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Monday, October 30, 2006

Space Station Gets Fuel, Oxygen, and High Cuisine

The Progress cargo ship effectively docked with the international space station, moving the needed supplies to repair an oxygen generator, which had broken and also caused the station's first declared emergency. Beyond the essentials, the Progress then carried a payload of CDs, DVDs, letters from home, and haute cooking from renowned French chef Alain Ducasse.

There was no actual structural damage to the Progress -- unmanned and flying on autopilot – or at the space station itself. But had a second attempt failed, Mission Control was almost ready to consider a spacewalk to fix the problem.

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Space station crew awaits arrival of fresh fruit

MOSCOW, Russia (AP) -- An unmanned Russian cargo ship moving 2.5 tons of supplies, equipment and other gifts blasted off Monday en route to the international space station, a space officer said.

The Progress M-58 mounted atop a Soyuz-U booster fresh rocket lifted off at 5:41 p.m. (1341 GMT) from the Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakhstan and entered orbit for about 10 minutes later, Federal Space Agency spokesperson Valery Lyndin said.

Monday, October 23, 2006

Space tourist offers up another big prize

MOSCOW, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Iranian-born Anousheh Ansari, the world's first female to space up tourist after a Russian flight, is now offering a $9.1 million prize to hearten moon tourism.

The Times of London said Ansari, 40, is hopeful the prize would surely encourage entrepreneurs to develop commercial space flights and also tourists could experience the "unique beauty" of space travel.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

NASA Media Day Highlights Space Exploration Progress

Media's are invited to an Exploration Media Day at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, coming Wednesday, Oct. 18. Reporters would have the opportunity to tour facilities, see hardware being built, view test demonstrations and also pose questions to NASA exploration managers.

Highlights of the day would contain looks at fabrication work on the Ares I-1 Flight Test Article Pathfinder and also design work on the Orion crew exploration vehicle's check module. Both are being developed at Glenn. Reporters also would see a copy of this check module that will provide power, propulsion and life support for Orion. Additional presentations would carry overviews of the roles of Glenn and the Plum Brook Facility in the NASA's exploration mission.

Friday, October 06, 2006

NASA releases video of lightening strikes from space

Never before have researchers been able to see and produce lightning as they're seeing it now.

NASA has released amazing video, showing the lightning strikes and what they look like from outer space.

The space agency has collected a record of every lightning bolt to strike the earth in the past 11 years.

NASA used two satellites to record this lightning flashes.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

NASA awards space operations contract

WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- NASA has awarded a space program operations contract valued at the rate of $1.1 billion for the first six months of its term to United Space Alliance LLC, of Houston.

When formalized, the agreement would result in the contract running through Sept. 30, 2010.

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

American space tourist comes back to Earth

MOSCOW -- An American female of space tourist received roses and kisses from her husband yesterday after she was back to Earth in a cramped capsule with a two-man crew from the International Space Station.

Alerts Anousheh Ansari, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, and the US astronaut Jeffrey Williams were flown to Moscow for medical tests and debriefing hours after touching down on the steppes of state Kazakhstan.

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