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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

International Space Station Partners Applaud Year's Achievements

Washington - At a meeting in Paris on January 23, the heads of the space agencies, which have partnered for the International Space Station (ISS) -- from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and as well in the United States, noted important milestones over the previous year, including the return to a three-person team and the continuation of building of the orbiting laboratory.

Under current planning, the space station would have a six-person team in April 2009.

Saturday, January 27, 2007

NASA commemorates three space tragedies

Forty years ago Saturday, three NASA astronauts passed away while testing an trail spacecraft, which will one day ferry explorers to the surface of the Moon.

But on Jan. 27, 1967, Apollo 1 commander Gus Grissom and astronauts Ed White and Roger Chaffee were not actually in the space. The three men were stuck inside their spacecraft a top a NASA launch pad in Florida, working through a training work out, when an accidental fire swept through the vehicle.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Canada to drive the design of leading space technologies

The Honorable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry and Minister accountable for the Canadian Space Agency, today announced an venture of $10.3 million in 36 research and growth contracts awarded to Canadian industry for the plan of new space technologies and applications.

"The investments proclaimed are vital for supporting Canada's leadership position in niche markets such as robotics, distant sensing, satellite message components, and radar, and for making innovative technologies market-ready. These are technologies, which react to Canadian needs and those of our global partners," said Minister Bernier.

Thursday, January 11, 2007

India Tests Technology for Space Vehicles

India has launched a satellite planned to test re-entry technology that can be used to organize for a future manned mission. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the trial is the first step toward a more determined foray into space.

A red and white rocket blasted off Wednesday from Sriharikota in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh moving four payloads: an Indian distant sensing satellite, two foreign-built satellites and a satellite planned to test technology for space vehicles re-entering the ambiance when they return to earth.

Monday, January 08, 2007

NASA looks to Star Trek as space apathy grips young

Young Americans have high levels of indifference about NASA's fresh vision of sending astronauts back to the moon by 2017 and ultimately on to Mars, recent study show.

Concerned about this lack of interest, NASA's image-makers are taking a effort to look at how to win over the young age group - media-saturated teens and 20-somethings rising up on YouTube and Google and largely apathetic to manned space flight.

The 2004 and 2006 surveys by a Houston company, Dittmar Associates, exposed high levels of apathy among 18- to 25-year-olds toward manned trips to the moon and Mars.

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