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Beginning Of Era Of Manned SpaceflightMoscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 25, 2011 April 12, 1961 - 50 years ago engineering genius of S.P.Korolev blazed the trail into space for the Earth civilization by ushering in manned spaceflight. The flight into low-Earth orbit of Vostok spacecraft carrying onboard our compatriot Y.A.Gagarin marked Vostok spacecraft and its launch vehicle were developed by Special Design Bureau No.1 (now known as RSC Energia) headed by the founder of practical cosmonautics Chief Designer academician S.P. Korolev. Taking part in the development of the spac ... read more |
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  Mutant Microbes Test Radiation Resistance Early Earth lacked an ozone layer to act as a shield against high-energy solar radiation, but microbes flourished by adapting to or finding other forms of protection from the higher ultraviolet radi ... more | .. |
  First Student-Developed Mission In Which Satellites Orbit And Communicate Two satellites designed and constructed by students at the Cockrell School of Engineering successfully separated in space March 22, completing the most crucial goal of the mission since its Nov. 19 ... more | .. |
  Data Streaming In From ISS To OSU Lab A prototype scanner aboard the International Space Station has been taking new images of Earth's coastal regions during the 16 months since it was launched, providing scientists with a new set of im ... more | .. |
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 Class Of 4000 Children: Trained Like Astronauts, Finishing Their Mission After eight weeks of exercises and classroom activities, 4000 children from more than 25 cities worldwide are about to conclude their 'Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut' challenge that promotes hea ... more | .. |
  Smartphones set to keep wristwatches timely With the younger generation opting to use their smartphones to tell time, the watch-making industry is being forced to get smart and high-tech to recapture consumers. ... more | .. |
  NASA's Successful 'Can Crush' Will Aid Heavy-Lift Rocket Design On March 23, NASA put the squeeze on a large rocket test section. Results from this structural strength test at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., will help future heavy-lift l ... more | .. |
 ASTRA Increases Reach Over All Platforms SES ASTRA has announced that it has extended its technical reach across Europe, and now serves 135 million TV homes in Europe and North Africa via its satellite fleet. This is more than half of all ... more |
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 Life Lessons In The UAE Whether or not you remember the winter of 2011 as unusually cold or snowy, an adventurous team of experts will remember its intense heat, as they searched for microbial life between sand dunes in th ... more | .. |
 WTA Releases New Satellite Operator Benchmarks Report The World Teleport Association has published a new report, Satellite Operator Benchmarks 2011, in which teleport operators worldwide rate the commercial and operational performance of the top satell ... more | .. |
  ILS Protests Unfair Subsidies To Arianespace ILS International Launch Services (ILS), citing the recurring subsidies provided to its primary competitor, Arianespace, is waging an aggressive protest and intends to pursue "all avenues of recours ... more | .. |
 Are You A Martian Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it's conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites. If t ... more |
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 Two Ariane 5 And One Soyuz Flights Are Now Being Prepared Arianespace is maintaining the mission pace with its heavy-lift and medium-weight vehicles as two Ariane 5 flights are being readied at the Spaceport in French Guiana, with a Soyuz campaign also und ... more | .. |
 Learn About Future Space Missions At Town Hall Meeting The University of Central Florida is hosting a town hall meeting on Thursday, March 31, about NASA's planetary missions in the next decade. The public meeting is sponsored by the National Rese ... more | .. |
 New 'space glue' developed Researchers at Kansas State University say they've developed a new kind of adhesive that may someday be a staple item in every astronaut's toolbox. ... more | .. |
  Cassini Finds Saturn Sends Mixed Signals Like a petulant adolescent, Saturn is sending out mixed signals. Recent data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show that the variation in radio waves controlled by the planet's rotation is different in ... 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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 XCOR And ULA Demonstrate Revolutionary Rocket Engine Nozzle Technology United Launch Alliance (ULA) and XCOR Aerospace have announced their successful hot-fire demonstrations of a lighter-weight, lower-cost approach to liquid-fueled rocket-engine vacuum nozzles. The ne ... more | .. |
 Primordial Soup Gets Spicier Stanley Miller gained fame with his 1953 experiment showing the synthesis of organic compounds thought to be important in setting the origin of life in motion. Five years later, he produced samples ... more | .. |
  Johns Hopkins Sends MESSENGER Into Mercury Orbit At about 9 p.m. EDT on Saint Patrick's Day, engineers at the Applied Physics Laboratory, a division of Johns Hopkins University, received confirmation that the MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Envi ... more | .. |
  Spacebound Bacteria Inspire Earthbound Remedies Recent research aboard the space shuttle is giving scientists a better understanding of how infectious disease occurs in space and could someday improve astronaut health and provide novel treatments ... more |
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 Roscosmos Sets April 5 For Soyuz TMA-21 Launch Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos has approved the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 piloted spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 5. The launch was originally scheduled ... more | .. |
  Later, Uranus: New Horizons Passes Another Planetary Milestone New Horizons is ready to put another planet - or at least the planet's orbit - in its rearview mirror. The Pluto-bound spacecraft crosses the path of Uranus around 6 p.m. EDT on March 18, more than ... more | .. |
 LockMart Makes Strides In Human Space Exploration Forging a new path forward to ensure safe, affordable and sustainable human exploration beyond low Earth orbit, Lockheed Martin has unveiled the first Orion spacecraft and a spacious state-of-the-ar ... more | .. |
 Commercial Rocket Engine Testing Continues At NASA Center NASA's Stennis Space Center is moving ahead in supporting Orbital Sciences Corporation testing of Aerojet's AJ26 engines for commercial cargo flights to the International Space Station. Orbita ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech
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  84 Teams To Compete In NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon's surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Grea ... more | .. |
  Dawn Opens Its Eyes, Checks Its Instruments After a hibernation of about six months, the framing cameras on board NASA's Dawn spacecraft have again ventured a look into the stars. The spacecraft also powered up its visible and infrared mappin ... more | .. |
 KinetX Provides Key Navigation Support for NASA Mission to Orbit Mercury On the evening of March 17, 2011, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft fired its main engine for 15 minutes to perform a Mercury capture maneuver and became the first spacecraft in history to orbit the inner ... more | .. |
 Astronaut Cady Coleman Shares Her Love of the Flute from Space Astronaut Cady Coleman took time during an interview with reporters to play her flute onboard the International Space Station. "I play the flute on the ground and it's one of the things I love ... more |
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 A New View Of Moon NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) team released Tuesday the final set of data from the mission's exploration phase along with the first measurements from its new life as a science satellite. ... more | .. |
 From Outer Sol To The Inner Rock Human Space Is Growing It's easy for a space enthusiast to feel depressed right now. The end of the Shuttle program is nigh. NASA seems neglected and directionless. Budgetary issues threaten spaceflight globally. Bu ... more | .. |
 Large Hadron Collider Could Be World'S First Time Machine If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider - the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year - could be the first machine capabl ... more | .. |
 When A Bus Becomes A Satellite Alphabus has met Alphasat. Europe's largest telecom satellite is taking shape with final assembly and testing ready to begin in Toulouse, France. Planned for launch in late 2012 on Ariane 5, Alphasa ... more |
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