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in News, Russia, Air Force, Space, United Launch Alliance, Military Space, Atlas V, USA, ULA, Aerojet, Technology, LaunchAir Force Funds Both AR1 and BE-4 Rocket Engine Development to Replace ULA’s Russian RD-180
The U.S. Air Force (USAF) decision to continue funding both the Aerojet Rocketdyne AR1 and the Blue Origin BE-4 engines will end United Launch Alliance (ULA) dependance on the Russian RD-180 for the Atlas-V rocket and new Vulcan launch vehicle set for first flight about 2020. The move will also provide new American-built propulsion options for […] More
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in News, Tech, NASA, Russia, Space, Science, Mars Exploration Rovers, Space Exploration, Space Exploration Technologies, press release, Earth, Technology, Exploration, Solar System, Research, News Release, VenusNASA Awards Grants to Ozark IC to Create Circuits for Proposed Venus Rover
In what may be a significant step toward the seemingly far-off goal of sending a rover to the surface of Venus, NASA has awarded two grants totalling $245,000 to a semiconductor technology firm to design complex integrated circuits which could withstand the extremely harsh environment on this neighboring world. More
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Ongoing Research and New Crew Arrival Highlight Busy Week on Orbit for Expedition 43
SPACE STATION WEEKLY UPDATE March 23 – March 29, 2015 — The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 43 crew members kept busy last week, continuing work for the station’s ongoing research and science experiments while also preparing for upcoming cargo delivery. They also welcomed three new crew members, including two who will remain in space for nearly a year […] More
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Traversing the New Frontier: The First 50 Years of Spacewalking (Part 6)
Less than a month ago, on 1 March 2015, U.S. astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Terry Virts concluded a spectacular series of three EVAs to prepare the International Space Station (ISS) for its most significant phase of expansion and relocation of hardware since the end of the shuttle era. They laid 340 feet (103 meters) […] More
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One-Year Mission Underway With Rousing Soyuz TMA-16M Launch
The first year-long expedition of the International Space Station (ISS) era is officially underway, following the spectacular launch of Russian cosmonauts Gennadi Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko, together with U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly, aboard Soyuz TMA-16M from Site 1/5 (the famed “Gagarin’s Start”) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launching on time into foggy skies at […] More
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Ambitious One-Year Mission Counting Down to Friday Launch (Part 2)
Twenty-four hours now remain before Soyuz TMA-16M is scheduled to rocket toward the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Russian cosmonauts Gennadi Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko and U.S. astronaut Scott Kelly to form the second half of Expedition 43 and rotate into the “core” of Expedition 44. However, as described in yesterday’s AmericaSpace article, this mission […] More
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Identical Twin, Former Paratrooper, and Ecologist to Launch Friday Aboard Soyuz TMA-16M (Part 1)
Two sons of Earth are presently enjoying their final hours in terrestrial gravity, before embarking on almost an entire orbit of the Sun, as they prepare to journey to the International Space Station (ISS) on the first year-long mission of the 21st century. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko—together with veteran spacefarer […] More
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Repair and Salvage: The First 50 Years of Spacewalking (Part 4)
Ironically, the spacecraft from which the most Extravehicular Activities (EVAs) were performed—the space shuttle—was not originally intended to carry the capability for spacewalking at all. “The NASA perspective of a shuttle was an airliner,” explained space suit engineer Jim McBarron in an oral history, “and the people inside it wouldn’t need suits.” It was only […] More
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Soyuz TMA-17M Crew Ready for May Launch to Space Station
Three spacefarers from three discrete nations are currently entering their final weeks on Earth, ahead of launch towards the International Space Station (ISS) on 26/27 May for a six-month increment. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko—a veteran of two previous long-duration ISS expeditions, with a cumulative 391 days of experience—will command Soyuz TMA-17M when it rockets into […] More
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‘Off On the Right Foot’: Expedition 43 Underway at Space Station
Only a week after the safe return to Earth of Soyuz TMA-14M and its crew of Russian cosmonauts Aleksandr Samokutyayev and Yelena Serova and U.S. astronaut Barry “Butch” Wilmore—wrapping up a highly successful Expedition 42—the torch has been passed to a new team of spacefarers from three nations to keep the International Space Station (ISS) […] More
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‘As Long As It’s Not a Hurricane’: 20 Years Since the Record-Setting Mission of Norm Thagard (Part 2)
Twenty years ago, this week, the first U.S. astronaut in history was launched in a non-U.S. spacecraft, from a non-U.S. nation, with a crew entirely composed of non-U.S. comrades. Four-time shuttle veteran Norm Thagard had spent more than a year training for NASA’s first long-duration “increment” to the Russian Mir space station and was destined […] More
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‘To Live Like Russians’: 20 Years Since the Record-Setting Mission of Norm Thagard (Part 1)
Today, in 2015, it seems hard to imagine U.S. astronauts being totally unaccustomed to long-duration spaceflight. Over the past two decades, around 50 Americans—from civilian medical doctors to biochemists and engineers to physicists, and from Army and Coast Guard officers to Air Force test pilots and Naval aviators—have embarked on missions in excess of 100 […] More
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