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October 21, 2014

Cosmonauts Busy as US Segment Crew Takes Day Off
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2014
A pair of cosmonauts suited up for a dry run of Wednesday's spacewalk while Dragon will hang on to the International Space Station for a few more days. Commander Max Suraev and Flight Engineer Alexander Samokutyaev spent Monday readying the Russian Orlan spacesuits they will wear when they exit the Pirs docking compartment Wednesday for a six-hour spacewalk. The duo donned their spacesuits for a spacewalk dry run. They checked suit controls and communications gear and conducted preliminary leak c ... read more

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UH Manoa studies effects of long-term space travel The University of Hawai'i at Manoa is leading a study on the effects of long-term space travel to humans, a UH news release said. Six members of the Hawai'i Space Exploration Analog and Simula ... more		Dava Newman nominated for NASA post The White House has announced the nomination of MIT's Dava Newman, professor of aeronautics and astronautics and of engineering systems, as NASA's deputy administrator, the space agency's No. 2 lead ... more		SSL Begins Post-Launch Maneuvers For Intelsat 30 Space Systems/Loral (SSL) has announced that a satellite designed and built for Intelsat, was launched yesterday and is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan. The sat ... more
				An android opera: Japan's Shibuya plots new era of robot music Life and death, surveillance and privacy, humans and robots: Keiichiro Shibuya likes to unsettle and push boundaries in music. ... more		Descent Data May Help With Future Mars Landings NASA successfully captured thermal images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on its descent after it launched in September from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The data from these thermal imag ... more

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Studies Comet Flyby NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has sent home more data about Mars than all other missions combined, is also now providing data about a comet that buzzed The Red Planet. The orbiter ... more		Work completed on satellite launch center in Hainan Construction of the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center in Hainan province, China's fourth and most advanced space launch center, has been completed and it will soon become operational, People's Daily ... more		Russia offers to extend nuclear arms limits with US Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		Mars rover had good opportunities to image passing comet NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured images of a comet passing much closer to Mars than any previous known comet flyby of Earth or Mars. The images of comet Siding Spring were taken ag ... more
				Argentina launches its first telecom satellite Argentina has successfully launched its first domestically designed and developed geostationary communications satellite Thursday, USA Today reported. "ARSAT-1 is on its way to space. What a t ... more		A Different Kind of Green Movement: Seedling Growth in Space Plants-literally rooted in Earth-lack locomotion. And although plants may appear static, even the tiniest seedlings are sophisticated organisms that sense and respond to their environment. Seedlings ... more

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New TALON tactical robot makes debut A new man-transportable, tactical robot has been introduced into the military and law enforcement market by QinetiQ North America. ... more		"Houston: We Have A Problem...But No Worries, Our Virtual Therapist Is On It" Hiking in the mountains or lying on the beach are good ways to relieve stress on Earth, but on spaceflights there's no way to get back to nature. Astronauts feeling stressed on long-duration flights ... 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		Mars One -- and done? In 2012, the "Mars One" project, led by a Dutch nonprofit, announced plans to establish the first human colony on the Red Planet by 2025. The mission would initially send four astronauts on a one-wa ... more
Wobbling of a Saturn moon hints at what lies beneath Using instruments aboard the Cassini spacecraft to measure the wobbles of Mimas, the closest of Saturn's regular moons, a Cornell University astronomer publishing in Science, Oct. 17, has inferred t ... more		Messenger Images Ice Near Mercury's North Pole NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft has provided the first optical images of ice and other frozen volatile materials within permanently shadow ... more		NASA's Opportunity Rover Gets Panorama Image at 'Wdowiak Ridge' The latest fieldwork site for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, which has been examining a series of Martian craters since 2004, is on the slope of a prominent hill jutting out of the rim o ... more		EIAST: KhalifaSat design completed The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has announced the completion of KhalifaSat's design, the first satellite that will be designed and built by Emirati engineers in ... more

	CASIS Issues RFP For EO Ideas Using ISS Technology The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) has issued a solicitation for flight proposals seeking access to remote sensing capabilities on the International Space Station (ISS) for E ... more		LockMart Team Delivers Lightning Mapper Instrument For Weather Satellite A Lockheed Martin team delivered the first Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will provide earlier alerts of severe storms and contribute to more accurate tornado warnings. T ... more

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Humans may only survive 68 days on Mars: study

Space Trips To Change World For Better: Virgin Galactic CEO

ISS Crew Relations Not Affected by Ukrainian Conflict

Arianespace's December mission for DIRECTV-14 and GSAT-16 satellites in process

First Light for MAVEN

NASA Exercises Authority to Proceed with Commercial Crew Contracts

Alternative Earths Team To Join NASA Astrobiology Institute

Russian Luna-25 Mission to Cost Billions

New Batch of Lunar Soil to be Delivered to Earth in 2023-2025

NASA Mission Finds Widespread Evidence of Young Lunar Volcanism

China's ailing moon rover weakening

Moons Can Help Planets Remain Stable Long Enough for Life to Form

New ASU, Nature journal to highlight spaceflight research

Russia to make Moon exploration core part of space program

MIT study finds 'Mars One' passengers could die of starvation

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