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| May 29, 2014 |
 Russia ratifies deal on aerospace cooperation with Kazakhstan Moscow (Voice of Russia) May 29, 2014 - Upper house parliamentary lawmakers have ratified a Russia-Kazakhstan agreement on cooperation in the peaceful exploration and use of outer space. The accord was signed in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, in May 2008, aiming to establish organizational and legal procedures for working together. Russia's lower house ratified the agreement on May 23. Leonid Slutsky, chairing the Committee ... more |  |
 Elon Musk to present manned DragonV2 spacecraft on May 29 Moscow (Voice of Russia) May 29, 2014 - SpaceX is on the verge of revealing the next generation version of its Dragon spacecraft, one which the company hopes will allow the United States to once again send its own astronauts into space by 2017. The unveiling will take place on Friday, May 29, at the company's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. There, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will personally showcase the company's latest space t ... more |  |
Russia-Ukraine space program proceeding as planned Beijing (XNA) May 29, 2014 - Russia and Ukraine plan to continue joint commercial space launches despite aggravated relations between the two countries, Russian space agency Roscosmos said Wednesday. Roscosmos deputy chief Sergei Ponomaryov said Russia would launch a Dnepr rocket carrying a cluster of 30 micro-satellites on June 19, with Ukraine's Yuzhmash enterprise engaging in the ongoing rocket construction. ... more |  |
 Three New Crew Members En Route to ISS Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2014 - Three new Expedition 40 flight engineers are on their way to the International Space Station following the successful launch of their Soyuz spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:57 p.m. EDT Wednesday (1:57 a.m. Thursday, Kazakh time). The liftoff of the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft marked the start of a six-hour, four-orbit trek to the station for NASA astronaut Reid Wisem ... more |  |
 May the Force (Shoes) Be With You Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2014 - Maintaining astronaut bone and muscle health in microgravity is an ongoing concern for NASA, and now the agency is "forcing" the issue with a new investigation. On May 29, 2014, NASA will fly the ForceShoe, designed by XSENS, to the International Space Station (ISS) and, although these shoes don't measure the same force of Star Wars lore, they will help NASA collect data for studying the l ... more |  |
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 Antares Launch Postponed Wallops Island, VA (SPX) May 29, 2014 - Orbital Sciences Corporation has postponed the launch of the Orbital-2 mission to the International Space Station after an engine test aborted prematurely. The engine being tested at NASA's Stennis Space Center was slated to be used for a launch in 2015, but Orbital has taken the action to investigate the mishap before attempting to launch Orb-2. Orbital now is looking no earlier than June ... more |  |
 Water in moon rocks provides clues and questions about lunar history Honolulu HI (SPX) May 29, 2014 - A recent review of hundreds of chemical analyses of Moon rocks indicates that the amount of water in the Moon's interior varies regionally - revealing clues about how water originated and was redistributed in the Moon. These discoveries provide a new tool to unravel the processes involved in the formation of the Moon, how the lunar crust cooled, and its impact history. This is not liquid w ... more |  |
 Sentinel-1 aids Balkan flood relief Paris (ESA) May 29, 2014 - Although not yet operational, the new Sentinel-1A satellite has provided radar data for mapping the floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Heavy rainfall leading to widespread flooding and landslides has hit large parts of the Balkans, killing dozens of people and leaving hundreds of thousands displaced. Jan Kucera of the Europan Commission's Joint Research Centre is supervising the technical a ... more |  |
 The 'Serpent' Star-forming Cloud Hatches New Stars Pasadena CA (JPL) May 29, 2014 - Stars that are just beginning to coalesce out of cool swaths of dust and gas are showcased in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). Infrared light has been assigned colors we see with our eyes, revealing young stars in orange and yellow, and a central parcel of gas in blue. This area is hidden in visible-light views, but infrared light ca ... more |  |
XCOR Raises Investment Capital Led by Dutch Investors Mojave CA (SPX) May 29, 2014 - XCOR Aerospace reports that the United States Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (CFIUS) has approved the Series B lead investment by Dutch investors. The first closing of XCOR's new round of finance issued $14.2 million of Series B preferred shares. XCOR will use the funds to bring the XCOR Lynx suborbital spaceplane to market. The Series B financing was led b ... more |  |
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 Chinese lunar rover alive but weak Beijing (XNA) May 29, 2014 - China's troubled lunar rover Yutu is still alive and functional after more than five months on the moon, a lunar program official said Wednesday. Its functionality has been weakened considerably by the bitterly cold lunar nights after the rover experienced a "mechanical control abnormality" in January, said Li Benzheng, deputy commander-in-chief of China's lunar program. The rover ca ... more |  |
 New Mars Lander to Probe Interior of Red Planet Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2014 - The U.S. space agency, NASA, recently gave the green light for the construction of a new Mars lander that will examine the deep interior of the Red Planet. The new Mars mission is called the Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigation Geodesy and Heat Transport, which is why everyone knows it by its acronym: InSight. The mission's spacecraft is scheduled to launch from California's Va ... more |  |
 Probing satellites' mysterious death tumbling Paris (ESA) May 29, 2014 - Down on the ground, death equals stillness - but not in space. Derelict satellites can tumble in unpredictable ways and ESA's team tasked with developing a space salvage mission want to find out why. In recent years, satellites beginning uncontrolled reentries have been tracked, such as Russia's Phobos-Grunt and Germany's Rosat. In a few cases, satellites suffering unexpected failures in o ... more |  |
 NASA Awards Simulation and Software Technology Contract for Engineering Houston TX (SPX) May 29, 2014 - NASA has selected L-3 National Security Solutions (NSS) Inc. of Reston, Virginia, to provide simulation and software technology support to the Engineering Software, Robotics and Simulation Division (SRSD) at the agency's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Under the Simulation and Software Technology (SST) II contract, L-3 NSS will receive a cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite ... more |  |
Cranial knowledge Washington DC (UPI) May 28, 2014 - The human brain is still several years ahead of the supercomputer that now does quadrillions of operations per second (1 quadrillion has 15 zeros). But the gap is closing fast. In fact, Ray Kurzweil, who wrote "The Singularity is Near" eight years ago, predicted parity would be reached 25 to 30 years hence. Skeptical at first, neuroscientist Jim Olds, who directs the Krasnow Institute a ... more |  |
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China's Jade Rabbit moon rover 'alive but struggling' Beijing (AFP) May 28, 2014 - China's troubled Jade Rabbit moon rover is still alive after more than five months on the moon but is heading for an icy death, state media reported on Wednesday. The rover launched in December can still send data back to Earth, Xinhua news agency cited Li Benzheng, deputy commander-in-chief of China's lunar programme, as saying. But it is unable to move after its wheels broke down, the ... more |  |
Russian-Western crew blasts off for ISS onboard Soyuz rocket Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) May 28, 2014 - A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a Russian-Western crew blasted off Wednesday from Kazakhstan for the International Space Station, as space cooperation between Moscow and the West presses on despite their worst standoff since the Cold War. The rocket took off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan in the night with Russian cosmonaut Maxime Surayev, and his American colleague Reid Wiseman and German Alex ... more |  |
 CNN retracts false report claiming catastrophic asteroid impact Washington (UPI) May 28, 2013 - Internet users were momentarily alarmed yesterday when they learned a 10-mile-wide asteroid was on a direct collision course with Earth. The news came via CNN's iReport, a site featuring user-generated content that is supposed to be moderated and fact-checked by CNN editors. The story claimed astronomers at NASA slated the asteroid's arrival date for March 35, 2041 - but failed to expl ... more |  |
Permanently manned ISS could end in 2020 Moscow (Voice of Russia) May 28, 2014 - Man in orbit might become history after 2020, as Russia sees no need to keep the ISS operating, announced Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Manned flights make little profit for Russia's space agency, which might focus on other projects. Russia's Roskosmos space corporation gets little commercial payback from the International Space Station despite spending up to 30 percent of its annual ... more |  |
Where Have All The Craters Gone? Boulder CO (SPX) May 28, 2014 - Impact craters reveal one of the most spectacular geologic process known to man. During the past 3.5 billion years, it is estimated that more than 80 bodies, larger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, have bombarded Earth. However, tectonic processes, weathering, and burial quickly obscure or destroy craters. For example, if Earth were ... more |  |
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