice Voss KC5BTK - SK. NASA astronaut Janice Voss, KC5BTK, of Houston, Texas, passed away on February 7 from cancer. She was 55. One of only six women ... Voss participated in making ham radio contacts from space via the Space Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment (SAREX), the precursor to the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program. “As the payload commander of ...
AMSAT-UK
Station Crew Checks Out Spacesuits, Conducts Research ...
By Klaus Schmidt
Tuesday marked a busy day for the International Space Station's Expedition 30 crew as cosmonauts and astronauts worked together to prepare for an upcoming Russian spacewalk. Flight Eng.
International Space Fellowship
NASA Calls For New Commercial Crew Proposals « AmericaSpace
By Press Release
NASA Calls For New Commercial Crew Proposals. By Press Release. Artist's concept of Boeing's CST-100 crew capsule approaching the International Space StationNASA has issued a call for industry to submit proposals for the Commercial ...
AmericaSpace
NASA Looking for More Space Taxis
By Nancy Atkinson
NASA is looking for more ways to get astronauts to the International Space Station. ... “President Obama is working hard to create an American economy built to last,” NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a NASA press releases. “NASA's ...
Universe Today
The 3D Printer – The 3D Printing Technology That Will Cause The ...
By hotonline
What's Hot Online ? Hot Entertainment, Technology and World News! ...NASA Specialists think that the 3D printers are a good way to produce tools and spare parts requierd for the International Space Station. Right now transporting a ...
What's Hot Online ? Hot Entertainment...
ISS Centrifuge - NanoRacks Commercial Microgravity Centrifuge
By NanoRacks
Commercial Hardware Ready for U.S. National Lab on NASA's InternationalSpace Station (Houston, Texas) Astrium North America is proud to announce that.
NanoRacks
NASA will brief industry, academia on research opportunity with Space
By Lee Roop, The Huntsville Times
The rocket is officially called the Space Launch System, and NASA will evolve it from a vehicle capable of lifting 70 metric tons to one capable of lifting 130 metric tons over a period of years. That kind of evolution will require "advanced developments in the areas of concept development, propulsion, ... More Space News from The Huntsville Times ... the man who warned of Challenger risk, dies in Utah · 3 · SpaceX won't try to launch to International Space Station before March 20 ...
Space News from The Huntsville Times
Who Wants to be an Astronaut Now? Who Doesn't ?
"This is a great time to join the NASA family," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden in a press release. "Our newest astronauts could launch aboard the first commercial rockets to the space station the next generation of scientists and ...
About.com US Government Info
Hoosier astronaut Voss dies of cancer
NASA astronaut Janice Voss, who first worked for the space agency as a teenager and flew five shuttle missions in seven years, has died. She was 55. ... Full Site, News, Images, The Web. WISHTV.com Home. News · Marion Co · Hamilton Co · Indiana · Crime · Politics · I Team 8 · National · International · Health · Business ... The International Space Station is seen in April 2010, with Earth as a backdrop. A crew member on the spaceshuttle Discovery snapped this picture after the ...
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NASA - Colbert Advocates NASA Space Station Research
NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration ... even more "because NASA is doing great things on the International Space Station(ISS). ... NASA press releases and other information are available automatically by sending a blank ...
www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/.../HQ_12-031_Colbert_PSA.ht...
NASA To Host Media Telecon On Space Station Status ...
NASA To Host Media Telecon On Space Station Status. By PressRelease. The International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an ...
www.americaspace.org/?p=13051
Stephen Colbert: Support NASA Space Station ... - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: Stephen Colbert asked his fans to share his passion for space by donating to NASA to support its work with the InternationalSpace Station.
news.yahoo.com/stephen-colbert-support-nasa-space-station-re...
NASA Puts Out Call for Space Taxis : Discovery News
ANALYSIS: NASA Moves Step Closer to Space Taxis. It's not a safety issue, though having only one route to the station is dicey. Since the retirement of the ...
news.discovery.com/.../nasa-puts-out-call-for-space-taxis-1102...
1st Private Spaceship Flight to Space Station May Slip to April: NASA
The first test launch of commercial space company SpaceX's Dragonspace ... up, " NASA's station program manager Mike Suffredini told reporters in a news ...
www.space.com/14460-spacex-dragon-spacecraft-launch-dela...
Space Station Earth Videos Released By NASA Show Aurora ...
The International Space Station has been killing it with time-lapse videos of the earth lately, and now ... New post: Space Station Over Earth (NASA, International Space Station, 03/07/11) #UFO #Space .... HUFFPOST'S BIG NEWS PAGES ...
www.huffingtonpost.com/.../space-station-earth-video_n_126...
NASA calls for new taxis to fly to Space Station
By Irene Klotz | CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA is looking for at least two US firms to design and build space taxis to ferry astronauts to and ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-space-business-idUSTRE81629920120...
NASA says Russian space woes no worry - US News and World ...
US News & World Report Science ... By SETH BORENSTEIN, AssociatedPress ... NASA space station manager Michael Suffredini said he still considers the ...
www.usnews.com/.../nasa-says-russian-space-woes-no-worry
NASA: More space station delays as Russian vehicle fails ground test
Crew rotation on the international space station will be delayed again after a Russian space ... NASA's program manager for the space station, told reporters Thursday. .... Sign-up for e-mail newsletters and alerts and get the news you need ...
www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQATdtFlQ_story.html
Damaged Russian spacecraft forces space station crew delay
By Clara Moskowitz A botched pressure test of a Russian space capsule slated to launch the next crew to the International Space Station has forced NASA and ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/.../ns/technology_and_science-space/
  
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Negros earthquake: President Aquino criticizes shoddy road building
Christian Science Monitor
Negros earthquake: President Aquino visited Negros province where an earthquake struck Monday. Dozens of people are still missing, perhaps buried in landslides caused by the 6.9 magnitude quake. By Oliver Teves, Associated Press / February 8, ...
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