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Packing Up TiangongSydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 26, 2012 The first crewed expedition to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is drawing to a close. Soon, the astronauts will board the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft that carried them to Tiangong 1 for the return to Earth. The departure of the crew will wrap up China's most ambitious human space flight to date, but does not mean that work on Tiangong 1 is over. Packing up Tiangong 1 at the end of this first expedition will set the stage for a long program of work in the months ahead, and the arrival of more astrona ... read more |
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 Chinese astronauts set to return Chinese astronauts will return to Earth in several days after completing the major tasks, and measures have been taken to ensure a safe return, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said her ... more | .. |
 China to send foreign astronauts to space with its spacecraft someday It is believed that China will be able to train foreign astronauts with its own space technology and send them to space by Shenzhou spacecraft someday, the spokeswoman of China's manned space progra ... more | .. |
 China's first female astronaut excells in performance: spokeswoman Liu Yang, the first Chinese woman entering the space, had an excellent performance in past eight days, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said Sunday. The 33-year-old veteran pilot adapte ... more | .. |
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 Arrangements for China's next space mission based on review of Shenzhou-9 The arrangements for the Shenzhou-10 mission will be decided after a full review of the Shenzhou-9 mission and status of orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module, said a spokeswoman for China's manned space p ... more | .. |
 China invests some 19 billion yuan in space docking missions China has planned about 19 billion yuan (about 3 billion U.S. dollars) in budget for the country's space rendezvous and docking missions, a spokeswoman of China's manned space program said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Chinese astronauts complete major tasks in first six days in space Three Chinese astronauts have completed major tasks over the past six days inside the conjoint Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and Tiangong-1 space lab, before they succeeded in a manual docking on Sunday. Ch ... more | .. |
 Staying stimulated in space How are the astronauts' lives on their first day in the Tiangong-1? Will they feel bored? They have completed a lot of scheduled work and began to implement the same work and rest schedule as on the ... more |
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 Experts respond to rumors about Shenzhou-9 The Shenzhou-9 spacecraft has aroused many people's interests on the space flight. Of the various ideas on the Shenzhou-9, some are expectations and good wishes but some are rumors and misunderstand ... more | .. |
  NASA Space Launch System Core Stage Moves From Concept to Design The nation's space exploration program is taking a critical step forward with a successful major technical review of the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS), the rocket that will take astron ... more | .. |
  USRA Life Scientists' Proposals Selected to Support Astronaut Health on Missions The Universities Space Research Association (USRA) is very pleased to congratulate its scientific staff at the Division of Space Life Sciences (DSLS), in Houston, TX, on their recently awarded resea ... more | .. |
  ALMA Reveals Constituent of a Galaxy at 12.4 Billion Light-Years Away An international research team, led by Associate Professor Tohru Nagao from Kyoto University, and including researchers from Japan and Europe, has observed a "submillimeter galaxy" located about 12. ... more |
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  ESA to catch laser beam from Moon mission In 2013, a NASA satellite will beam digital signals to an ESA receiving station fast enough to stream dozens of movies at once. The test will help to demonstrate the readiness of next-generation opt ... more | .. |
  The Origin of Life Challenge In 2011, retired chemist and entrepreneur Harry Lonsdale announced his plans to fund research on how life originally formed. Of the 76 proposals submitted to his Origin of Life Challenge, Lonsdale a ... more | .. |
  Vizada Extends Pharostar High-Speed VSAT Satellite Service Vizada, the leading provider of global satellite-based mobility services recently acquired by Astrium, is launching a new addition to its Pharostar maritime VSAT portfolio. The latest innovati ... more | .. |
  NuSTAR Mission Status Report: Observatory Unfurls its Unique Mast NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has successfully deployed its lengthy mast, giving it the ability to see the highest energy X-rays in our universe. The mission is one step c ... more |
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  Looking into the dark: Ahead with the Euclid mission On 19 June 2012, the European Space Agency (ESA) formally adopted the largest collaboration of astronomers in the World, including scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics ... more | .. |
  In search of dark matter - the Euclid space telescope Dark energy and dark matter are both fascinating for scientists, yet they remain a mystery. The Euclid space telescope, which is supported with funds from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zent ... more | .. |
  XCOR and Excalibur Almaz sign MOU for suborbital training services Excalibur Almaz Limited (EA), a commercial aerospace company based on the Isle of Man, British Isles, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with California-based XCOR Aerospace for suborbital f ... more | .. |
 Russia confirms creation of 117th element Russian scientists say they've successfully repeated their synthesis of the 117th chemical element, paving the way for formal addition to the periodic table. ... more |
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 Hubble Views the Globular Cluster M10 Like many of the most famous objects in the sky, globular cluster Messier 10 was of little interest to its discoverer. Charles Messier, the 18th century French astronomer, cataloged over 100 galaxie ... more | .. |
  Arecibo Observatory Finds Asteroid 2012 LZ1 To Be Twice As Big As First Believed Using the planetary radar system at Arecibo Observatory, astronomers have determined that asteroid 2012 LZ1 is twice as large as originally estimated based on its brightness, and large enough to hav ... more | .. |
 New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The c ... more | .. |
 Hubba-Hubble NASA has awarded University of Delaware astronomy professor Judi Provencal research time on the Hubble Space Telescope, and, as you might imagine, Provencal is over the moon about it. "The telescope ... more |
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 Tin-100, a doubly magic nucleus Stable tin, as we know it, comprises 112 nuclear particles - 50 protons and 632 neutrons. The neutrons act as a kind of buffer between the electrically repelling protons and prevent normal tin from ... more | .. |
 Stars, Jets and Batteries Magnetic instabilities play a crucial role in the emergence of black holes, they regulate the rotation rate of collapsing stars and influence the behavior of cosmic jets. In order to improve underst ... more | .. |
 Illuminating the dark: Ahead with the Euclid mission UK teams working on the mission to study the "dark Universe" are being granted a planned 8.5M pounds by the UK Space Agency to develop scientific instruments. This is following the formal adoption o ... more | .. |
Dark Universe mission blueprint complete ESA's Euclid mission to explore the hidden side of the Universe - dark energy and dark matter - has reached an important milestone that will see it head towards full construction. Selected in Octobe ... more |
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  SciTechTalk: Quick, name the planets! When the prestigious Kavli Prize for Astrophysics was announced for 2012, one of the winners was Mike Brown, an astronomer working at the California Institute of Technology in California. ... more | .. |
 China conducts first manual space docking A Chinese spacecraft on Sunday successfully completed the country's first manual docking in orbit, a milestone in an ambitious programme to build a space station by the end of the decade. ... more | .. |
 Smartphones put writing on the wall for paid texts Text messaging, the simple telecoms service that turned into a global phenomenon, is under threat from free smartphone services and operators need to find alternative revenue streams, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 IT security problems shift as data moves to 'cloud' The Internet "cloud" has become the hottest topic in computing, but the trend has created a new range of security issues that need to be addressed. ... more |
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