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Final Endeavour spacewalk marks 1,000 hours of station EVAsWashington (AFP) May 27, 2011 The crew of the US space shuttle Endeavour wrapped up their fourth and final spacewalk Friday, a walkabout that surpassed the 1,000th hour of such trips to build the International Space Station. The marathon seven hour, 24 minute spacewalk began at 7:39 am (0415 GMT) and mission specialists Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff finished at 7:39 am (1139 GMT), NASA said. Spacewalks typically last six and a half hours. "At 5:02 am, Fincke and Chamitoff surpassed the 1,000th hour astronauts and cosmonauts ... read more |
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  NASA-Funded Scientists Make Watershed Lunar Discovery A team of NASA-funded researchers has measured for the first time water from the moon in the form of tiny globules of molten rock, which have turned to glass-like material trapped within crystals. D ... more | .. |
  Venezuela, China to launch satellite next year Venezuela and China will develop an observation satellite to be built in Asia and launched from South America in 2012, according to Venezuela's science and technology minister. ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects OSIRIS-REx as Next New Frontiers Mission NASA has selected the University of Arizona to lead a sample-return mission to an asteroid. The OSIRIS-REx team is led by Dr. Michael Drake, Director of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planeta ... more | .. |
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  ATV-4 to carry name Albert Einstein With ATV Johannes Kepler in space and ATV Edoardo Amaldi almost built, the next Space Station supply craft coming off the production line has been named after the most famous scientist of all time: ... more | .. |
 Fourth and Final Shuttle Astronaut Spacewalk Set The mission's fourth and final spacewalk with Mike Fincke and Greg Chamitoff is set to begin at 12:46 a.m. EDT and last approximately six and a half hours. The primary task of the spacewalk is to tr ... more | .. |
  Guide vests robotic navigation aids for the visually impaired For the visually impaired, navigating city streets or neighborhoods has constant challenges. And most such people still must rely on a very rudimentary technology - a simple cane - to help them make ... more | .. |
  Elevation models from SRTM now available for download free of charge When Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on 11 February 2000 for the 'Shuttle Radar Topography Mission' (SRTM), it was carrying two radar antennas; one in the shuttle's payload bay and the other on the ... more |
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  GSAT 8 Satellite Placed in Geosynchronous Orbit India's advanced communication satellite, GSAT-8, launched on May 21, 2011 has reached Geosynchronous orbit with an orbital period of 23 hours 45 minutes. The satellite's orbit has a perigee of 35,5 ... more | .. |
 NASA aims to grab asteroid time capsule NASA on Wednesday said it plans to launch the first unmanned US spacecraft to a deep space asteroid in 2016 to collect samples and return them to Earth for further study. ... more | .. |
Success of GSAT-8 and Future of India's Space Programme India's advanced communication geostationary satellite, GSAT-8, was successfully launched on May 21, 2011. The satellite was put in orbit from French Guiana by the Ariane-V launch vehicle. Indian Sp ... more | .. |
NASA to Launch New Science Mission to Asteroid in 2016 NASA will launch a spacecraft to an asteroid in 2016 and use a robotic arm to pluck samples that could better explain our solar system's formation and how life began. The mission, called Origins-Spe ... more |
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 Spacewalkers Outfit Station The International Space Station's Canadarm2 is closer to having a new base of operation, giving it access to much of the orbiting laboratory's Russian segment. Endeavour Mission Specialists Drew Feu ... more | .. |
  NASA's Spirit Rover Completes Mission on Mars NASA has ended operational planning activities for the Mars rover Spirit and transitioned the Mars Exploration Rover Project to a single-rover operation focused on Spirit's still-active twin, Opport ... more | .. |
 AsiaSat Announces Expansion of the Tai Po Earth Station in Hong Kong Asia Satellite Telecommunications(AsiaSat) has announced the major expansion of its Tai Po Earth Station in Hong Kong. The project consists of a 900 square metre addition for equipment and a 6 ... more | .. |
 Mars Formed Rapidly into Runt of Planetary Litter Mars developed in as little as two to four million years after the birth of the solar system, far more quickly than Earth, according to a new study published in the May 26 issue of the journal Natur ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
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 President Kennedy's Speech and America's Next Moonshot Moment NASA is once again charting a new course to extend humanity's presence into the solar system, developing a new heavy lift rocket and crew capsule to take astronauts beyond low-Earth orbit. Thi ... more | .. |
  Altimetry Is Defining Mercury's Shape MESSENGER's Mercury Laser Altimeter (MLA) in its first 2 months of operation has already built up a grid of ground tracks that span most of Mercury's surface north of the equator. These data will pr ... more | .. |
  U.K. spaceplane passes technical review A proposed British space plane that would function as a rocket but operate from runways like an airliner has passed an important technical review, experts said. ... more | .. |
  ASTRA 1N delivered to French Guiana The initial passenger for Arianespace's next Ariane 5 dual-payload launch is now in French Guiana following a trans-Atlantic delivery flight as preparations continue for this fourth heavy-lift missi ... more |
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 US astronaut grapples with 'tears in space' A US astronaut Drew Feustel learned a valuable lesson about being teary-eyed on a spacewalk, NASA said Wednesday after the Endeavour crew's third jaunt outside the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
NASA to sample an asteroid with new space mission The US space agency on Wednesday announced plans to send the first unmanned spacecraft to an asteroid to collect samples and return them to Earth for further study. ... more | .. |
 Moon may have more water than believed: study The moon may have a lot more water than imagined, perhaps as much as on Earth in some parts, a study said Thursday, in a discovery that has cast doubt on long-held theories about how it was formed. ... more | .. |
 Sibling rivalry: Why Mars became a planetary runt Scientists on Wednesday said they believed they could explain why Mars is so much smaller than Earth, its companion in the Solar System's innermost "rocky" planets. ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
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Astronauts test new exercises on space walk Two astronauts floated out of the International Space Station on Wednesday after trying out new exercises aimed at preventing decompression sickness while conserving oxygen, NASA said. ... more | .. |
Orbit of GSAT-8 Satellite Raised Further In the second orbit raising manoeuvre conducted at 12:22 hrs IST (May 23, 2011), the Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) on board GSAT-8 was fired for 35.8 minutes by commanding the satellite from ISRO's Mast ... more | .. |
 Spacewalkers Prepare for Third Excursion STS-134 Mission Specialists Drew Feustel and Mike Fincke will conduct the third spacewalk of the mission Wednesday. They will be trying a new pre-breathe protocol designed to replace the overnight c ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Key Decision For Next Deep Space Transportation System NASA has reached an important milestone for the next U.S. transportation system that will carry humans into deep space. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced that the system will be based on d ... more |
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 Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report During processing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., an incident occurred on Friday, May 20, involving the spacecraft's back shell. A crane lift of the har ... more | .. |
 Welcome home, Paolo! ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli landed back on Earth this morning to conclude his 159-day mission to the International Space Station. Paolo had been serving as the flight engineer for Expeditions 26 and ... more | .. |
 Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Laid To Rest NASA will cease any further attempts to make contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated with Earth on March 22, 2010. A transmission that will end on Wednesda ... more | .. |
 NASA's NPP Satellite Completes Thermal Vac Testing The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate and weather satellite has successfully passed all environmental testing with th ... more |
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