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 Washington (AFP) Nov 18, 2009 
The space shuttle Atlantis successfully docked Wednesday with the International Space Station and the hatch separating the crews was opened for the traditional welcoming ceremony, NASA said. The shuttle and its six astronauts left Florida's Kennedy Space Center without a hitch on Monday on a 11-day voyage to deliver a 20,000-pound (9,071-kilogram) haul of spare parts to the ISS. ... read more 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2009The U.S. ambassador to Moscow confirmed on Tuesday that the United States will continue to use Russian Soyuz spacecraft after space shuttles retire from service in 2010. "Soon, when space shuttles are taken out of operation, we will only be using your Soyuz rockets to put our astronauts into orbit," John Beyrle said in an online conference hosted by Gazeta.ru. The new Orion ... more
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Titusville, Fla. (UPI) Nov 18, 2009 NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge competition, with a $400,000 prize, will test gloves independent inventors designed and constructed for use in space. The event, to be held Thursday at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Titusville, Fla., near the Kennedy Space Center, is open to the public. The nationwide competition focuses on developing improved pressure suit gloves for astronauts ... more  
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Nov 18, 2009 NASA says it failed to free its stuck Mars explorer Spirit on the first attempt. Officials at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said preliminary data from Tuesday's experiment indicate the rover stopped moving less than 1 second after it sensed more lateral tilt than permitted. A tight limit on vehicle roll and pitch of less than 1 degree change was set for the first drive ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 19, 2009NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars. Drawing on observations from NASA's Mars missions, the "Be a Martian" Web site will enable the public to participate as citizen scientists to improve Martian maps, take part in research tasks, and assist Mars science teams studying ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Nov 18, 2009The Director General of the Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission, Priyantha Kariyapperuma and Professor Sir Martin Sweeting of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), have signed a landmark agreement. This agreement starts a Sri Lankan national space capability by providing an SSTL Earth Observation satellite and commencing the definition and design of Sri Lanka's first ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2009Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look a bit rough near the crater rims; around larger craters, long rays or chains of secondary craters radiate away from the crater rims. Some Martian craters are similar to these craters, but Mars also ... more 
Rio De Janeiro (AFP) Nov 17, 2009The second man to set foot on the moon, former US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, urged Brazil to start investing in manned space flights if it doesn't want to miss out on their huge economic potential. It would be an "unforgivable mistake" if a country in full development like Brazil failed to plan for its future in space, Aldrin, 69 told Globo.com in a telephone interview Tuesday shortly after ... more |
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