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Virgin spaceship to pass new milestoneLas Cruces, New Mexico (AFP) Oct 22, 2010 The world's first private passenger spaceship will pass another milestone toward its commercial lift-off Friday, at a remote spaceport in the New Mexico desert. Flamboyant British multi-millionaire Richard Branson will commemorate the completion of the main runway at Spaceport America, near the town of Las Cruces where the Virgin Galactic project is based. SpaceShipTwo, which could carry paying customers into suborbital space by early 2012, had its maiden flight in the California desert in March ... read more |
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  Spring Has Sprung ... On Titan NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back dreamy raw images of Saturn's moon Titan that show the appearance of clouds around the moon's midsection. These bright clouds likely appeared because th ... more | .. |
  LRO Supports Historic Lunar Impact Mission The lunar rocks brought back to the Earth by the Apollo astronauts were found to have very little water, and to be much drier than rocks on Earth. An explanation for this was that the Moon formed bi ... more | .. |
  Hong Kong and China fuel Swiss watch export boom Swiss watch exports grew by more than a quarter in September, as sharp growth which began last December showed no sign of slowing especially in Hong Kong and China, industry data showed on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Past The 15-Mile Mark On Mars Opportunity crossed the 24-kilometer (15-mile) odometry mark on her way to Endeavour crater. The rover ended last week with the data backlog which limited activities over the weekend. On Sol 2 ... more | .. |
 Moon's 'treasure chest' includes silver : study Lunar soil is richer than previously thought, with traces of silver among the complex mix of elements and compounds found within one of the moon's craters, according to a study published Thursday. ... more |
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College Park MD (SPX) Oct 21, 2010Scientists at the University of Maryland and Tulane University have developed a computational model of a swimming fish that is the first to address the interaction of both internal and external forces on locomotion. The interdisciplinary research team simulated how the fish's flexible body bends, depending on both the forces from the fluid moving around it as well as the muscles inside. Un ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 21, 2010Partners in the International Space Station programme have agreed on a new standard for docking systems, which will be capable also of implementing berthing. The agreement allows a range of compatible, but not necessarily identical, mechanisms for spacecraft docking. A first agreed version of the Interface Definition Document will be released on 25 October. The International Docking System ... more  
KSC FL (SPX) Oct 21, 2010Technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida have begun preparations to replace two seals for a fuel line, which had been leaking, for shuttle Discovery's orbital maneuvering system engines. Crews will pump out propellants already inside the tanks and will replace the primary and secondary seals at a flange located at the interface where two propellant lines meet in the shuttle's ... more |
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Hylas-1 Satellite Readied For Launch From European SpaceportKourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 21, 2010 The Hylas-1 telecommunications satellite has arrived at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Its next journey will be to space, on an Ariane 5 launcher towards its operational orbit nearly 36 000 km up. The Antonov An-124 cargo jetliner bringing Hylas-1 from Bangalore, India, touched down at Rochambeau airport near the capital Cayenne late in the evening of 11 October. The satellite was then moved by road to the Guiana Space Centre, where it was taken into the S1B satellite preparation facil ... read more |
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