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US Hopes To Transfer Space Station Resupply To Private Sector
Washington (SPX) Aug 18, 2006The U.S. space agency NASA has taken a step to transfer the job of resupplying the International Space Station to the private sector. NASA hopes crews and cargo can fly up on commercial rockets so it can focus on returning astronauts to the moon in the next decade and eventually sending crews to Mars. Rocketplane Kistler Wins Millions In Public Funding To Demonstrate Big Dumb Rockets Work 
Oklahoma City OK (SPX) Aug 21, 2006Rocketplane Kistler (RpK) won a $207 million NASA award to demonstrate its capability to service the International Space Station (ISS). The Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract culminates in two flights to the ISS with first launch of RpK's K-1 launch vehicle in late 2008. SpaceX Wins NASA COTS Contract Deal To Demonstrate Cargo Delivery To Station 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2006SpaceX announced that it was selected by NASA to demonstrate delivery and return of cargo to the International Space Station. At the option of NASA, the Agreement can be extended to include demonstrating transport of crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS). |
Astrologers Unfazed By New Planet Plans
Paris (AFP) Aug 19, 2006Star signs and astrology charts -- relied on by millions as a key to divining the future -- would not be much affected if three new planets are added to the solar system, experts said Friday. Leading astronomers meeting in Prague are planning next week to add three new planets to the nine known to children around the world: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Is Pluto a Planet? Astronomers Vote, JHU Takes Straw Poll 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 21, 2006Generations of schoolchildren have memorized "My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" (or a variation thereof) in order to remember the order of the nine planets in our solar system. SMART-1 On The Trail Of Lunar Beginnings 
Paris (ESA) Aug 21, 2006The D-CIXS instrument on ESA's Moon mission SMART-1 has produced the first detection from orbit of calcium on the lunar surface. By doing this, the instrument has taken a step towards answering the old question: did the Moon form from part of the Earth? |
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Canada Plans Its First Spaceport
Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (UPI) Aug 18, 2006Canada is reportedly planning to build its first spaceport, which will launch supplies to the International Space Station and even send tourists into space. ISS Crew Prepare For Shuttle Visit And New Solar Arrays 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 21, 2006The astronauts aboard the International Space Station spent much of their week preparing for the arrival of the Space Shuttle Atlantis, set for launch Aug. 27 on the STS-115 mission. Commander Pavel Vinogradov, Flight Engineer and NASA Science Officer Jeff Williams and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Reiter of Germany prepared for Atlantis to deliver a new section of the station's girder-like truss. Globalstar Announces Amended And Restated Financing Agreement 
Milpitas, CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2006Globalstar, Inc., said Friday that it has negotiated an amended and restated debt financing consisting of a $150 million delayed draw term loan and revolving credit facility plus a $150 million incremental term loan or "tack-on" facility. |
Spirit Checking Korolev
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2006Spirit is healthy and continues to make progress on its winter science campaign. Spirit is finishing the "McMurdo mega-panorama" by acquiring touch-up images (dubbed "grout" by engineers). STEREO Mission Will Soon Provide First 3-D Views of the Sun 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 21, 2006Two nearly identical spacecraft, destined to capture the first-ever 3-D views of the sun, are scheduled for launch on Aug. 31 aboard a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 3:12 p.m. or 4:20 p.m. EDT. The window extends through Sept. 4 with two launch opportunities daily. EADS Space-built Hot Bird 8 Satellite for Eutelsat Successfully Deployed in Orbit 
Paris (SPX) Aug 21, 2006Following the launch on 4th August 2006 by an ILS Proton Breeze M, Eutelsat's HOT BIRD 8 satellite (EADS SPACE's seventh Eurostar E3000 spacecraft in-orbit), has reached geosynchronous orbit through three apogee engine firings. |
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