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Expedition 4 crew awaits resupply ship arrival
The space station's fourth resident crew is expecting a delivery today. A Russian resupply ship launched three days ago carrying fuel, food and other essential items is due to dock with the orbiting complex at about 2055 GMT (3:55 p.m. EST).
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Science close to viewing the beginning of time
When it comes to inflation, cosmologists are pondering a future that
probably would leave even Alan Greenspan scratching his head. Of course, the
Federal Reserve chairman is merely concerned with economic policy and hasn't
had to stare down the complexities of how the universe pumped up after the
Big Bang.
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Students begin exploring with NASA's Mars Odyssey
A group of small, unnamed craters in the martian southern
hemisphere is the first site captured by a group of middle school
students who are operating the camera system onboard NASA's Mars
Odyssey spacecraft this week.
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Saturday:
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Bright new comet graces evening sky
The brightest comet since 1997's Hale-Bopp is currently gracing the western skies of North America. Comet Ikeya-Zhang (pronounced "ee-KAY-uh JONG") was discovered on February 1st by two amateur astronomers in Japan and China.
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NSS-7 satellite shipped to Kourou for April launch
The NSS-7 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) for New Skies Satellites N.V. was shipped recently from the production facilities in Sunnyvale, Calif. to Kourou, French Guiana, where it will be readied for a mid-April launch.
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Friday:
March 22, 2002 | |
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Station supplies launched, crew exchange delayed
A resupply ship blasted off atop a Russian Soyuz rocket Thursday bound for the International Space Station carrying equipment, fuel, food and other essential items for the three-man crew living aboard the outpost. Meanwhile, the shuttle mission to launch a new crew and bring the current residents home has been delayed about three weeks.
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New NASA communications satellite in trouble
NASA's recently launched TDRS-I tracking and data relay satellite has suffered a propulsion problem that has prevented it from reaching its planned orbit. Boeing Satellite Systems, which built the satellite, says it still hopes to deliver the craft to NASA as planned.
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New evidence: expansion of universe is accelerating
A team of UK and Australian astronomers has discovered new, independent
evidence that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. Their findings
have just appeared in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Creating a life-supporting ecosystem in space
NASA has announced that Purdue University will head a center to develop "advanced life support" technologies for sustaining human colonies on Mars and elsewhere in space.
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Space techology re-ups for fight against bioterrorism
Building miniature greenhouses for experiments on the International Space Station has led to the invention of a device that can destroy Anthrax - a bacteria that can be deadly when inhaled.
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Thursday:
March 21, 2002 | |
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New Russian space station resupply ship set for launch
The seventh Russian Progress cargo craft destined for the International Space Station is set for launch Thursday from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Progress M1-8 spacecraft, loaded with fuel, food and supplies, is scheduled to blast off at 2013 GMT (3:13 p.m. EST).
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Geologist recreates 'life on Mars' evidence in laboratory
As NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft begins exploring the planet, particularly looking for signs of water that once could have nourished life, a University of Dayton geologist is disproving what some pointed to as scientific evidence of past life on the Red Planet.
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Lockheed proposal for new generation weather satellite
A team headed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems in Sunnyvale has submitted a proposal to design, build and orbit the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, a new generation of U.S. weather satellites.
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Wednesday:
March 20, 2002 | |
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Russian resupply ship undocks from station
Loaded with trash and discarded items, a Russian cargo freighter departed the International Space Station on Tuesday, clearing the way for the arrival this weekend of a new vessel carrying fresh supplies.
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Scientists predict calmer space weather ahead
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) may have good news for the Earth: calmer weather in space is ahead. When the Sun is more active and space weather gets "stormy," it has bad effects on our planet. Energy from solar eruptions changes the orbits of satellites, causing them to spiral back to the Earth.
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Star Wars technology closer than galaxies far away
Technology introduced by members of a galaxy far away, a long time ago, is now one step closer to reality. And, it's with funding from a space medicine research institute that this breakthrough device will one day kill tumors and stop internal bleeding without knives, scalpels or stitches -- basically without surgery as we know it.
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NASA looks at proposals for continuing Landsat legacy
NASA, in partnership with the United States Geological Survey, has selected two proposals for further development in response to a solicitation to provide the government with Landsat-type data that will continue the rich 30-year heritage of the Landsat series of Earth-observing missions.
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Tuesday:
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Russian resupply ship to undock from station today
Loaded with trash and discarded items, a Russian cargo freighter will depart the International Space Station today after spending 3 1/2 months docked to the orbiting outpost to make way for the arrival of a fresh vessel this weekend.
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Astronauts assigned for station expedition training
As continuous habitation of the International Space Station nears the 18-month mark, NASA has named crewmembers to begin specialized training for future long-term expeditions to the orbiting research facility.
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NASA selects advanced technologies for test flight
NASA's New Millennium Program has selected two organizations to lead the work on sensor and thrust-producing technologies to control a space vehicle's flight path so the payload responds only to gravitational forces. The Disturbance Reduction System technology is scheduled to fly in 2006 as the Space Technology 7 project.
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Monday:
March 18, 2002 | |
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Atlas 5 rocket passes crucial first launch pad test
The Lockheed Martin Atlas 5 rocket is one step closer to its summertime inaugural launch following the successful countdown rehearsal and fueling tests conducted at Cape Canaveral's Complex 41 last week.
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Boeing to build satellite refueling demonstrator
Boeing has announced that it has been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Orbital Express Advanced Technology Demonstration. The unique mission is to conduct an on-orbit demonstration of autonomous satellite servicing.
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Twin quasars tango and it's no mirage
Scientists have unraveled a longstanding mystery about a rare double quasar system 11 billion light years from Earth using NASA' Chandra X-ray Observatory. These "twin" quasars, previously thought to be an optical illusion, were instead probably created by merging galaxies and may have been more common in the dense Universe soon after the Big Bang.
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