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Woman takes command of ISS after crew returnMoscow (AFP) Sept 17, 2012 A woman took command of the International Space Station for only the second time Monday as three of her US and Russian colleagues made a safe return from the orbiting space lab to the Kazakh steppe. The Soyuz TMA-04M capsule made a pin-point landing with US astronaut Joe Acaba and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Sergei Revin aboard a vessel whose origins stretch back to the early days of Soviet space flight. NASA television footage showed the smiling men relaxing in lounge chairs and sipp ... read more |
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  Weather woes delay space shuttle Endeavour's transfer Bad weather is delaying the transfer of the shuttle Endeavour from Florida to California where it will be put on show, the US space agency said Sunday. ... more | .. |
  NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers. Spherical objects concentrated at an outcrop Opportunity reached last week differ in se ... more | .. |
  Curious About Life: Interview with Chris McKay In this interview, Chris McKay describes how he'll use two of Curiosity Rover's instruments: he'll help determine what ChemCam should focus its laser on, and then compare the organic analysis by the ... more | .. |
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 Squyres Warns Congress of Threats to Mars Program Prof. Steve Squyres '78 Ph.D. '81, astronomy, told a Senate committee on Wednesday that U.S. space exploration programs risk significant delays and setbacks because they are severely underfunded. De ... more | .. |
 Europe's ATV-3 Spacecraft to Readjust Space Station's Orbit Engines of the European Space Agency's ATV-3 spacecraft will be switched on to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on early Friday, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Contro ... more | .. |
 NASA Offers Opportunity to Use Communications Testbed on Space Station 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 ins ... more | .. |
 Crew Members Prepare for Departure Aboard the International Space Station Friday, Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka spent time packing items into the Soyuz TMA-04M for return to Earth. Padalka and Flight Engineers Sergei Revin ... more |
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  Yes, the James Webb Space Telescope Mirrors 'Can' The powerful primary mirrors of the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to detect the light from distant galaxies. The manufacturer of those mirrors, Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. of Bou ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Data from Second Full Mercury Solar Day in Orbit Released by Planetary Data System MESSENGER Data from Second Full Mercury Solar Day in Orbit Released by Planetary Data System Late last week, the Planetary Data System (PDS) released data collected during MESSENGER's seventh ... more | .. |
 Japanese Freighter Undocks From Space Station A Japanese cargo freighter undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday, successfully ending its resupply mission, a spokesman for Russian Mission Control said. Kounotori 3 ... more | .. |
  XCOR Announces FiberDyne as Lynx Mark I Wing Strake Manufacturer XCOR Aerospace has announced that the Lynx Mark I suborbital reusable launch vehicle (RLV) wing strake assemblies will be manufactured by FiberDyne Advanced Composites of Tukwila, Washington. ... more |
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  European industry develops space safety radar ESA will boost European industrial expertise by developing a new radar as part of the Agency's Space Situational Awareness programme. The radar will test future debris monitoring techniques, helping ... more | .. |
  Remains of astronaut legend Neil Armstrong buried at sea The cremated remains of legendary American astronaut Neil Armstrong were scattered at sea Friday, in a ceremony aboard a US aircraft carrier paying final tribute to the first man to set foot on the moon, NASA said. ... more | .. |
  Two 'hot Jupiters' found in star cluster: NASA US scientists have for the first time found proof that planets can form and survive around sun-like stars within dense star clusters, NASA said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Aging Mars rover discovers geological mystery NASA's Opportunity rover, older brother to the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars last month, has made a new discovery that geologists find both puzzling and exciting, the US space agency said Friday. ... more |
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  Nicaragua negotiating satellite purchase with China Nicaragua is in negotiations with China to purchase a $300 million satellite, which the Central American country hopes to launch into orbit by 2016, officials said. ... more | .. |
 Going underground ESA's CAVES training programme began its second phase last Friday as six astronauts ventured into the Sardinian caves in Italy that are their home this week. CAVES mimics elements of spaceflight to ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Spectrometer Finishes Calibration-Target Reading On Sol 35 of its mission on Mars (Sept. 10, 2012) Curiosity continued activities for characterizing its arm and the tools on the arm. The Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) completed a r ... more | .. |
 Mars Rover Curiosity Arm Tests Nearly Complete NASA's Mars Curiosity team has almost finished robotic arm tests in preparation for the rover to touch and examine its first Martian rock. Tests with the 7-foot (2.1-meter) arm have allowed th ... more |
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 Up and Running: Just Hours After Launch, RBSP Takes First Science Steps Washington DC (SPX) Sep 14, 2012 While the RBSP teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station celebrated a job well done following the 4:05 a.m. EDT launch of the Radiat ... more | .. |
 NASA's Space Launch System Celebrates a Year of Powering Forward NASA is powering ahead toward new destinations in the solar system. This week marks one year of progress since the formation of the Space Launch System (SLS), the nation's next step in human explora ... more | .. |
  Russia's space industry needs quality control - Medvedev Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has proposed to create a quality control system in Russia's space industry. "Quality control is needed at all stages of development, production and exploitation ... more | .. |
  DLR and NASA announce partnership in aeronautics research On 11 September 2012 at the ILA Berlin Air Show, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NAS ... more |
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 Gaia Service Module Thermal Balance Thermal Vacuum testing completed The Protoflight Model of the Gaia Service Module has successfully completed thermal balance and thermal vacuum testing in the SIMLES chamber at Intespace Toulouse. These tests verify the thermal per ... more | .. |
 ESA and European Investment Bank launch Space for Mediterranean Countries Initiative ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and EIB Vice President Philippe de Fontaine Vive Curtaz has signed the Space for Mediterranean Countries Initiative agreement. The two organisations will wo ... more | .. |
  Countdown: a month to go to Galileo's next launch After arriving at the launch site last month, the second pair of Galileo navigation satellites is being prepared for launch from Europe's Spaceport in October. This week will see the third Galileo s ... more | .. |
 Extreme Life Forms Might be Able to Survive on Eccentric Exoplanets Astronomers have discovered a veritable rogues' gallery of odd exoplanets- from scorching hot worlds with molten surfaces to frigid ice balls. And while the hunt continues for the elusive "blue dot" ... more |
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  ISRO's 100th space mission blasts off, PM witnesses historic event An Indian rocket carrying two satellites blasted off from the first launch pad at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre here in Andhra Pradesh Sunday, with the launch being witnessed by Prime Minister Manm ... more | .. |
  Public maps out an A to Z of galaxies Members of the public have constructed an A to Z of galaxies in the night sky. Volunteers participating in the Galaxy Zoo project have been helping scientists gain new insights by classifying galaxi ... more | .. |
 Planets not like Earth could harbor life Extreme forms of life could exist on eccentric planets outside the solar system with conditions unlike those on Earth, U.S. scientists say. ... more | .. |
 Poland joins European Space Agency Poland on Thursday becomes the 20th member of the European Space Agency, the country's economy ministry announced. ... more |
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