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New Water Reclamation System Headed For Duty On Space Station Huntsville AL (SPX) May 13, 2008 
International Space Station crews soon will have a new water reclamation system that will recycle wastewater, allowing up to six crew members to live aboard the orbiting laboratory. The latest addition to the station's life support system departs today from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., for final flight preparations. The new ... read more |
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Canadian Space Agency Announces Contract With MDA For ISS
Longueuil, Canada (SPX) May 13, 2008The Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for the Canadian Space Agency, has announced a four-year contract valued at $109 million between the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA). MDA will continue to provide logistics, sustaining engineering services for the Canadian-made Mobile Servicing System on the International Space Sta ... more Space Station Tricorder 
Huntsville AL (SPX) May 12, 2008Any Trekkies out there? Remember the tricorder? Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock both carried them, and they came in mighty handy exploring "strange new worlds ...where no one has gone before." On the International Space Station, astronauts are carrying an experimental device that looks strikingly similar: LOCAD-PTS, short for Lab-On-a-Chip Application Development Portable Test System. ... more Students to call long distance to the ISS 
Washington (UPI) May 8, 2008 Students from New York and California will make a really long long-distance phone call next week to speak with an International Space Station's crew member. NASA said students and educators from a Richmond Hill, N.Y., community center and the Valley Christian Elementary School in Bellflower, Calif., will participate in the Monday event from 1 ... more NASA-TV to televise ISS cargo ship arrival 
Houston (UPI) May 7, 2008 The U.S. space agency says it will televise the arrival of an unpiloted cargo spacecraft when it docks at the International Space Station. NASA controllers in Houston said the Progress 29 Russian spacecraft carrying a shipment of food, fuel and supplies is to automatically dock with the ISS at 5:37 p.m. EDT, May 16. ... more US Congressional Subcommittee Examines The Status Of The ISS 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 28, 2008The House Science and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics has held an oversight hearing to examine the status of NASA's International Space Station program. Committee Members discussed the challenges facing the program and questioned witnesses regarding how it should be operated, managed, and utilized. ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008Russia will ask its foreign partners in June to extend the exploitation of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2020 as the station's Russian segment would take longer to complete, Russian space officials said. "We can do what we planned to do by 2010 only in 2015, and so we will have to appeal to our foreign partners to use the ISS until 2020," the chief of Russia's space RKK Energiy ... more Astronauts Relish New Asian Space Food As Expedition 17 Docks 
Moscow (AFP) Apr 10, 2008South Korea's first astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts docked their Soyuz spacecraft with the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, a Russian official said. Docking came a few minutes ahead of the scheduled time of 1300 GMT. A spokeswoman for Russian mission control told AFP. "The hatch between the spacecraft and the station will open" between 1550 and 1610 GMT. ... more First Korean astronaut docks with space station
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 10, 2008South Korea's first astronaut safely arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, Russian officials said, in a landmark mission for the Asian country's space programme. Yi So-Yeon, 29, arrived aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and after lengthy checks stepped through a hatch to be greeted by the orbiting station's crew, a ... more The ESA opens a new space laboratory 
Noordwijk, Netherlands, April 10, 2008 The European Space Agency's new lab at its Netherlands space research center was officially opened Wednesday by Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander. The new state-of-the-art space and technology laboratory at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Center, or ESTEC, includes a propulsion laboratory and a design center, ESA said. The prince launched an "Ariane rocket" ... more New Station Crew Prepares For Launch Tuesday 
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 08, 2008The Progress 28 cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station at 4:50 a.m. EDT Monday and headed into its deorbit and destructive re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean. The Progress, which has been attached to the station since February, had been loaded with trash and discards before its departure. The Pirs docking compartment is now open for the arrival ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 01, 2008Members of the 17th International Space Station expedition will conduct up to 47 scientific experiments during their stay on board the orbital station, Russia's Federal Space Agency said Monday. The main crew, scheduled to lift off on April 8 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on board the Soyuz TMA-12 craft, will comprise Russian astronauts, Commander Sergei Volkov and ... more Japan celebrates Shuttle Endeavour mission 
Tokyo (AFP) March 27, 2008Japan on Thursday hailed a new era in its space research as the US shuttle Endeavour returned to Earth after setting up the first part of Japan's micro-gravity laboratory. Endeavour landed safely in Florida after a 16-day mission which included a record five spacewalks. Its main tasks included installing the first part of Japan's Kibo lab, which will be the International Space Station's ... more Astronauts Successfully Complete Fifth Spacewalk 
Washington (AFP) March 23, 2008Two astronauts from the US shuttle Endeavour have successfully completed a fifth and final spacewalk of their mission, stepping into the void to attach a 50-foot sensory boom to the outside of the Space Station. Mission specialists Robert Behnken and Mike Foreman began their spacewalk at 4:34 pm EDT (2034 GMT Saturday), 49 minutes ahead of schedule, and ended it at 9:36 pm ... more ISS astronauts take rest day after setting up giant robot
Washington (AFP) March 19, 2008Astronauts aboard the International Space Station settled in for a rest day Wednesday after three lengthy spacewalks and a day readying the Dextre robot for work outside the station. Astronauts used the station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, to manipulate Canadian-built, 200-million-dollar Dextre into place attached to the outside of the Destiny research module on Tuesday. Manipulated by joys ... more Astronauts assemble Canadian robot on 7-hour walk 
Washington (AFP) March 18, 2008Two US astronauts finished assembling the Canadian robot Dextre on Tuesday during a nearly seven-hour space walk outside the International Space Station, NASA said. Rick Linnehan and Robert Behnken put together the tool-handling assembly of the 200 million dollar (126 million euro) robot and attached a spare-parts platform, readying Dextre to undertake delicate maintenance tasks which have ... more
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