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Konstantin Feoktistov, a Soviet Spacecraft Engineer, Dies at 83
Moscow :: Russia | 14 days ago
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Feoktistov, a Soviet engineer who was one of the first civilian astronauts and a prominent spacecraft designer, died on Saturday in Moscow, the Russian space agency said...Mr. Feoktistov, for whom a crater was named on the Moon , was also the only Soviet...
Tags: Konstantin Feoktistov, Mr. Feoktistov, Russian, feoktistov died, Moscow, space agency, civilian cosmonaut, Russia, Voskhod programme, Science and technology in the Soviet Union, Voskhod 1, Soviet space program, Soyuz, Russian Federal Space Agency, Astronaut, Human spaceflight, Feoktistov, Spacecraft, Soyuz programme
Chandrayaan-1 was a fantastic success: European scientist
Bangalore :: India | 2 months ago
Credibility Chandrayaan-1 was a "fantastic success", Detlef Koschny, European Chandrayaan-1 project scientist, said in an e-mail interview. Chandrayaan-1 had carried three scientific payloads of the European Space Agency (ESA)...Secondly, all scientific instruments...
Tags: space agency, India, Bangalore
Scientists to review India's moon mission saga
Bangalore :: India | 3 months ago
Credibility Madhavan Nair, the scientists of the respective space agencies will present the results, consisting of data, pictures and analysis for a detailed discussion of the 10-month-old mission, which had scientific and technology objectives," Satish said. The...
Tags: Indian Space Research Organization, space agency, Moon
NASA group seeks more private industry involvement
Washington :: DC :: USA | 3 months ago
Credibility A group of astrophysicists, astronauts, former aerospace-industry executives, and Air Force generals says the U.S. should launch a competition for building new heavy-lift rockets for transporting cargo and crew into low-earth orbit. If the White House...
Tags: NASA Constellation, space agency
NASA releases restored, HD moon landing videos
Washington :: DC :: USA | 4 months ago
Credibility With the help of Hollywood, those historic, grainy images of the first men on the moon never looked better...Originally, Armstrong's face visor was too fuzzy to be seen clearly. The refurbished video shows his visor and a reflection in it. The $230,000...
Tags: Neil Armstrong, moon landings, moon, Lowry Digital of Burbank, lowry digitized, Moon, space agency, NASA
Obama taps former astronaut for NASA chief
Washington :: DC :: USA | 6 months ago
Credibility President Obama has picked a former astronaut to head the American space program, the White House announced early Saturday...A Vietnam veteran, Bolden was chosen as an astronaut in 1980, eventually piloting two shuttle missions and commanding two more....
Tags: Charles Bolden, Barack Obama, Bolden Jr., Obama Picks, Senate, First Black NASA, Columbia, space agency, space shuttle, white house
President wants review of NASA’s moon mission plans
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility White House review would be announced Wednesday in conjunction with the rollout of Obama’s fiscal 2010 budget that includes $18.7 billion for the space agency. The reassessment potentially could lead the Obama administration to revise key decisions by...
Tags: Obama Administration, U.S, space agency, NASA
Space junk passing near space station
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Officials were monitoring the debris closely and planned to decide by 6 p.m. whether to carry out the maneuver. Jeffs said the dimensions of the satellite debris are not known. Don't Miss Three people are on the space station , astronauts Mike Fincke...
Tags: space station, international space, shuttle discovery, space junk, Houston, mission control, space shuttle, ISS, space agency, NASA
Nasa space shuttle launch delayed
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility A fuel leak meant Wednesday's launch would be delayed until Sunday at the earliest, the US space agency said. The orbiter is due to deliver the fourth and final set of solar array wings to the platform and the last segment of its truss, or backbone. Their...
Tags: space shuttle, shuttle launch, space agency, shuttle discovery, NASA, gas leak
Nasa launches Earth hunter probe
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility An unmanned Nasa mission to search the sky for Earth-like planets with the potential to host life has launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The Kepler telescope will orbit the Sun to watch a patch of space thought to contain about 100,000 stars like...
Tags: Johannes Kepler, Kepler Launches Search, sun Kepler, Earth, Nasa, Cape Canaveral, Delta, Florida, nasa launch, space agency
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