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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

NASA worries on 5-year gap between space flights

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Sometime in 2010, the worlds most important space-exploring nation might say goodbye to manned space flight for more than four years.

U.S. policymakers are now worried. The flight gap would occur as NASA is winding down its space shuttle plan near the end of 2010 to move into the up coming phase of space exploration - the moon and Mars. The up coming generation spacecraft, the Orion capsule, would not be ready for manned flight until March 2015.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

China revs space race

Since China ablaze a rocket into space last month and damaged its own aging weather satellite, there has been much chat about the leftovers now clouding the atmosphere. It is feared that bits of debris can unclear or damage U.S. military satellites used for observation, weapons guidance systems and communications.That's troublesome enough.

Then there's the "other" anxiety - that China is mission a military buildup with space as the after that frontier. The Pentagon has known for some time that China is storing up on fighter aircrafts, submarines and ballistic missiles. But a 2005 Pentagon report points to those Chinese military capabilities were limited to nearby Asia.

Monday, April 09, 2007

NASA is tied to space shuttle until 2010

USA today's view about NASA missed the simplicity and stylishness of NASA's vision and the economic constraints it faces ("NASA, the expensive frontier," Our view, Return to the moon debate).

Readers need to know that NASA is tied to the costly space shuttle until 2010 when it could fulfill to its 14 international partners and hundreds of U.S. scientists the nation's promise to complete the construction of the International Space Station. Only then could NASA retire the shuttle and free up its funding to totally follow returning to the moon and ideal the gear for human exploration of Mars.

Friday, April 06, 2007

Space Tourist to Take Books into Orbit

The Soyuz TMA-10 would be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The space capsule would also take two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. software engineer to the International Space Station (ISS). Veteran Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin would then command Expedition 15 on the ISS, as flight engineer Oleg Kotov would serve as Soyuz commander for the upcoming flight.

Sunday, April 01, 2007

Space station crew prepare for April 7th ISS Expedition

Expedition 14 crew members Lopez-Alegria, Tyurin, and Williams transferred space station systems to regular control (in case they could not return to the station) in preparation of the short flight on Thursday (March 29) to move a docked spacecraft. Then, flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin piloted the Russian Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft for 24 minutes as it was then moved from the Earth-facing Zarya module to the aft Zvezda module. Later that day, the crew re-entered the space station and reactivated its systems for normal control

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