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April 05, 2011
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Astronauts head to ISS on spaceship Gagarin
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 5, 2011
Three astronauts on Tuesday blasted off for the International Space Station in a spaceship named after the first man in space Yuri Gagarin in honour of his historic flight 50 years ago. The two Russians and one American left on a Soyuz rocket from the main launchpad at Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the same location where Gagarin went on his historic space mission on April 12, 1961. The flight in the early hours of the morning left a bright beam of light against the background of t ... read more

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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA delays shuttle Endeavour launch to April 29
NASA on Monday said it will delay the shuttle Endeavour's launch by 10 days, setting a new date for April 29 to avoid a conflict with a Russian capsule's arrival at the International Space Station. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Getting To Mars Means Stopping And Landing
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EXO LIFE

Poison Could Have Set Stage For Life
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SPACE TRAVEL

Russia And US To Discuss Nuke-Powered Spaceship Project
Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos and NASA will discuss the development of a nuclear-powered spaceship on April 15, agency director Anatoly Perminov said on Monday. Not only the United S ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

India's GSAT-8 Delivered To French Guiana
A dual-purpose Indian satellite to be orbited on another of Arianespace's Ariane 5 missions during 2011 arrived in French Guiana today. GSAT-8 - which also is known by the INSAT-4G designation ... more
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STATION NEWS

Three New ISS Crew Members Launch From Kazakhstan
NASA astronaut Ron Garan and Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev launched in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 6:18 p.m. EDT Monda ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Blood Simple Circuitry For Cyborgs
Could electronic components made from human blood be the key to creating cyborg interfaces? Circuitry that links human tissues and nerve cells directly to an electronic device, such as a robotic lim ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

NASA Tweaks End Of Shuttle Contracts
NASA has incorporated six, one-month content adjustments that provide options for continuation of services to support fly-out of the space shuttle manifest beyond Thursday, March 31. If all options ... more
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ROBO SPACE

US lawmakers eye plan to compete with Asia on robotics
US senators unveiled an initiative Monday to try to narrow the US gap with Asian nations more advanced in robotics, proposing exposing American high school students to a curriculum heavier on technology and science. ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Launch Pad Inspections Set For Saturday Following TCDT Conclusion Friday
Technicians and engineers on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will begin detailed inspections of space shuttle Endeavour and its external fuel tank Saturday afternoon. They' ... more
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STATION NEWS

Successful First Mission For Aerospace Breakup Recorder
A Reentry Breakup Recorder (REBR) carried aboard the Japanese HTV2 vehicle during its fiery plunge into the South Pacific Ocean successfully collected data during the breakup of the HTV2 vehicle and ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Aerojet Propulsion Assists Voyager 1 Precision Maneuver At The Edge Of The Solar System
Aerojet says its thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft assisted in several critical repositionings of the spacecraft over 10 billion miles away from the sun, at the edge of the solar system. O ... more
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STATION NEWS

Station Fires Engines To Avoid Orbital Debris
At 10:36 p.m. EDT, ground controllers moved the International Space Station away from a piece of orbital debris. The object is a relic from a collision between the COSMOS 2251 and Iridium 33 satelli ... more
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TECH SPACE

Black box for spacecraft tested
The first black box flight recorder designed to endure a re-entry from space survived a fiery return from low Earth orbit, its manufacturer said. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Test Stand Passes Review For Next-Generation Rocket Engine Testing
Forty-five years after its first Saturn V rocket stage test and 35 years after its first space shuttle main engine test, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center achieved a mileston ... more
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Rice researchers turn wasted data center heat into clean power
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SPACE TRAVEL

Witnesses Say Future Of NASA Human Space Flight Is Uncertain
today, in a hearing of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, witnesses expressed serious concern about the lack of clear focus by the Administration on NASA's transition from the Space Shuttle ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft
ASTRA investigates new technologies for making low cost observations of the physical parameters of the atmosphere. We develop and test platforms capable of delivering scientific instruments to altit ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Arianespace Flight VA201: Interruption Of The Countdown
In the last seconds of Ariane Flight VA201's launch countdown as the Vulcain cryogenic main stage engine was being ignited, the checkout process detected an anomaly on the launcher, interrupting the ... more
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EXO LIFE

Searching For Alien Life? Try Failed Stars
The search for alien life usually focuses on planets around other stars. But a lesser-known possibility is that life has sprung up on planets that somehow were ejected from their original solar syst ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Final Countdown Is Underway For Second Ariane 5 Flight Of 2011
Arianespace has begun the final countdown for today's heavy-lift Ariane 5 mission from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. Activities began with this morning's electrical systems checkout at the Sp ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Launch Training In Full Swing At Kennedy
At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Endeavour's six astronauts and ground crews will begin training related to the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test (TCDT) today. The STS-13 ... more
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MARSDAILY

Study Of 'Ruiz Garcia' Rock Completed
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EXO WORLDS

White Dwarfs Could Be Fertile Ground For Other Earths
Planet hunters have found hundreds of planets outside the solar system in the last decade, though it is unclear whether even one might be habitable. But it could be that the best place to look for p ... more
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TECH SPACE

MSUA Honors KVH For Innovation In Satellite Communication
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MERCURY RISING

First Color Image Of Mercury From Orbit
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MERCURY RISING

NASA probe aims to unlock Mercury's secrets
NASA scientists pored Wednesday over stunning new images of Mercury as their MESSENGER probe began a year-long mission to map the surface of the solar system's least-understood planet. ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian Soyuz set for Tuesday launch
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has been transported to its launch pad in Kazakhstan in advance of its Tuesday blastoff for a manned mission into space. ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER offers close-up of mysterious Mercury
NASA celebrated Wednesday hundreds of stunning photographs from the Mercury MESSENGER probe as it began a year-long mission to orbit and map the solar system's mysterious innermost planet. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

When Is An Asteroid Not An Asteroid
On March 29, 1807, German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers spotted Vesta as a pinprick of light in the sky. Two hundred and four years later, as NASA's Dawn spacecraft prepares to begin orbiting t ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

TEXUS 49 Lifts Off With Four German Experiments On Board
The TEXUS 49 sounding rocket lifted off from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden on 29 March 2011 at 06.01 CET. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) rocket, carrying four German exp ... more
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STATION NEWS

Japan's HTV-2 Cargo Spaceship Undocks From ISS
Japan's HTV-2 Konotori robotic cargo space ship undocked from the International Space Station at 7.45 pm Moscow time (15.45 GMT), a Russian mission control center official said on Monday. The ... more
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