PRESS RELEASE

Nearly 25 years after the first Canadian astronaut flew into space and only weeks before two Canadian space veterans launch to the International Space Station, the Honourable Industry Minister Tony Clement and Canadian Space Agency (CSA) President Steve MacLean revealed the names of Canada’s newest astronauts.

Jeremy Hansen and David St-Jacques are the first Canadians to join the astronaut corps since 1992. They become the 11th and 12th Canadians to join the Canadian Astronaut Corps. Hansen is a Canadian Forces fighter pilot, St. Jacques is a medical doctor.

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ASTROTECH PRESS RELEASE

Astrotech Corporation (NASDAQ:ASTC), a leading provider of commercial space services, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended March 31, 2009 of its fiscal year 2009.

Third Quarter Results

The Company posted a third quarter fiscal year 2009 net income of $3.6 million, or $0.21 per diluted share on revenue of $11.8 million compared with a third quarter fiscal year 2008 net loss of $0.8 million, or $0.06 per diluted share, on revenue of $6.6 million.

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NASA MISSION UPDATE The Hubble Space Telescope has been captured by space shuttle Atlantis’ robotic arm. Using views from a camera centered in a structure where the telescope will be berthed, McArthur will lower Hubble into a special cradle, called the Flight Support System, or FSS, in Atlantis’ payload bay. The telescope will be latched to the high-tech, lazy Susan-type device for the duration of the servicing work. An umbilical […]

Italy Aims to Send Spider-Bot Swarm to Moon
Space.com

What began as a glimmer in the mind’s eye for one robotics researcher has grown into a national endeavor for Team Italia, one of 17 groups competing for the Google Lunar X Prize.

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ISU PRESS RELEASE

The International Space University (ISU) will hold its Space Studies Program (SSP) in Strasbourg and Stuttgart, France and Germany, from June 26 to August 27 2010.

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Space Florida prepares to select interim president
Orlando Sentinel

Space Florida will convene a special board of directors meeting at the Capitol in Tallahassee next Monday (May 18) to select an interim president following the resignation last week of former president Steve Kohler.

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FAA Wants Public Feedback On Proposed Spaceport At Cecil Field
News4Jax.com

The Federal Aviation Administration will hold a public meeting Thursday to generate feedback on the Draft Environmental Assessment for the Jacksonville Aviation Authority Launch Site Operator License at Cecil Field.

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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft in orbit

Russia to charge NASA $51 mln for seats on Soyuz spacecraft
RIA Novosti

Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA have agreed on a new price for ferrying U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2012, a Russian space official said on Wednesday.

NASA will now pay $51 million for a single seat on Soyuz spacecraft.

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Since it’s a bit slow on the old space tourism front and Atlantis’ rendezvous with Hubble won’t occur until after 4 a.m. PDT (when I will be sound asleep), I thought I might try a change of pace. This is video of me skiing a double diamond slope in the Italian Alps some years back. The audio track is somewhat garbled. My response to my friend Dominique Landry’s reassurances: “Yeah, […]

Computer generated image showing the debris cloud around Earth.

SECURE WORLD FOUNDATION PRESS RELEASE

Now is the time to reduce the threat to both human spaceflight and satellites from destructive space debris.

That viewpoint emerged from a major gathering of space experts at the International Interdisciplinary Congress on Space Debris, held May 7-9 at the Faculty of Law, McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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NASA video of the space shuttle Atlantis’ external tank falling back toward the atmosphere.

MSS PRESS RELEASE

Masten Space Systems completed their first vertical take-off, vertical-landing (VTVL) rocket flight demonstration Friday. The demonstration proved out the design and controls of the 730lb rocket-powered vehicle, known as XA-0.1B-750 or “Xombie”, its internal nickname.

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