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August 30, 2015

Don't make us hitch rides with Russia: NASA chief
Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2015
The head of NASA appealed to Congress on Friday to put more money into restoring America's ability to send astronauts into space instead of relying on Russian rockets. In an open letter, published in Wired magazine and titled "Don't Make Us Hitch Rides With Russia. Love, NASA," Charles Bolden said the US government has essentially funded Moscow instead of pouring money into its own aerospace industry back home. "Every dollar we invest in Moscow is a dollar we're not investing in American busines ... read more

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HI-SEAS launches year-long isolation experiment to mimic life on Mars Six scientists have begun a yearlong isolation experiment from within a small dome to mimic life on Mars. ... more		Russia launches Proton rocket with British satellite Russia on Friday successfully launched a Proton rocket with a British satellite in the first such launch since an engine failure in May resulted in a Mexican satellite being destroyed. ... more		New Horizons Team Selects Potential Kuiper Belt Flyby Target NASA has selected the potential next destination for the New Horizons mission to visit after its historic July 14 flyby of the Pluto system. The destination is a small Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known ... more
				GSLV Launches India's Latest Communication Satellite GSAT-6 In its ninth flight (GSLV-D6) conducted today, (August 27, 2015), India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, equipped with the indigenous Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS), successfully launched GSA ... more		ESA Chief Warns Not to Politicize Partnership With Russian Space Program The ongoing crisis in ties between Russia and the West should not tarnish their cooperation when it comes to space exploration, according to Johann-Dietrich" class="highlight">Worner, head of the Eu ... more

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China rocket parts hit villager's home: police, media Debris from a rocket carrying a Chinese satellite into orbit crashed into a villager's home minutes after the launch, local police and media reports said. ... more		ISS Crew Redocks Soyuz Spacecraft The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday successfully performed a manual redocking of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, clearing a port for the arrival of a new crew, the Russian Missio ... more		Space Force charts new path for commercial integration in space operations Space chiefs from 18 nations convene at forum hosted by Space Force Space defense investments set to soar with projected 160% growth in satellite launches		One year and counting: Mars isolation experiment begins Six people shut themselves inside a dome for a year in Hawaii on Friday, in the longest US isolation experiment aimed at helping NASA prepare for a pioneering journey to Mars. ... more
				Interstellar seeds could create oases of life We only have one example of a planet with life: Earth. But within the next generation, it should become possible to detect signs of life on planets orbiting distant stars. If we find alien life, new ... more		New theory leads to radiationless revolution Physicists have found a radical new way confine electromagnetic energy without it leaking away, akin to throwing a pebble into a pond with no splash. The theory could have broad ranging applic ... more

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Russia Gets Ready for New Moon Landing Russia's Space Research Institute is building a space probe to send to the Moon, which will allow Russian scientists to carry out scientific research on the Moon's surface for the first time since u ... more		Prototype nEUROn combat drone put to the test Fight testing of a European-made unmanned combat vehicle has been completed in Italy at an Italian Air Force base, Alenia Aermacchi reports. ... more		SWOT Satellite Analyzes Water Depth in Death Valley's Seasonal Lake Waste not want not: Peruvian drive to feed more with less Record heat rots cocoa beans threatening Ivory Coast agriculture		Debut of the global mix-master Trekking across the high Canadian Arctic almost 20 years ago, Howie Scher had an unexpected encounter that helped fix the course of his career. An undergraduate on a research expedition over s ... more
CALET docks on the International Space Station Five days after it launched from the Tanegashima Space Center on board the HTV-5 Transport Module, operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the CALorimetric Electron Telescope (CAL ... more		Biophysicists take small step in quest for 'robot scientist' Biophysicists have taken another small step forward in the quest for an automated method to infer models describing a system's dynamics - a so-called robot scientist. Nature Communications published ... more		A little light interaction leaves quantum physicists beaming A team of physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. Their advance, described in a paper pu ... more		Quantum diffraction at a breath of nothing The quantum mechanical wave nature of matter is the basis for a number of modern technologies like high resolution electron microscopy, neutron-based studies on solid state materials or highly sensi ... more

	A new way to detect ortho-para conversion in water New research by scientists from the University of Southampton has found that water molecules react differently to electric fields, which could provide a new way to study spin isomers at the single-m ... more		Record high pressure squeezes secrets out of osmium An international team of scientists led by the University of Bayreuth and with participation of DESY has created the highest static pressure ever achieved in a lab: Using a special high pressure dev ... more

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NASA Funds Plasma Rocket Technology for Superfast Space Travel

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