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October 2006 International Space Station Top Stories
»» Weightless Over Cleveland - Part 1: Floating Teachers
[Sunday, October 1, 2006] "A few weeks ago I had an experience - one that I will remember for a lifetime. Along with several dozen teachers, I flew aboard a jet aircraft as it went through a flight profile designed to produce authentic weightlessness."
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»» Weightless Over Cleveland - Part 2: Learning to Fly
[Sunday, October 1, 2006] "I have always found using my personal perspective as a backdrop to be the most effective way to describe things. For this experience I simply cannot fathom how I could describe it and not include my own impressions, emotions, and aspirations."
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»» Space Station Crew Upgrades Software, Continues Experiments
[Wednesday, October 4, 2006] The Expedition 14 crew continues to perform routine station maintenance and cleaning as well as conducting standard procedures done as new Expeditions begin.
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»» Smoking Out Space Fires: NASA Study Helps Prevent Fires in Space
[Wednesday, October 4, 2006] If you've ever burned your dinner, you know how startling a smoke alarm can be. Now, imagine you're 220 miles away from Earth in an orbiting lab when the alarm sounds.
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»» NASA Space Station Commander, Crew to Take a Short Trip
[Wednesday, October 4, 2006] The International Space Station's residents will take a brief ride around their home on Tuesday, Oct. 10, and NASA TV will provide live coverage of the short journey.
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»» NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 4 October 2006
[Thursday, October 5, 2006] Elektron Update: Mikhail Tyurin performed the scheduled troubleshooting on the failed Elektron oxygen generator. Results are TBD, but it already appears that a fuse affecting communication with Elektron is blown on a panel.
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»» U.S. National Space Policy
[Friday, October 6, 2006] The President authorized a new national space policy on August 31, 2006 that establishes overarching national policy that governs the conduct of U.S. space activities.
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»» NASA Space Shuttle Processing Status Report 6 October 2006
[Friday, October 6, 2006] During Thursday's Program Requirements Control Board meeting, Space Shuttle Program managers discussed the self-imposed restriction to daylight launches of the first two missions following the Columbia accident.
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»» Space Station Status Report 6 September 2006
[Friday, October 6, 2006] Expedition 14 completed its first full week solo on the International Space Station performing standard early mission checks, drills and some equipment troubleshooting.
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»» Workshop Report: Building and Maintaining the Constituency for Long-Term Space Exploration
[Monday, October 9, 2006] This report documents the results of an invitation-only experts' Workshop organized and hosted by the Center for Aerospace Policy Research in the School of Public Policy of George Mason University (GMU) in Fairfax, VA, July 31-August 3, 2006.
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»» Communicating Visions
[Monday, October 9, 2006] "How can NASA communicate with the public more effectively - not necessarily just regarding the Vision, but overall? There may be an as-yet untried way for NASA to help get the picture across."
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»» CBO Report: Alternatives for Future U.S. Space-Launch Capabilities
[Tuesday, October 10, 2006] In considering manned lunar missions, CBO explored alternatives that would use existing launch vehicles; those that would require minor modifications to the designs of existing launchers); as well as new and much more capable launchers.
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»» NASA Revives Original Mission Control for Growing Space Station
[Wednesday, October 11, 2006] International Space Station flight controllers have a new home with increased technical capabilities, more workspace and a long, distinguished history.
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»» NASA Advisory Council Meeting Notes
[Thursday, October 12, 2006] The NASA Advisory Council met on Thursday, 12 October. During the morning session, reports on space operations, space science and exploration were presented. I had to leave before the aeronautics and workforce presentations were made.
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»» NASA Student Competition to Name International Space Station Node 2
[Thursday, October 12, 2006] The student competition to name the Node 2 module of the International Space Station has begun. NASA Education, which is responsible for the competition, is running the contest via an existing program called NASA Exploring Space Challenges (ESC).
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»» NASA Space Shuttle Processing Status Report 13 October 2006
[Friday, October 13, 2006] In the VAB, the ET scheduled to fly with Discovery was mated to the SRBs early this morning during third shift. Technicians will complete closeouts in preparation for orbiter Discovery to be mated to the tank, designated ET-123, on Nov. 1.
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»» NASA Space Station Status Report 13 October 2006
[Friday, October 13, 2006] The International Space Station's Expedition 14 crew went for a short ride this week, performed maintenance and experiments aboard the growing outpost and celebrated one crew member's 100th day in space.
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»» NASA Sets Briefings to Preview Next Space Shuttle Mission
[Monday, October 16, 2006] NASA will preview the next space shuttle mission during a series of media briefings Nov. 6. The briefings will be broadcast live on NASA TV and include overviews of the ISS and shuttle programs, the mission, spacewalks and a crew news conference.
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»» NASA Announces New International Space Station Crew
[Thursday, October 19, 2006] Astronauts Clayton C. Anderson and Daniel M. Tani will travel to the station next year and work as flight engineers. Cosmonauts Fyodor N. Yurchikhin and Dr. Oleg V. Kotov will spend six months aboard the orbiting laboratory.
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»» NASA Space Shuttle Processing Status Report 20 October 2006
[Friday, October 20, 2006] Technicians continue performing final closeouts on Discovery in preparation for rollover to the Vehicle Assembly Building, currently scheduled for Nov. 1.
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»» NASA TV Airs Arrival of Next Space Station Cargo Ship
[Friday, October 20, 2006] After launching on Monday, Oct. 23, the ISS Progress 23 spacecraft will dock to the station at 10:28 a.m. EDT Oct. 26. NASA TV will not cover the launch of the cargo ship, but live coverage of the docking begins at 10 a.m. EDT.
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»» New biochip helps study living cells, may speed drug development
[Friday, October 20, 2006] "We conducted research with the chip while we were flying in parabolas, going from two times Earth's gravity to zero gravity again and again. There is absolutely no way this experiment could have been done without this chip."
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»» NASA Space Station Status Report 20 October 2006
[Friday, October 20, 2006] The three residents of the International Space Station spent a busy week with varied science and technical tasks as they began their second month in orbit.
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»» Space Station Status Report 23 October 2006
[Monday, October 23, 2006] A shipment of supplies began its journey to the International Space Station today as the ISS Progress 23 cargo ship was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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»» Comments by NAS Space Studies Board Chair Lennard Fisk
[Tuesday, October 24, 2006] There is consternation these days between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its external science community. In August, three senior science advisors were dismissed from the NASA Advisory Council (NAC).
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»» How Safe is Travel to Mars?
[Tuesday, October 24, 2006] A new study should force renewed attention on one of the most intractable dangers of space travel: radiation. The review identified major radiation hazards that must be solved before the safe completion of a human Mars mission.
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»» FAA Needs Continued Planning and Monitoring to Oversee the Safety of the Emerging Space Tourism Industry
[Wednesday, October 25, 2006] "FAA believes it has minimized compliance costs by basing its regulations on common safety standards and has allowed for flexibility by taking a case-by- case approach to licensing and by providing waivers in certain circumstances."
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»» Space Radiation Threats To Astronauts Addressed in Federal Research Study
[Thursday, October 26, 2006] A better understanding of solar storms and how best to protect astronauts from space radiation is needed as NASA pushes toward manned missions to the moon and Mars in the coming decades, according to a new National Research Council report.
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»» NASA Space Station Status Report 26 October 2006
[Thursday, October 26, 2006] New supplies arrived at the International Space Station Thursday as an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft docked to the aft port of the Zvezda Service Module.
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»» Space Shuttle Discovery Set for Move to Vehicle Assembly Building
[Thursday, October 26, 2006] On Wednesday, Nov. 1, Discovery is scheduled to move from the Orbiter Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to the Vehicle Assembly Building, where it will be attached to its external fuel tank and twin solid rocket boosters.
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»» NASA ISS Post Increment Evaluation Report Increment 10
[Sunday, October 29, 2006] "SSP 54310, Post Increment Evaluation Report (PIER) for Increment 10 documents the as flown execution as opposed to the pre-increment plan. This report includes a summary of actual launch dates with major milestones that occurred."
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»» Findings of the NASA Mars Forward Lunar Objectives Science Analysis Group (Draft)
[Sunday, October 29, 2006] "The Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) has completed a preliminary analysis of the June, 2006 draft list of possible lunar objectives from the perspective of its relevance to preparation for human missions to Mars."
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»» Astrolab Industry Day to showcase European research technology on ISS
[Tuesday, October 31, 2006] ESA will be hosting the ‘ISS Research Technology from Europe’ Industry Day on 7 November 2006. The event is open to representatives from industry involved in the development and installation of European ISS research technology, and for interested media.
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»» Oxygen Problems Concern Space Station Managers
[Tuesday, October 31, 2006] The Expedition 14 crew has been unable to get the Russian Elektron Oxygen generation unit to operate normally. As can be seen below this has been an ongoing problem with serious issues arising more than a month ago.
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»» NASA International Space Station De-crewing and Re-crewing Plan SSP 50715
[Tuesday, October 31, 2006] The purpose of this document is to define the program process requirements, milestones and general station configuration requirements should it become necessary to de-crew the ISS and later re-crew and return to normal operations.
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