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October 19, 2012
SPACE MEDICINE
Preventing infection on long flights
Providence RI (SPX) Oct 19, 2012
The cabin of a spacecraft halfway to Mars would be the least convenient place - one cannot say "on earth" - for a Salmonella or Pneumococcus outbreak, but a wide-ranging new paper suggests that microgravity and prolonged space flight could give unique advantages to germs. What's a space agency to do? Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital infectious disease expert Dr. Leonard Mermel offers several ideas. And no, they are not to add more Vitamin C to the Tang, or to give each crew member a bott ... read more

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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA must reinvest in nanotechnology research, according to new Rice University paper
The United States may lose its leadership role in space to other countries unless it makes research and development funding and processes - especially in nanotechnology - a renewed and urgent priori ... more
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MARSDAILY

How Space Station Can Help Humans Follow Curiosity to Mars and Beyond
With all of the excitement of the Mars Curiosity landing, many are looking to move from robots to humans for exploration beyond Earth's orbit. Keeping in mind the Seven Minutes of Terror, just imagi ... more
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Is On The Move Around 'Matijevic Hill'
Opportunity is conducting a local area survey around the location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Soil Sample Delivered for Analysis Inside Rover
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has ingested its first solid sample into an analytical instrument inside the rover, a capability at the core of the two-year mission. The rover's Chemistry and Mine ... more
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TECH SPACE

Kennedy Supporting Effort to Develop Satellite Servicing Capabilities
With satellites playing increasingly important roles in everyday life, NASA is developing the technology to build Earth-orbiting, roving "service stations" capable of extending the life of these spa ... more
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MOON DAILY

Proof at last: Moon was created in giant smashup
It's a big claim, but Washington University in St. Louis planetary scientist Frederic Moynier says his group has discovered evidence that the Moon was born in a flaming blaze of glory when a body th ... more
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MOON DAILY

Model reconciles Lunar Earth composition with giant impact theory
The giant impact believed to have formed the Earth-Moon system has long been accepted as canon. However, a major challenge to the theory has been that the Earth and Moon have identical oxygen isotop ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
Sharp rise in GPS jamming in aviation over Baltic Sea: Sweden
Putin vows to carry on fighting in Ukraine, if peace deal not reached
Israel vows to inflict biblical plagues on Yemen's Huthis
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SATURN DAILY

Giant impact scenario may explain the unusual moons of Saturn
Among the oddities of the outer solar system are the middle-sized moons of Saturn, a half-dozen icy bodies dwarfed by Saturn's massive moon Titan. According to a new model for the origin of the Satu ... more
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MOON DAILY

Massive planetary collision may have zapped key elements from moon
Fresh examinations of lunar rocks gathered by Apollo mission astronauts have yielded new insights about the moon's chemical makeup as well as clues about the giant impacts that may have shaped the e ... more
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STATION NEWS

ISS Orbit to be Adjusted for Next Spacecraft
Specialists of the Moscow Region-based Mission Control Center will on Wednesday carry out a maneuver to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station, a spokesman for the center said. ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Space Launch System Providing Engine 'Brains' With an Upgrade
America's next heavy-lift rocket needs a strong and reliable engine to launch humans beyond low Earth orbit. That's why engineers with NASA's Space Launch System program, managed at the Marshall Spa ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Most Planetary Systems are 'Flatter than Pancakes'
Our solar system looks like many others, "flatter than pancakes," report UCLA astronomers who were able to statistically determine the properties of planetary systems using the latest data from NASA ... more
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MOON DAILY

Giant smashup created the Moon, say scientists
A chemical quirk found in lunar soil backs a 37-year-old theory that the Moon was born from an apocalyptic collision between Earth and a huge space rock, scientists said on Wednesday. ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

Keck Observations Bring Weather Of Uranus Into Sharp Focus
In 1986, when Voyager swept past Uranus, the probe's portraits of the planet were "notoriously bland," disappointing scientists, yielding few new details of the planet and its atmosphere, and giving ... more
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SATURN DAILY

The sound in Saturn's rings: RUB-Physicists explain nonlinear dust acoustic waves in dusty plasmas
Dusty plasmas can be found in many places both in space and in the laboratory. Due to their special properties, dust acoustic waves can propagate inside these plasmas like sound waves in air, and ca ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

Blue Origin Tests Rocket Engine Thrust Chamber
NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) partner Blue Origin has successfully fired the thrust chamber assembly for its new 100,000 pound thrust BE-3 liquid oxygen, liquid hydrogen rocket engine. As par ... more
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SATURN DAILY

What's Baking on Titan?
Radar images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft reveal some new curiosities on the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan, including a nearly circular feature that resembles a giant hot cross bun and ... more
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MARSDAILY

Rover eyes 'man-made' objects in Martian dirt
NASA's Mars rover has swallowed its first scoopful of dirt from the Red Planet's surface - and found some bright-colored objects that experts briefly thought might be man-made, the US space agency said Thursday. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Glitch could end NASA planet search
Technical problems could keep NASA's Kepler space telescope from its goal of finding Earth-sized planets in habitable zones around other stars, astronomers say. ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Northrop Grumman Remotec to Begin Delivering Titus Robot in December
Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) subsidiary Remotec Inc. will begin deliveries in December of Titus TM, the newest and smallest member of its Andros TM line of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV ... more
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EXO LIFE

Curious About Life: Interview with Jen Eigenbrode
The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environment of Mars and determine if the planet ... more
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ROBO SPACE

Japan robot suit offers hope for nuclear work
Brain wave-controlled robot suits that allow wearers to don heavy radiation protection without feeling the weight were unveiled in Japan on Thursday. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's manned spacecraft in final preparations for mid-June launch
China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft is in final preparations for its launch in mid-June, paving the way for China's first manned space docking mission, as well as the country's first space mission ... more
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New wave: sea power turned into energy at Los Angeles port
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ROCKET SCIENCE

J-2X Engine Offers A Powerful Line Up
Two J-2X engines and a power pack, developed for NASA by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne, sit side-by-side at John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi as work continues on the Space Launch System. ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

At Pluto, Moons and Debris May Be Hazardous to New Horizons Spacecraft During Flyby
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is now almost seven years into its 9.5-year journey across the solar system to explore Pluto and its system of moons. Just over two years from now, in January 2015, Ne ... more
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MARSDAILY

NMSU Graduate Student Looks For Indications Of Life On Mars In Possible Trace Methane Gas
An astronomy graduate student at New Mexico State University spoke Tuesday about her research studying the possible detection of methane gas on Mars at a presentation during the American Astronomica ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Nearest Star Has Earth Mass Planet
European astronomers have discovered a planet with about the mass of the Earth orbiting a star in the Alpha Centauri system - the nearest to Earth. It is also the lightest exoplanet ever discovered ... more
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MOON DAILY

University of Tennessee study confirms solar wind as source for moon water
Three years ago University of Tennessee, Knoxville, researchers helped to discover water on the surface of the moon. Now, they are piecing together the origin of that water: solar wind. A new study ... more
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SPACE MEDICINE

ISS and space flight gravity influence immune system development
New research findings recently published in The FASEB Journal, show that immune system development is affected by gravity changes, as reported by researchers from the University of Lorraine and Univ ... more
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TECH SPACE

OG2 Prototype Hardware Functionality Verified Prior to Deorbit
ORBCOMM Inc. reports that the single prototype of its second generation of satellites (OG2), launched as a secondary mission payload on the Cargo Re-Supply Services (CRS-1) mission of October 7, 201 ... more
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ROBO SPACE

NASA's Ironman-Like Exoskeleton Could Give Astronauts, Paraplegics Improved Mobility and Strength
Marvel Comic's fictional superhero, Ironman, uses a powered armor suit that allows him superhuman strength. While NASA's X1 robotic exoskeleton can't do what you see in the movies, the latest roboti ... more
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