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Space Blog Alpha: SpaceX Delay Prompted by Simulation Results
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Saturday, January 21, 2012. SpaceX Delay Prompted by Simulation Results. Although the debut commercial flight of the SpaceX Dragon to the International Space Station has been postponed from the slated Feb. 7 launch date, ITWire.com is reporting that the capsule which is now expected to fly no sooner than late March has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center. CBS News reported on January 20 that Alan Lindenmoyer, manager of the commercial cargo program at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, had ...
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Baby’s First Space Colony, Part 2 | Mars Odyssey
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Just another WordPress.com weblog. Laquo; Baby’s First Space Colony, Part 1. The Goods On Mars, Part 1. Baby’s First Space Colony, Part 2. See part 1 for cool stuff from the 70s. Sending large swaths of the population off into spinning space cities may have been abandoned by the space. Ideas for facilitating the more rapid expansion of humans throughout the solar system include parceling off pieces of the worlds colonized to the private companies who get there first. In the 1990s, NASA funded research th...
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February | 2007 | Mars Odyssey
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Just another WordPress.com weblog. Archive for February, 2007. Laquo; Older Entries. February 28, 2007. Just as Director Griffin felt it necessary to outline in regards to our effort to The Moon, one must wonder why exactly we’re going to Mars, if for no other reason than to speculate as to the chances of actually getting there. Things won’t likely get better between now and then. We have yet to read his Why go to Mars? But are we really going to the red planet? They don’t quite have warp-technolog...
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Space Blog Alpha: December 2011
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Thursday, December 29, 2011. SpaceX Postpones Secondary Satellite Launch. SpaceX had opted not to piggyback the launch of two small communication satellites with the crucial and potentially historic launch in February of the first commercial cargo flight to the International Space Station. SpaceX will fully verify the mission performance on the COTS mission and focus on the successful berthing of the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station," the release says. TO READ MORE CLICK HERE. Posting...
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Space Blog Alpha: Russian Space Official Speculates on Anti-Satellite Attack on Probe
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012. Russian Space Official Speculates on Anti-Satellite Attack on Probe. As the clock ticks down to the expected uncontrolled re-entry on Saturday of Russia’s failed Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, a leading Russian space official has interjected the possibility that the craft may have been disabled by an orbiting anti-satellite weapon. Popovkin has also recently claimed that radar emissions from a facility in Alaska, presumably HAARP, may have damaged the craft. Mr Popovkin’s rem...
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Space Blog Alpha: MSL Trajectory Maneuver Planned for Jan. 11
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Sunday, January 08, 2012. MSL Trajectory Maneuver Planned for Jan. 11. The Mars Science Laboratory is getting ready to make some moves. Already about 75 million miles from Earth on its 352-million mile journey to Mars, the spacecraft is slated to perform a series of thruster firings on January 11 which will leave the MSL’s Curiosity Rover on a more precise course for its planned August landing at Gale Crater. We are well into cruise operations, with a well-behaved spacecraft safely on its way to Mars," s...
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Space Blog Alpha: ESA Cargo Mission Progresses Toward March Liftoff
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Saturday, January 07, 2012. ESA Cargo Mission Progresses Toward March Liftoff. While the eyes of many space observers are focused on the upcoming historic launch of a SpaceX Dragon on the first commercial cargo delivery mission to the International Space Station, slated for Feb. 7, at least one other cargo mission is set to rendezvous with the station. Over the next few months. According to the Arianespace website:. The latest ATV is named after Italian physicist Edoardo Amaldi and will carry an estimate...
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Space Blog Alpha: February 2012
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Sunday, February 12, 2012. NASA eyes establishing orbiting lunar outpost. Cue the Pink Floyd because NASA may be turning their lunar attention toward the establishment of an orbital station parked above the dark side of the moon, in a region of space known as the Earth-Moon libration point 2. NASA hopes to assess the value of establishing a “human-tended waypoint,” near the far side of the moon that would join international partnerships along with commercial and academic participants. Multiuse or reusabl...
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Space Blog Alpha: NASA's Kepler Misson Reveals New Planetary Systems
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Thursday, January 26, 2012. NASA's Kepler Misson Reveals New Planetary Systems. NASA's Kepler mission has continued to advance our knowledge of planetary systems with the recent discovery of 11 new systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. With the latest data now released by NASA the total number of planets revealed by Kepler has nearly doubled, and the number of stars known to have more than one planet that passes before their host star has tripled. According to a NASA press release:. Each of the new confi...
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Space Blog Alpha: NASA eyes establishing orbiting lunar outpost
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Sunday, February 12, 2012. NASA eyes establishing orbiting lunar outpost. Cue the Pink Floyd because NASA may be turning their lunar attention toward the establishment of an orbital station parked above the dark side of the moon, in a region of space known as the Earth-Moon libration point 2. NASA hopes to assess the value of establishing a “human-tended waypoint,” near the far side of the moon that would join international partnerships along with commercial and academic participants. Multiuse or reusabl...
