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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 17 April 2008
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 The New York Yankees opened last night against the Boston Red Sox. Historically, the ceremonial first pitch has been tossed by a variety of dignitaries and celebrities, including 1956 Yankees pitcher Don Larsen, US President George W. Bush, and now an astronaut in space. Orbiting in the International Space Station, US astronaut Garrett Reisman threw the opening pitch as the station passed over New York City and was broadcast down to the big screen into Yankee Stadium.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 17 April 2008
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 Mark your calendars and start your externally combusting rocket engines: the Rocket Racing League has announced the date for its first exhibition race. The NASCAR of the air, RRL, will hold its first-ever exhibition race - the EAA AirVenture Exhibition - on August 1 and 2, 2008, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The exhibition will pit pairs of racers in rocket-powered planes on a four lap circuit in an airborne raceway.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 17 April 2008
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 International Space Station Expedition 16 commander Peggy Whitson has surpassed the US spaceflight record for the most time spent in orbit, reaching to 377 days by the time she lands. Whitson passed British/American astronaut Michael Foale, who has accumulated 374 days in space. Whitson’s record places her as the 20th most-experienced spaceflyer, behind a long list of Soviet and Russian cosmonauts.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 17 April 2008
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 American video game developer and space tourist-to-be Richard Garriott will be headed to the International Space Station in October, and like any tourist, he’s taking his camera. But he’ll take pictures for you while he’s in orbit. In what could be the ultimate orbital postcards, Garriott will take custom-targeted photographs of planet Earth for about 200 paying subscribers as part of a partnership with the “Earth Portraits” program of the Association of Space Explorers and the space website collectSPACE.com.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
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 Launched 10 and a half years ago, the joint NAS/ESA/ISA Cassini mission has been exploring Saturn, it's breathtaking rings, and its many moons since it arrived at the planet in Jun 2004. The mission was originally slated to end in July of this year, but NASA has decided to extend Cassini's mission an additional two years to 2010. The extension will allow Cassini to further study Saturn's interesting moons like Titan and Enceladus. Apart from a handful of glitches, such as during the recent Enceladus plume fly-by, Cassini has been functioning as designed.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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 Buran is the Russian word for snowstorm or blizzard, and the name of the Soviet Union’s only space shuttle. The Buran 002 space shuttle, long moth-balled, was recently acquired by the Technikmuseum Speyer in Speyer, Germany. Buran 002 was carried via barge up the Rhine to the Technikmuseum Speyer, which houses historical automobiles, marine craft, and aircraft.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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 US Representatives Dave Weldon and Tom Feeney, both Republicans from Florida, have proposed a plan to provide NASA with enough money to continue flying the space shuttle fleet until the replacement Constellation Program is ready. The proposal would permit NASA to fly personnel and cargo to the International Space Station without having to rely on Russia, as well as preventing many of the 6400 job cuts projected to coincide with the cessation of shuttle flights.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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 A relatively small rocky extrasolar planet is the smallest yet discovered by man, paving the way towards discoveries of Earth-sized and smaller globes orbiting distant stars. This planet was discovered orbiting the star GJ 436, located in the constellation Leo. It weighs in at a hefty 5 Earth masses, or 33 trillion billion tons, a size that models indicate is more likely to result in a rocky planet than the significantly larger gas giants that have dominated the list of discovered planets. The smallest gas giant in our solar system, Uranus, comes in at just over 14 Earth masses.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
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 The 17th crew to man the International Space Station launched last week from the Baikonur Cosomodrome towards the orbital station. Aboard the Soyuz TMA-12 were Russian cosmonauts Sergey Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and South Korea’s first astronaut, So-yeon Yi. They launched from the Kazakhstan spaceport last Tuesday and docked with the ISS on Thursday.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Sunday, 06 April 2008
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 Carrying eight tons of cargo for the International Space Station, the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle successfully completed its first docking flawlessly. The European Space Agency's first cargo ship, and the first dedicated such ship for the ISS, launched last month and after passing a battery of orbital tests, was cleared to dock with the station. ISS commander Peggy Whitson and Yuri Malenchenko watched as the ATV performed an automated docking at the end of the Russian Zvezda service module. |
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