December 2013

    Spacewalkers do repairs more quickly than expected — and stay dry

    December 23rd, 2013|Categories: News|Tags: , , , , , |

    Two NASA spacewalkers started fixing the International Space Station's cooling system more quickly than expected on Saturday, with no sign of the helmet-flooding problem that led NASA to outfit astronauts with snorkels for the first time. Astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Mike Hopkins finished the first of three planned spacewalks in [...]

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      Private Rocket Launch Thursday Night Visible from US East Coast

      December 17th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography|Tags: , , , , , , , |

      People along the east coast of the United States should get a great opportunity to see a rocket launch from their own backyards this week. Weather permitting, observers from Massachusetts to the Carolinas could see an International Space Station-bound Cygnus spacecraft launch atop a two-stage Antares rocket Thursday (Dec. 19) [...]

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        Why the next decade’s hot space race revolves around the moon

        December 6th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

        If China’s just-launched Chang’e 3 lunar probe (quaintly known as the Jade Rabbit) drops its robotic rover down on the Moon’s surface in mid-December as scheduled, it will be the first soft landing on our nearest celestial neighbor in 37 years. It also kicks off a resurgence of interest in [...]

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        Russian android may take on outer space operations at ISS

        November 29th, 2013|Categories: News, Photography|Tags: , , , , , , |

        Russia has presented a new humanlike robot, which may be delivered to the International Space Station to perform 90 percent of risky operations in open space instead of cosmonauts. The SAR- 401 prototype was revealed to journalists at the Yury Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow Region’s Star City on [...]

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