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Third Repair Spacewalk Set For MondayHouston TX (SPX) Aug 16, 2010 After completing several days of analysis and refining procedures, International Space Station managers and mission operations personnel met Sunday and gave final approval for a third spacewalk Monday by Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson to install a spare ammonia pump in the station's starboard truss as well as approval to restart and activate half of the station's cooling system that became inoperable two weeks ago due to a failure of the pump in the station's starb ... read more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Aug 12, 2010Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson have completed the second of three spacewalks to remove the failed ammonia coolant Pump Module on the S1 truss of the International Space Station that failed July 31. Their spacewalk ended at 3:53 p.m. EDT Wednesday. Wheelock successfully closed the quick disconnect valve for the final fluid connector for the failed ammo ... more  
Inuvik, Canada (SPX) Aug 12, 2010On 10 August 2010, the German Aerospace Center inaugurated its first satellite data receiving station in Inuvik, Canada. DLR will use the new ground station particularly to receive data for the German TanDEM-X satellite mission. Using the large, 13-metre antenna, partner countries Germany and Canada as well as scientists from around the world and other external users will be able to access ... more 
Washington (AFP) Aug 11, 2010Astronauts from the International Space Station on Wednesday removed a failed ammonia pump from the outside of the orbiting spaceship during a second spacewalk to fix the station's cooling system. "The work has gone extremely well today," NASA said after astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson wrapped up work on the exterior of the ISS, some 350 kilometers (217 miles) above the Ear ... more |
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NASA's FASTSAT Satellite Arrives At KodiakHuntsville AL (SPX) Aug 12, 2010 NASA's first microsatellite designed to create a capability that increases opportunities for secondary, scientific and technology payloads, or rideshares, to be flown at lower cost than before has arrived at Kodiak Island, Alaska, to begin final launch preparations. The Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, arrived at the Kodiak Launch Complex on Aug. 10 from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Following final checkout, the just under 400-pounds satell ... read more |
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