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Long, cramped road trips ahead for US astronautsWashington (AFP) July 13, 2011 If you think of the shuttle as a kind of big space bus, the future for US astronauts will be a lot like squeezing into a three-seat compact car, made by Russia, for a very long road trip. With the shuttle program ending once Atlantis returns to Earth on July 21, US astronauts will be flying much less often to the International Space Station. And when they do, they will be hitching a ride aboard a Soyuz space capsule at a cost of $51 million per seat next year. In 2013 the cost goes up to $55.9 m ... read more |
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 Private space race heats up as US shuttle retires Private companies, aided by NASA's cash and expertise in human space flight, are rushing to be the first to build a space capsule to replace the retiring US shuttle in the next few years. ... more | .. |
  SpaceX Names Mark Bitterman Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has announced that former Orbital Sciences executive and industry leader Mark Bitterman is joining the company's Washington office as Senior Vice President of ... more | .. |
 AIA Concerned by NASA, NOAA Cuts The Aerospace Industries Association is concerned about the substantial cuts being made to the budgets of NASA and NOAA in the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science mark ... more | .. |
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  A Pulsar and Its Mysterious Tail A spinning neutron star is tied to a mysterious tail - or so it seems. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found that this pulsar, known as PSR J0357+3205 (or PSR J0357 for short ... more | .. |
  UA Teams Selected for Zero Gravity Flights Two undergraduate student teams from the University of Arizona will conduct experiments in zero gravity this week as part of NASA's Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program. The teams ar ... more | .. |
  What Activates a Supermassive Black Hole? A new study combining data from ESO's Very Large Telescope and ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray space observatory has turned up a surprise. Most of the huge black holes in the centres of galaxies in the past ... more | .. |
  Cargo Transfers for Shuttle and Station Crews Aboard the docked Atlantis/International Space Station complex, the combined 10-member crew wrapped up its busy day of transfer work. Station lead flight director Chris Edelen said at an after ... 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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  Twin Artemis Probes To Study Moon In 3D On Sunday, July 17, the Moon will acquire its second new companion in less than a month. That's when the second of two probes built by the University of California, Berkeley, and part of NASA's five ... more | .. |
  Scientists Explore the Deep to Learn More about Life and Science NASA and the Canadian Space Agency invite the news media to join the international, multidisciplinary Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) team as it explores, studies and documents rare freshwater ... more | .. |
  Gilat Selected by Synterra to Extend Broadband Telecommunications Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected by Synterra, Russia's national communications carrier, to provide satellite communications equipment for the extension of a broadband network throughout Si ... more | .. |
  NASA Selects Nonprofit to Manage Space Station National Lab Research NASA has selected the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) to develop and manage the U.S. portion of the International Space Station that will be operated as a national laboratory. ... more |
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  Time Enough for Tiangong It's taken long enough, but it seems that we are finally getting close to the launch of Tiangong 1, China's first space laboratory. This small, cylindrical spacecraft will almost certainly take off ... more | .. |
 NASA Releases Book About Psychology of Human Spaceflight NASA's History Program Office is releasing a new book that examines the different psychological factors that affect astronauts during space travel, especially long-duration missions. The book, ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin and Esri Sign Partnership Towards On-Demand Geospatial Apps and Services Lockheed Martin and Esri will collaborate on technologies to put online geospatial apps and services in the hands of more military, intelligence, homeland security and emergency response users world ... more | .. |
  Raytheon BBN Technologies Awarded $2.4 Million to Advance Satellite Communications Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded $2.4 million in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to design and integrate an information architecture for wireless small mod ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
Economic losses from natural disasters down by a third in 2025: Swiss Re | .. |
 Underwater Antarctic Volcanoes Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have discovered previously unknown volcanoes in the ocean waters around the remote South Sandwich Islands. Using ship-borne sea-floor mapping technolog ... more | .. |
  US senators voice worry over radar deal with Turkey Two key US senators expressed concerns Tuesday about a possible agreement to base a missile-shield radar in Turkey, citing the NATO ally's strained ties with Israel and relations with Iran. ... more | .. |
 Scientists warn on budget cutting U.S. scientific societies and universities have sent a letter urging policymakers, in their need to cut spending, to avoid singling out specific programs. ... more | .. |
 Arianespace uses Soyuz to loft six Globalstars to orbit from Baikonur Arianespace successfully orbited another batch of six spacecraft for Globalstar's second-generation satellite network this morning on a mission performed with the medium-lift Soyuz launcher from Bai ... more |
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 Elton John's 'Rocket Man' awakens space crew Singer Elton John's "Rocket Man" was played Wednesday to wake up the crew aboard the International Space Station, with the shuttle Atlantis docked on its last mission. ... more | .. |
 Special American Meal Planned for Final Space Shuttle Crew Food scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston have prepared a special "All-American Meal" for the final space shuttle crew as the iconic American spacecraft makes its last voyage. The pu ... more | .. |
 Scientists model physics of a key dark-energy probe Ohio State University researchers are leveraging powerful supercomputers to investigate one of the key observational probes of "dark energy," the mysterious energy form that is causing the expansion ... more | .. |
 Celebrating 10 years of Artemis ESA's pioneering Artemis satellite this week marks a decade in space. The Advanced Relay and Technology Mission was a breakthrough in telecommunications satellites for Europe, packed with new techno ... 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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  Solar System Radar and Radio Science Research Shows Promise Using Radio Transient Observation in Unexplored Space A "hot" topic in space exploration circles these days is transient activity, which is one of 12 topics discussed in the May special issue on the subject of Solar System Radar and Radio Science of Pr ... more | .. |
 Astronauts Complete Spacewalk; Cargo Transfers Begin Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Mike Fossum and Ron Garan completed a six-hour, 31-minute spacewalk at 3:53 p.m. EDT Tuesday, retrieving a failed pump module for return to Earth, installing two exper ... more | .. |
  Neptune Completes First Orbit Since Discovery In 1846 Today, Neptune has arrived at the same location in space where it was discovered nearly 165 years ago. To commemorate the event, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken these "anniversary pictures" ... more | .. |
 Globalstar Satellites Now Scheduled for Launch on July 13th Globalstar, Inc., has been rescheduled by launch services provider Arianespace. The ground equipment issue which initially forced the postponement of the launch has been resolved. Arianespace has an ... more |
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  Dawn Nears Start of Year-Long Stay at Giant Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on track to begin the first extended visit to a large asteroid. The mission expects to go into orbit around Vesta on July 16 and begin gathering science data in early Augus ... more | .. |
 China launches new data relay satellite China blasted off a new data relay satellite "Tianlian I-02" on Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest Sichuan Province . The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carr ... more | .. |
  Dark Fireworks on the Sun On June 7, 2011, Earth-orbiting satellites detected a flash of X-rays coming from the western edge of the solar disk. Registering only "M" (for medium) on the Richter scale of solar flares, the blas ... more | .. |
 Last spacewalk of US shuttle era ends Two US astronauts wrapped up the the last spacewalk of the shuttle era Tuesday at the International Space Station, where Atlantis is docked on the final mission of the 30-year US program. ... more |
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