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NASA, Space Community Remember 'Freedom 7'Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 06, 2011 On the morning of May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7," at Launch Complex 5 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The slender, 82-foot-tall Mercury-Redstone rocket rose from the launch pad at 9:34 a.m. EST, sending Shepard on a remarkably successful, 15-minute suborbital flight. But more than that, it kick-started America's future as a spacefaring nation. On the 50th anniversary of Shepard's pioneering flight, his three daughters, ... read more |
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 NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Missions NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on one of Saturn's moons ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Images Small Craters Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater with a brief sojourn through a small field of young impact craters. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the first American into space, A ... more | .. |
 Orbital Space Tourism Demand Space projects and organisations such as Excalibur, Galactic Suite, Bigelow's Space Complex Alpha and Russian Orbital Technologies plans have created increasing interest in orbital space tourism, an ... more | .. |
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 Space Adventures Reflects Upon A Decade In Space Tourism Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space missions to the global marketplace, has outlined a forecast for commercial orbital spaceflight and announced details of how additiona ... more | .. |
  A Water Ocean on Titan Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest. Titan, which is larger than Mercury, is the only worl ... more | .. |
  ISS orbit to be readjusted for Soyuz TMA-20 return The orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) will be raised by 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) on Thursday, Russian Mission Control said. "The readjustment is necessary to ensure the best condit ... more | .. |
 US marks 50 years since second human spaceflight Three weeks after the world marked 50 years since Russia's Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel in space, the United States is honoring the American who followed him, Alan Shepard. ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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  Large asteroid to pass close by Earth Astronomers say they're readying their instruments to observe an aircraft carrier-sized asteroid that will come closer to Earth than our own moon does. ... more | .. |
 Voyager's Love Story One day, years from now--or maybe billions of years, no one knows - aliens might be surprised to run across an old spaceship from Earth. Improbably far from home, the ancient probe is space cold, it ... more | .. |
 Soyuz given "go" for simulated first launch The "dry run" simulation of Soyuz' first flight from French Guiana was given the green light for a virtual liftoff this week with the successful conclusion of the launch readiness review, which was ... more | .. |
  An Earth as Dense as Lead A planet that we thought we knew turns out to be rather different than first suspected. A revised view comes from new data released by an international team of astronomers, who made their observatio ... more |
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ISS Orbit raised to help crew return to Earth The International Space Station's orbit was raised 0.62 miles Thursday to help NASA's Catherine Coleman and other crew members return to Earth, Russia said. ... more | .. |
 Dawn Reaches Milestone Approaching Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft has reached its official approach phase to the asteroid Vesta and will begin using cameras for the first time to aid navigation for an expected July 16 orbital encounter. The ... more | .. |
  Intelsat Reports Antenna Reflector Deployment Delay with New Dawn Intelsat S.A. has reported a delay in deploying the west antenna reflector on the Intelsat New Dawn satellite, launched on 22 April 2011. The satellite's solar arrays have been successfully deployed ... more | .. |
  The world's smallest atomic clock now on sale A matchbook-sized atomic clock 100 times smaller than its commercial predecessors has been created by a team of researchers at Symmetricom Inc. Draper Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. ... 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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  Top Chinese scientists honored with naming of minor planets Four minor planets have been named after top Chinese scientists with the approval of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). "It's a huge encouragement for us to receive this great honor. ... more | .. |
NASA's Dawn probe closes in on giant asteroid The Dawn space probe is closing in on its first target, the massive asteroid Vesta, almost four years after its journey began in September 2007, NASA said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Japan mulls new robot help with nuclear disaster Japan may be at the forefront of robotics and its children raised on cartoons of robot heroes and villains, but the country has so far had to rely on US-made machines for help tackling its nuclear crisis. ... more | .. |
  Engineers working to fix Endeavour fault NASA engineers say they have identified the likely source of a problem on space shuttle Endeavour that led to the scrubbing of last week's Florida launch. ... more |
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 Exploring Rio Tinto Eurobotically No wonder it is called Red River: it looks like it could be on the red planet rather than in Spain. The landscape and terrain make it a perfect place for simulating a Mars sortie. An ESA rover ... more | .. |
 Spacecraft Earth to Perform Asteroid 'Flyby' This Fall Since the dawn of the space age, humanity has sent 16 robotic emissaries to fly by some of the solar system's most intriguing and nomadic occupants - comets and asteroids. The data and imagery colle ... more | .. |
 Final preparations for Soyuz' first "virtual" flight Preparations for the simulated first flight of Soyuz from French Guiana are proceeding on schedule for a "liftoff" this week, confirming the medium-lift vehicle's readiness to join Arianespace's lau ... more | .. |
  Seeking Life's Imprint in Shifting Desert Sand A group of scientists are hunched over, their eyes intently scanning the jumble of rocks on the ground. Every now and then, someone picks one up for closer inspection, turning it over and over again ... 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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 Goddard Building Instrument To Study Reconnection Whether it's a giant solar flare or a beautiful green-blue aurora, just about everything interesting in space weather happens due to a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. Reconnection occurs wh ... more | .. |
 Asteroids collide at 11,000 miles per hour Scientists have captured and studied the collision of two asteroids for only the second time in the history of astronomy. In the May 20 edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters (currently online ... more | .. |
 China sees smooth preparation for launch of unmanned module China is satisfied with preparatory work completed thus far for the launching of two unmanned space modules, the Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8, in the second half of this year, said deputy head of China ... more | .. |
 Progress Docks To ISS The ISS Progress 42 cargo craft docked to the Pirs docking compartment on the International Space Station at 10:28 a.m. EDT Friday, less than six hours before space shuttle Endeavour's scheduled lau ... more |
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 Spiders in Space - The Sequel The very idea of spiders in space brings to mind campy, black and white horror films involving eight-legged monsters. In actuality, it is a scientific investigation called Commercial Generic Bioproc ... more | .. |
 Grad to take Academy experiment into space An Air Force Academy graduate will pilot the Space Shuttle Endeavour and carry an Air Force Academy physics experiment into space. Endeavour is scheduled to launch April 29 at 3:47 p.m. EDT fr ... more | .. |
 Astronomers unveil portrait of 'super-exotic super-Earth' An international team of astronomers have revealed details of a "super-exotic" exoplanet that would make the planet Pandora in the movie Avatar pale in comparison. The planet, named 55 Cancri ... more | .. |
 Soyuz is in the launch zone at Europe's Spaceport The latest addition to Arianespace's launcher family made its world debut at the vehicle's new base of operations, as the first Soyuz was rolled out to the Spaceport's launch pad in French Guiana. ... more |
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