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With the Mars500 experiment nearing its third month mark, experts are beginning to form a clue as to how humans endure long-term space travels. Six volunteers underwent astronaut training last years and at the beginning of 2010, and were then locked in a facility that simulates a future spacecraft bound for the Red P... |
3 September 2010
02:40 GMT |
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“Top Chef”, Bravo TV's Emmy-award winning reality show has a special space race food challenge for the remaining contestants, as the last one standing will have his or her recipe prepared by NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and shipped on a future space shuttle mission.Yesterday, the chefs... |
2 September 2010
05:45 GMT |
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The six astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have over the past two days been preparing for the departure of the Progress 38 resupply capsule, which took place yesterday.At 15:19 Moscow Time (7:19 am EDT), experts sent the undock commands to the unmanned capsule, which undocked from the ISS three m... |
1 September 2010
05:49 GMT |
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According to an unanimous decision, former NASA astronauts Lisa Nowak has been removed from her military career, and had her rank downgraded from captain to commander. The decision was made by three Navy admirals, who voted unanimously to have Nowak's career characterized as “less than honorable.” Th... |
21 August 2010
02:49 GMT |
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The cooling system aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will reach optimal levels today, scientists announce, as its Loop A has nearly finished removing all excess heat from the facility.The Loop's ammonia pump broke down on July 31, and was only fixed earlier this week, after NASA astronauts performed t... |
19 August 2010
08:40 GMT |
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NASA mission managers said that the spacewalk conducted yesterday by two of its astronauts in low-Earth orbit was successful, and that a critical ammonia pump had been replaced without difficulties.The pump assembly failed more than two weeks ago, on July 31, and the International Space Station (ISS) has been running... |
17 August 2010
03:04 GMT |
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NASA officials have finally agreed to allow two Expedition 24 flight engineers to go outside the International Space Station (ISS) today, in order to conduct a new spacewalk.The extravehicular activity (EVA) will be conducted by astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, who will attempt to replace a broken a... |
16 August 2010
06:22 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that they have just finished packing their advanced Robonaut 2 machine into its cargo container, and that the robotic astronaut is currently ready to fly in space. The instrument, which is eventually destined to help astronauts carry out complex extravehicular activitie... |
14 August 2010
03:34 GMT |
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After taking into account the progress made during the first two spacewalks destined to repair the broken ammonia pump on the International Space Station (ISS), NASA experts established that four excursions in space will be necessary to complete the job. Engineers and mission planners say that there is no other, fast... |
12 August 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Motion sickness can happen to most people, whether they are in a car, a train, an airplane or sailing on a ship. NASA researchers however say that it is all a matter of mind control. The agency is currently testing a new method, meant to help astronauts adjust to microgravity.Spaceflight has the same effect on cosmon... |
9 August 2010
07:01 GMT |
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In an announcement made on Saturday, experts at NASA announce that astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will need to perform a third spacewalk to repair the broken ammonia pump. Initially, just two extravehicular activities (EVA) were planned, one scheduled for Saturday, and the other one for Wedne... |
9 August 2010
05:52 GMT |
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Flight engineers Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson prepare for the August 5 spacewalk, as the two Russian flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko cleaned up after Tuesday morning’s successful mission.The next spacewalk will be carried out outside the United States Quest airlock. The two Am... |
31 July 2010
04:01 GMT |
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A wayward piece of space junk belonging to a former Chinese satellite zoomed harmlessly past the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, July 29. Experts at NASA decided not to take any actions concerning the six astronauts currently making up the Expedition 24 crew, as they calculated the orbit of the junk with... |
30 July 2010
08:42 GMT |
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The six astronauts that are currently making up the Expedition 24 crew to the International Space Station (ISS) have in their care a number of scientific experiments that could have vast influences on the future of mankind. One of them is DECLIC-HTI, and its makers say that it could hold the key towards enabling spec... |
27 July 2010
11:07 GMT |
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The six pseudo-astronauts locked behind closed doors inside a Moscow research facility are beginning to send out their first messages to the world. One such message is a journal entry released by Romain Charles, one of the team members that was selected by the European Space Agency. He is a 31-year-old engineer from ... |
23 July 2010
09:24 GMT |
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Being an astronaut also means that you have to be prepared for anything that might happen in space and also on the ground. Six aspiring astronauts followed a nearly military training in surviving techniques, at the end of June.In case of emergency landing on water, in the desert or close to the North Pole, astronaut ... |
9 July 2010
10:36 GMT |
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Yesterday was a busy day aboard the International Space Station (ISS), as the three astronauts currently making up half of the full Expedition 24 crew prepared to greet their incoming colleagues. Following a reboost procedure that took place on Monday, June 7, the orbital facility was put back on track, and is now re... |
9 June 2010
04:49 GMT |
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Today, June 3, six mock astronauts entered a series of chambers at the Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP), in Moscow, Russia. The doors were closed behind them, and lying ahead are 520 days of complete isolation from the outside world. The crew will only be in contact with “Mission Control,” which w... |
3 June 2010
11:03 GMT |
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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) got up early this morning, in order to prepare for the last spacewalks of Atlantis' current mission to the orbital outpost. Two shuttle crew members will go outside the facility today, in a bid to replace additional solar batteries, and also transfer a grap... |
21 May 2010
05:51 GMT |
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The 12 crew members currently occupying the International Space Station (ISS) said yesterday that the Gulf of Mexico oil slick looked very alarming and scary from space. Astronauts from NASA, RosCosmos and JAXA took a moment from their busy schedule as they were flying over the Gulf on May 18, and took numerous pictu... |
19 May 2010
01:23 GMT |
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Yesterday, May 17, NASA astronauts Garrett Reisman and Stephen Bowen, both of whom came to orbit aboard space shuttle Atlantis, conducted the first spaceflight of the STS-132 mission. The two were in charge of installing a new communications antenna on the outer hull of the International Space Station (ISS), and also... |
18 May 2010
02:54 GMT |
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Since the Columbia accident in 2003, the American space agency has put in place measures to ensure that something like this never happens before. As such, as space-bound shuttles need to inspect their own heat shield the first full day they spend in space. For Atlantis, that took place on Saturday, but the crew exper... |
17 May 2010
02:43 GMT |
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Decades ago, the American space agency conducted a wide variety of tests aimed at benefiting its Moon-oriented program. Some of these investigations revolved around developing means of creating artificial gravity in space, so as to protect its astronauts from the harmful effects of being subjected to weightlessness f... |
12 May 2010
09:44 GMT |
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In a discovery with far-reaching implications, researchers at the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) determined that increased intake of omega-3 (n−3) fatty acids may help prevent bone loss. The finding could be of tremendous use for modifying astronauts' diets, so as to prevent the loss of bone and muscle ma... |
11 May 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Officials at the European Space Agency (ESA) announced yesterday that the six-member crew of the Mars 500 experiment was finally ready to go. Two European astronauts will join three Russian and one Chinese colleagues, in remaining isolated from the outside world for nor no less than 520 days. This is the estimated du... |
11 May 2010
03:57 GMT |
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No single nation has the necessary resources to take on complete and thorough space exploration on its own, astronauts said recently at the 26th National Space Symposium, held in Colorado Springs earlier this month. Therefore, the only possible solution to advance research in astrophysics, astronomy and astrobiology ... |
29 April 2010
10:43 GMT |
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With NASA planning to returning to the Moon over the next couple of decades, finding out the exact conditions astronauts and space exploration equipment will have to endure on the celestial body is of the utmost importance. But a new study shows just how difficult it is to think of everything. The research reveals th... |
27 April 2010
20:01 GMT |
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Under the new guidelines set forth by the White House and President Barack Obama, the American space agency only has four shuttle flights remaining before it needs to decommission its shuttle fleet. There were a total of five missions planned for this year, but Endeavor has already completed the STS-130 flight succes... |
8 March 2010
03:49 GMT |
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As we were reporting a couple of days ago, the new module on the International Space Station (ISS), Tranquility, was “unofficially” opened by the joint crew currently aboard the orbital lab. In a late Saturday spacewalk, or extra-vehicular activity (EVA), NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Nicholas Patric... |
14 February 2010
06:09 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency, working in collaboration with scientists from General Motors, announce the development of robonauts, robotic helpers perfectly suited for the precise labor required from astronauts working in orbit. The new instruments could be suited for a wide variety of tasks, that could see t... |
6 February 2010
03:29 GMT |
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Though India has been involved in space exploration, or at least in some form of organized space program, for the last 45 years, its major accomplishments at this point only include numerous satellite launches and a Moon orbiter and probe. But authorities in Delhi are currently setting their eyes on bigger aims, as t... |
28 January 2010
06:03 GMT |
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The three astronauts that launched on Sunday from Kazakhstan managed to hook up to the International Space Station (ISS) last night, at 5:48 pm EST (2248 GMT). NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi were pleased to finally meet up with... |
23 December 2009
03:05 GMT |
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Three astronauts are currently bound to the International Space Station (ISS), after they successfully blasted off on Sunday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan. The space fliers are scheduled to reach the station tomorrow, where they will hook up with the other two members of Expedition 22, who are already o... |
21 December 2009
02:27 GMT |
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While spending time aboard the space shuttles or the International Space Station (ISS) can be an amazing experience, the work that needs to be done on the sides can be excruciatingly difficult. And we're not just talking about the training that would-be astronauts undergo before they fly to space, but also about... |
10 December 2009
09:09 GMT |
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Three astronauts left the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, letting only two members of the former Expedition 21 crew take care of the orbital facility. A Russian, a Canadian and a Belgian took with them one of the Soyuz capsules docked to the station at all times, and are headed for a landing on the stepp... |
1 December 2009
02:50 GMT |
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Throughout today, the 12 astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), featuring both members of the orbital outpost and the docked space shuttle Atlantis, will conduct the last maintenance work on the facility. This is the last day the two crews will spend together, as Atlantis is scheduled to undock tomo... |
24 November 2009
08:25 GMT |
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On Saturday, astronauts aboard the NASA space shuttle Atlantis, and the International Space Station (ISS) raced through the second spacewalk planned for the STS-129 assembly flight. In fact, they went about their businesses so well, that they managed to even squeeze in a few jobs that were originally scheduled to be ... |
23 November 2009
02:24 GMT |
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Over recent weeks, a large number of false alarms have prompted Mission Controls in Houston, the US, and in Russia to wake up astronauts while they were sleeping on the space station, and to put them on alert about possible impacts. The International Space Station's (ISS) orbit is currently taking the facility m... |
21 November 2009
04:02 GMT |
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As part of NASA's Centennial Challenges Competition, the American space agency is offering more than $400,000 to the team that can design the most dexterous, strongest and most durable astronaut glove, in the Astronaut Glove Challenge. This is the second edition of the competition, through which the agency is se... |
20 November 2009
02:13 GMT |
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The space shuttle Atlantis managed a picture-perfect docking sequence to the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday, as the two massive spacecraft were flying some 220 miles (354 kilometers) above the surface of the planet. The STS-129 flight will spend about 11 days in orbit, during which time the six astronaut... |
19 November 2009
02:45 GMT |
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The Pavilion Lake, in British Columbia, Canada, is arguably one of the most peculiar ones in the world. It features bacterium-built, coral-shape structures that are not similar to any others in the world, and that have not been subjected to attacks by snails, worms and other grazing animals. Because of these peculiar... |
12 November 2009
10:36 GMT |
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In addition to being one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by humans, the International Space Station (ISS) is also arguably one of the most dangerous places to be on during one's lifetime. There are numerous things that can go wrong, despite the valiant efforts that engineers from many countries ma... |
11 November 2009
05:46 GMT |
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Late this Friday, a chunk of space debris whooshed passed the International Space Station (ISS) at very close distance, triggering concerns for the astronauts' safety. The piece of debris did not buzz past extremely close to the station, Mission Controllers report, otherwise the six members of the ISS crew may h... |
7 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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The $5-million Combined Operational Load-Bearing External Resistance Treadmill (COLBERT) that was carried aboard the International Space Station (ISS) with space shuttle Discovery during STS-128 has now finally been assembled aboard the orbital outpost. In spite of the fact that the spacecraft returned home about a m... |
8 October 2009
02:26 GMT |
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After launching on Wednesday (3:14 am EDT, 0714 GMT) from the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, flight engineers Jeff Williams (NASA) and Maxim Suraev (RosCosmos), accompanied by billionaire Guy Laliberte, finally reached and docked to the International Space Station (ISS). The procedure, which went flawles... |
2 October 2009
09:28 GMT |
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In only a couple of hours, the two professional astronauts and the space tourist aboard the Russian-built Soyuz TMA-16 capsule are scheduled to dock to the International Space Station (ISS). The link-up is estimated to take place at 4:37 am EDT (0837 GMT), and will see two new Expedition 21 crew members brought aboar... |
2 October 2009
03:40 GMT |
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Two Expedition 21 crew members and a space tourist launched for the International Space Station (ISS) at 3:14 am EDT (0714 GMT) this morning, atop a Soyuz delivery system. The spacecraft, which carries the manned Soyuz space capsule, took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is operated by the Russia... |
30 September 2009
05:59 GMT |
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The International Space Station (ISS) crew has a few busy days ahead of it this week, with numerous tasks that need to be completed as fast as possible. In addition, it also needs to prepare for an astronaut-replacement routine. The Soyuz TMA-16 space capsule is slated for launch from the Site 254 launch pad, at the ... |
29 September 2009
03:30 GMT |
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Finally, after more than seven days of orbital chase, Japan's new H-2 Transfer Vehicle 1 (HTV-1) caught up with the International Space Station (ISS), and was captured with the orbital outpost's robotic arm. The new space freighter, which was developed by the Japanese space agency JAXA, had a flawless inaug... |
18 September 2009
01:46 GMT |
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In the Arizona desert, NASA recently showcased its latest lunar rover, a vehicle known as the Lunar Electric Rover (LER). Running entirely on electricity provided by batteries and fuel cells, the new instrument has a closed cockpit, which means that astronauts will no longer have to wear their bulky spacesuits, as th... |
17 September 2009
10:20 GMT |
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