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Shuttle Endeavour Lifts Off In Smooth Midnight Launch Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 11, 2008 
US Space Shuttle Endeavour blasted into space at 0628 GMT Tuesday, carrying Japan's first space lab to the International Space Station. Two minutes after launch Endeavour jettisoned its twin solid rocket boosters as it soared far above the Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle crew of seven, including Japanese astronaut Takao Doi, is on a 16-day mission to install the first stage of ... read more |
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Russia Dumps Korean Astro Boy For Astro Girl In Textbook Scandal
Seoul (AFP) March 10, 2008South Korea on Monday chose a woman to be its first astronaut in a late change after Russia's space authorities said the man initially selected for next month's mission had breached training rules. Yi So-Yeon, 29, a biosystems engineering student, will now blast off on April 8 in a Russian-made Soyuz rocket, replacing 30-year-old male computer engineer Ko San on the 27-million-dollar space fare ... more Space tourism: The next frontier? 
Newark (UPI) Mar 10, 2008U.S. and Italian researchers predict outer space will become a frequent tourist destination during this century. "In the 21st century, space tourism could represent the most significant development experienced by the tourism industry," said University of Delaware Professor Fred DeMicco. DeMicco, along with Professor Silvia Ciccarelli of the University of Rome ... more Endeavour is 'go' for Tuesday launch 
Washington (UPI) Mar 10, 2008The U.S. space agency said all systems were "go" for the launch of space shuttle Endeavour and its STS-123 mission to the International Space Station. The shuttle is to lift off at 2:29 a.m. EDT Tuesday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The shuttle's seven astronauts will, among other things, deliver the first section of the Japanese-built Kibo laboratory and the Canadian Space ... more Falcon 1 To Launch Operationally Responsive Space Satellite On Next Flight 
Hawthorne CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2008Space Exploration Technologies has announced that it has signed a contract with the Department of Defense's Operationally Responsive Space Office to carry their first Jumpstart mission payload onboard the upcoming Falcon 1 launch. Scheduled for flight in June 2008 from the SpaceX launch complex in the Central Pacific Marshall Islands' Kwajalein Atoll, the Jumpstart mission aims to ... more New Discovery At Jupiter Could Help Protect Earth-Orbit Satellites 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2008Radio waves accelerate electrons within Jupiter's magnetic field in the same way as they do on Earth, according to new research published in Nature Physics this week. The discovery overturns a theory that has held sway for more than a generation and has important implications for protecting Earth-orbiting satellites. Using data collected at Jupiter by the Galileo spacecraft, Dr Richard ... more |
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Kourou (AFP) Mar 09, 2008The European Space Agency on Sunday carried out the maiden launch of a massive robot freighter designed to rendezvous automatically with the orbital space station. The Automated Transfer Vehicle, a nearly 20-tonne payload the size of a London double-decker bus, blasted into the skies aboard a beefed-up Ariane 5 launcher, an AFP reporter saw. After being placed in orbit ... more China To Launch Second Olympic Satellite In May 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 09, 2008China will launch in May a second meteo satellite to ensure more precise weather forecasts during the Beijing Olympic Games set to open on August 8, the Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. The new satellite, Fengyun-3, has a bigger payload than its predecessors and will provide medium-range weather forecasts for up to 10 to 15 days. It will replace the FY-1D weather satellite launched ... more Shuttle Crew Arrives As Endeavour Countdown Gets Under Way 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Mar 09, 2008The space shuttle Endeavour astronauts are at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final launch preparations for their STS-123 mission to the International Space Station. The crew arrived at Kennedy's Shuttle Landing Facility in a Shuttle Training Aircraft at 1:21 a.m. EST Saturday, March 8. After arriving in a driving rainstorm, Endeavour Commander Dominic Gorie made a few comments ... more Sea Launch Prepares For The Launch Of DirecTV 11 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2008The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed Sea Launch Home Port for the equatorial Pacific, in preparation for the launch of the DirecTV 11 broadcast satellite, planned for Monday, March 17. Liftoff is expected at the opening of a 58-minute launch window, at 3:49 pm Pacific Daylight Time (22:49 GMT). Upon arrival at the launch site at 154 degrees West Longitude, ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 07, 2008S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia hosted the 2nd Convention of students from space-industry related institutions and departments of higher education in Moscow - Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow State Forest University, Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow Aviation Technology Institute, Moscow State Technical University STANK ... more China Kicks Off New Space Launch Center Project 
Beijing (XNA) Mar 07, 2008The State Council of China has greenlighted the construction of a new space launch center in the southern island province of Hainan and the project has been kicked off, said a top provincial official on Thursday. The launch center, the fourth in China, is expected to complete in five years, Wei Liucheng, Secretary of Hainan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, told ... more Russia To Launch US Communications Satellite On March 15 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 07, 2008A Russian Proton-M rocket will launch a U.S. communication satellite on March 15, the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Thursday. The launch will be carried out under a contract between the Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services and the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center. ILS, owned by the Khrunichev Center, RSC Energia, and U.S. firm Space ... more Rockin' All Over the World -- The Top Ten for astronauts 
Paris (AFP) March 6, 2008Astronauts aboard the Space Station are to get an unusual treat - an MP3 player loaded with a playlist of songs specially chosen for people in orbit. The Top Ten was selected by a 14-year-old Norwegian girl, Therese Miljeteig, who won a competition staged by the European Space Agency. Her prize is to watch the launch this weekend of ESA's space freighter, the ... more
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