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NASA Spacesuit Engineer Explains Upgrades

By Staff Writers on March 1, 2012

 NASA spacesuit engineer Amy Ross demonstrates improvements over the current spacesuit design in the video below, including swivelling joints and a... Read more →

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Virgin Galactic Prepares to Host Experiments

By Merryl Azriel on March 1, 2012

On February 27, Virgin Galactic announced that it had signed a contract with Nanoracks to outfit SpaceShip Two with experimental racks... Read more →

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ISRO Controversy Continues to Roil Indian Space Community

By Merryl Azriel on February 29, 2012

ISRO's official logo (Credits: ISRO). The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) was established to  "develop space technology and its... Read more →

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Open issues with the official Phobos-Grunt accident report

By Staff Writers on February 28, 2012

A Russian report blames space radiation for the failure of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft (see here above during pre-launch preparations), but the... Read more →

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U.S. Strategic Command Seek SSA Cooperation With Allies

By Michael J. Listner on February 28, 2012

The CMD Command Center (CCC) inside Cheyenne Mountain, one of the center that provides data to U.S. STRATCOM (Source: Norad.mil). U.S. Strategic... Read more →

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NASA Scientist Wins a Trip On The Lynx

By Joel Spark on February 28, 2012

Thomas Goodwin, a physiology and bioengineering researcher at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, won a free suborbital flight... Read more →