First Look: Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3

Seeded on Fri Sep 4, 2009 8:39 AM EDT ()

First look at Apollo 12 landing site, the Lunar Module descent stage, Experiment package (ALSEP) and Surveyor 3 spacecraft are all visible along with astronaut tracks Neat picture. The details are fantastic!

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Sources: Solar array repair spacewalk possible Friday

Seeded on Wed Oct 31, 2007 11:42 AM EDT ()

NASA and contractor engineers worked through the night assessing a variety of options for possible repairs to fix a ripped solar blanket on a partially extended space station array.

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Space Station Solar Wing Tears During Deployment

Seeded on Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:09 AM EDT ()

Engineers are scrambling to recover from a solar array hang up that ripped a two-and-a-half-foot tear in one fragile panel as the hinged blanket was pulled from its storage box today.

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Shuttle Discovery launches to space with Harmony

Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:52 PM EDT ()

The shuttle Discovery, carrying seven astronauts and a critical connecting module for the international space station, roared to life and rocketed into orbit today, kicking off a high-stakes five-spacewalk mission considered by many the most complex orbital construction work ever …

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Discovery mission takes construction to new heights

Seeded on Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:49 PM EDT ()

Nine years after the United States and Russia began building the international space station, NASA is poised for what many agency insiders consider the most difficult assembly mission attempted to date, one that will test the limits of orbital construction.

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Upgraded satellite launched for the GPS constellation

Seeded on Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:38 AM EDT ()

A Global Positioning System satellite with enhanced qualities is flying high after successfully soaring into space Wednesday to reinvigorate a corner of the precision navigation network.

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Shuttle boss confident suspect wing panels safe

Seeded on Wed Oct 17, 2007 8:35 AM EDT ()

Senior NASA managers today cleared the shuttle Discovery for launch Oct. 23 on a critical space station assembly mission, concluding concern about the integrity of a protective coating on three of 44 wing leading edge panels did not warrant a lengthy delay.

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Space shuttle wing leading edge issue assessed

Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:08 AM EDT ()

The shuttle Discovery's crew strapped in for a dress-rehearsal countdown today to clear the way for launch Oct. 23 on a critical space station assembly mission.

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Proton Fails Just After Liftoff

Seeded on Wed Sep 5, 2007 9:05 PM EDT (spaceflightnow.com)

Two minutes after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan tonight, a Russian heavy-lifting Proton rocket suffered a malfunction of its second stage, leading to apparent destruction of a Japanese satellite payload riding aboard the booster.

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NASA JSC Center Director Mike Coats' response to Sunday's Houston Chronicle op/ed

Seeded on Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:27 AM EDT ()

Sunday's Houston Chronicle (Falling Objects) presented an unbalanced and biased portrayal of NASA and the thousands of people working in our space program whose technological achievements have been a major contributor to the robust economy we enjoy and largely take for granted.

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Falling objects: Problems could threaten space program

Seeded on Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:26 AM EDT (The Houston Chronicle)

This year NASA has suffered:... An explosion at a rocket motor test sight near Edwards Air Force Base in California killed two persons and critically injured four others.

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Final decision: No repair needed on tile damage

Seeded on Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:28 AM EDT ()

NASA's Mission Management Team today ruled out an unprecedented heat shield repair spacewalk and cleared the shuttle Endeavour for re-entry and landing next week "as is" based on computer modeling and tests in a high-temperature furnace that show a small gouge in the ship's belly …

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Huge dust storm threatens NASA rovers on Mars

Seeded on Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:46 PM EDT (Reuters)

n an effort to protect the rovers from power loss that has the potential to leave one or both permanently disabled, the U.S. space agency has been scaling back their functions to the bare minimum, leaving them in near-dormant states.

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NASA's Terra Satellite Moved to Avoid Chinese ASAT Debris

Seeded on Fri Jul 6, 2007 11:45 AM EDT (Space.com)

Flight controllers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center had to maneuver the Terra environmental spacecraft in late June to avoid orbital debris created by a Chinese anti-satellite (ASAT) weapon test early this year.

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Mars experiment might help Earthling insomniacs

Seeded on Tue May 15, 2007 9:16 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

An experiment aimed at finding ways to help astronauts adapt to life on Mars could end up helping insomniacs on Earth, researchers said on Monday.

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China's Space-Weapon Test Could Endanger Astronauts and Satellites

Seeded on Fri Feb 2, 2007 8:39 PM EST (ABC News)

When the Chinese government destroyed one of its weather satellites in a military test last month, it sent a chill through the U.S. military. And engineers say it had a serious side effect -- it increased the amount of orbiting space junk by about 10 percent.

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Weldon: Dems' NASA Cuts Aimed at Manned Space Flight Program

Seeded on Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:56 PM EST (United States House of Representatives)

The new Democrat majority Tuesday proposed a fiscal year 2007 budget. Included in the bill are sweeping cuts to NASA's budget that could jeopardize the future of space exploration. U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, M.D.

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Discovery launch set for next Thursday, pending ISS issues

Seeded on Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:28 AM EST (spaceflightnow.com)

NASA managers today wrapped up a two-day flight readiness review and officially set December 7 as the target launch date for the shuttle Discovery on an unprecedented mission to rewire the international space station.

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Hope fades for missing Mars Global Surveyor craft

Seeded on Tue Nov 21, 2006 4:17 PM EST (spaceflightnow.com)

NASA's $377 million Mars Global Surveyor, the oldest of four spacecraft currently in orbit around the red planet, apparently fell victim to what amounts to severe arthritis Nov. 2 when one of its two solar panels jammed and stopped tracking the sun.

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NCPA: Warming Caused by Natural Cycle, Not Humans...

Seeded on Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:59 PM EST (releases.usnewswire.com)

Human activities have little to do with the Earth's current warming trend, according to a new book by Denis Avery and Fred Singer, adjunct scholars with the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA).

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NASA has few options to fix failed Mars probe

Seeded on Mon Nov 13, 2006 8:40 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

NASA plans to use the newly arrived Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, to take a picture of Global Surveyor to see how the failed craft is oriented relative to the sun for power and to Earth for communications.

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Mars Global Surveyor Suffers Communications Loss

Seeded on Fri Nov 10, 2006 9:01 AM EST (NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

Engineers are striving to restore full communications with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor on the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft's Nov. 7, 1996, launch.

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Lazy Editorializing at The New York Times

Seeded on Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:15 AM EDT (nasawatch.com)

In its most recent anti-NASA editorial on the White House space policy, the anonymous author takes a cheap shot at NASA Administrator Mike Griffin by taking his comments out of context.

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Shuttles to resume nighttime launches; Atlantis damaged

Seeded on Fri Oct 6, 2006 4:07 PM EDT (spaceflightnow.com)

NASA managers met Thursday and agreed to relax a self-imposed post-Columbia daylight launch constraint, clearing the way for the shuttle Discovery's liftoff Dec. 7, around 9:38 p.m. EST, on a complex space station assembly mission.

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Reconnaissance Orbiter Sees Opportunity Near Martian Crater

Seeded on Fri Oct 6, 2006 11:32 AM EDT (nasa.gov)

This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity near the rim of "Victoria Crater."

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