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 Houston, Texas (AFP) July 31, 2009 
The multinational crew of the space shuttle Endeavour prepared to return to Earth on Friday, following a marathon mission to the International Space Station. There was only a slight chance that rain showers near NASA's Kennedy Space Center runway in Florida might force the seven-member crew to spend an extra day in orbit, according to forecasters. "It's time to come back." said Endeavou ... read more
Houstin TX (SPX) Jul 31, 2009Twin satellite deployments and a check of the systems that will control Endeavour's return home to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, are on tap today as the shuttle leads the International Space Station in orbit. The crew was awakened at 1:03 a.m. CDT to the sounds of "I Got You Babe," performed by Sonny and Cher. The song was a special request for Koichi Wakata, the first Japan Aerospace ... more
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Washington DC (SPX) Jul 31, 2009The Obama Administration has an opportunity to fundamentally reformulate United States space policies that are anchored in Cold War-era mindsets, according to the director of an American Academy of Arts and Sciences study. At a Capitol Hill briefing in conjunction with the release of three new policy monographs, experts outlined the current state of U.S. and foreign space policy and ... more  
Louisville KY (SPX) Jul 31, 2009Saturn is rotating five minutes faster than previously thought, a fact that sheds new light on the planet's composition. Wave patterns in Saturn's clouds show that scientists have been using the wrong rotation rate for the planet, says Timothy Dowling, a planetary atmospheres researcher at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Ky., who helped make the discovery. An article on the ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 31, 2009Mars rover engineers at JPL are winding down testing of different escape maneuvers using a test rover in a sand box filled with soil to mimic the Martian surface. It is possible that in early August the first extraction attempts with Spirit rover, which is dug-in on Mars, might take place. This week, longer-duration test runs continued, and the team drove the rover several meters, or ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 30, 2009NASA and ATK unveil the completed Ares I first stage five-segment solid rocket booster today in Promontory, Utah. The completed solid rocket booster is now installed horizontally in a test stand that was modified from the space shuttle's four-segment configuration to fit the new five-segment Ares I booster. Instrumentation will be installed over the next month in preparation for the first ... more 
Paris (AFP) July 29, 2009A day on Saturn is pretty short, and it just got shorter. The time it takes the beringed behemoth to complete a spin on its axis has just been calculated by astrophysicists at 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds, more than five minutes shorter than previous estimates. A planet comprising clouds of gas driven by layers of mighty jetstreams, Saturn has no lasting visual landmarks as a rock ... more  
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jul 30, 2009Boeing announced that it plans to bid as prime contractor for the Exploration Ground Launch Services program to provide ground systems integration and launch operations for Constellation, NASA's next-generation space-exploration initiative. EGLS will cover ground processing, assembly, testing, integration, launch and recovery services for Constellation's Ares launch vehicles and Ori ... more |
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