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Long, cramped road trips ahead for US astronautsWashington (AFP) July 13, 2011 If you think of the shuttle as a kind of big space bus, the future for US astronauts will be a lot like squeezing into a three-seat compact car, made by Russia, for a very long road trip. With the shuttle program ending once Atlantis returns to Earth on July 21, US astronauts will be flying much less often to the International Space Station. And when they do, they will be hitching a ride aboard a Soyuz space capsule at a cost of $51 million per seat next year. In 2013 the cost goes up to $55.9 m ... read more |
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  Countdown commenced for PSLV-C17/GSAT-12 Mission The Launch Authorisation Board (LAB) for PSLV-C17/GSAT-12 mission, which met on July 12, 2011 at Satish Dhawan Space Centre - SHAR, Sriharikota has cleared the launch of PSLV-C17 at 16:48 hrs (IST) ... more | .. |
  Mapping Microbialites The Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) is moving its base of operations. For the past several years, PLRP has used DeepWorker submersible vehicles to explore the unusual carbonate structures, kno ... more | .. |
  Mars Opportunity Rover Nears Endeavour Crater Rim Opportunity is now within 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) of the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater, at a place called "Spirit Point." With multi-sol planning for the 4th of July holiday w ... more | .. |
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  NASA Spacecraft to Enter Asteroid's Orbit on July 15 On July 15, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin a prolonged encounter with the asteroid Vesta, making the mission the first to enter orbit around a main-belt asteroid. The main asteroid belt lie ... more | .. |
 Appropriations Committee Approves the Fiscal Year 2012 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill The House Appropriations Committee today approved the fiscal year 2012 Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations bill, which provides annual funding for the Departments of Commerce and Justice ... more | .. |
  Flying the STA: Landing Like the Shuttle A Shuttle Training Aircraft plunges 28,000 feet in a little more than a minute when astronauts use it to practice a space shuttle approach. It's as close as anyone can get to experiencing a shuttle ... more | .. |
  Saturn moon color mystery explained U.S. astronomers say they've figured out origins of the mysterious colors of Saturn's moon Iapetus, bright white on one side and coal-black on the other. ... more |
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  Ten new distant planets detected Astronomers using a French telescope say they've discovered 10 new distant planets, including twin Neptune-sized worlds and a rare Saturn-like planet. ... more | .. |
  Time Enough for Tiangong It's taken long enough, but it seems that we are finally getting close to the launch of Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory. This small, cylindrical spacecraft will almost certainly take off ... more | .. |
 Scientists Explore the Deep to Learn More about Life and Science NASA and the Canadian Space Agency invite the news media to join the international, multidisciplinary Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) team as it explores, studies and documents rare freshwater ... more | .. |
  Twin Artemis Probes To Study Moon In 3D On Sunday, July 17, the Moon will acquire its second new companion in less than a month. That's when the second of two probes built by the University of California, Berkeley, and part of NASA's five ... more |
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 Cargo Transfers for Shuttle and Station Crews Aboard the docked Atlantis/International Space Station complex, the combined 10-member crew wrapped up its busy day of transfer work. Station lead flight director Chris Edelen said at an after ... more | .. |
 AIA Concerned by NASA, NOAA Cuts The Aerospace Industries Association is concerned about the substantial cuts being made to the budgets of NASA and NOAA in the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science mark ... more | .. |
 SpaceX Names Mark Bitterman Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced that former Orbital Sciences executive and industry leader Mark Bitterman is joining the company's Washington office as Senior Vice President of ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Nonprofit to Manage Space Station National Lab Research NASA has selected the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to develop and manage the U.S. portion of the International Space Station that will be operated as a national laboratory. ... 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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 NASA Releases Book About Psychology of Human Spaceflight NASA's History Program Office is releasing a new book that examines the different psychological factors that affect astronauts during space travel, especially long-duration missions. The book, ... more | .. |
 Private space race heats up as US shuttle retires Private companies, aided by NASA's cash and expertise in human space flight, are rushing to be the first to build a space capsule to replace the retiring US shuttle in the next few years. ... more | .. |
 Arianespace uses Soyuz to loft six Globalstars to orbit from Baikonur Arianespace successfully orbited another batch of six spacecraft for Globalstar's second-generation satellite network this morning on a mission performed with the medium-lift Soyuz launcher from Bai ... more | .. |
 Elton John's 'Rocket Man' awakens space crew Singer Elton John's "Rocket Man" was played Wednesday to wake up the crew aboard the International Space Station, with the shuttle Atlantis docked on its last mission. ... more |
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 Globalstar Satellites Now Scheduled for Launch on July 13th Globalstar, Inc., has been rescheduled by launch services provider Arianespace. The ground equipment issue which initially forced the postponement of the launch has been resolved. Arianespace has an ... more | .. |
  Neptune Completes First Orbit Since Discovery In 1846 Today, Neptune has arrived at the same location in space where it was discovered nearly 165 years ago. To commemorate the event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken these "anniversary pictures" ... more | .. |
 Astronauts Complete Spacewalk; Cargo Transfers Begin Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Mike Fossum and Ron Garan completed a six-hour, 31-minute spacewalk at 3:53 p.m. EDT Tuesday, retrieving a failed pump module for return to Earth, installing two exper ... more | .. |
 Scientists warn on budget cutting U.S. scientific societies and universities have sent a letter urging policymakers, in their need to cut spending, to avoid singling out specific programs. ... 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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 Special American Meal Planned for Final Space Shuttle Crew Food scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston have prepared a special "All-American Meal" for the final space shuttle crew as the iconic American spacecraft makes its last voyage. The pu ... more | .. |
 Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin gathering science data in early Augus ... more | .. |
 China launches new data relay satellite China blasted off a new data relay satellite "Tianlian I-02" on Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest Sichuan Province . The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carr ... more | .. |
 Last spacewalk of US shuttle era ends Two US astronauts wrapped up the the last spacewalk of the shuttle era Tuesday at the International Space Station, where Atlantis is docked on the final mission of the 30-year US program. ... more |
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 Crew Wraps Up Busy Day of Cargo Transfers, Spacewalk Preps STS-135 Flight Day 4 is drawing to a close as the crews of the International Space Station and Atlantis prepare for bed at 6:29 p.m. EDT and 6:59 p.m., respectively. They attached the Raffaell ... more | .. |
 MILA Tracks its Last Launch and Landing With its beginnings rooted deeply in the historic days of Apollo, the MILA Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network Station has played a key role throughout the 30 years of the Space Shuttle Program. B ... more | .. |
 STS-135: A Story Of What if Yesterday, at 11:07 a.m. EDT, Commander Chris Ferguson guided Space Shuttle Atlantis into Pressurized Mating Adapter #2 on the International Space Station's (ISS) Harmony node. The two spacecraft we ... more | .. |
  Planetary Science Institute Selects XCOR To Fly ATSA Suborbital Observatory The Planetary Science Institute (PSI) and XCOR Aerospace have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that lays the groundwork for flying the human-operated Atsa Suborbital Observatory aboard XCOR's Ly ... more |
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