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Chinese Female Taikonaut IdentifiedOnchan, UK (SPX) Nov 16, 2010 Sources in China have confirmed the identity of one of the two female Air Force pilots currently vying to become China's first woman in space. Captain Wang Yaping, 32, a Transport Pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF), and another currently unidentified colleague were selected in March, from a pool of fifteen female candidates, and joined five male jet fighter pilots to form China's second taikonaut group. Wang had been widely identified in the Chinese media as one of five ... read more |
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  Soyuz Returns To Earth Earlier Than Planned Russia's Soyuz TMA-19 spaceship with a Russian cosmonaut and U.S. astronauts on board will return to Earth earlier than planned because of an OSCE summit due on December 1-2 in Astana, a spokesman f ... more | .. |
  SkyTerra One Satellite Sends First Signals From Space Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from LightSquared's SkyTerra 1 following the satellite's launch at 12:29 p.m. Eastern time on Nov. 14 on an International Launch Services Proton vehicl ... more | .. |
  ILS Proton Launches Lightsquared Satellite International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried the SkyTerra 1 satellite into orbit today on an ILS Proton for LightSquared of Reston, Virginia. This was the 7th commercial missio ... more | .. |
  ISS Crew Completes Spacewalk Expedition 25 Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Skripochka ended Monday's spacewalk at 4:22 p.m. EST. The excursion lasted six hours and 27 minutes. The primary assembly and maintena ... more |
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  New Standard Proposed For Supercomputing A new supercomputer rating system will be released by an international team led by Sandia National Laboratories at the Supercomputing Conference 2010 in New Orleans. The rating system, Graph50 ... more | .. |
  Pentagon Contracts Iridium to Upgrade Satellite Communications Gateway Iridium Communications announces that it has won three Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) contracts to upgrade the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Enhanced Mobile Satellite Service (EMSS) Ga ... more | .. |
  Teams Evaluate GUCP Data As Repairs To ET Cracks Continue Over the weekend at Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, technicians took additional measurements to ensure the best possible alignment of the newly installed ground umbilical c ... more | .. |
 Virtual Reality Helps Researchers Track How Brain Responds To Surroundings New tools inspired by video games are revealing how the brain senses and responds to its surroundings, finds new human and animal research. Taking advantage of state-of-the art technologies to ... more |
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  Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday November 17 The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the two to three hours before dawn on November 17 and 18, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. There is always some uncerta ... more | .. |
  Eartly Dust Tails Point To Alien Worlds Did you know that the Earth has a dust tail? The Spitzer Space Telescope sailed right through it a few months ago, giving researchers a clear idea of what it looks like. That could be a big help to ... more | .. |
  USAF Space And Missile History Center Opens The new 3,200 foot Air Force Space and Missile History Center, located at 100 Space Port Way outside the Cape's Gate 1 entrance, is free to the public and includes a variety of exhibits from the 195 ... more | .. |
  SES To Contribute To Galileo Operations Global satellite operator SES S.A. has become a key partner in the future operations of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system. ASTRA TechCom Services, an SES company, has signed a contr ... more |
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  Cornell Receives Major Gift Toward Deep Galaxy Telescope Cornell University has received a major gift toward a project to explore the universe for new galaxies and young stars. Cornell alumnus Frederick Young, a longtime supporter of the project, has pled ... more | .. |
  Driving Through A Field Of Small Craters Opportunity has been navigating through a field of small impact craters on her way to Endeavour crater. On Sol 2411 (Nov. 5, 2010), the rover performed an in-place 40-degree turn for communication. ... more | .. |
 Russia To Conduct Half Of Carrier Rocket Launches From Far East By 2020 Russia intends to carry out up to 45 percent of its carrier rocket launches from the Vostochny Space Center, under construction in the Far East, by 2020, the deputy head of Russian Federal Space Age ... more | .. |
  A Softer Landing on the Moon Getting something onto the surface of the Moon intact is always a challenge. Gravity pulls you in. There's no atmosphere to slow you down. Parachutes don't work. Your only hope is to use thrusters t ... more |
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 Light And Dark In The Phoenix Lake They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but with planets, first impressions do count. New images from the German Aerospace Center operated High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space A ... more | .. |
  Saturn Then And Now: 30 Years Since Voyager Visit Ed Stone, project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission, remembers the first time he saw the kinks in one of Saturn's narrowest rings. It was the day the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approac ... more | .. |
 Space Station Spacewalk Under Russian Program Planned For Today Two Russian cosmonauts will float outside one of the International Space Station's hatchways on Monday to perform a grab bag of spacewalking tasks that outfit the Russian segment for future assembly ... more | .. |
 SSTL Satellite Steps Aside To Reduce Space Junk Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully repositioned the UK-DMC-1 spacecraft, which is reaching the end of its operational life, using unspent propellant to reduce the orbital lifeti ... more |
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 A Strategy To Search For Life On Mars The first and only attempts to search for life on Mars were the Viking missions launched in 1975. Now scientists are suggesting the next decade of robotic probes sent to the red planet should make t ... more | .. |
  NASA Test Fires New Rocket Engine for Commercial Space Vehicle NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi conducted a successful test firing Wednesday of the liquid-fuel AJ26 engine that will power the first stage of Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Taurus II s ... more | .. |
 New Analysis Explains Formation Of Lunar Farside Bulge A bulge of elevated topography on the farside of the Moon - known as the lunar farside highlands - has defied explanation for decades. But a new study led by researchers at the University of Califor ... more | .. |
  Detailed Dark Matter Map Yields Clues To Galaxy Cluster Growth Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a giant cosmic magnifying glass to create one of the sharpest and most detailed maps of dark matter in the universe. Dark matter is ... more |
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