"One year might as well be an eternity for NASA’s space shuttles, which – it turns out – have no automatic reset once the calendar hits Jan. 1, 2007." Well, that's proprietary code for you.

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"Having championed Webster Cash’s New Worlds Imager in earlier posts, Centauri Dreams was nonplussed yesterday to see NASA’s list of concept study selections for Discovery-class missions...."

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"Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013." Makes economic se

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"The fate of what some scientists dub “the people's telescope" is again up in the air, as NASA decides soon whether to squeeze in a last astronaut repair mission to extend the life of the Hu

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Does exactly what it says on the tin, thanks to friends-of-friends-of-friends-of Warren Ellis. Beautiful images, awe-inspiring.

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"NASA says it will announce its decision on whether to send one more space shuttle to service and upgrade the orbital observatory in November." Surely it would be cheaper to fix it than to r

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That's some good news.

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"A very early look at launch video indicates that some pieces of foam insulation and ice came off the space shuttle Atlantis's external tank about four minutes after launch." Let's hope it's

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"As NASA's space shuttle fleet sputters toward a planned 2010 retirement, the next generation of U.S. space planes is gestating in the heart of the U.S. military." All sounds a bit hush-hush

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"With the space shuttle Atlantis scheduled to launch on Sunday, construction of the unfinished International Space Station (ISS) is set to pick up again after a 3.5-year hiatus." About blood

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Persey Tours of Russia will fake the holiday of your dreams, even if it's a flight to the moon on anon-existant space shuttle. Link via Posthuman Blues (cheers, Mac).

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OK, so it's only the 'longest amount of time in space by a Briton'...but what the hell, yay! Brits...In...Space! :D

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What a relief - and what a lovely 4th of July present for our American colleagues. Happy holidays, guys.

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If a lump of foam can destroy a space shuttle, imagine what a full-grown vulture could do.

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Let's all hope that nothing goes wrong; we've lost too many people to shuttle disasters already. Good luck, Discovery.

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Time to put the old bird out to pasture and face the future

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Lauch Calendar for Kennedy Space Center

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The test shuttle OK-M was moved few days ago from the area 254, to be parked near the Baikonur’s museum (area 2). May be it will be restaured or stocked in better conditions.

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I published a page about the Buran’s motor unit. It is constitued by the main engines, at the rear, and by the gas precision steering system.

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I published a new page about the mechanism of the Buran’s onboard computer and a little introduction on the onboard computers on the soviets spaceships.

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Page on the Tsniimash institut of Moscow. It is this institut which lead the mechanical stress tests on Buran and Energia since 1983. This article contains original pictures shoot at that time.

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Pictures of the launch pad 110 and 250 shot in 2006. To remind you, the 110 area was used to launch Buran in November 15, 1988, whereas the 250 area was used to launch Polyus in May 17, 1987.

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This is 2 videos on Buran, the first speaks about the Buran-Energia project, the second is about the OK-GLI disembarking in february 2000 at Sydney.

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This project aimed to put into orbit a small space plane launch by a high altitude plane carrier. This project was a forerunner of Buran.

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After the movement of OK-M near the Baikonur’s museum, the thermal shield was renewed, they transformed the cockpit and a showroom was set up in the payload bay.

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space shuttle STS 120 will deliver and install the new 30,000 pounds (13,608 kg), Harmony space module onto the International Space Station (ISS) completing the station's U.S. Core.

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Project which began in the 60s, it had to goal to make a horizontal thrower to put into orbit combat spaceplanes (before the project Star Wars).

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