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Preparations On Pace For Discovery MissionCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 27, 2010 Less than a week before launch, technicians at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida continue careful preparations on space shuttle Discovery for the STS-133 mission. Workers are close to wrapping up the installation and connection of ordnance on the shuttle stack and will begin closing out the solid rocket booster forward skirt tonight. The STS-133 crew, commanded by veteran astronaut Steve Lindsey, will conduct its final ascent simulation at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston today and revi ... read more |
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  Collision Spills New Moon Secrets Scientists led by Brown University are offering the first detailed explanation of the crater formed when a NASA rocket and spacecraft slammed into the Moon last October and information about the com ... more | .. |
  Sony presses 'stop' on Walkman in Japan After three decades and more than 220 million units, Sony has stopped selling its Walkman cassette player in Japan, the company said Monday, admitting the gadget could not keep up in the digital age. ... more | .. |
  Progress Freight To Undock For ISS Dump Run South Pacific The Progress M-05M cargo spacecraft will be undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, a spokesman for Mission Control Center said on Monday. The freighter will then be "bu ... more | .. |
  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 |
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Washington DC (VOA) Oct 26, 2010The 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 cooperation in the belief that with strengthened international collaboration and reinvigorated U.S. leadership, all nations and peoples will find their horizons broadened, their knowledge enhanced, and thei ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2010The 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. The launch date was announced after a meeting of NASA officials at the Kennedy Space Center to determine whether the orbiter and crew were ready for the 11-day mission, the space agency said. "We're in great shape out at the pad," Lau ... more 
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 |
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Spaceport America Runway DedicatedUpham NM (SPX) Oct 25, 2010 The New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) has dedicated the nearly twomile long "Governor Bill Richardson Spaceway" at Spaceport America, representing significant progress toward launching commercial customers into space from the desert of New Mexico. Governor Bill Richardson, Sir Richard Branson and approximately 30 of more than 380 Virgin Galactic future astronauts attended the event along with guests from around the world and watched a flyover and landing by Virgin Galactic's WhiteKnightTwo, in ... read more |
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