Space-Travel.Com brings you daily news about SPACE TRAVEL 29-MAY-09 en-us Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2009 - The Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has announced that Harris Corporation - Government Communications Systems Division of Melbourne, Fla. has been selected to develop the GOES-R ground system, which will capture, process and distribute information from NOAA's next generation geostationary satellite series to users around the world.]]> Paris, France (ESA) May 29, 2009 - ESA's next Earth Explorer, SMOS, has recently passed the all-important Flight Acceptance Review, signifying that all the elements that make up the mission are in place for launch later this year. The satellite can now be prepared for its journey to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.]]> Berkeley CA (SPX) May 29, 2009 - The chance discovery last month of a rare radio supernova - an exploding star seen only at radio wavelengths and undetected by optical or X-ray telescopes - underscores the promise of new, more sensitive radio surveys to find supernovas hidden by gas and dust.]]> Pasadena CA (SPX) May 29, 2009 - A long-proposed tool for hunting planets has netted its first catch - a Jupiter-like planet orbiting one of the smallest stars known. The technique, called astrometry, was first attempted 50 years ago to search for planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets.]]> Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 29, 2009 - Space shuttle Endeavour now is planned to be moved from Launch Pad 39B to 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Sunday, May 31, weather permitting. Endeavour is targeted to lift off June 13 on a 16-day mission to the International Space Station.]]> Berkeley CA (SPX) May 29, 2009 - The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's outskirts, where a billion-year plunge to the center begins.]]> Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 29, 2009 - NASA has successfully launched two hypersonic experiments as secondary payloads atop a NASA-built Terrier-Orion two-stage research sounding rocket from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Va., at 9:52 a.m. PDT.]]> Coral Gables FL (SPX) May 29, 2009 - People have always wondered where we, our Earth, our galaxy, come from. A group of scientist has now driven that quest one step further and taken a peak at how the stars that gave rise to most of the material found on our universe formed over cosmic history.]]> Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2009 - Take one space shuttle, seven highly trained astronauts, tons of equipment, and one legendary orbiting telescope and you have the 5.3 million-mile odyssey that was the final servicing mission for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.]]> Toronto, Canada (SPX) May 29, 2009 - Magellan Aerospace has announced the award to its Winnipeg-based division, Bristol Aerospace, of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) satellite bus development contract with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) of Vancouver.]]> Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 29, 2009 - Although Captain Kirk and crew could zip over to a planet at warp speed and teleport down to the surface to check if it was inhabited, current-day scientists will generally have to search for life from a distance. New research gives This handedness, or homochirality, is characteristic of life on Earth.]]> Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2009 - On May 30, 2009, the John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science, also called The Health Museum, will launch the U.S. premiere of Facing Mars. The exhibit features interactive stations that encourage visitors to "walk on Mars," test and launch rockets, "fly over" the Martian landscape and consider the implications humans face in their quest to reach the Red Planet. Facing Mars will be on display through September 7.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 29, 2009 - Space mission 20, dubbed "increment", which will be known as expedition 21 after the Soyuz TMA-15 docks with the ISS, has particular historical significance for space exploration.]]>