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August 25, 2011
LAUNCH PAD
Russian spaceship crashes back to Earth
Moscow (AFP) Aug 24, 2011
An unmanned Russian spaceship with tonnes of cargo for the International Space Station crashed into Siberia shortly after blast-off Wednesday in the latest blow to the country's embattled space programme. The unprecedented accident raised concerns over the reserves of the six crew members on board the station and clouded the future of an ISS programme that relies almost exclusively on Russia following the retirement of US shuttles. Both Russian officials and NASA said the ISS team - which besid ... read more

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MOON DAILY

Neil Armstrong urges return to the Moon
Neil Armstrong has urged a return to the Moon to train for missions to Mars as the United States contemplates the future of its space programme following the end of the shuttle era. ... more
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STATION NEWS

ISS crew safe despite supply failure: Russia, US
Russian mission control and NASA said Wednesday there was no need to evacuate the six-member crew from the International Space Station despite the launch failure of a vessel carrying tonnes of supplies. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Avoiding An Ape-pocalypse
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SPACE TRAVEL

Recent grad's astro feats regarded as research crown 'joule'
Look out, Richard Dean Anderson. There's a new MacGyver in town. His name is 2nd Lt. Michael Trubilla, and a prestigious award is in the 2011 Air Force Academy grad's very near future: Trubilla is s ... more
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STATION NEWS

Robonaut successfully passes first test on ISS
The first human-like robot and permanent resident of the International Space Station, Robonaut 2 or R2, has successfully passed its first test, the official Robonaut`s microblog reported on Tuesday. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Interstellar Crashes Could Toss Out Habitable Planets
Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by Professor Pavel Kroupa of the University of Bo ... more
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TECH SPACE

NRL Set to Launch Experimental TacSat-4 Spacecraft
The Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Satellite IV (TacSat-4) is scheduled to launch from the Alaska Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex, Tuesday, September 27, 2011, aboard an Orbital ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Draper Spacesuit Could Keep NASA Astronauts Stable, Healthier in Space
Draper Laboratory began work this month on a new spacesuit that could keep NASA astronauts healthy during long-duration space exploration missions and stabilize them while they work in microgravity. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Russia grounds rockets after launch failure
Russia on Tuesday grounded its workhorse Proton-M rockets after the latest in a string of launch mishaps put a prized telecommunications satellite into the wrong orbit. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Russian, European space agencies to team up for Mars mission
With just months to go before the end of a Moscow-based simulated journey to Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) head said on Wednesday a joint mission with Russia to the Red Planet was in the pip ... more
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MARSDAILY

New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 13-mile-diame ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA Picks Three Proposals for Flight Demonstration
NASA has selected three proposals, including one from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., as Technology Demonstration Missions to transform space communications, deep space navigat ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Astronomers Find Ice and Possibly Methane on Snow White
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10-nicknamed Snow White-is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ice ... more
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STATION NEWS

Russian Progress space freighter set to undock from ISS
Progress M-11M space freighter will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday to be buried in the Pacific after conducting a nine-day scientific mission, Russia's Mission Control ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Rocket malfunction causes satellite to not reach preset orbit
An experimental satellite launched on Thursday failed to enter its designated orbit after its rocket malfunctioned. It was the first launch failure to occur in China since August 1996, when a Long M ... more
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
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MOON DAILY

Man in the Moon Looking Younger
Earth's Moon could be younger than previously thought, according to new research from a team that includes Carnegie's Richard Carlson and former-Carnegie fellow Maud Boyet. Their work will be publis ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Hubble to Target 'Hot Jupiters'
An international team of astronomers led by a former UA graduate student has set out on the largest program to date exploring the alien atmospheres of "Hot Jupiters" - massive planets in solar syste ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Chinese orbiter launch failure will not affect unmanned space module launch
The launch of a Chinese unmanned space module, the Tiangong-1, will not be affected by the failed launch of an experimental orbiter on Thursday, an expert said Friday. Qi Faren, a chief design ... more
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EXO LIFE

Breathing new life into Earth
Today, oxygen takes up a hefty portion of Earth's atmosphere: Life-sustaining O2 molecules make up 21 percent of the air we breathe. However, very early in Earth's history, O2 was a rare - if not co ... more
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MARSDAILY

Possibility of Mars microbial life eyed
U.S. scientists say they'll recreate conditions on Mars in a laboratory to see if microbial life might exist in salt droplets observed on the red planet. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

Chinese orbiter fails to enter designated orbit due to rocket malfunction
China's experimental orbiter SJ-11-04, which was launched by a Long March II-C rocket Thursday, failed to enter the designated orbit due to a malfunction of the rocket. The rocket experienced ... more
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MOON DAILY

GRAIL Moon Twins are Joined to Their Booster
NASA's lunar-bound GRAIL twins were mated to their Delta II launch vehicle at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 17 at 8:45 a.m. EDT (5:45 a.m. PDT) Thursday. The 15-mile (2 ... more
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STATION NEWS

First 3D video transmission live from space
Half a century after humankind entered outer space, an ESA-developed camera produced live-streaming 3D images for the first time in the history of space travel - showing the International Space Stat ... more
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
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DRAGON SPACE

Pausing for Tiangong
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EXO LIFE

Do You Want Amino Acid In Your Alphabet Soup
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ROBO SPACE

Sandia Labs' Gemini-Scout robot likely to reach trapped miners ahead of rescuers
In the first moments after a mining accident, first responders work against the clock to assess the situation and save the miners. But countless dangers lurk: pois ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China satellite aborts mission after 'malfunction'
An "experimental" satellite launched by China failed to reach its designated orbit after its rocket malfunctioned, state media reported Friday. ... more
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MARSDAILY

France, Russia talk of Mars mission
The European Space Agency says it will team up with Russia's space agency with the goal of launching the first manned mission to Mars. ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

The PI's Perspective: Visiting Four Moons, in Just Four Years, for All Mankind
New Horizons remains healthy and on course, now approximately 21 times as far from the Sun as the Earth is - well on its way, between the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. On July 1, we completed ... more
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TECH SPACE

SSTL's very high resolution satellite NigeriaSat-2 prepares for launch
The latest Earth observation satellite from UK small satellite manufacturer SSTL has successfully completed pre-launch tests and has been integrated with a Dnepr launch vehicle. NigeriaSat-2, one of ... more
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STATION NEWS

Robotic Refueling Module, Soon To Be Relocated to Permanent Space Station Position
NASA's groundbreaking Robotic Refueling Mission (RRM) will reach a key milestone in September when the International Space Station (ISS) robots transfer the module to its permanent home on space sta ... more
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