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Hello: 1. When you make an international phone call - say from NY to China - how does the voice data travel ? Does it have to be send to the satellite and then...

Space station chief wary of haven plan Fri Feb 4, 2005 5:16 AM GMT By Irene Klotz MELBOURNE, Florida (Reuters) - The International Space Station is not ready...

From ISS On-Orbit Status, October 17: "Yuri Shargin used the Nikon D1 camera with f800 lens on his first session of observation and imaging of selected targets...

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Gretchen Cook-Anderson Headquarters, Washington August 18, 2003 (Phone: 202/358-0836) RELEASE: 03-266 NASA'S EARTH CREW TALKS WITH...

It seems to have gone very quiet recently on the Chinese space program, anything happening? Brian -- From the Sofa of Brian Gaff Reply address is active

Now they can resupply in 6 hours, one assumes only if the orbit and pad are in the correct relationships, it seems that its not that difficult after all....

John Maxson wrote: What's the projected world population by the time we expect to have completely replaced the space shuttle for ISS trips? Does a...

The Technological Stagnation of Human Culture The below article is the synthesis of two articles on which I have been writing simultaneously. I put them...

Barney Rubble? And what a daft name for a spacecraft...grin Sept. 4, 2012 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726

I'll be doing two TV appearances late this afternoon for my prime client, NBC News. The subject is the Cassini probe arrival at Saturn (almost seven years en...

Several comments yesterday afternoon by astronauts seems to suggest to me that they want to go back to the moon, not an asteroid. I guess the topic came up...

Useless piece of information gained this week. At our local University, one of the faculties is being run by Britain's first Astronaut.Dr. Helen Sharmon...

Well I see they are going to take the plunge. The question is who would want to go for that long? I suppose a year is more realistic than the current...

Did Space X leave the fuel cap off again..:-) Brian -- ----- - This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian...

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/19/us/nasa-international-space-station/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 Sounds like a software glitch and not a major issue. Yet. Also, I...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/science/2003-11-27-space-station_x.htm Space station struck by floating debris, but no damage reported MOSCOW (AP) - The...

As seems pretty normal, the craft bringing them back ended up on its side and apparently four burly lads had to manhandle it to get at the hatch and get the...

Been done for years (after the fall of the cccp). They had them on Mir also. "Stanislaw Sidor" wrote in...