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Grappling With Space JobsBethesda MD (SPX) Jun 29, 2010 Senator Jeff Sessions, last week , said Senators whose states will lose private sector jobs related to new NASA's space plans would like an independent legal opinion on whether or not NASA can order the winding down of the Constellation program. Senator Sessions and others seem to think "this is clearly a violation of the congressional intent." President Obama has instructed NASA to redirect its mission away from the moon and toward deep space exploration. Among other effects, cancellation of Cons ... read more |
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Houston TX (SPX) Jun 18, 2010Expedition 24 Flight Engineers Doug Wheelock, Shannon Walker and Fyodor Yurchikhin docked with the International Space Station at 6:21 p.m. EDT Thursday. The trio began the journey to their new home when they launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft at 5:35 p.m. Tuesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From inside the station, Expedition 24 Commander Alexander Skvortsov and F ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 18, 2010Last week, South Korea attempted a second launch of its new vehicle, the NARO-1. Unfortunately, this too failed to achieve orbit. To make a bad situation worse, the "blame game" has already started. The Russians have apparently stated the explosion occurred in the Korean-made second stage, while the Koreans have indicated that this happened in the Russian-made first stage. The reality of t ... more  
Yasny, Russia (SPX) Jun 16, 2010The Swedish Prisma satellites have been successfully launched aboard a Dnepr launcher from Yasny, Russia at 14.42 UTC. Sixteen minutes after launch, the two Prisma satellites were released, clamped together in launch configuration. The mission control center of the Swedish Space Corporation had its first contact with Prisma 16.14 UTC. The operations team could verify that the solar array p ... more |
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South Korea Delays Rocket LaunchMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 10, 2010 South Korea postponed Wednesday's planned launch of its KSLV-1 rocket due to technical problems, Russia's Khrunichev Space Center's spokesman said. "There will not be a launch today," the spokesman said. The KSLV-1 (The First Korean Space Launch Vehicle), built in cooperation with Russia, was expected to blast off at noon Moscow time [8:00 GMT]. The Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology's official said problems with a fire extinguisher system at the Naro space center were to blame f ... read more |
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