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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Oct 22, 12:00 am ET
TOKYO----Mitsubishi Electric Corporation , announced today it has agreed with Orbital Sciences Corporation to supply Proximity Link System components that will guide Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft to the International Space Station on nine re-supply missions for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration .
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The Inquisitr - Sun Oct 25, 4:10 pm ET
The NASA iPhone app is the closest most of us will get to ever visiting space. The program provides users with a real time location finder so we always know exactly where the International Space Station and other spacecraft are located by using mapping software which features border information, satellite imagery and satellite images overlaid [...]
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Daily News Journal - Sun Oct 25, 3:25 pm ET
MT. JULIET, Tenn. (AP) — When Barry Wilmore goes into space next month, he'll be taking a Mt. Juliet High School football jersey with him. The astronaut who will pilot an 11-day mission on the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station now lives in Houston, but he hasn't forgotten his Tennessee roots. Wilmore was born in Murfreesboro and graduated in 1981 from Mt. Juliet High ...
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SpaceRef - Tue Oct 20, 2:33 pm ET
To celebrate the Solar System Premiere of Columbia Pictures' new animated comedy Planet 51, which will be released in theaters on Earth November 20, 2009, the film is currently orbiting the planet on the International Space Station!
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redOrbit - Tue Oct 20, 11:07 am ET
orbiting the planet on the International Space Station!The film was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on August 28, 2009, and was transferred to the space station by the astronauts a few days later. The film is now cruising high above Earth at 17,500 miles per hour and orbiting the planet every 90 minutes, which is the exact running time of the movie, so it will make a full ...
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NPR - Sat Oct 24, 4:14 pm ET
With a growing budget deficit, there's not much appetite in Washington to increase NASA's funding. So some of what the agency does now, such as shipping cargo to the space station, will almost certainly be picked up by private companies.
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Austin American-Statesman - Sat Oct 24, 12:25 pm ET
One year ago, Richard Garriott was in Russia, having just returned from a trip to the International Space Station that fulfilled the ambition of a lifetime.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Oct 18, 5:35 am ET
A cargo ship has delivered food, fuel, oxygen and other supplies to the International Space Station.
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The Space Review - Mon Oct 19, 9:11 am ET
With the International Space Station nearly completely assembled, attention now turns to how to best utilize it. Taylor Dinerman explains how that will depend on how much access scientists will have to it once the shuttle is retired.
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Charleston Daily Mail - Sun Oct 18, 7:32 pm ET
A cargo ship has delivered food, fuel, oxygen and other supplies to the International Space Station.Russias space agency says the unmanned Progress M-03M docked with the orbital station Sunday after a two-day trip up from Earth.Care packages for members o...
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Spaceflight Now - Mon Oct 19, 12:46 am ET
In an attempt to alleviate tightly stacked space missions, managers are re-evaluating a long-standing policy banning other spacecraft from arriving or leaving the International Space Station while the space shuttle is docked to the complex.
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Hendricks County Flyer - Fri Oct 23, 2:02 pm ET
Sarah Nakata dreams of becoming a NASA astronaut. And while that reality is a few years away, she has accumulated a number of honors relating to space. Her latest is a framed set of patches that were flown on the International Space Station (ISS) in October 2008 by “private space explorer” Richard Garriott.
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SPACE.com - Sun Oct 18, 1:20 am ET
The International Space Station has received a new load of supplies from the latest Russian-built cargo freighter, which successfully docked to the outpost Saturday night.
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Central Florida News 13 - Wed Oct 21, 4:14 pm ET
After two days of prelaunch mission practice at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the six astronauts returned to Johnson Space Center in Houston. There, they will continue training and perform projects for Atlantis' upcoming flight to the International Space Station
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Central Florida News 13 - Wed Oct 21, 5:29 am ET
NASA’s Twitter followers will have the chance to speak directly with astronauts aboard the International Space Station at a Tweetup Wednesday. However, the “Tweetup” was cut short by a false alarm on the International Space Station.