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 Washington (AFP) Sept 3, 2009 
A large piece of space debris drifted toward the International Space Station Thursday, but NASA said it would not affect the second of three spacewalks outside the orbiter. Astronauts Danny Olivas and Christer Fuglesang were camping out in the Quest airlock starting in order to acclimate their bodies for their 2119 GMT outing in space, purging nitrogen from their systems. Mission Control ... read more 
Mojave, CA (SPX) Sep 03, 2009XCOR Aerospace reports that it has reached several significant milestones in the 5K18 rocket engine test program. This is the engine that powers XCOR's Lynx suborbital spacecraft. The engine can be seen running in several newly released videos including a video demonstrating the very stable "shock diamond" pattern visible in the engine's supersonic exhaust. "Like all of our rocket engines, ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 03, 2009Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features on the Red Planet. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the orbiter recorded these images from the month of April through early August of this year. ... more  
Montreal (AFP) Sept 2, 2009Cirque du Soleil founder and soon to be space tourist Guy Laliberte will launch an art project promoting access to potable water for all when he blasts off for the International Space Station, he said Wednesday. The multimedia event is scheduled to start at 1200 GMT on October 9 and will touch 14 cities on five continents, he told a video press conference from Star City, Russia where he has ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 03, 2009With launch just two months away, members of the SMOS team are currently in Russia inspecting the facilities where the launch campaign will soon get underway to prepare the ESA's water mission for liftoff on 2 November. Members of the team are busy checking the facilities at both Arkhangelsk, where the satellite and support equipment will arrive in Russia by plane, and the integration faci ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Sep 03, 2009Since its discovery 45 years ago, Cygnus X-1 has been one of the most intensively studied cosmic X-ray sources. About a decade after its discovery, Cygnus X-1 secured a place in the history of astronomy when a combination of X-ray and optical observations led to the conclusion that it was a black hole, the first such identification. The Cygnus X-1 system consists of a black hole with a mas ... more  
Panaji, India (AFP) Sept 2, 2009India's first lunar mission has captured images of the landing site of the Apollo 15 craft, debunking theories that the US mission was a hoax, the country's state-run space agency said Wednesday. "The images captured by a hyper-spectral camera fitted as a part of Chandrayaan-I... has reconfirmed the veracity of the Apollo 15 mission," said Prakash Chauhan, from the Indian Space Research Orga ... more 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 03, 2009How do you wash your clothes in space? How does food stay fresh if there is no fridge on the ISS? ESA"s Frank De Winne is answering these, and many more of your questions, right now, from space. Is there something you always wanted to know about being an astronaut? Or you are just curious about living and working in space? Well, now is the time to ask. Instead of searching the Internet, yo ... more |
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