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US shuttle blasts off on key space station mission
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Oct 23, 2007US space shuttle Discovery blasted off successfully Tuesday on an ambitious, complex mission to the International Space Station, key to future manned flights to Mars. The launch went ahead at 11:38 am (1538 GMT) despite safety concerns voiced by a team of independent NASA engineers, and the discovery of a chunk of ice outside the craft. The shuttle took off on schedule carrying seven ast ... more First Stop Moon. Next Stop, Mars 
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 19, 2007The distant red planet Mars has captured the imagination of humankind for generations. It has inspired novelists to write stories about its exploration and motivated scientists to find ways to make space travel there a viable possibility. Now, for the first time in Europe, scholars such as historians, philosophers and sociologists are banding together with space scientists to share their thought ... more Discovery mission key to International Space Station construction 
Washington (AFP) Oct 20, 2007The next mission of the space shuttle Discovery set for liftoff Tuesday is critical to building the International Space Station, ferrying in the Harmony module key to installing the European lab Columbus and Japan's Kibo lab. Harmony, a big Italian-made aluminum tube weighing in at 14.3 tonnes, will connect the two labs to the outpost and give it its almost final shape. NASA plans to bri ... more UA's Phoenix Mars Mission Gets A Chance To Lounge 
Tuscon AZ (SPX) Oct 22, 2007The University of Arizona will open the new UA Mars Lounge, dedicated to its Phoenix Mars Mission, and unveil a large landing clock on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Student Union Memorial Center. The mission's principal investigator, Peter Smith, will unveil the clock in the Student Union rotunda. The lounge was designed to give students, faculty, staff and visitors a glimpse into what UA scientists h ... more Boosting The Accuracy Of Rosetta's Earth Approach 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 22, 2007Yesterday, 18 October at 18:06 CEST, the thrusters of ESA's comet chaser, Rosetta, were fired in a planned, 42-second trajectory correction manoeuvre designed to 'fine tune' the spacecraft's approach to Earth. Rosetta is now approaching Earth for its second planetary swing-by of 2007. After passing Mars in April 2007, Rosetta is now approaching Earth for the second time - the third of four plane ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 16, 2007NASA Tuesday announced it was extending for the fifth time the mission of Mars space probes Spirit and Opportunity, in their indefatigable exploration of the Red planet. The two robots touched down three weeks apart on Mars in January 2004 for an expected 90-day mission that instead could stretch out to 2009, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said on its website. In Septe ... more NASA Extends Operations For Its Long-Lived Mars Rovers 
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 16, 2007NASA is extending, for a fifth time, the activities of the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. The decision keeps the trailblazing mobile robotic pioneers active on opposite sides of Mars, possibly through 2009. This extended mission and the associated science are dependent upon the continued productivity and operability of the rovers. "We are extremely happy to be able to fu ... more Opportunity Begins Sustained Exploration Inside Crater 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2007NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity finished the last step of a test in-and-out maneuver checking wheel slippage at the rim of Victoria Crater today. Then the rover immediately drove back into the crater as the start of a multi-week investigation on the big bowl's inner slope. Opportunity started the day with just two of its six wheels inside the rim of Victoria Crater and ended the ... more HiRISE Releases Color Images, Movie Of Prospective Landing Sites On Mars 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Oct 11, 2007The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has added a new dimension to its views of Mars. The dimension is color. The University of Arizona-based HiRISE team today released 143 color images valuable to researchers studying possible landing sites for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, a mission to deploy a long-distance rover carrying a deck of ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 05, 2007Under the Federal space program for 2006-2015 Russia plans to conduct over 20 scientific projects, Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) head Anatoly Perminov told Thursday "In particular, we have plans to build special-purpose spacecraft fitted with scientific equipment. The research will focus on fields like astrophysics, and planetary science," he said. He said that planned flights includ ... more Russia to help NASA explore Moon, Mars 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Russia is to provide the US space agency NASA with instruments for scanning both the Moon and Mars under agreements signed here Wednesday. Under accords signed by NASA administrator Michael Griffin and the head of Russia's space agency Anatoly Perminov, Russia will provide equipment for scanning for water on the Moon that could eventually help lead to its human habitation, said Gordon Chin, ... more Russia marks Sputnik anniversary 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Russia on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, the tiny satellite whose crackly beeps launched the Space Race between the Cold War superpowers. "We Were First," trumpeted a headline in the popular Izvestia daily. "At 22:28 Moscow time on October 4, 1957, humanity entered a new space age. The Soviet Union sent the Earth's first artificial satellite into orbit." ... more USSR misjudged importance of Sputnik satellite: Krushchev's son 
Washington (AFP) Oct 2, 2007The Soviet Union did not immediately grasp the importance of its Sputnik satellite after launching it 50 years ago, triggering a space race with the United States, said the son of then USSR leader Nikita Krushchev. "The consequences became clear much later. At the time it was like sending a ball far away," Sergei Krushchev, an expert on Russia at Brown University in Rhode Island, told a foru ... more
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