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A Fallen Giant: The Soviet Space IndustryMoscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 04, 2011 Ordinary Russians see little connection between space exploration and economics. If anything, they see expensive space programs as a permanent drain on the nation's resources. Some are inclined to take it personally, as if the dark vacuum of space somehow sucked the money right out of their pockets. Space is beyond the realm of the rational and, therefore, beyond the realm of economics. But Russia's space program was built, in part, by ordinary Russians using ordinary steel. Space exploration was ... read more |
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 Soyuz Launch Site Ready For First Flight The Soyuz site at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana is now ready for its first launch. ESA yesterday handed over the complex to Arianespace, marking a major step towards this year's inaugural flig ... more | .. |
 Russia To Get New Spaceport The Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Region is slated to become Russia's major spaceport, with nearly half of the space launches planned to be carried out from it after 2020, the Russian Space Agenc ... more | .. |
  Revealing The Inner Secrets Of Giant Stars University of Sydney astrophysicists are behind a major breakthrough in the study of the senior citizens of our galaxy: stars known as Red Giants. Using high precision brightness measurements taken ... more | .. |
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  NASA Test Stand Passes Review For Next-Generation Rocket Engine Testing Forty-five years after its first Saturn V rocket stage test and 35 years after its first space shuttle main engine test, the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center achieved a mileston ... more | .. |
  Getting To Know One Of The Four Fundamental Forces Of The Universe In new work, high-energy physicists have observed two long-sought quantum states in the bottomonium family of sub-atomic particles. The result will help researchers better understand one of the four ... more | .. |
  NASA Tweaks End Of Shuttle Contracts NASA has incorporated six, one-month content adjustments that provide options for continuation of services to support fly-out of the space shuttle manifest beyond Thursday, March 31. If all options ... more | .. |
  Aerojet Propulsion Assists Voyager 1 Precision Maneuver At The Edge Of The Solar System Aerojet says its thrusters on the Voyager 1 spacecraft assisted in several critical repositionings of the spacecraft over 10 billion miles away from the sun, at the edge of the solar system. O ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
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 The Art Of Making Stars It might look like an abstract painting, but this splash of colors is in fact a busy star-forming complex called Rho Ophiuchi. NASA's Wide-field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, captured the picturesque ... more | .. |
  NASA Airborne Radar Set to Image Hawaiian Volcano The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface. A NASA ... more | .. |
  Get Some Quick "Cool" Facts About NASA's Webb Telescope Interested in learning some quick facts about NASA's next-generation space telescope? NASA has created a short video to show you just how literally "cool" the James Webb Space Telescope really is. F ... more | .. |
 Launch Pad Inspections Set For Saturday Following TCDT Conclusion Friday Technicians and engineers on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will begin detailed inspections of space shuttle Endeavour and its external fuel tank Saturday afternoon. They' ... more |
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  Blood Simple Circuitry For Cyborgs Could electronic components made from human blood be the key to creating cyborg interfaces? Circuitry that links human tissues and nerve cells directly to an electronic device, such as a robotic lim ... more | .. |
  Response To Japan's Disaster Relief Efforts When a crisis occurs on the scale of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan, we all want to help. We thought you might like to know that GeoEye has been supporting the relief efforts by pr ... more | .. |
  Station Fires Engines To Avoid Orbital Debris At 10:36 p.m. EDT, ground controllers moved the International Space Station away from a piece of orbital debris. The object is a relic from a collision between the COSMOS 2251 and Iridium 33 satelli ... more | .. |
 Successful First Mission For Aerospace Breakup Recorder A Reentry Breakup Recorder (REBR) carried aboard the Japanese HTV2 vehicle during its fiery plunge into the South Pacific Ocean successfully collected data during the breakup of the HTV2 vehicle and ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
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  Processing Is Underway For Globalstar's Second-Generation Satellites To Be Launched By Soyuz In May The six Globalstar second-generation satellites to be orbited by Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from Baikonur Cosmodrome are well advanced in their preparations as activities continue for the lift ... more | .. |
  Forensic Sleuthing Ties Ring Ripples To Impacts Like forensic scientists examining fingerprints at a cosmic crime scene, scientists working with data from NASA's Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons missions have traced telltale ripples in the rings ... more | .. |
 Black box for spacecraft tested The first black box flight recorder designed to endure a re-entry from space survived a fiery return from low Earth orbit, its manufacturer said. ... more | .. |
 Russian Soyuz set for Tuesday launch A Russian Soyuz spacecraft has been transported to its launch pad in Kazakhstan in advance of its Tuesday blastoff for a manned mission into space. ... more |
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  Earth's Gravity Revealed In Unprecedented Detail After just two years in orbit, ESA's GOCE satellite has gathered enough data to map Earth's gravity with unrivalled precision. Scientists now have access to the mos ... more | .. |
  Raven Industries Manufactured Balloon Sets Records On March 4, 2011, a Raven Aerostar designed and manufactured Zero Pressure Balloon, flown by Cornell University graduate students, broke the world Amateur Radio High Altitude Ballooning records for ... more | .. |
 Mysterious "Ribbon" Of Energy And Particles Isolated In a paper to be published in the April, 2011, issue of The Astrophysical Journal, scientists on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, including lead author Nathan Schwadron and othe ... more | .. |
 Witnesses Say Future Of NASA Human Space Flight Is Uncertain today, in a hearing of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, witnesses expressed serious concern about the lack of clear focus by the Administration on NASA's transition from the Space Shuttle ... more |
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The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors
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 Atmospheric Science Through Robotic Aircraft ASTRA investigates new technologies for making low cost observations of the physical parameters of the atmosphere. We develop and test platforms capable of delivering scientific instruments to altit ... more | .. |
  Arianespace Flight VA201: Interruption Of The Countdown In the last seconds of Ariane Flight VA201's launch countdown as the Vulcain cryogenic main stage engine was being ignited, the checkout process detected an anomaly on the launcher, interrupting the ... more | .. |
  Searching For Alien Life? Try Failed Stars The search for alien life usually focuses on planets around other stars. But a lesser-known possibility is that life has sprung up on planets that somehow were ejected from their original solar syst ... more | .. |
  Spring Is Fireball Season What are the signs of spring? They are as familiar as a blooming Daffodil, a songbird at dawn, a surprising shaft of warmth from the afternoon sun. And, oh yes, don't forget the meteors. "Spri ... more |
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 Arctic Ice Gets A Check Up Scientists tracking the annual maximum extent of Arctic sea ice said that 2011 was among the lowest ice extents measured since satellites began collecting the data in 1979. Using satellites to track ... more | .. |
 RIT Researchers Help Map Tsunami And Earthquake Damage In Japan Japan needs maps. Not just any kind-detailed informational maps georegistered with latitude and longitude and annotated with simple, self-evident details: this bridge is out, this port is damaged, t ... more | .. |
 GREAT Spectrometer Readied For Flight On SOFIA Scientists recently completed a series of nighttime, ground-based testing of the German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies, or GREAT, spectrometer in preparation for a series of astrono ... more | .. |
  Wind Can Keep Mountains From Growing Wind is a much more powerful force in the evolution of mountains than previously thought, according to a new report from a University of Arizona-led research team. Bedrock in Central Asia that would ... more |
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