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  Space Station Astronaut Commands NASA Rover in California

  Posted by Mark Carreau 9:13 AM on Jun 18, 2013

  International Space Station astronaut Chris Cassidy broke new ground this week by controlling a robotic rover at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. The first of three mon... Read More >>

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  ESA's Orion Service Module On A Diet

  Posted by Amy Svitak 1:10 AM on Jun 18, 2013

  The European Space Agency (ESA) and its industrial partners need to reduce the weight of a service module they are developing to fly on NASA's Orion multipurpose crew exploration v... Read More >>

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  SpaceX: Engine Anomaly Overview

  Posted by Amy Svitak 9:41 AM on Jun 16, 2013

  Posting this as background to our June 17 story in AW&ST: In a Feb. 14 briefing to congressional oversight committees, SpaceX explained what went wrong with the Oct. 8, 2012 ... Read More >>

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  SpaceShipTwo Next Supersonic Flight

  Posted by Guy Norris 9:34 AM on Jun 13, 2013

  New pilots for Virgin Galactic’s Spaceline have completed a series of check rides from Mojave, Calif, as preparations continue towards the next supersonic envelope expan... Read More >>

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  CNES, ESA Weighing Near-term Performance Boost For Ariane 5

  Posted by Amy Svitak 5:25 PM on Jun 04, 2013

  French space agency CNES and the European Space Agency (ESA) are evaluating near-term options for boosting the payload capacity of the Ariane 5 ECA through hardware improvements th... Read More >>

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  U.S., Russian and European Crew Completes Express Soyuz Flight to the International Space Station

  Posted by Mark Carreau 7:20 PM on May 28, 2013

  A  Soyuz crew transport capsule delivered three U.S., Russian and European astronauts to the International Space Station late Tuesday, as it completed a second successful "exp... Read More >>

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  U.S., Canadian, Russian Space Station Crew Lands Safely in Kazakhstan

  Posted by Mark Carreau 8:05 PM on May 13, 2013

  Canada's first command of the International Space Station drew to a close late Monday, as skipper Chris Hadfield, U.S. astronaut Tom Marshburn and cosmonaut Roman Romanenko boarded... Read More >>

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  Community Matters - Some Guidelines

  Posted by Rupa Haria 5:24 AM on May 13, 2013

  Aviation Week is committed to publishing content that matters to aerospace professionals and those with an interest in the industry.  Our community platform is free to us... Read More >>

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  Spacewalk Repairs Show Favorable Signs of Solving Space Station Thermal Control System Leak

  Posted by Mark Carreau 8:15 AM on May 11, 2013

  U.S. spacewalkers Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn searched hard Saturday but failed to find the “smoking gun" source of an ammonia coolant leak on the International Space Sta... Read More >>

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  ISS Mission Managers Approve Saturday Spacewalk Repairs

  Posted by Mark Carreau 9:27 PM on May 10, 2013

  The International Space Station's Mission Management Team approved a contingency space walk late Friday, an excursion that will send NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn... Read More >>

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