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SpaceX: Space Station crew likes what it sees in new transport vehicle

Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Pete Spotts - May. 27 (News Report) - The crew of the International Space Station got its first look at the inside of its newest visitor – SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship – Saturday morning. For the next several years it'll be carrying cargo and astronauts to the space station.

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Another Space Debris Shower Expected in October, More Likely to Hit Populated Areas

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

International Business Times - By Anne Witter - Sep. 26 (News Report) - NASA's UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) has, as predicted, scattered into pieces and fallen somewhere unknown on Earth over the weekend, but the episode of space junk shower is not yet over.

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NASA: Space Station May Be Evacuated

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Radio Free Europe - Aug. 30 (News) - Russia and the United States gave conflicting signals about the way forward with the International Space Station now that the only remaining transport there -- the Soyuz -- has been temporarily grounded after an accident. Russia said it was determined to keep the ISS manned despite the recent failure of the only booster rocket capable of bringing replacement astronauts aloft. "We will do everything possible not to leave the station without a crew," Aleksei Krasnov, head of Russia's piloted space vehicle program, told Interfax. "We are going to have a manned mission [to the ISS] by the end of December." But the U.S. space program said that if the problems are not identified and solved by mid-November, all of the six ISS astronauts would be brought back to Earth. NASA's space station program manager, Mike Suffredini, said several options are being studied, but that crew safety comes first. He said controllers on the ground could keep a deserted space station functioning, but explained that without a crew any problem could not be fixed. His comments come just weeks after NASA's final space shuttle flight.

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NASA: Space Station May Be Evacuated By Late November

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - By Marcia Dunn - Aug. 29 (News Report) - Astronauts may need to temporarily abandon the International Space Station this fall if last week's Russian launch accident prevents new crews from flying, a NASA official said Monday.

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Atlantis docks at space station on last mission

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - By Irene Klotz - Jul. 10 (News Report) - U.S. space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday to deliver a last batch of supplies to the orbiting outpost on the final flight of the U.S. shuttle program. Commander Chris Ferguson gently eased Atlantis into its parking slip on the station's Harmony node at 11:07 a.m. EDT as the spacecraft soared 230 miles over the Pacific Ocean. "Welcome to the International Space Station for the last time," station flight engineer Ron Garan radioed to the crew. Crews opened Atlantis' hatch less than two hours later and the shuttle's 4-member crew floated through the airlock into the recently completed $100 billion orbital outpost.

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Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Jul. 08 (News) - The space shuttle Atlantis lifted off Friday morning on the final mission of America's 30-year space-shuttle program. The four-member crew blasted off on a 12-day mission just before 11:30 a.m. The four -- all shuttle veterans -- are on their way to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.

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The space shuttle: Into the sunset

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Economist - Jul. 03 (Special Report) - If the weather holds and there are no unforeseen complications, then early in the morning on July 8th a woman and three men will ascend the launch tower at Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre, strap themselves into Atlantis, the last operational space shuttle, and, as the engines ignite, wait for the countdown to reach zero. Burning thousands of litres of rocket fuel every second and blasting superheated gas into the water-filled trench beneath the pad, the engines will kick up the vast gouts of steam and smoke that characterise a rocket launch.

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'Monster' drives cosmic beacon

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - By Jonathan Amos - Jun. 30 (News Report) - Astronomers have spied a monster black hole - the brightest object yet seen in the early Universe. Detected by a UK telescope in Hawaii, the hole is seen as it was a mere 770 million years after the Big Bang. This means its light has taken an astonishing 12.9 billion years to reach us here on Earth.

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Space Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Flight Today

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

City Paper - By Laura Dattaro - Feb. 25 (News) - This is big: NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery is launching today at 4:50 p.m. EST for its 39th and final flight, a trek to the International Space Station, which it has visited 35 times.

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Scientists are Cleared of Misuse of Data

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Leslie Kaufman - Feb. 25 (News Report) - An inquiry by a federal watchdog agency found no evidence that scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration manipulated climate data to buttress the evidence in support of global warming, officials said on Thursday.

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Japanese supply rocket lifts off

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 22 (News) - A Japanese rocket with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) has lifted off from a remote island in southern Japan. The unmanned rocket is carrying nearly six tonnes of food. The cargo rocket is expected to dock with the ISS on Thursday.

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Swarm of net satellites planned

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Jonathan Amos - Jan. 20 (News Report) - A Canadian company has announced a plan to put 78 small satellites in orbit to carry the internet. Called the "CommStellation", the system would be deployed from 2014-2015.

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Antimatter caught streaming from thunderstorms on Earth

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By Jason Palmer - Jan. 11 (News Report) - A space telescope designed to probe the farthest reaches of the cosmos has spotted beams of antimatter streaming from thunderstorms on Earth.

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Seth Shostak: Life, But Not As We Know It

Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Seth Shostak - Dec. 06 (Opinion) - The import of the discovery of a new arsenic-based microbe is that finding life as we don't know it will give us a better shot at testing for biology on worlds that are, both by definition and in fact, truly alien.

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Subsisting on Arsenic, a Microbe May Redefine Life

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Dennis Overbye - Dec. 02 (News Report) - Scientists said Thursday that they had trained a bacterium to eat and grow on a diet of arsenic, in place of phosphorus — one of six elements considered essential for life — opening up the possibility that organisms could exist elsewhere in the universe or even here on Earth using biochemical powers we have not yet dared to dream about.

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NASA Finds New Life

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Gizmodo - By Jesus Diaz - Dec. 02 (Breaking News) - Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.

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NASA Reveals Astrobiology Finding in Press Conference

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Brad Sylvester - Dec. 02 (News Report) - ContributorNetwork - A NASA astrobiology team, this afternoon, released the details of the breakthrough astrobiology finding in a press conference broadcast over the web on NASA TV. The NASA press conference was first cryptically announced on Monday, saying only that the announcement related to the field of astrobiology and would affect the search for extraterrestrial life.. A team of NASA astrobiologists have discovered a novel form of life that is able to use arsenic in place of phosphorus in its chemical building blocks. In other words, the astrobiologists say, the DNA of this newly discovered organism is completely foreign, or alien, if you will, to every other living thing on Earth, despite the fact that it was discovered in Mono Lake in California.

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Secret U.S. Space Plane Eludes Observers; May Spook Governments, Too

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By David Axe - Nov. 18 (News) - The Air Force launched the 29-foot-long, Boeing-built X-37 in April. Now six months into a potential nine-month deployment, the X-37 periodically changes orbits, frustrating amateur satellite-spotters.

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NASA: Lost in Space

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Business Week - Oct. 28 (News) - Robert Cabana, director of the Kennedy Space Center, in front of the Shuttle Discovery as it awaits one final flight Stefan Ruiz Preparing for a final journey: The Space Shuttle Atlantis, from beneath Stefan Ruiz A side view of the Space Shuttle

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Boeing, partner plan space taxi for tourists by 2016

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Marc Kaufman - Sep. 16 (News) - The Boeing aerospace company announced an agreement with Space Adventures Ltd. of Vienna, Va., to establish a space taxi system that will launch its passengers into low Earth orbit.

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INDIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS NO TO GLOBAL NETWORK SPACE CONFAB

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Space4Peace.com - By Bruce Gagnon - Aug. 02 (News Report) - the U.S. has for several years been pushing India to develop a Space Command and to become a junior partner in the Pentagon's growing Star Wars program. Just a month ago we published our Space Alert! newsletter which had an article by Global Network board member Matt Hoey. The article was called "India Developing Space Weapons" and the opening paragraph read: Indian military officials have set a target date to deploy an ambitious anti-satellite (ASAT) system

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First light for Solar Dynamics Observatory

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Nature - By Richard Lovett - Jul. 24 (News Report) - Astronomers seeking to predict solar storms are receiving the first trickles of a wealth of new data, scientists reported this week at a meeting of the Committee on Space Research in Bremen, Germany.

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What's wrong with the sun?

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New Scientist - By Stuart Clark - Jun. 14 (Special Report) - ... for the past two years, the sunspots have mostly been missing. Their absence, the most prolonged for nearly a hundred years, has taken even seasoned sun watchers by surprise. "This is solar behaviour we haven't seen in living memory," says David Hathaway, a physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

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The Looming Space Junk Crisis: Time to Take Out the Trash

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Evan I. Schwartz - Jun. 14 (Special Report) - The nightmare scenario an astrophysicist envisaged in 1978 -- of space debris accumulating and colliding -- is now a reality, leaving NASA scrambling to deal with this "runaway environment."

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Japan unfurls Ikaros solar sail in space

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 11 (News Report) - Japanese scientists celebrate the successful deployment of their solar sail Ikaros.

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