Station Crew Prepares for Return Home
Updated: 2011-11-08 10:26:54
Space Fellowship: Aboard the orbiting International Space Station Monday, Commander Mike Fossum and Flight Engineers Satoshi Furukawa and Sergei Volkov spent some time preparing for their imminent return to Earth. Furukawa and Volkov reviewed procedures for the descent portion of their flight aboard the Soyuz TMA-02M. Along with Fossum they also strapped themselves into their custom Kazbek couches inside the Soyuz, to test out the fit and make sure everything is set for the flight home. The trio is schedu [...]
Space Fellowship: PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif. has captured new radar images of Asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth. The asteroid safely will safely fly past our planet slightly closer than the moon's orbit on Nov. 8. The last time a space rock this large came as close to Earth was in 1976, although astronomers did not know about the flyby at the time. The next known approach of an asteroid this size will be in 2028. The image was taken on Nov. 7 at 11: [...]
Method Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News New York NY SPX Nov 08, 2011 Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for complex organic molecule formation . The scientists
Method NASA's Future Up In Space Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Pasadena CA JPL Nov 08, 2011 NASA's Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone , Calif . has captured new radar images of asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close to Earth . The asteroid safely will fly past our planet slightly closer than the Moon's orbit on Nov . 8. The last time a space rock this large came as close to Earth was in 1976, although astronomers
Method NASA Captures New Images Of Large Asteroid Passing Earth Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Russia aims for first conquest of Mars post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Moscow AFP Nov 7, 2011 Russia on Wednesday launches a probe for Mars that aims to collect a chunk of a Martian moon and become Moscow's first successful planetary mission since the collapse of the Soviet Union . The Phobos-Grunt probe is to blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Zenit-2SB rocket at 00:16 am Moscow time
, Method Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . China masters space command , control post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Beijing XNA Nov 08, 2011 China's space control network has realized integrated command and control , which ensured the successful docking of the unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou 8 with the space lab module Tiangong 1, according to the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Communication Technology . This institute is the general design
Method Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . China's great big leap skyward post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Beijing XNA Nov 08, 2011 A Chinese Long March 2F carrier rocket hurled Shenzhou-8 into orbit a week ago . Two days later , the unmanned spacecraft linked up with the Tiangong-1 module , accomplishing China's first space docking . Less than two months before , however , an orbiter launched by a similar Long March rocket had failed to
Method Edmund Halley Google Doodle Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Campaign Begins For Third Automated Transfer Vehicle Mission To ISS post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Kourou , French Guiana ESA Nov 08, 2011 The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's third flight to service the International Space Station has begun its build-up at the Spaceport , preparing this heavy-lift launcher for an early 2012 mission from French Guiana with a European Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo resupply vessel . During activity in the
Method What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News University Park , PA SPX Nov 08, 2011 Two Pioneer probes left our solar system carrying plaques about humankind , and two Voyager probes will soon join them to gather information about places far out in our galaxy . We can and will send more autonomous probes into outer space , but why have we never found evidence of other civilizations
Method Nonterrestrial artifacts hard to pin down Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . What does the Tiangong 1 space station mean for China post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Beijing XNA Nov 08, 2011 China has successfully completed the first step of building a space station when Shenzhou 8 docked with lab module Tiangong 1 on Nov . 3, 2011, but what is the significance of the project for the nation It is generally recognized among the international space exploration community that a space station can provide a
Method Astrobiologists Discover Sweet Spots For Formation of Complex Organic Molecules Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Six Astrium satellites on the same flight post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Toulouse , France SPX Nov 08, 2011 Astrium is prime contractor for all six satellites to be launched in mid-December by the second Soyuz launcher to lift off from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana . The Pleiades 1 Very High Resolution VHR Earth observation satellite recently left Astrium's site in Toulouse for
Method Is the Pluto System Dangerous Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . Is the Pluto System Dangerous post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Boulder CO SPX Nov 08, 2011 New Horizons remains healthy and on course , now almost two times as far from the Sun as the Earth is , and approaching six years into its 9.5-year journey to the Pluto system . We've taken the spacecraft out of hibernation to perform maintenance activities , and to re-point our radio antenna to compensate for Earth's movement around its orbit .
Method China's great big leap skyward Home add your blog Archives Search Contact RSS FEED This site is an rss xml news reader containing our favorite feeds . All articles are the copyrighted material of the blogs that wrote them . NASA's Future Up In Space post from Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 08 November 2011 02:15:53 AM . Space Tourism , Space Transport and Space Exploration News Bethesda MD SPX Nov 08, 2011 In a recent interview at the White House , President Obama addressed NASA's future . He said , I am hugely committed to manned space flight but I want to make sure that we're doing it right and that we aren't wasting taxpayer money . In the meantime , thousands of jobs related to the Space Shuttle Program have been lost . NASA's manned space program
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Fresno State campus director Dr. Ram Nunna (Interim Dean of the Lyles College of Engineering at Fresno State) provided support for a team of students that flew on a microgravity flight at Johnson Space Center this summer. The team investigated the "Formation of Calcium Oxalate in a Microgravity Environment". The team's research objective was to [...]
Successful launch of first Galileo IOV satellites Space blog Successful launch of first Galileo IOV satellites SSTL congratulates the EU , ESA and Astrium on the successful launch of the two first in-orbit validation IOV satellites , which marks a critical step for the Galileo system . Galileo is the upcoming European satellite navigation system , equivalent to the American Global Positioning System GPS Galileo will start operating in 2014 as a free consumer navigation service , with more specialised services to be rolled out until 2020, when it’s planned to be fully operational Launched by a Russian Soyuz rocket from the base in French Guiana on Friday 21 October 07:30 local time 11:30 BST the satellites are now in their 23,000km orbit above . Earth Friday’s launch is the beginning of the