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Courting India In SpaceSydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 26, 2010 It's a busy time for watching international relations in space. Then again, given the current state of international relations on Earth, it's not surprising that spaceflight looks so dynamic. We have had a short and controversial visit by the Administrator of NASA to China, and recently, new overtures of co-operation between the USA and India on several strategic and economic fronts. Spaceflight has been prominent among these. The main issue, at least in the short term, has been an easing of restr ... read more |
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  New ISS Crew Begins Pre-Flight Exams The main and the back-up crews of the next mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will begin two-day pre-flight exams on Wednesday, a Russian space official said. The main crew compr ... more | .. |
  Savory Sea Salt Sensor To Get Cooked And Chilled While most Americans are traveling to family gatherings this week for Thanksgiving, a team of scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., and the Goddard Space Flight Center ... more | .. |
 Glory Team Overcomes Engineering Obstacles Engineers have faced and overcome a number of unique challenges in recent years while preparing NASA's newest climate-monitoring mission for launch. Yet the engineering has begun to gel, and enginee ... more | .. |
 Exp 25 Crew Prepares For Departure Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock ceremonially handed over command of the International Space Station to Flight Engineer and Expedition 26 Commander Scott Kelly Wednesday. Wheelock and Fli ... more |
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  Cassini Back To Normal, Ready For Enceladus NASA's Cassini spacecraft resumed normal operations, Nov. 24. All science instruments have been turned back on, the spacecraft is properly configured and Cassini is in good health. Mission managers ... more | .. |
 Fewer Risks If Space Science Missions Managed By One Agency Earth and space science missions developed and implemented by federal agencies in collaboration typically result in additional complexity and cost and increased risks from divided responsibilities a ... more | .. |
  NASA argues for extra 2011 shuttle mission NASA should fly an extra shuttle mission to the International Space Station in 2011 as commercial spacecraft are likely to be delayed, the agency's head says. ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Checks out Intrepid Crater Opportunity has been navigating through a field of small impact craters on her way to Endeavour crater. Opportunity has has now exceeded 25 kilometers (15 miles) of odometry on the surface of Mars! ... more |
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 Russia To Spend 2 Bln Dollars For Space Clean-Up Russia's Rocket and Space Corporation Energia announced Tuesday that it will build a special orbital pod designed for sweeping-up the near-Earth space from satellite debris. The system was est ... more | .. |
  Condition Of China's Lunar Probe To Determine Future Application The chief designer of China's second unmanned lunar probe, Chang'e-2, said on Tuesday that the probe's "fate" would depend on its actual condition when it finishes its mission about six months later ... more | .. |
 Should We Stay Or Should We Go Back in the late 1960s, the environmental movement was in a tizzy over predictions that overpopulation would soon cause mass human starvation and eventually kill the planet. But the Malthusian visio ... more | .. |
  Neptec Wins Canadian Space Agency Contract To Develop A New Generation Of Lunar Rovers Neptec Design Group has won a contract with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop the new Lunar Exploration Light Rover (LELR) - an exciting new generation of space exploration technology. ... more |
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  NASA Satellite Reaches Orbit, Begins Astrobiology Experiments The Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses, or O/OREOS, nanosatellite managed by NASA's Ames Research Center, successfully launched at 5:25 p.m. PST on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, from Alaska Aero ... more | .. |
  FAA issues private spacecraft permit The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration issued the first-ever license for a commercial spacecraft to re-enter Earth's atmosphere from orbit, officials say. ... more | .. |
New York wants space shuttle for museum New York City wants to be home to one of NASA's space shuttles when the shuttle fleet is retired in 2011, city officials say. ... more | .. |
 China lags in scientific literacy China is 20 years behind developed countries when it comes to scientific literacy but is gaining, a survey published Sunday indicates. ... more |
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 NASA ready to 'wake up' Cassini probe NASA says it is ready to reactivate the Cassini space probe orbiting Saturn after it switched to a "safe mode" on Nov. 2 and stopped sending science data. ... more | .. |
 Mission to far side of moon proposed A U.S. aerospace company says it is proposing a mission to send a crew to a stationary spot in orbit over the far side of the moon. ... more | .. |
 Earth bacteria could survive on Mars Common Earth bacteria could, in theory, survive in a dormant state in the harsh conditions on Mars for more than a million years, U.K. researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Russia To Start Work On Nuclear Space Engine Next Year Russia's Energia space corporation said on Tuesday it is planning to start working on standardized space modules with nuclear-powered propulsion systems next year. Energia director Vitaly Lopo ... more |
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  Putting The Squeeze On Fat Cells From fad diets to exercise programs, Americans continue to fight the battle of the bulge. Now they'll have help from recent Tel Aviv University research that has developed a new method to look at ho ... more | .. |
  Robots To Rescue Wounded On Battlefield A robot being tested now may soon have the ability to rescue wounded Soldiers under fire without risking additional lives. The Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, or BEAR, has been tested over the ... more | .. |
 Underwater Robots On Course To The Deep Sea Robots do not have to breathe. For this reason they can dive longer than any human. Equipped with the necessary sensor technology they inspect docks or venture down to the ocean fl oor to search for ... more | .. |
  Making The Passage Of Time Invisible And The Illusion Of A Star Trek Transporter While a range of ingenious man-made materials bring us ever closer to realising the possibility of cloaking objects from visible light, research from Imperial College London is now taking invisibili ... more |
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