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Chinese Female Taikonaut IdentifiedOnchan, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2010 Sources in China have confirmed the identity of one of the two female Air Force pilots currently vying to become China's first woman in space. Captain Wang Yaping, 32, a Transport Pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), and another currently unidentified colleague were selected in March, from a pool of fifteen female candidates, and joined five male jet fighter pilots to form China's second taikonaut group. Wang had been widely identified in the Chinese media as one of five ... read more |
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  SkyTerra One Satellite Sends First Signals From Space Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from LightSquared's SkyTerra 1 following the satellite's launch at 12:29 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 14 on an International Launch Services Proton vehicl ... more | .. |
  Soyuz Returns To Earth Earlier Than Planned Russia's Soyuz TMA-19 spaceship with a Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronauts on board will return to Earth earlier than planned because of an OSCE summit due on December 1-2 in Astana, a spokesman f ... more | .. |
  Teams Evaluate GUCP Data As Repairs To ET Cracks Continue Over the weekend at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians took additional measurements to ensure the best possible alignment of the newly installed ground umbilical c ... more | .. |
  Eartly Dust Tails Point To Alien Worlds Did you know that the Earth has a dust tail? The Spitzer Space Telescope sailed right through it a few months ago, giving researchers a clear idea of what it looks like. That could be a big help to ... more |
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  A Softer Landing on the Moon Getting something onto the surface of the Moon intact is always a challenge. Gravity pulls you in. There's no atmosphere to slow you down. Parachutes don't work. Your only hope is to use thrusters t ... more | .. |
  Space Station Spacewalk Under Russian Program Planned For Today Two Russian cosmonauts will float outside one of the International Space Station's hatchways on Monday to perform a grab bag of spacewalking tasks that outfit the Russian segment for future assembly ... more | .. |
  Driving Through A Field Of Small Craters Opportunity has been navigating through a field of small impact craters on her way to Endeavour crater. On Sol 2411 (Nov. 5, 2010), the rover performed an in-place 40-degree turn for communication. ... more |
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  Saturn Then And Now: 30 Years Since Voyager Visit Ed Stone, project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission, remembers the first time he saw the kinks in one of Saturn's narrowest rings. It was the day the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approac ... more | .. |
 Light And Dark In The Phoenix Lake They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but with planets, first impressions do count. New images from the German Aerospace Center operated High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space A ... more | .. |
 SSTL Satellite Steps Aside To Reduce Space Junk Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully repositioned the UK-DMC-1 spacecraft, which is reaching the end of its operational life, using unspent propellant to reduce the orbital lifeti ... more | .. |
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 CIRS Reveals Saturn Is on a Cosmic Dimmer Switch Like a cosmic light bulb on a dimmer switch, Saturn emitted gradually less energy each year from 2005 to 2009, according to observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. But unlike an ordinary bulb, Sa ... more | .. |
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 Leaking seal may have scrubbed shuttle A misaligned seal may have caused a hydrogen gas leak that canceled space shuttle Discovery's launch attempt Nov. 5, officials said. ... more |
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  Japan confirms space probe brought home asteroid dust A Japanese deep-space probe became the first ever to collect asteroid dust during a seven-year voyage that ended with its return to Earth over the Australian desert this year, Japan said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
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 Discovery ET Issues Increase With New Cracks Overnight, crews removed space shuttle Discovery's ground umbilical carrier assembly, or GUCA, which includes the flight seal, the 7-inch quick disconnect, or QD and the carrier plate, known as the ... more |
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