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Space tourism ticket prices could dropHouston (UPI) Oct 25, 2010 Two space tourism companies say the price for a trip into space could drop from millions of dollars down to hundreds of thousands by late 2011. A brief trip into space featuring a few minutes of weightlessness and a view of the earth 62 miles below could be within reach of the merely well-off and not just the mega-rich, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday. "Now, the sky is no longer the limit," said Richard Branson, whose Virgin Group is one the companies planning to offer commercial s ... read more |
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  Let Me Hear Your Heart Beat What if monitoring your heart rate were as easy as listening to music while you jog? Thanks to advances in space technology, an iPhone will soon be able to do double duty: keep you in tune with your ... more | .. |
  NASA Awards Contract To Team FREDNET Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender Team FREDNET has been awarded a NASA Innovative Lunar Demonstrations Data (ILDD) contract at the maximum government purchase value of $10.01 million. As a recipient of this ILDD contract, Team FREDN ... more | .. |
 US Space Policy In 2010 The United States is committed to facing the challenges that we find today where the benefits of space permeate almost every facet of our lives. The National Space Policy renews our pledge of cooper ... more | .. |
  Discovery launch set for November 1: NASA The shuttle Discovery will be launched with a six-member crew November 1 on its last scheduled flight to the International Space Station, NASA said Monday. ... more | .. |
  NASA chief says pleased with 'comprehensive' China visit NASA chief Charles Bolden has said his visit to China last week laid the groundwork for future cooperation between the two countries on manned space flight and space exploration. ... more |
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KSC FL (SPX) Oct 25, 2010Overnight, technicians completed replacing two seals where there previously was a small hypergolic fuel leak at Discovery's right-hand crossfeed line flange. The four orbital maneuvering and reaction control system tanks now are being refilled with propellants. The work should not impact the targeted launch date on Nov. 1. b>Seal Replacement Work Begins on Discovery br> /b> S ... more 
KSC FL (SPX) Oct 25, 2010The countdown is on: NASA has only two shuttle launches left. The U.S. space agency is retiring its shuttle fleet next year and encouraging the development of commercial human spaceflight vehicles. Space shuttle Discovery is set to launch November 1 Last week, engineers found that Discovery had developed a fuel leak. John Shannon, the space shuttle program manager at NASA's Joh ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 25, 2010Astrobiologists searching for life beyond Earth need to know how well life and its building blocks fare in space. To find out, NASA will monitor a miniature "crew" of organic molecules and microbes orbiting Earth for 6 months. "This will be the first mission since the early 1970s to test a life form's mettle outside the protection of Earth's magnetic field," says science team member Wayne ... more |
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Planets Discovered Around Elderly Binary StarAustin TX (SPX) Oct 25, 2010 An international consortium of astronomers, including undergraduate and graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin, have discovered a planetary system consisting of at least two massive Jupiter-like planets orbiting the extremely close binary star system NN Serpentis. The team used a wide variety of observations taken over two decades from many telescopes, including two at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory in West Texas. The results are published online in the cu ... read more |
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