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WASHINGTON, Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a clever reuse of hardware originally built to test parts of NASA's QuikScat satellite, the agency will launch the ISS-RapidScat instrument to the International Space Station in 2014 to measure ocean-surface wind speed and direction. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The ISS-RapidScat instrument will help improve weather forecasts, including hurricane monitoring, and understanding of how...
HOUSTON, Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students from two schools, one in Iowa and the other in New York, are the winners of the International Space Station (ISS) Science Challenge, NASA announced Friday. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Challenge winners from North Tama Elementary in Traer, Iowa, and Madison Elementary in Massena, N.Y., are being inspired to learn more about the space station's cutting-edge research by designing programs to...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online In order to collect scientific data needed to allow astronauts to depart for new destinations in the Solar System, two crew members will be spending an entire year living on the International Space Station (ISS). The project, which was officially announced by NASA officials on Friday, is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2015. As part of the mission, one American astronaut and one Russian cosmonaut will live on board the ISS...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and its international partners have announced an agreement to send two crew members to the International Space Station on a one-year mission designed to collect valuable scientific data needed to send humans to new destinations in the solar system. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The crew members, one American astronaut and one Russian cosmonaut, will launch and land in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft...
Washington insiders say that the White House plans to launch a new international space arms-control initiative that critics in the Pentagon and State Department have alleged will hamper America’s military activities in space. According to the Washington Times, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to make an official announcement about the initiative this week, perhaps as early as today. The initiative will be modeled after parts of a European Union draft code for space...
ST. LOUIS, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Even before NASA retired its space shuttle program, government and privately funded efforts have already begun to develop a new deep space exploration program. But who owns space? Private companies are already making plans to profit from it through tourism, mining and development. And who will craft the laws to fairly govern it? Edythe Weeks is an adjunct professor of international space law at Webster University in St. Louis and...
The European Space Agency is planning a meeting during which the International Space Station's future activities will be decided. The ESA says it will host a July 17 meeting, during which leaders of the space agencies participating in the International Space Station program -- the ESA for Europe, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the United States and the Canadian, Japanese and Russian space agencies will decide on future activities. At the meeting, the ISS Partners will...
A student at the University of Mississippi will leap into the final frontier of the legal system Saturday when he receives the first-ever space law certificate in the United States. Michael Dodge of Long Beach, Miss., earned the special distinction along with his law degree through the National Center for Remote Sensing, Air and Space Law at the university's law school. "The professors and personnel here are the highest quality that can be found anywhere in the world, and I...
Whose law will apply when Europe's Columbus space laboratory joins the US-led International Space Station in December? And what happens if astronauts from different countries get into a fight? Those were two of the questions posed at a meeting in Vienna last month to examine the contributions made by the humanities to the exploration of space.Columbus is due to be launched into orbit aboard the US space shuttle Atlantis on December 6. It will become part of the International Space Station...
