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Expensive Food And WaterBethesda MD (SPX) Jul 13, 2010 A week ago an unmanned Russian Progress supply ship docked with the ISS. It was late, because a technical glitch occurred on the first try a couple of days earlier. These Progress modules make roughly four trips annually to the ISS and they carry supplies for the crewmembers. On this occasion the module was carrying 2,600 kg of fuel, food and water for the six astronauts currently on the ISS. Each of these resupply flights costs tens of millions of dollars. Somehow, something is wrong here. ... read more |
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Kolkata, India (PTI) Jun 30, 2010The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning to relaunch the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) with a home-grown cryogenic engine in a year's time after the failure in April this year. "We have come across a few scenarios after detailed analysis of the failure. Now the immediate task is to test it on the ground and we look forward to relaunch it next year," ISRO chairm ... more  
Bethesda MD (SPX) Jun 29, 2010Senator 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 redire ... more  
Moscow, Russia (XNA) Jun 28, 2010Russia will return to its program of building the space shuttles and super-heavy carrier rockets after 2018, the Interfax news agency reported on Friday. New carrier rockets will have a workload over 24 tons, director of Moscow's Central Machine-building Institute, Gennady Raikunov, said during the Strong Russia business conference. According to Raikunov, the tests of the rocket will ... more |
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New Areas Prone To Moderate Earthquakes Identified In Iberian PeninsulaMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 28, 2010 Some areas of the Iberian Peninsula, where earthquakes of moderate magnitude have never yet been recorded, such as certain parts of the Cordillera Cantabrica mountain range, the far west of the Cordilleras Beticas mountains and the north of Valencia, could have the potential to generate such quakes, according to a study produced by Spanish, Russian and Italian scientists and published this month in the journal Rendiconti Lincei. "The methodology we have used confirms the most seismically significa ... read more |
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