SPACE.com – NASA engineerswill patch up the last of four brackets with cracked insulation on the nextspace shuttle fuel tank to fly Friday to help prevent the same type of foamdebris that dinged the Endeavour orbiter earlier this month.
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SPACE.com – MOSCOW — Russia's Federal Space Agency chief Anatoly Perminov said Friday that a prominent Russian businessman-turned-politician is training to fly to space as a tourist in 2009 and underscored the need to cut his country's dependency on the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for manned space exploration.
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A year ago, as Europe reached the Moon for the first time, scientists on Earth eagerly watched SMART-1’s spectacular impact. New results from the impact analysis and from the instruments still keep coming.
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AFP – Russia plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by 2025 and wants to build a permanent base there shortly after, the head of Russian space agency Roskosmos said Friday.
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Reuters – A Russian spacecraft will deliver the first Russian space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009, the head of the national space agency Roskosmos said on Friday.
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AP – They’re old and dirty, but NASA’s Mars rovers are back in the exploration business after enduring a lengthy Red Planet dust bowl that blocked most of the sunlight they need for power.
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