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New U.S. space policy sets global agendaWashington (UPI) Jun 29, 2010 Advanced science and technology industries worldwide will have new opportunities in an overarching space policy unveiled by President Barack Obama as part of his strategy to boost investment and speed economic recovery. The policy precedes an anticipated end of the space shuttle program this year and exploration of closer U.S.-Russian collaboration, including American use of the Russian Soyuz program for transport to the International Space Station. A U.S.-led development of a commercial ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) June 28, 2010President Barack Obama on Monday laid out an overarching new US policy on outer space, calling for more international and private sector cooperation on exploration, climate change and orbiting debris. The release of the new policy did not contain new, specific announcements, but served as a blueprint for government departments and foreign governments on US goals and philosophy on space explo ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jun 29, 2010Last year, high school science teacher Ron Dantowitz of Brookline, Mass., played a clever trick on three of his best students. He asked them to plan a hypothetical mission to fly onboard a NASA DC-8 aircraft and observe a spacecraft disintegrate as it came screaming into Earth's atmosphere. How would they record the event? What could they learn? For 6 months, they worked hard on their assi ... more  
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 29, 2010Arianespace has announced that it has signed the launch Service and Solutions contract with Argentine operator ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales Sociedad Anonima) to orbit the Arsat-1 satellite by mid-2012. Weighing about 2,900 kg at launch, Arsat-1 will be placed into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 or Soyuz launcher from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spac ... more |
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Soyuz spacecraft redocks on ISS: reportMoscow (AFP) June 29, 2010 A Soyuz spacecraft briefly undocked from the International Space Station and re-docked at a different module late Monday, Russian space officials said. The Soyuz, with Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and US astronauts Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock on board, undocked from the Zvezda module and docked with the Rassvet module, which is due to be fully adapted to the ISS on July 26, officials quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency said. The Zvezda module would be used to dock a Progress car ... read more |
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