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21 hours and 21 minutes ago
Deux astronautes de la navette spatiale am#233;ricaine se pr#233;paraient samedi #224; la
troisi#232;me sortie dans l#8217;espace de la mission d#8217;Endeavour, qui doit permettre de
terminer de r#233;parer l#8217;une des trois doubles antennes solaires de la Station spatiale
internationale (ISS). Les Am#233;ricains, Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, 45#160;ans, et Steve Bowen,
44#160;ans, vont effectuer la plus longue s#233;ance de travaux dans le vide intersid#233;ral de la
mission, qui a commenc#233; le 15#160;novembre. La sortie, initialement pr#233;vue #224; partir de
19H45#160;mais qui pourrait #234;tre avanc#233;e, devrait durer 7#160;heures ou plus, selon un
porte-parole de la Nasa.img width='1' height='1'
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iTWire - Latest Headlines -
21 hours and 52 minutes ago
The Orion team at NASA successfully tested for the first time its abort motor, which will be used
in case the crew encounters an emergengy during launch of its Orion...
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Barrapunto -
1 days ago
Daniel Mar#237;n cuenta en su bit#225;cora que la ISS cumple 10 a#241;os: #171;Se cumple una
d#233;cada del proyecto espacial internacional m#225;s caro y complejo que ha existido nunca: la
Estaci#243;n Espacial Internacional (ISS). En realidad se cumplen diez a#241;os del lanzamiento del
primer m#243;dulo de la estaci#243;n, el Zary#225; ("amanecer"), antes conocido como FGB
(Functional Cargo Block). Zary#225; fue construido por la empresa rusa GKNPTs Khrunichev, pero es
propiedad de la NASA. [...] #191;Ha sido un #233;xito este proyecto? Desde un punto
tecnol#243;gico, la respuesta es un rotundo s#237;. Tras varios lustros de existencia sobre el
papel, muchos dudaban que un proyecto tan complejo y con tantos pa#237;ses implicados pudiese
llevarse a cabo. [...] Desde un punto de vista pol#237;tico la respuesta es m#225;s compleja:
aunque es cierto que se han logrado limar asperezas entre los pa#237;ses participantes, los
continuos roces y enfrentamientos entre la NASA y Roskosmos han provocado que sean muchos los que
opinen que la cooperaci#243;n internacional es algo bueno siempre y cuando sea un #250;nico
pa#237;s el que lidere el proyecto#187;.
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Microsiervos -
1 days and 1 hours ago
pOtro día de relativa calma en el a
href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbordador_espacial_Endeavour" title="Transbordador espacial
Endeavour - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre"Endeavour/a y la a
href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estaci%C3%B3n_Espacial_Internacional" title="Estación
Espacial Internacional - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre"Estación Espacial Internacional/a
entre paseos espaciales en el que las tripulaciones siguieron adelante con las tareas de
transferencia de equipos y suministros entre ambas naves, aunque también aprovecharon para
montar y comprobar algunos equipos./p pAsí, a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Fincke" title="Michael Fincke - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia"Mike Fincke/a y a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Magnus" title="Sandra
Magnus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"Sandra Magnus/a comprobaron los cierres del iExposed
Facility Berthing Mechanism/i, el mecanismo que permitirá la instalación de una
plataforma de experimentos científicos externa en el laboratorio a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Experiment_Module" title="Japanese Experiment Module -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"iKibÅÂ/i/a el año que viene, y luego Magnus
instaló un analizador de carbono en el sistema de reciclado de agua, que por cierto no
está funcionando como debería, algo que los ingenieros del equipo de soporte en
tierra están analizando./p p align="center"a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Experiment_Module" title="Japanese Experiment Module -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"img src="http://www.microsiervos.com/images/STS126-Kibo.jpg"
height="380" width="500" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="8" alt="Vista de Kibo con el Exposed
Facility en primer plano - NASA" title="Vista de Kibo con el Exposed Facility en primer plano -
NASA" //abr/citeVista de a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Experiment_Module"
title="Japanese Experiment Module - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"iKibÅÂ/i/a con el
Exposed Facility en primer plano - NASA/cite/p pa
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidemarie_Stefanyshyn-Piper" title="Heidemarie
Stefanyshyn-Piper - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper/a y a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Kimbrough" title="Robert S. Kimbrough - Wikipedia, the
free encyclopedia"Shane Kimbrough/a, por su parte, montaron una cámara de vídeo que
será instalada durante el cuarto paseo espacial por Kimbrough y a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_G._Bowen" title="Stephen G. Bowen - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia"Steve Bowen/a y que será utilizada para ayudar en las maniobras de atraque del
a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-II_Transfer_Vehicle" title="H-II Transfer Vehicle -
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia"vehículo de transferencia H-II/a que la a
href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agencia_Japonesa_de_Exploraci%C3%B3n_Aeroespacial"
title="Agencia Japonesa de Exploración Aeroespacial - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia
libre"Agencia Japonesa de Exploración Aeroespacial/a utilizará para enviar
suministros para KibÅÂ./p p align="center"a href="http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/htv/spec/"
title="HTV Components:H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) - International Space Station - JAXA"img
src="http://www.microsiervos.com/images/STS126-HTV.jpg" height="320" width="500" border="0"
hspace="0" vspace="8" alt="Esquema del HTV de la JAXA - JAXA" title="Esquema del HTV de la JAXA -
JAXA" //abr/citea href="http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/htv/spec/" title="HTV Components:H-II Transfer
Vehicle (HTV) - International Space Station - JAXA"Esquema del HTV II/a - JAXA/cite/p pEl
comandante a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Ferguson" title="Christopher Ferguson -
Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre"Cristopher Ferguson/a y el piloto a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_A._Boe" title="Eric A. Boe - Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia"Eric Boe/a usaron los motores de maniobra del Endeavour para subir en una milla
náutica la órbita de la acronym title="Estación Espacial
Internacional"ISS/acronym para dejarle en la posición adecuada para la llegada de la
próxima nave a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress" title="Progress - Wikipedia, la
enciclopedia libre"Progress/a de carga a finales de mes./p pDesde el control de la misión
escogieron una canción tradicional ucraniana, iUnharness Your Horses, Boys/i (Desenjaezad
vuestros caballos, chicos)Â, dedicada a Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, que tiene antepasados de por
allí./p pstrongFuentes:/strong a
href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts126/news/STS-126-14.html"
title="NASA - STS-126 MCC Status Report #14"STS-126 MCC Status Report #14/a y a
href="http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts126/news/STS-126-15.html"
title="NASA - STS-126 MCC Status Report #15"STS-126 MCC Status Report #15/a/p div class="mas"ullia
href="http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ciencia/sts-126-dia-7.html"Endeavour/STS-126: Día
7/a, segundo paseo espacial./li/ul/div pa
href="http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ciencia/sts-126-dia-8.html"# Enlace Permanente/a/p pa
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Onet.pl Wiadomości: Wiadomości dnia -
1 days and 3 hours ago
Pająki potrafią się szybko dostosować do stanu
nieważkości - informują eksperci NASA.
DowiódÅ‚ tego eksperyment na pokÅ‚adzie MiÄ™dzynarodowej
Stacji Kosmicznej.
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Astronomy Picture of the Day -
1 days and 6 hours ago
DIV ALIGN=CENTERa href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0811/Panoramica-luaSol-net.jpg" IMG
SRC="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0811/Panoramica-luaSol-net.jpg" alt="See Explanation.
Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available."/a /DIV DIV
STYLE="max-width:40em"P P b From Moonrise to Sunset /b br bCredit a
href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply"Copyright/a:/b a
href="http://www.astrosurf.com/astroarte"Miguel Claro/a P p b Explanation: /b In this panorama of
Earth and sky recorded on Thursday, November 13, the a
href="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php"Full Moon rises/a along the eastern horizon
at the far left. Of course, the a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010219.html"Full Moon
rises at sunset/a and that Thursday's a
href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080531.html"setting Sun/a was also captured at the far
right. In between, 17 digital images are stitched together to follow the horizon to the south in a
lovely twilight portrait of the city of a
href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080607.html"Lisbon/a, Portugal. The serene view takes in
part of the longest bridge in Europe, the a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama_Bridge"Vasco da Gama bridge/a, beneath the rising
Moon and ends at the mouth of the Tagus River looking west toward the a
href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071222.html"sunset and/a the Atlantic Ocean. The
photographer's vantage point was Lisbon's 100 foot high a
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ie=UTF8ll=38.678611,-9.171389spn=0.345744,0.333023 z=16g=38.678611,-9.171389iwloc=addr"Cristo Rei
monument/a on the south bank of the Tagus, at the foot of the port city's other famous bridge, the
a href="http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070324.html"Ponte 25 de Abril/a. p P script
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Guardian Unlimited -
1 days and 12 hours ago
divimg alt=""
src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/78677?ns=guardianpageName=Science%3A+Nasa+veteran+offers+tips+to+British+students+on+how+to+walk+in+spacech=Sciencec3=The+Guardianc4=Space+exploration%2CSpace+%28Technology%29%2CHigher+education%2CScience%2CEducation%2CUK+newsc5=Not+commercially+useful%2CEducation+Weekly+Education%2CTechnology+Gadgets%2CHigher+Educationc6=Ian+Samplec7=2008_11_22c8=1122134c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sciencec12=Space+explorationc13=c14=h2=GU%2FScience%2FSpace+exploration"
width="1" height="1" //divpBritain may be scorned for refusing to send humans into space, but from
next week it will have the next best thing: its own university course on how to be an
astronaut./ppStaff at Leicester University have called in a former Nasa astronaut, Jeff Hoffman, a
veteran of five space shuttles, to teach the course which will offer instruction on how to survive
in space, coping with the psychological demands of long-term space travel and how to conduct a
spacewalk without dropping your toolbox./ppHoffman, who took part in crucial spacewalks to fix
cameras aboard the Hubble space telescope in 1993, will join Leicester as a visiting professor but
will maintain his position in the astronautics department at Massachusetts Institute of
Technology./ppThe government is reviewing its long-held opposition to human spaceflight and an
announcement is expected weeks before the European Space Agency reveals at least four new recruits
to its astronaut team. Britain has never had an astronaut train through ESA because its funding
covers only robotic missions and ground-based astronomy./pp"There's a strong student interest,"
Hoffman said. "If Britain continues with that policy, these students will still be able to work in
other capacities at the European Space Agency."/ppHoffman will draw attention to the future
exploration of the solar system, which is likely to see humans working alongside robotic rovers
that could be sent out from a moonbase to conduct experiments at remote sites. /ppThe Leicester
course begins as the UK prepares for a high-level meeting of European science ministers, at which
human space exploration will be discussed./ppMartin Barstow, head of physics and astronomy at
Leicester, said: "I'm fed up with the way the UK keeps dodging the issue of being involved in human
spaceflight. Our students don't need to be loaded with that baggage. /pp"They still have
aspirations to be astronauts and they still want to get involved in the space industry, so why
should the UK government's attitude be a handicap?"/pdiv style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 10px;"ullia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/spaceexploration"Space
exploration/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/spacetechnology"Space
technology/a/lilia href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/highereducation"Higher
education/a/li/ul/divdiv class="guRssAdvert"a
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Reuters: Top News -
1 days and 13 hours ago
HOUSTON (Reuters) - NASA is having problems with a $250 million system it just delivered to the
International Space Station to recycle urine and other wastewater into drinking water for
astronauts.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=IaKDITiD"img
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The Register -
1 days and 13 hours ago
h4Eureka! We'll call it.../h4 pNASA got a great big balloon for the 75th anniversary of its a
href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/13/hanger_one_progress_report/"iconic/a Moffett airfield
in the heart of Silicon Valley..../p
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Romandie News -
1 days and 13 hours ago
WASHINGTON - Les astronautes de la navette américaine Endeavour et de l'ISS ainsi que les
ingénieurs de la Nasa s'efforçaient vendredi de ...
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fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news -
1 days and 14 hours ago
pPASADENA, Calif. -- NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network
modeled on the Internet./p br /hr /iAdvertisement/ibr /a
href=http://www.fsdaily.com/advertisingYour ad here!/ahr /pa
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CNET News.com -
1 days and 16 hours ago
To be called the Eureka, the 246-long zeppelin is the pride and joy of a company called Airship
Ventures, which will offer the public rides, as well as help NASA do scientific research.
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CNET News.com -
1 days and 16 hours ago
To be called the Eureka, the 246-long zeppelin is the pride and joy of a company called Airship
Ventures, which will offer the public rides, as well as help NASA do scientific research.
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CNET News.com - Personal Tech -
1 days and 16 hours ago
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FOXNews.com -
1 days and 17 hours ago
NASA researchers dump yellow rubber duckies into Greenland glacier to see how quickly they reach
the ocean.
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Scientific American - Official RSS Feed -
1 days and 17 hours ago
pWith more nations sending up more spacecraft conducting more advanced scientific studies, how will
the worlds space agencies keep everyone and everything in the loop? NASA has devised a system,
touted as a sort of deep-space Internet protocol, to form the backbone of interplanetary
communication: Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN. The space agency announced this week that
its DTN network, which would allow the automated relay of information to and from far-flung
spacecraft or landers via intermediate points, had passed its first test, relaying info millions of
miles into space. a
href=http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=talk-about-cyberspace-nasas-space-s-2008-11-21[More]/a
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Wired Top Stories -
1 days and 17 hours ago
NASA test-fires its next-generation ejector seat, sending flames shooting into the Utah desert.
Designed to get the crew of the space shuttle's replacement as far away from the launch vehicle as
possible in case of an emergency, the motor delivers half a million pounds of thrust, expelling
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Guardian Unlimited -
1 days and 19 hours ago
divimg alt=""
src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/95177?ns=guardianpageName=Science%3A+To+infinity+and+beyond%3A+University+of+Leicester+launches+astronaut+coursech=Sciencec3=guardian.co.ukc4=Science%2CSpace+exploration%2CEducation%2CUK+news%2CLeicester+University%2CEducation+degree+courses+%28Education+subject%29c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CEducation+Weekly+Education%2CHigher+Educationc6=Ian+Samplec7=2008_11_21c8=1122069c9=articlec10=GUc11=Sciencec12=Space+explorationc13=c14=h2=GU%2FScience%2FSpace+exploration"
width="1" height="1" //divpBritain may be scorned by other nations for steadfastly refusing to a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/spaceexploration"send humans into space/a, but from next
week it will have its own university course on how to be an astronaut./ppStaff at the a
href="http://www2.le.ac.uk/ebulletin/news/press-releases/2000-2009/2008/11/nparticle.2008-11-21.4852004914"University
of Leicester/a have called in former a
href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/hoffman-0313.html"Nasa astronaut Jeff Hoffman/a
– a veteran of five space shuttle missions – to teach the
course, which will offer instruction on how to survive in space, coping with the psychological
demands of long-term space travel and a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/astronaut-space-repair-solar-panel"how to
conduct a spacewalk without dropping your toolbag/a./ppHoffman, who took part in crucial spacewalks
to fix cameras aboard the Hubble Space Telescope in 1993, will join Leicester as a visiting
professor but will maintain his position in the astronautics department at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology./ppThe UK government is reviewing its long-held opposition to human
spaceflight and is due to announce its conclusions by the end of the year. The announcement is
expected weeks before the European Space Agency reveals at least four new recruits to its astronaut
corps. /ppA British astronaut has never trained through Esa because the UK's funding of space only
runs to robotic missions and ground-based astronomy./pp"There's a strong student interest in this
despite the fact that the British government has not supported human participation in spaceflight,"
Hoffman told the Guardian. "If Britain continues with that policy, these students will still be
able to work in other capacities at the European Space Agency."/ppHoffman will draw particular
attention to the future exploration of the solar system, which is likely to see humans working
alongside robotic rovers, which could be sent out from a manned moonbase to conduct experiments at
remote sites. /ppThe Leicester course begins as the UK prepares for a high-level meeting of
European science ministers at which human space exploration will be discussed./ppMartin Barstow,
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space industry, so why should the UK government's attitude be a handicap?/pp"Only a very few people
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people won't get to do it, but they will become highly qualified physicists and engineers and will
get involved in the space industry in different roles. What we want them to come out with is a real
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wholly on the astronauts' actual noses. Developed and built by AEMC, the new nose's dynamic range
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that human honkers. The e-nose has 32 sensors made of polymer films that respond to different
chemicals by changing electrical conductivity, and it's capable of both detecting and analyzing
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period of six months, and we have a feeling that its first accomplishment will be to point out that
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