 AFP | China plans first space docking for 2011 AFP BEIJING (AFP) — China will launch a space module next year and carry out the nation's first space docking in 2011 as a step towards its goal of building a space station, state media said Sunday. The Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace-1" is scheduled for ... |
 Javno.hr | China plans space station with module launch in 2010 AFP The planned 2011 space docking would be remotely carried out by scientists on the ground and would not involve astronauts, the report said. China became the third nation to put a man in space when Yang Liwei piloted the one-man Shenzhou-5 space mission ... China To Dock Two Spacecrafts By 2011 China plans to master space docking: report Prototype docking vessel completed |
 Scientific American | The Crowded Universe: The Search for Living Planets. By Alan Boss ... Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, WI In early 2009 [March 5 according to the present schedule], NASA will launch the Kepler Mission, the first space telescope designed specifically to detect and count the number of habitable worlds orbiting stars like our sun.” Kepler will not be without ... NASA gearing up for the launch of “Kepler Mission” Search for Earth-like planets delayed by satellite crash |
 Washington Times | OLSON: 'Doing the hard things' Washington Times, DC In the aftermath of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, NASA's mission expanded to include exploration beyond Low Earth Orbit, including a return to the moon, and eventually on to Mars and beyond. We aren't committed to going to the moon on a whim, ... |
 ABC News | A chance to shoot down North Korea missile? Washington Times, DC But there are few practical differences between lift systems developed for space exploration and those delivering warheads. The first US live nuclear missile test in 1958 used a Redstone rocket, the same booster that took Alan Shepard into space three ... Video: N.Korea says it is preparing satellite launch NKorea instals tracking radar at missile base: report |
 Spaceflight Now | Russian military satellite launched by Proton rocket Spaceflight Now, FL The next Proton flight is scheduled for March 28 to launch the W2A communications satellite for Eutelsat. The official embroidered patch for the space shuttle Discovery's STS-119 mission carrying the space station's final power truss segment is ... |
COLUMN - Try this interesting planetary observation HollandSentinel.com, MI ... spacecraft including the International Space Station and the Hubble Space telescope. Although the risk to the ISS is very low since it orbits at a much lower altitude, NASA may have to scrub a planned May repair mission to the higher-flying Hubble. ... |
 Examiner.com | Moon mission delayed in domino effect of NASA problems Examiner.com Missions launched from KSC or Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) share air space, which must be assigned. They also shared a bevy of US Air Force-managed critical range flight control functions ranging from weather forecasting to tracking and ... NASA moon mission delayed almost a month |
Sustainable Space Exploration and Space Development - A Unified ... Space Ref (press release) Likewise, if a space exploration project like a manned Mars mission is managed by bean counters who fear taking even a moderate level of technical risks, this will not only make space exploration missions far too expensive to afford, but also render ... |
Javno.hr | China To Dock Two Spacecrafts By 2011 RedOrbit, TX In October 2003, China became the third nation to send a man into space. Since then the country has sent two more astronauts on a five-day flight on its Shenzhou VI craft in October 2005 and conducted its third manned space mission in September 2008, ... China plans to master space docking: report Prototype docking vessel completed |
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