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April 16, 2011
SPACE MEDICINE
Drugs in space may need special handling
Houston (UPI) Apr 14, 2011
Drugs intended to treat minor illnesses of astronauts in space may need special handling to remain stable in the environment of space, NASA scientists say. Researchers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, writing in the AAPS Journal, suggest that some of the pharmaceuticals stored on space flights may have shorter shelf-life than they do on Earth. They compared physical and chemical changes in 35 formulations in identical pharmaceutical kits stowed on the International Space Station a ... read more

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IRON AND ICE

Cold Asteroids May Have A Soft Heart
A new analysis of one of the most well-known meteorites on Earth provides strong evidence that the prevailing view of many asteroids is wrong. Rather than randomly mixed blobs of rock and dust stuck ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Kazakh Space Launch Project Delayed Until 2017
The commissioning of a key space launch facility has been postponed again to 2017 due to errors in the draft design and slow progress in relevant flight tests, a Kazakh national space agency officia ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Northrop Grumman Takes Delivery Of Primary Mirror Pathfinder Backplane For Webb Telescope
The James Webb Space Telescope reached another key milestone with the delivery of the pathfinder backplane to Northrop Grumman, prime contractor on the program. Like so much of the hardware on this ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids
Astronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids collected in the first bundle of data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) m ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Fast-Rotating Asteroid Winks For Astronomer's Camera
Video imaging of newly discovered asteroid 2011 GP59 shows the object appearing to blink on and off about once every four minutes. Amateur astronomers, including Nick James of Chelmsford, Esse ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

No Fleet Future For X-37B
The second flight of the US Air Force's X-37B spaceplane has been underway for weeks. During this time, the USAF has been fairly quiet about its operations, but this hasn't stopped amateur satellite ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

New Data From XENON100 Narrows The Possible Range For Dark Matter
An International team of scientists in the XENON collaboration, including several from the Weizmann Institute, announced on Thursday the results of their search for the elusive component of our univ ... more
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
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SOLAR SCIENCE

LockMart Scientists Discover Mechanism That Could Feed Solar Explosions
Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are violent solar explosions that can propel up to 10 billion tons of the Sun's atmosphere - at a million miles an hour - out through the corona and into space. These f ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Titan-Like Exoplanets
A new study says that worlds that orbit red dwarfs, and even rogue planets with no stars to call home, might have surface oceans loaded with organic compounds, making them similar to Saturn's moon T ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Rover's 'Gagarin' Moment Applauded Exploration
A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union's Vosto ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar Activity Heats Up
If you've ever stood in front of a hot stove, watching a pot of water and waiting impatiently for it to boil, you know what it feels like to be a solar physicist. Back in 2008, the solar cycle plung ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Herschel Links Star Formation To Sonic Booms
ESA's Herschel space observatory has revealed that nearby interstellar clouds contain networks of tangled gaseous filaments. Intriguingly, each filament is approximately the same width, hinting that ... more
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TECH SPACE

Computer demand shrinks amid tablet craze: reports
Figures released on Wednesday showed that the personal computer market shrank for the first time in more than a year due to frugality and a tablet computer craze led by Apple's hot-selling iPads. ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Putin Urges Ukraine To Join New Russian Space Center Project
Ukraine should participate in the construction of the Vostochny Space Center in Russia's Far East, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in Kiev on Tuesday. Russia currently uses two launch sites: Baik ... more
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SPACEMART

ESA May Use Russian Technology In Nuke-Spaceship Project
The European Space Agency (ESA) has no immediate plans for cooperation with Russia in creating nuclear-powered spacecraft for future missions to Mars, but is considering using Russian experience and ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Young Galaxy
Astronomers have uncovered one of the youngest galaxies in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5 billion years ago, a mere 200 million years after the Big Bang. The finding addresses que ... more
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STATION NEWS

Northrop Grumman To Test Heat Management System On ISS
Northrop Grumman will use an experiment on the International Space Station (ISS) to test a new way to cool military satellite payloads. The payload, the Massive Heat Transfer Experiment (MHTEX ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Yury Gagarin's Flight Remembered
On the morning of April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft was launched into orbit carrying the world's first cosmonaut, Yury Gagarin, a citizen of the Soviet Union. YouReporter users and bloggers shar ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Russia's Medvedev Gives State Honors To Cosmonauts
President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday awarded state honors to some of Russia's most senior cosmonauts as Russia is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first human space flight. Fifty years ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

The PI's Perspective: Pinch Me!
New Horizons is healthy and on course. In mid-March, our spacecraft passed the orbit of Uranus, more than 19 astronomical units (AU) from the sun. In fact, we're now almost 20 times as far from the ... more
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MARSDAILY

Mars Flight Possible After 2035
An interplanetary spacecraft for a flight to Mars will be created no earlier than 2025, and the maiden flight to the red planet is possible only after 2035, Russian space agency Roscosmos chief Anat ... more
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SPACEWAR

Russian Space Industry 'Falling Short' Of State Arms Goals
Russia's space chief says its rocket industry is falling short of the goals set by the state arms procurement program. "Measures to ensure the implementation of the state arms procurement prog ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Geomagnetic Storm Subsiding
April 12, 2011: A G1-class geomagnetic storm is in progress, sparked by a high-speed solar wind stream which is buffeting Earth's magnetic field. High latitude sky watchers should be alert for auror ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Two Kinds Of Webb Telescope Mirrors Arrive At NASA Goddard
It takes two unique types of mirrors working together to see farther back in time and space than ever before, and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have just received one of each type. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Hunting For Milky Way's Heaviest Stars
Like looking for Easter eggs in a lawn of long grass, the hunt for the Milky Way's most massive stars takes persistence and sharp eyes. In their stellar search through our Galactic backyard, astrono ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

NASA space telescope in budget limbo
NASA says its troubled James Webb Space Telescope, which could help find life out in space and insights into the early universe, likely won't launch until 2018. ... more
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RUSSIAN SPACE

Soviet space capsule sells for nearly $3 million
A Soviet space capsule sold for nearly $3 million at auction to a Russian businessman in New York on Tuesday, the 50th anniversary of Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin's historic conquest of space. ... more
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MISSILE NEWS

Boeing Receives Contract for SM-3 IIB Concept Design
Boeing has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB (SM-3 IIB). This $41.2 million, 32-month contract is for the concept definitio ... more
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MISSILE DEFENSE

Tracking Ballistic Missiles From 'Birth-to-Death'
Two recent Ballistic Missile Defense System-wide (BMDS) tests involving the Northrop Grumman-built Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites showed that the satellite sy ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

NASA mission control named for Chris Kraft
NASA says its Mission Control Center will be renamed to honor Christopher C. Kraft Jr., America's first flight director of human space missions. ... more
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SPACEMART

Gagarin As A Symbol Of Modernization
"Let's go!" With these words Yuri Gagarin blasted off on a flight that would shock the world. How could a country still emerging from the devastation wrought by WWII accomplish such an incredible fe ... more
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