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Space: The Final Frontier For Fresh ProduceBoca Raton FL (SPX) Feb 19, 2010 Just before Christmas, NASA sent a note: Irradiated smoked turkey, thermostabilized yams and NASA's own special stuffing recipe can mean only one thing - holiday season aboard the International Space Station. Station Commander Jeff Williams and Flight Engineer Maxim Suraev are currently the sole residents aboard the complex. They will spend the holidays with three new crew members. NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Nog ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Feb 08, 2010Approach to the space station, its fly-around, stationkeeping and docking were performed in automatic mode. The initial contact with the docking port on the instrumentation and propulsion compartment of the Zvezda Service Module of the ISS Russian Segment (RS) occurred at 07:26 Moscow Time. The crew of Expedition 22 to ISS working on-board the space station monitored the process of rendezv ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Feb 08, 2010The Academician Fyodorov scientific research vessel has arrived at the Russian Antarctic outpost of Bellingshausen on a mission to set up a station for tracking the GLONASS navigation satellites, the Voice of Russia reported. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civi ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Feb 09, 2010Space Shuttle Endeavour was launched at 10:14:08 CET and is heading for the International Space Station carrying two sophisticated European modules: Node-3 (Tranquility) and Cupola. Their installation will mark the completion of the non-Russian part of the ISS, with more than a third of the pressurised Station elements designed and built in Europe. Node-3 is part of the Columbus laboratory ... more |
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Kazakhstan To Diversify Satellite Suppliers In FutureAstana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Feb 04, 2010 Kazakhstan will not name Russia as a privileged supplier of satellites and will announce international tenders after the launch of its KazSat-2, the head of the Kazakh space agency said on Tuesday. Kazakhstan launched its first satellite, KazSat-1, in June 2006; however, its control systems failed last June. Astana is set to launch KazSat-2 in December 2010. "KazSat-2 will be made at the Khrunichev R and D center in Russia under a contract signed in 2006, and over 86% of work to build the sa ... read more |
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