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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities underway around the world. A top Russian official says the nation plans a lunar base to focus its future exploration and...
Three hundred commemorative flags belonging to the International Astronautical Federation and the only objects to have flown in space by all nations with active human space programs will be returned to the organization by a Chinese delegation at the ILA Berlin Air Show in Germany.
The flags, flown sequentially aboard U. S., Russian and Chinese spacecraft to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the IAF, a global Paris-based space advocacy organization that counts 226 members in 59 countries, will be returned in ceremonies Friday, Sept. 14.
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Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. Jupiter flashes bright on Monday. Looking for the building blocks of Martian life with NASA’s ...

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The unique environment of the International Space Station (ISS) could serve as a research lab for pharmaceutical breakthroughs.
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) – manager of the International Space Station’s U.S. National Laboratory – today announced that it is collaborating with global healthcare company Merck to conduct cutting-edge therapeutic research on board the ISS in 2013...

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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world, plus a roundup from the weekend. NASA schedules a very public cross country trip for the retired...

Shuttle Endeavour heads to the launch pad in 2011 for a final mission. Photo Credit/NASA
Retired shuttle orbiter Endeavour will make a three-day grand tour of NASA spaceflight facilities this month as it makes its way from theKennedy Space Center in Florida to Los Angeles, Calif., where it will be placed on public display at the California Science Center.
The plans, however, are...

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Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. Apollo 11 commander Neil Armstrong, who died last month, will be buried at sea. The Obama campaign...

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Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. More from the presidential candidates on their space exploration ambitions. Spacewalking astronauts...

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams begins record setting spacewalk. Image Credit/NASA TV
U. S.and Japanese astronauts overcame problems with a jammed bolt on Wednesday as they succeeded in the installation of a crucial electrical switching unit outside the International Space Station with a spacewalk.
During the 6 1/2...
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An destination asteroid in search of a name. Image Credit/NASA
It’s a planetary body known as a near-Earth asteroid.
NASA is preparing to launch the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission to this solar system body in 2016, and as if OSIRIS-REx isn’t a mouthful, then (101955) 1999 RQ36 as a destination...



























