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NASA books seats on Soyuz through 2015Greenbelt, Md. (UPI) Mar 14, 2011 NASA says it has signed a $753 million agreement with the Russian space agency Roscosmos for 12 round trips for astronauts to the International Space Station. The arrangement will let NASA fly a dozen U.S. or partner agency astronauts on Russia's venerable Soyuz spacecraft between 2014 and 2015 at a cost of about $62.7 million per seat, SPACE.com reported Monday. That's up from the $55.8 million per seat NASA paid for six upcoming round trips to the ISS in 2013 and 2014. "It's an 8.5 per ... read more |
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  Falcon 9 To Launch SES-8 To GTO In 2013 As the Satellite 2011 conference kicked off in Washington, D.C., Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and SES today announced an agreement to launch an SES satellite using the Falcon 9 rocket. ... more | .. |
  Goddard's Chief Scientist Talks About The 'Supermoon' Phenomenon Dr. James Garvin, chief scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, answers your questions about the 'supermoon' phenomenon. b>Question: What is the definition of a supermoon and why is ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 Moves To Final Assembly Building The heavy-lift Ariane 5 for Arianespace's second launch of 2011 is now in the Final Assembly Building at Europe's Spaceport, where it will be fitted with the dual payload of Yahsat Y1A and Intelsat ... more | .. |
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  Time Is Now For Human Mission To Mars "The time for a human mission to Mars is now," write the editors of "A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet," a collection of articles published in book form this month by the Journal ... more | .. |
  FASTSAT Mission Update To date, the MINI-ME instrument has acquired more than 29 days of observations at optimal science level (i.e., running with the power inputs and other characteristics to which it was initially calib ... more | .. |
  Engineer falls to death at NASA launch pad An engineer fell to his death Monday at the launch pad where the shuttle Endeavour is set to launch next month, the US space agency said. ... more | .. |
  NASA Seeks Partners To Manage Night Rover, Nano-Sat Launcher Challenges NASA is seeking partner organizations to manage the agency's upcoming Night Rover and Nano-Satellite Launcher Centennial Challenges. NASA's Centennial Challenges are prize competitions for technolog ... more |
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 Fasting For Science On ISS With almost half of the MagISStra mission behind him, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli has not had much free time on the International Space Station. In addition to his heavy workload, he has also been o ... more | .. |
 NASA Unveiling New Rocket Integration Facility At Wallops NASA will unveil its new rocket integration facility at the Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. EDT on March 22. The Horizontal Integration Facility ... more | .. |
 Russia delays ISS launch for 'technical reasons' Russia is delaying the planned launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station on March 30 due to a technical problem with the spacecraft, space agency Roskosmos said Monday. ... more | .. |
 LRO Images Lunar Farside In Stunning Detail Because the moon is tidally locked (meaning the same side always faces Earth), it was not until 1959 that the farside was first imaged by the Soviet Luna 3 spacecraft (hence the Russian names for pr ... more |
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 Arianespace Moves To New Launcher Designation For Ariane, Soyuz And Vega The launcher components for Arianespace's third Ariane 5 mission of 2011 arrived this week in French Guiana, marking the first step in preparations for a heavy-lift flight with the ST-2 and GSAT-8 t ... more | .. |
 Color View From Orbit Shows Mars Rover Beside Crater NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has nearly completed its three-month examination of a crater informally named "Santa Maria," but before the rover resumes its overland trek, an orbiting cam ... more | .. |
  Vesta - An Asteroid In 3D What might asteroid Vesta look like? In a new animation, researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) have recreated the asteroid in 3D. In the animati ... more | .. |
 Houston To Name Avenue After Soviet Cosmonaut Gagarin The Russkiy Mir foundation will next week name a park avenue in the U.S. city of Houston after the first man in space, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. To mark the 50th anniversary of the histor ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
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 Shuttle Endeavour At Launch Pad Liftoff Practice Set After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on March 11, space shuttle Endeavour now awaits the next major milestone for its upcoming flight to the International S ... more | .. |
 United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches Fourth NRO Mission In Six Months A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office lifted off from Space Launch Complex-37 here at 6:38 p.m. local time EST Friday (Mar 11). Designate ... more | .. |
  How Do People Respond To Being Touched By A Robot For people, being touched can initiate many different reactions from comfort to discomfort, from intimacy to aggression. But how might people react if they were touched by a robot? Would they recoil ... more | .. |
 SES gives SpaceX first geostationary satellite launch deal Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES said on Monday it had reached an agreement with the privately owned company SpaceX for a 2013 launch that will be the first geostationary satellite placement using the US firm's Falcon 9 rocket. ... more |
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 How Can Robots Get Our Attention Getting someone's attention can be easy with a loud noise or a shout, but what if the situation calls for a little more tact? How can a robot use subtle cues to attract a human's notice and tell whe ... more | .. |
NASA green lights Discovery launch for Thursday NASA gave the green light for the space shuttle Discovery to blast off Thursday, saying the countdown to the aging shuttle's final mission before retirement was going "beautifully." ... more | .. |
 Testing Mars Missions In Morocco "This site is called Moon 2," says Gian Gabriele Ori of the International Research School of Planetary Sciences (IRSPS). He pauses, looks around, and then says with a laugh, "I don't remember the re ... more | .. |
 The Future For Space Missions A new report from the National Research Council recommends a suite of planetary science flagship missions for the decade 2013-2022 that could provide a steady stream of important new discoveries abo ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
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 Hawaii Astronomers Keep Tabs On Asteroid Apophis On January 31 University of Hawaii at Manoa astronomers used the UH 2.2-meter telescope on Mauna Kea to take the first new images in over three years of the potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroid ... more | .. |
  Daylight saving has downside While people groan and mumble about lost sleep with the "spring forward" of daylight saving time, there can be even harsher effects, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Dawn Gets Vesta Target Practice There is an old chestnut about a pedestrian who once asked a virtuoso violinist near Carnegie Hall how to get to the famed concert venue. The virtuoso's answer: practice! The same applies to N ... more | .. |
 A New Dawn Coming To Vesta Deep in the asteroid belt, Dawn continues thrusting with its ion propulsion system. The spacecraft is making excellent progress in reshaping its orbit around the sun to match that of its destination ... more |
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 Indian Space Agency To Now Launch Three Satellites In April The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) proposes to launch the latest remote sensing satellite and two others in the second week of April, seeking to replace a crucial component in its fully-a ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Poised For Mercury Orbit Insertion After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft--carrying seven science instrum ... more | .. |
 Prolific NASA Orbiter Reaches Five-Year Mark NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago on March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now working overtime. The miss ... more | .. |
  SpaceX Expanding Texas Operations Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and the City of McGregor have signed a lease agreement allowing SpaceX to expand the size of its rocket development facility in McGregor. Under the deal ... more |
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