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[ Watch the Video: Expedition 35 Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Expedition 35 crew members landed safely in southern Kazakhstan Monday evening after spending 146 days in space. Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield and Flight Engineers Tom Marshburn and Roman Romanenko safely landed in Russia at 10:31 pm EDT after a job well done aboard the International Space Station (ISS). They undocked from the space station at 7:08 pm...
LISTEN TO AUDIO: [Commander Hadfield Reports Leak] | [Doug Wheelock Updates Status Of Leak] | [Crew Discusses Possible Spacewalk] Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Update (May 10 @ 10:45 a.m.) NASA said in an updated statement this morning that Expedition 35 crew will begin preparing for a potential spacewalk on Saturday to troubleshoot and possibly fix the ammonia leak discovered yesterday. A final decision on an external mission of the Space Station is not...
MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass., May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- James Stavridis, the Navy admiral who is NATO's top military commander and oversees all American forces under the U.S. European Command, has been selected for appointment as the dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University, the nation's oldest graduate-only school of international affairs. Stavridis earned an M.A. in law and diplomacy and a Ph.D. in international affairs from the school and will assume the...
First Time that Two Women Astronauts are Enshrined CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., April 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - Space Shuttle astronauts Curt Brown, Eileen Collins and Bonnie Dunbar, Ph.D., today joined an elite group of American space heroes with their induction into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame(®) during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130420/NY98460 ) (Logo:...
WATCH VIDEO: [Wringing Out Water On The ISS -- For Science] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) performed a science experiment to look into the effects of weightlessness on washcloths being wrung out. Commander Chris Hadfield performed the experiment live on the orbiting laboratory. The experiment was designed by two 10th grade students from Lockview High School in Fall River, Nova Scotia. The Canadian Space...
VENTURA, Calif., March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InciNotes(TM) version 1.0, the breakthrough ICS 201 Incident Documentation System for Apple's iPad, has been released to the App Store, and is available for purchase. InciNotes Co-founders Will Spyrison and Chris Warner are proud to help bring the 21st century to Emergency Responders. About InciNotes(TM) InciNotes(TM) is the first ICS 201 Incident Documentation System designed specifically for the iPad. Based off a proven ICS...
EMERYVILLE, Calif., Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Wargaming, the leading free-to-play MMO developer and publisher, today announced its agreement to acquire Seattle-based developer Gas Powered Games©, the maker of memorable and critically acclaimed franchises such as Dungeon Siege, Supreme Commander and Demigod. Wargaming will take full ownership of Gas Powered Games, bringing into its fold a contingent of veteran developers, including CEO and company founder Chris...
CHATSWORTH, Calif., Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ATIMS is celebrating the successful installation and 'Go Live' implementation of their State-of-the-Art web-based Jail Management Software. Santa Ana Police Department (SAPD) Commander Ken Gominsky is "exceedingly pleased with the newly installed ATIMS system." The City of Santa Ana is the County Seat and largest, oldest and most densely populated City in Orange County. Experiencing an explosive population growth, the City grew from...
Island Abbey Foods Ltd.™ will be breaking the boundaries of space as its flagship product, the Honibe® Honey Drop®, gains altitude on its way to the International Space Station to become a nutritional snack for Commander Chris Hadfield's Expedition 35 Crew. (PRWEB) December 20, 2012 Island Abbey Foods Ltd.™ will be breaking the boundaries of space as its flagship product, the Honibe® Honey Drop®, gains altitude on its way to the International Space Station to...
LONDON, December 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As Swedish Armed Forces prepare to redeploy again to Afghanistan in April 2013, the commander of the Helicopter Wing is set to meet with military peers at Defence IQ's International Military Helicopter [http://bit.ly/TP9hpe ] event in January to discuss the acquisition of UH-60M Black Hawks that has made the mission possible. Following the delivery of 15 of the aircraft last year, Colonel Magnus Westerlund praised the Black Hawk...
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Discovery launched from Kennedy Space Center on February 3, 1995 at 12:22 AM EST and landed at Kennedy on February 11 at 6:50 AM EST. The shuttle orbited 129 times at an altitude of 213 nautical miles at an inclination of 51.6 degrees and travelled 3 million miles. The mission lasted 8 days, 6 hours, 28 minutes, and 15 seconds. The first shuttle flight of 1995 included several historical achievements: The second flight of Russian cosmonaut on shuttle, the first approach and fly-around by...
Timothy Creamer is a NASA astronaut as well as a Colonel in the United States Army. He was born Timothy "TJ" Creamer on November 15, 1959 in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, but he was raised in Maryland. He graduated from Bishop McNamara High School in Forestville, Maryland in 1978, and then went on to earn his Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from Loyola College in 1982. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army through the ROTC program. In August 1983, after attending the...
Valery Bykovsky was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. He was born Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky on August 2, 1934 in Pavlovsky Posad in Moscow. In 1951, he graduated from middle school and entered Kachinsk's Myasnikov High Aviation School. After graduation in 1955, he served with the Soviet Air Force. In 1960, Bykovsky was accepted into the Soviet cosmonaut unit and then underwent the full space preparation course and...
The Whiskered Auklet (Aethia pygmaea) is a small seabird of the auk family. It has a more restricted range than other members of its genus, Aethia, living only around the Aleutian Islands and on some islands off Siberia (like Commander Islands). It also breeds on these islands. It is one of the smallest auks, only the closely related Least Auklet being smaller. Its name is derived from the long white feathers on its face that are distinguishing feature of its breeding plumage. The...
