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Messenger Approaches Three Billion Miles Enters Fourth Solar Conjunction
Laurel MD (SPX) Dec 27, 2008On December 26, the Messenger spacecraft will have traveled three billion miles since its launch, marking somewhat more than 60 percent of the probe's journey toward its destination to be inserted into orbit about Mercury. ... read more *New* Comments: 0 Russia Launches Rocket With Three New Glonass Satellites 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2008Russia launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on Thursday with three Glonass navigation satellites on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a space agency spokesman said. ... read more *New* Comments: 0 Solar Mission Launch Starts Busy Year For Russian Space Agency 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2008Russia will start off its new space year in January by launching an orbital laboratory to study the sun's activity, a spokesman for Russia's space agency told RIA Novosti on Thursday. ... read more *New* Comments: 0 China Launches Third Fengyun-2 Series Weather Satellite 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 23, 2008China has successfully orbited its third meteorological satellite, the Fengyun-2-06, the country's central television CCTV reported on Tuesday. ... read more *New* Comments: 0 Time To Raise The Warning Flag On US Space Program 
Houston TX (SPX) Dec 29, 2008The Coalition for Space Exploration, the leading collaboration of space industry businesses and advocacy groups, announced today the release of a statement by James Lovell, who served as part of the crew of Apollo 8 - the first human voyage to a celestial body in December 1968. Apollo 8's successful mission to orbit the Moon paved the way for Apollo 11 to realize U.S. President John F. Kennedy's goal of landing a man on the Moon before the close of the 1960s. ... read more *New* Comments: 0 |
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