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Extra shuttle mission this year in doubtCape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) Jan 14, 2011 Delays in the space shuttle Discovery's mission for repairs to its fuel tank raise doubts about an extra shuttle mission this year, U.S. officials say. Two more shuttle trips were planned before the aging three-orbiter fleet was to be retired when a third, final mission was approved by Congress last year in a NASA authorization bill signed by President Barack Obama, SPACE.com reported. But funding for the measure has not been appropriated as the country operates under a continuing resolu ... read more |
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  Studying Paolo's Brains ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli, now working as a flight engineer on the International Space Station, is busy with a range of scientific experiments. The latest is peering inside his head to help unders ... more | .. |
 Radius Block Installation To Begin On Discovery Tank Technicians will begin installing additional support structures, called radius blocks, to space shuttle Discovery's external fuel tank's support beams known as "stringers" as the shuttle stands insi ... more | .. |
  Indonauts Must Wait For A Better Rocket The 2010 Christmas Day failure of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle was a sad blow to India's space program. ISRO, India's space agency, lost a rocket and a major satellite. There's an ... more | .. |
  Cassini To Probe Rhea For Clues To Saturn Rings Saturn's icy moon Rhea might seem a strange place to look for clues to understanding the vast majestic rings encircling Saturn. But that's what NASA's Cassini spacecraft plans to do on its next flyb ... more |
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 Space Adventures Signs Three Seat Soyuz Deal For 2013 Manifest Space Adventures has reached an agreement with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) and Rocket Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) to commercially offer three seats on the So ... more | .. |
  ATM Is Readied For Its February Launch On Ariane 5 The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for Arianespace's year-opening mission in 2011 - which also will be the milestone 200th flight of an Ariane launcher - is ready for integration on its Ariane 5, ... more | .. |
  Planet Affects A Star's Spin The discovery of a hot Jupiter exoplanet that transfers orbital momentum to its host star may hold the key to a clearer understanding of the evolution of common planetary systems, according to findi ... more | .. |
  Deal expands commercial travel to ISS A U.S. company, Space Adventures, says it struck a deal to offer tourists a chance to go to the International Space Station. ... more |
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 International Space Station and Mars Conference at George Washington University Explore Mars, Inc. is pleased to announce a two-day conference called "The International Space Station and Mars" (ISSMars-DC). This conference will take place on April 6-7, 2011 at the Jack Morton A ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Scalable SIRU Selected As Inertial Reference Unit For Boeing Satellites Northrop Grumman reports that its Scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit (Scalable SIRU) has been selected as the inertial reference unit of choice for Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems satellit ... more | .. |
  NASA Radar Reveals Features on Asteroid Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in the California desert on Dec. 11 and 12, 2010, revealed defining characteristics of recently discovered asteroid 2010 JL33. The images h ... more | .. |
 Taiwan develops face-recognising vending machine A face-recognising vending machine developed in Taiwan is able to offer hair-growing tonic to balding men and razors to people with beards, one of the inventors said Friday. ... more |
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 Space oddities go on auction in US A freeze-dried beef pot roast, the business card of the first man to walk on the moon, and a Playboy calendar that rode to space in 1969 are among a mishmash of old space items on US auction this week. ... more | .. |
  Wave Power Could Contain Fusion Plasma Researchers at the University of Warwick's Centre for Fusion Space and Astrophysics and the UK Atomic Energy Authority's Culham Centre for Fusion Energy may have found a way to channel the flux and ... more | .. |
 NASA aims to launch Discovery Feb 24 NASA said Tuesday it will aim to launch the space shuttle Discovery on February 24, after engineers found a way to shore up cracks on the external fuel tank that have delayed its final liftoff. ... more | .. |
Google launches global kids science fair Google on Tuesday launched its first ever global science fair for young people aged 13 to 18, with the grand prize being a trip to the Galapagos Islands and a 50,000-dollar scholarship. ... more |
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 Kepler Mission Discovers Its First Rocky Planet NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. ... more | .. |
  Lunar water may have come from comets - scientists Water on the Moon came in large part from comets which bombarded the lunar surface in its infancy, a study published on Sunday suggests. ... more | .. |
Home appliances get 'smart' at CES Mobile phones aren't the only things getting smart. Home appliances are too. ... more | .. |
 An Escalator To Space - Not Very Far Away The day may not be far away when an elevator attendant asks your preferred destination - low earth orbit (LEO) or geostationary orbit (GSO). Research is fast progressing in advanced countries on des ... more |
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 Ex-NASA worker charged military tech sale to SKorea An American who worked for NASA was charged with illegally shipping infrared military technology to South Korea, the Department of Justice announced Monday. ... more | .. |
  Rover Continues To Explore Santa Maria Crater As the New (Earth) Year begins, Opportunity is continuing to explore the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. The exploration campaign consists of wide-baseline imaging surveys wit ... more | .. |
 Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Goes Live Lockheed Martin has announced that the satellite command and control system - the Multi-Mission Satellite Operations Center Ground System Architecture- recently went operational with the successful ... more | .. |
 NASA spots tiny Earth-like planet, too hot for life NASA has spotted a tiny, rocky planet about the size of Earth doing a speedy orbit of a star outside our solar system, but its scorching temperatures are too hot for life, the space agency said Monday. ... more |
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