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October 08, 2014

NASA's Space Power Facility Getting Ready to Shake Orion Up
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 08, 2014
What does it feel like to sit on top of a rocket with 8.6 million pounds of thrust? A table in Sandusky, Ohio, could give you a taste. The 22-foot-wide, 55,000-pound vibration-simulating table was delivered to Glenn Research Center's Space Power Facility at the Plum Brook Station in Sandusky this week. It uses four horizontal servo-hydraulic actuators and 16 vertical to vibrate the table in such a way that a spacecraft set on top of it would experience the same amount of shaking that it could expe ... read more

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Wiseman and Gerst Complete First Spacewalk of Expedition 41 Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency completed the first of three Expedition 41 spacewalks at 2:43 p.m. EDT Tuesday. The spacewalkers worked outside the Q ... more		Russia May Send Repeat Mission to Martian Moon Phobos in 2023 Russia may attempt to repeat its mission to Mars' moon Phobos in 2023, Lev Zeleny, the head of the Russian Space Research Institute told RIA Novosti Friday. The Russian-led mission Phobos-Grun ... more		Arctic Bacteria Show Long Evolution in Toxic Mercury Resistance With Mars and Europa out of reach, many scientists have turned to studying some of the Arctic and Antarctic microbes that have adapted to similarly harsh conditions on Earth. One recent study has tr ... more
				Russian Scientists Develop Mechanism for Rover's Descent to Mars Russian scientists have developed a unique mechanism for the rover's descent to the surface of Mars, Lev Zeleny, the head of the Russian Space Research Institute said on Friday. "Our European ... more		WSU undergrad helps develop method for detecting water on Mars A Washington State University undergraduate has helped develop a new method for detecting water on Mars. Her findings appear in Nature Communications, one of the most influential general science jou ... more

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NASA Selects Advanced Oxygen Recovery Proposals for Spacecraft Missions NASA has selected four partners to develop game changing technologies with the potential to increase the oxygen recovery rate aboard human spacecraft to at least 75 percent while achieving high reli ... more		Opportunity Preps for Comet Siding Spring Encounter Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals only a mile (1.6 kilometers) to the south. The rover is exa ... more		Russia offers to extend nuclear arms limits with US Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		NASA Selects New Science Teams for Astrobiology Research NASA has awarded five-year grants totaling almost $50 million to seven research teams nationwide to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. "With the Cu ... more
				Richard Branson says commercial space flight almost here Virgin Galactic - the Richard Branson enterprise aimed at taking civilians to the brink of space aboard a commercial shuttle - successfully launched and landed its SpaceShipTwo Tuesday in an unmanned flight test. ... more		As spacewalks resume, change is coming to the International Space Station Two residents of the International Space Station were able stretch their legs on Tuesday as they took a walk outside their cozy confines to fix the station's orbiting laboratory - the first spacewalk in months. ... more

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"Dream Chaser" Chases Its Dream "Dream Chaser" is the name given to a possible future reusable crewed suborbital and orbital lifting-body spaceplane. Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has been working toward development of the vehic ... more		Alexander Gerst set for spacewalk ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has spent four months in the relative safety of the International Space Station but on Tuesday he will venture into open space with NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman on a sev ... more		Ex-US climate envoy: Trump threatening 'consensus science' worldwide How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape? Australian scientists grapple with 'despicable' butterfly heist		Expedition 41 Preps for First of Three October Spacewalks Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency will work outside the International Space Station for about 6-1/2 hours Tuesday. The spacewalkers will relocate a fai ... more
NYT says it's sorry for cartoon mocking India's Mars mission The New York Times apologized on Sunday for a cartoon that ran over the weekend disparaging India and its space program. ... more		NASA's Orion Spacecraft, Rocket Move Closer to First Flight NASA's new Orion spacecraft and the Delta IV Heavy rocket that will carry it into space are at their penultimate stops in Florida on their path to a December flight test. Orion was moved Sunda ... more		Titan's Swirling Polar Cloud Is Cold And Toxic Scientists analysing data from the mission found that this giant polar vortex contains frozen particles of the toxic compound hydrogen cyanide. "The discovery suggests that the atmosphere of T ... more		Mars Rover Technology Adapted to Detect Gas Leaks In collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG and E) announced that it is testing state-of-the-art technology adapted from NASA ... more

	Solving the mystery of the 'man in the moon' New data obtained by NASA's GRAIL mission reveals that the Procellarum region on the near side of the moon - a giant basin often referred to as the "man in the moon" - likely arose not from a massiv ... more		Virgin Galactic could soon begin trips to space Virgin Galactic owner Richard Branson says his company might soon be ready to take civilians into space. ... more

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EU states agree broad UN emissions target avoiding 'embarrassment'

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Europe sat-nav launch glitch linked to frozen pipe		Light Scattering on Dust Holds Clues to Habitability		Two million Muslim pilgrims ending annual hajj		Scientists Resurrect Ancient Proteins to Learn about Primordial Life on Earth		Pressing the accelerator on quantum robotics

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Running the Race to Cure Cancer From Space

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Four candidate landing sites for ExoMars 2018

To boldly go: what is the point of space exploration?

Winter is coming ... to Titan's south pole

China Successfully Orbits Experimental Satellite

NASA Expands Commercial Space Program

'Man in the Moon' was born from lava - scientists

Europe shortlists four sites for 2019 Mars mission

Cyanide fog marks winter's onset on Saturn moon Titan

Soft robotics 'toolkit' features everything a robot-maker needs

Fingertip sensor gives robot unprecedented dexterity

Underwater robot for port security

Robot researcher combines nature to nurture 'superhuman' navigation

System designed to improve hand function lost to nerve damage

Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea

NASA-Funded Rocket Has Six Minutes to Study Solar Heating

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