Question by Philippine Traveler: Has the International Space Station made any scientific discoveries? The Cassini spacecraft has discovered lots about Saturn. What has the space station discovered? Solving engineering problems and showing people can live in space a long time does not count. Please list the discoveries. The only thing I have seen new...
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Has the International Space Station made any scientific discoveries?
Why does it cost so much money to transport a space shuttle to the NASA Center?
Question by LC: Why does it cost so much money to transport a space shuttle to the NASA Center? I am curious, in my Social Studies class today we were talking current events and she (my teacher) told us that shipping a space shuttle to the NASA Center costs more than 1.2 million dollars!...
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How Astronauts Celebrate Christmas in Space (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – The six astronauts aboard the International Space Station can’t come home for the holidays, but they’re doing their best to make the season bright hundreds of miles above Earth’s surface. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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New crew arrives at International Space Station (Reuters)
Reuters – A Russian Soyuz capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Friday with a trio of astronauts, bringing the orbital outpost back to full staffing after a failed cargo ship launch in August disrupted flight schedules. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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2011: the Year in Space (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – 2011 was an eventful year in space, not the least because the year represented a transition from one era-that of the space shuttle-to whatever lays ahead. It was also a time of uncertainty and even anxiety Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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New Space Crew to Launch From Winter Wonderland on Wednesday (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – A diverse crew of veteran spacemen is poised to blast off toward the International Space Station on Wednesday (Dec. 21) to double the population of the orbital outpost just in time for Christmas. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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New operating system for space: High-tech tycoons (AP)
AP – The tycoons of cyberspace are looking to bankroll America’s resurgence in outer space, reviving “Star Trek” dreams that first interested them in science. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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NASA Launches New Space Station … on Internet Radio (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – NASA today (Dec. 12) unveiled a new online radio station dubbed “Third Rock: America’s Space Station” in the U.S. space agency’s latest bid to spread its space exploration to the American public. The radio station, which launched today, will broadcast new rock, indie and alternative music in a format that is “crafted...
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Space Tourists’ Spacecraft to Join Shuttle Exhibits on Both Coasts (SPACE.com)
SPACE.com – A self-funded space traveler loaned his Russian spacecraft to a museum Thursday (Dec. 8), where it will be exhibited near a full-size mockup of a U.S. space shuttle. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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The Misplaced Stuff: NASA loses moon, space rocks (AP)
AP – Astronauts may have had the `right stuff’ to go to the moon, but when it comes to keeping track of what they brought back, NASA seems to have misplaced some of that stuff. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Do UFO supporters ever address the issue of space travel?
Question by Twisted Jester: Do UFO supporters ever address the issue of space travel? I see many people argue using image and tales of funny stuff in the skies, but no one really address the rational behind UFO visiting Earth, such as how can they spend million of years traveling across the universe, in...
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What is the name of the inscription that NASA puts on anything they send into outer space?
Question by bibbit: What is the name of the inscription that NASA puts on anything they send into outer space? I heard a couple of years ago that NASA puts a special inscription anything they send into outer space (satellites, space shuttles, etc.). It has information about Earth, such as that there are male...
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