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Solid rocket booster issue examined on Discovery
An internal valve problem with the hydraulic steering system on the left-hand solid rocket booster of space shuttle Discovery is being analyzed in the Vehicle Assembly Building. Rollout to pad 39A has been rescheduled for Monday to Tuesday.
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Endeavour and astronauts are home safe and sound
Shuttle Endeavour and crew have safely returned from their thrilling spaceflight that mixed delicate robotics with the muscle of spacewalkers to continue constructing and maintaining the International Space Station. Touchdown on Kennedy Space Center's runway came at 10:48 a.m. EDT Friday.
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Future of human spaceflight hinges on funding
The commission reviewing the future of U.S. human spaceflight will present up to a half-dozen options to President Obama late next month, ranging from a conservative, methodical space program to an aggressive blueprint for a mission to Mars.
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Astronauts prep Endeavour for Friday's landing
The Endeavour astronauts tested the shuttle's re-entry systems Thursday before packing up for Friday's planned landing to close out the 16-day space station assembly mission. Optimistic the weather will cooperate for a morning landing, NASA will only staff the Kennedy Space Center for back-to-back landing opportunities Friday.
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An uncertain future for bankrupt Sea Launch
Already burdened by bankruptcy and a cutthroat rocket industry, Sea Launch could face more defecting customers if the company does not soon assure satellite operators of its future viability.
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Station gets new cargo ship; shuttle heat shield checked
Space station commander Gennady Padalka aborted the automated approach of an unmanned Russian Progress supply ship Wednesday after a problem of some sort left it in the wrong orientation, taking over manual control and remotely guiding the craft to a picture-perfect docking. The shuttle astronauts, meanwhile, performed now-standard heat shield inspections to look for space debris damage.
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Converted missile orbits
six small satellites
Six small satellites were launched Wednesday aboard a Dnepr rocket, delivering spacecraft into orbit for organizations in four countries. The booster shot out of the underground silo in Kazakhstan at 1846 GMT.
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Shuttle undocks and takes victory lap around station
The shuttle Endeavour completed its 11-day visit to the International Space Station on Tuesday, undocking after an action-packed construction mission featuring five spacewalks and intricate operations with three robotic arms.
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Endeavour crew completes fifth and final spacewalk
Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn went outside the International Space Station for a five-hour spacewalk Monday to install two Japanese television cameras on the new Exposed Facility, re-wire the power to two of the station's stabilizing gyroscopes, fix insulation on a Canadian robot and accomplish other minor get-ahead tasks. It was the last in a series of five EVAs for shuttle Endeavour's mission.
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Station's carbon dioxide scrubber back on line
Worried the shuttle Endeavour might have to undock early because of a carbon dioxide removal problem aboard the International Space Station, engineers at the Johnson Space Center in Houston came up with a manual control work-around that successfully restored the CO2 removal system to near-normal operation.
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Shuttle Discovery moves to Vehicle Assembly Building
While shuttle Endeavour orbits the Earth at the International Space Station, sister-ship Discovery moved from its hangar to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Sunday morning in preparation for launch to the outpost in late August.
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JPL optimistic about freeing Spirit as rover tests refined
Mars rover engineers hope to start maneuvering Spirit out of its sand trap about in early August, after conducting a second series of tests with a ground test rover at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Astronauts get the day off to rest after hectic pace
The combined 13-member crew of the shuttle-station complex enjoyed a day off Saturday, taking a break after a grueling week and a half of work that included four spacewalks, internal and external equipment transfers and the precisely coordinated use of three robotic arms.
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Rejuvenated Hubble spies giant impact scar on Jupiter
The freshly-upgraded Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a dramatic image of a dark blemish on Jupiter, using the observatory's brand new camera installed by astronauts in May.
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Spacewalkers give station's power grid fresh batteries
Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn finished the laborious two-spacewalk job of replacing nine-year-old batteries in the International Space Station's oldest solar array truss during a grueling seven-hour excursion Friday, installing new power packs that should last through the middle of the next decade.
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Chandra telescope marks a decade of X-ray astronomy
Astronomers celebrated the 10th birthday of the Chandra X-ray Observatory on Thursday, a decade after the shuttle Columbia sent the hefty telescope to a looping orbit high above Earth.
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More fuel tank tests will delay next shuttle launch
NASA managers decided Thursday to order another 125 foam "plug-pull" tests on the external tank scheduled for use by the shuttle Discovery next month to make sure there are no adhesion problems like those that resulted in unusual foam shedding during Endeavour's takeoff last week.
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Station's outdoor science deck gets its first payloads
Aboard the International Space Station on Thursday, the astronauts used Japan's robot arm to mount an X-ray astronomy experiment, a communications relay package and a space environment monitor onto the new external science facility.
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Cirque du Soleil founder eager to visit space station
Guy Laliberte, a former street entertainer who founded the enormously successful Cirque du Soleil, says he doesn't plan any fire eating or stilt walking aboard the International Space Station when he visits this fall.
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Mission Control calls early end to station spacewalk
Spacewalkers Dave Wolf and Chris Cassidy planned to replace four aging batteries in the International Space Station's oldest solar array truss Wednesday, but concerns about spacesuit carbon dioxide levels prompted the EVA to end after installing only two new power packs.
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No obvious problems found with next shuttle tank foam
Engineers testing the adhesion of foam insulation on the external tank needed for an August shuttle flight have not found any obvious problems that would raise concern about debris shedding like the foam losses noted during Endeavour's climb to space last week, officials said Wednesday.
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Relive Endeavour's launch with rocket booster cameras
Onboard rocket camera footage always dazzles and the video from shuttle Endeavour's solid boosters doesn't disappoint. The inspiring views of the spacecraft rocketing toward orbit are presented here for Spaceflight Now+Plus users with launch audio.
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NASA's new leader optimistic about reviews
New NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a respected former shuttle commander and retired Marine Corp major general, said Tuesday he's confident an on-going presidential review of NASA's manned space program will not result in changes that would lengthen the projected five-year gap between the end of shuttle operations and the debut of a new rocket system to replace it.
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Japanese experiments removed from the shuttle
The Endeavour astronauts spent Tuesday morning working with the shuttle and station robot arms, pulling a pallet of Japanese experiments from the orbiter's payload bay and moving it into position for installation on the new external research facility.
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Pictures reveal something has struck Jupiter
Following up on a tip by an amateur astronomer that a new dark "scar" had suddenly appeared on Jupiter, scientists have found evidence that another object has indeed bombarded the planet, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
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A pair of Russian spacecraft launched by small rocket -- A Kosmos 3M rocket boosted a secret Russian military satellite and a civilian search and rescue spacecraft into orbit early Tuesday from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
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Astronaut Armstrong marks anniversary in own words
The first man on the moon took a moment Monday, on the 40th anniversary of his "giant leap," to remember the Apollo program and the engineering triumph that won the Cold War space race and opened the door to the manned exploration of the solar system.
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Spacewalkers unpack spare parts from launch carrier
Endeavour astronauts Dave Wolf and Tom Marshburn, both medical doctors, took a six-hour, 53-minute spacewalk Monday to unload a pallet of spare parts for the International Space Station. They delivered a replacement high-speed communications antenna, cooling system pump and railcar drive unit for use, if needed, in the future post-shuttle era.
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To the Moon with Apollo astronauts a high adventure
On the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 veteran space reporter Craig Covault describes how he covered Apollo and airs some "back room" stories not only about the crew of Apollo 11, but also other lunar mission astronauts and top lunar program managers.
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New life-related geology beckons Opportunity rover
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found clay-bearing rocks lying directly in the path ahead for the Mars rover Opportunity, giving the wheeled vehicle the unexpected chance to sample a totally new rock type that could have provided a wet, warm, and non acidic habitat for the formation of early life on Mars.
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Cargo carrier moved to station for next spacewalk
A small pallet stacked with spare parts and fresh batteries for the International Space Station was transferred out of shuttle Endeavour's payload bay Sunday morning. The robot arms on both spacecraft again worked in tandem to move the carrier onto the station in preparation for Monday's spacewalk that will begin unloading the equipment.
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Astronauts install station's new external science deck
The Japanese Exposed Facility was attached to the Kibo laboratory module Saturday, giving the International Space Station a new outdoor platform to perform science research. Final installation of the deck came after the day's 5.5-hour spacewalk by astronauts Dave Wolf and Tim Kopra.
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Heat shield inspection finds no major issues on shuttle
NASA's Debris Analysis Team is in the final stages of reviewing launch and on-orbit photography of the shuttle Endeavour's heat shield. The ship's nose cap and wing leading edge panels have been cleared for entry as is and while 16 areas have been identified with minor tile damage, engineers have not seen anything that warrants repairs or additional inspections, a senior manager said Saturday.
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Shuttle Endeavour docks with the space station
Endeavour has arrived at the International Space Station for its construction mission that will install an external science deck to complete Japan's Kibo facilities, pre-stage critical spare parts for the outpost and replace aging batteries in the power grid. Friday's docking occurred a few minutes early at 1:47 p.m. EDT (1747 GMT).
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Investigators find no root cause for Taurus mishap
Investigators could not find a definitive cause of the February launch failure that doomed a $273 million environmental satellite, but officials recommended a series of improvements for the Taurus rocket in a report released Friday.
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Historic Apollo landing sites imaged by new lunar orbiter
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted the first images in 40 years of the Apollo 11 lunar lander. The LRO spacecraft also imaged four other Apollo sites showing Grumman lunar module descent stages, and in one case, a trail of astronaut footprints on the Moon.
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Strips of foam peeled away from Endeavour's fuel tank
Post-launch photography of the shuttle Endeavour's external tank shows multiple areas of bare metal where thin strips of foam insulation peeled away during the climb to space, the result of an as-yet-unknown mechanism.
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Space shuttle Endeavour finally launches on sixth try
Endeavour finally roared to life and blasted off Wednesday on its sixth try, rocketing away through a hazy sky toward a Friday rendezvous with the space station. Multiple pieces of foam insulation appeared to fall from the ship's external tank during the early moments of flight, but it was not immediately clear whether the shuttle's fragile heat shield suffered any significant damage.
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NASA's new leadership approved by U.S. Senate
The U.S. Senate Wednesday confirmed former astronaut Charles Bolden to be the next NASA administrator and Lori Garver for his deputy as the agency reaches a critical crossroads.
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NASA sets Wednesday and Thursday launch options
Engineers replaced rocket nozzle rain covers Tuesday and prepared the shuttle Endeavour for a sixth launch attempt Wednesday, weather permitting, to get a complex space station construction mission underway. A backup attempt on Thursday, although possible, would result in a shortened mission.
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Venus had a wet, volcanic past -- Covered in oceans, continents and flowing lava, Venus may have once been more like Earth's twin than its evil step-sister, say planetary scientists.
Gamma ray 'mystery' not related to dark matter -- The distribution of certain gamma rays in the Milky Way, speculated by some to be evidence of dark matter, can instead be explained by the way antimatter positrons move through the Galaxy.
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Commercial launch of SpaceX Falcon 1 a success
Advancing from test flying to operational launches of the small Falcon 1 booster, SpaceX successfully hurled a Malaysian satellite into orbit Monday night. Liftoff of the hour-long ascent occurred at 11:35 p.m. EDT (0335 GMT).
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Weather again keeps Endeavour on the pad
For the second straight day, launch of space shuttle Endeavour was postponed due to summertime thunderstorms around the Kennedy Space Center. It was the fifth scrub for the space station construction mission. The next try is planned for Wednesday at 6:03 p.m. EDT.
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Thunderstorms postpone shuttle launch to Monday
Stormy weather approaching the Kennedy Space Center forced NASA launch managers to order another 24-hour delay for the hard-luck crew of the shuttle Endeavour Sunday, their fourth slip since a hydrogen leak derailed an initial launch try in June.
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Lightning checks delay shuttle's launch to Sunday
Already a month behind schedule, launch of the shuttle Endeavour on a 16-day space station assembly mission was delayed at least 24 hours, from Saturday to Sunday, to give engineers time to evaluate the effects of multiple lightning strikes at the launch pad during a severe thunderstorm Friday.
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Herschel's first images promise bright future
The European Space Agency's Herschel space observatory has completed test observations with all of its instruments with spectacular results, promising a mission rich in discovery.
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Homeless black holes could 'play back' galaxy mergers -- Rogue black holes may be wandering intergalactic space, ejected from galaxies after they have merged.
How the first stars came in pairs -- New and detailed computer simulations that describe how the very first stars in the Universe formed show that binary star systems were common occurrences just a few hundred million years after the big bang.
New portrait of the Omega Nebula -- A new ESO image of the Omega Nebula provides a deep and unusually wide look into a giant star forming factory in the Milky Way.
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Ares 1-X test rocket being assembled for launch
NASA moved one step closer to a long-awaited test flight of America's new moon rocket Wednesday night, when engineers hoisted the first piece of the booster atop an Apollo-era launch platform.
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Atlas 5 team continues active year of launches
Inside the towering assembly building at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41, United Launch Alliance technicians have begun stacking another Atlas 5 rocket in preparation for the year's third launch.
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Countdown sequence begins again for Endeavour
Inside Kennedy Space Center's launch control center Wednesday night, engineers started a fresh countdown for the shuttle Endeavour. The month-delayed mission is targeting a Saturday launch to the International Space Station.
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New GOES weather satellite ascends to planned orbit
The nation's new weather observatory successfully completed a series of altitude raising maneuvers to reach geostationary orbit early Wednesday, just 10 days after its launch from Cape Canaveral aboard a Delta 4 rocket.
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NASA survey reveals dramatic Arctic sea ice thinning -- Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, based on data from a NASA Earth-orbiting spacecraft, provide further evidence for the rapid, ongoing transformation of the Arctic's ice cover.
Russian military launch deploys three satellites -- A Russian Rockot booster propelled three military satellites into orbit early Monday during an unannounced launch, marking the converted ballistic missile's second flight this year.
Lander shows Mars characteristics similar to Earth -- Mars gets as far as 250 million miles away, but many parts of it closely resemble places on Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather, says a Texas A&M University researcher.
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Endeavour crew ready for another shot at launching
After spending an extra month on the ground while a gaseous hydrogen leak was fixed, space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts have arrived at Kennedy Space Center from Houston looking fit and eager to finally get their space station construction mission underway Saturday evening.
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Japan's now-finished lunar mission found no water ice
High resolution imaging sensors on the Japanese Kaguya lunar orbiter have failed to detect any signs of water ice in permanently shaded craters around the South Pole of the Moon.
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HD Video: Kepler and the search for exoplanets
Astronomy Now's Keith Cooper talks to various astronomers about the techniques used to find exoplanets, including a team of students at London's Mill Hill Observatory about their own observations of an exoplanet transit.
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NASA's Fermi telescope probes dozens of pulsars
With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars. In two studies, international teams have analyzed gamma-rays from two dozen pulsars, including 16 discovered by Fermi. Fermi is the first spacecraft able to identify pulsars by their gamma-ray emission alone.
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First pictures from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has transmitted its first images since reaching the moon on June 23. The spacecraft's cameras have returned images of a region in the lunar highlands south of Mare Nubium, or the Sea of Clouds.
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Phoenix lander results point to Martian climate cycles
Favorable chemistry and episodes with thin films of liquid water during ongoing, long-term climate cycles may sometimes make the area where NASA's Phoenix Mars mission landed last year a favorable environment for microbes.
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No leaks found during Endeavour fueling test
Sensors near a repaired hydrogen vent line attached to shuttle Endeavour's external tank detected only the slightest traces of free hydrogen during a critical fueling test Wednesday, officials said, clearing the way for another launch attempt July 11.
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A new generation for mobile satellite communications
The world's largest commercial communications satellite ascended into orbit Wednesday atop the heavy-lifting Ariane 5 rocket, beginning an ambitious new project to provide mobile services across North America.
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