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Monday, September 25, 2006

Rocket launch ushers in cost effective space flight

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, New Mexico - A rocket packed with cargo is set up to blast off into space from a desert started on variety in New Mexico, an event backer say would usher in a new age of cost effective public access to space.

UP Aerospace plans to start the Space Loft XL rocket early on Monday from Spaceport America, a distant desert launch site near the city of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.

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Monday, September 18, 2006

First female space tourist counts down

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft was set to explosion on Monday carrying a woman who would accomplish a trio of space firsts: the first female tourist, first female Muslim, and first Iranian in orbit.

Anousheh Ansari, 40, an Iranian-American telecoms entrepreneur, joins a Russian cosmonaut and also US astronaut in the cramped interior of Soyuz TMA-9 for a flight to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Astronauts start a construction job in space

HOUSTON Two astronauts on Tuesday hooked up the latest part of the International Space Station: a 35,000- pound truss with a solar array that would give additional power to the station.

The two astronauts - Joseph Tanner, a former U.S. Navy pilot and a veteran of three previous space flights and also five spacewalks, and Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper, a navy commander on her first space flight - ventured out into space and scrambled over the course construction project. They returned to the space station's Quest airlock a little more than the six and one-half hours later.

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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Shuttle ports with space station

The space shuttle Atlantis has docked with the International Space Station, finishing a vital step in its 11-day mission to the orbiting outpost.

Commander Brent Jett had to flip the shuttle on its back so ISS crew can scan its underside for damage.

Then, he slowly then aligned the spacecraft with the docking port and achieved a perfect link-up at 1048 GMT (0648 EDT).

The astronauts got a warm welcome from the ISS crew after opening the hatch separating their joined spacecraft.

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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Second Indian woman in space


MRS Anousheh Ansari is now not the only woman of Asian origin planned to head into space.

In December, Mrs. Sunita Williams would become the second woman of Indian origin to make the tour when she serves as the flight engineer on a flight out to the International Space Station, where she would also spend six months.

While the 41-year-old former navy test pilot had required being a veterinarian when she was younger, her mother, Mrs. Bonnie Pandya, told The New Paper that all changed when she enrolled in the US Naval Academy after graduating from high school in 1983.

'She was fortunate enough to have many big friends in the military who helped guide and advise her,' said Mrs. Pandya

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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

NASA Plans Space Shuttle Launch for Wednesday

The U.S. Space Agency NASA is planning to start its space shuttle Atlantis in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Wednesday.

A NASA spokesman said the weather forecast is extremely positive for the launch, set for 12:29 pm local time - a time of day before Florida's frequent afternoon thunderstorms.

Atlantis was at first scheduled to launch August 27 on a mission to restart construction of the International Space Station. But that launch was late after a lightning beat at the launch pad.

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Monday, September 04, 2006

Spacecraft strikes Moon with intense flash

The SMART-1 lunar search crashed into the Moon right on cue on Sunday morning. Mission controllers at the European Space Agency went contact with the probe at 0542 GMT, representing that it had struck slam to the planned landing site on the lunar "Lake of Excellence".

"We're very happy and very excited, the team is rejoicing," said SMART-1 project scientist Bernard Foing, speaking from the mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

SMART-1 had been path and studying the Moon since late 2005 and will have crashed onto the Moon anyway. So near the end of the mission controllers pinch its orbit so it will crash on the nearside of the Moon where the bang will be visible to ground-based telescopes.

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