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		<title>Lunatrex - Blogging with content vs. keeping secrets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Hi All, 
	What are the thoughts out there in the &#8220;blogosphere&#8221; about the concept of keeping secrets that are essential to mission success, vs. sharing things you&#8217;re doing through the blogs? 
	At what point have y&#8217;all found that sometimes it&#8217;s best to keep things under your hat until the right time to release it? 
	Have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6111</link>
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		<title>Frednet - 1st Moon Landing 39th Anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	July 20 1969, a man from Earth stepped onto the surface of the Moon. 
	- - -
The first manned spacecraft landing on the Moon was at 3:17 p.m. EST on July 20, 1969, when the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, the Eagle, landed in Mare Tranquillitatis, located at 0°4&#8242;5&#8243;N latitude, 23°42&#8242;28&#8243;E longitude. The Eagle landed approximately [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6110</link>
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		<title>Dr. Paul Spudis Announced as Chief Scientist of Odyssey Moon Limited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Mountain View, CA – Dr. Paul D. Spudis has been named Chief Scientist of Odyssey Moon Limited, the first official contender for the $30M Google Lunar X PRIZE. Dr. Spudis is a prominent scientist in the international lunar community and served as deputy science team leader for the highly successful Clementine lunar mission and is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6109</link>
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		<title>Unreasonable Rocket - A Simple little thing..</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	We are running the main tank pressure on the vehicle at very close to the absolute minimum spcified by the FAA experimental vehicle strucural guidlines. Our design pressure has a safety factor of two, but our test pressure has a SF of 1.25. 
	What does this mean? It means that no human should be within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6108</link>
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		<title>Flame Trench Repairs and Shuttle Preps Move Ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	July 23, 2008
In NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Orbiter Processing Facility carrier panel installations were completed on space shuttle Atlantis Tuesday. Closure of the vehicle&#8217;s payload bay door is targeted for Saturday. 
	Highly sensitive cleaning on NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope equipment continues through this week. 
	Repair of Launch Pad 39A&#8217;s flame trench is moving forward, delayed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6107</link>
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		<title>Awaiting Orders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Awaiting orders to proceed to the launch site for Project Mercury&#8217;s second attempt to launch a man into space, astronaut Virgil I. &#8220;Gus&#8221; Grissom relaxes in the Personal Equipment Room Hangar &#8220;S,&#8221; Cape Canaveral, Fla. A parabolic Plexiglas mirror on his chest reflects the faces of two fellow Mercury pilots: Walter M. Schirra (left) and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6106</link>
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		<title>Biggest Annual U.S. Air Show to Salute NASA&#8217;s 50th Anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	WASHINGTON &#8212; NASA&#8217;s 50th anniversary celebration continues this summer with special recognition at EAA AirVenture 2008, the United States&#8217; biggest annual air show, held in Oshkosh, Wis., July 28 - Aug. 3. 
	One of the Experimental Aircraft Association activities commemorating five decades of NASA&#8217;s aerospace achievements will be an appearance by NASA Administrator Michael Griffin. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6105</link>
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		<title>Plight of the Puffins</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	What do puffins &#8212; colorful-billed birds looking like miniature penguins &#8212; have to do with the work we do at NASA? 
	That would be a good question to ask Maria Frostic, an earth science film producer at Goddard. Better yet, catch her documentary, “Plight of the Puffins,” on PBS next week to get the scoop. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6104</link>
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		<title>Soyuz-ST to be launched from French Guiana in 1st half of 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	MOSCOW, July 23 (RIA Novosti) - The first Soyuz-ST carrier rocket will be launched from French Guiana in the first half of 2009, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday, citing the French satellite launch firm Arianespace CEO. 
	A Russian launch pad is currently being built at the Kourou space center in French Guiana [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6103</link>
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		<title>Lockheed Martin Team Demonstrates High Power Electric Propulsion System for TSAT Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 23rd, 2008 &#8212; The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]/Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Space Segment team has completed a successful demonstration of its new-generation High Power Hall Current Thruster (HPHCT) electric propulsion system designed for use on the U.S. Air Force&#8217;s TSAT constellation. 
	TSAT will provide thousands of military [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6102</link>
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		<title>Phoenix Completes Longest Work Shift</title>
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This animation combines two images of the trench informally named &#8220;Snow White&#8221; taken by the Surface Stereo Imager. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&#038;M University 
	TUCSON, Ariz., (NASA) &#8212; Phoenix early Tuesday finished its longest work shift of the mission. The lander stayed awake for 33 hours, completing tasks that included rasping and scraping by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6101</link>
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		<title>Station Crew Returns to Full Science Activity</title>
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Image above: Expedition 17 Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff works inside the International Space Station’s Columbus Laboratory. Credit: NASA TV 
	(NASA) - The crew of the orbiting International Space Station returned to a full complement of science experiment activity Tuesday. 
	Expedition 17 Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff continued working with the Main Experiment Computer, or MEC, after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6100</link>
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		<title>General Dynamics Completes Milestone in MUOS Defense Satellite Communications System</title>
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	SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., (General Dynamics) – General Dynamics C4 Systems recently mounted three 18.4-meter satellite antennas on 53-foot-tall pedestals in Wahiawa, Hawaii, as part of the preparations to deploy the new Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), the U.S. military’s next-generation narrowband global mobile satellite communications system. General Dynamics, under contract to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6099</link>
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		<title>European government representatives take a close-up look at the Spaceport Kourou</title>
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Arianespace Chairman &#038; CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall conducts the visit of European government ministers and state secretaries to Ariane 5&#8217;s launch site at the Spaceport.
	(Arianespace) - Government decision-makers from throughout Europe converged on the Spaceport in French Guiana this week for a first-hand appreciation of this facility&#8217;s growing role as a world-leading commercial launch site. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6098</link>
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		<title>AUDIO: NASA&#8217;s advanced propulsion technology leader talks antimatter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	AUDIO: NASA&#8217;s advanced propulsion technology leader talks antimatter 
	By Rob Coppinger on July 22 
	Here in Hartford, Connecticut at the 44th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory&#8217;s advanced propulsion technology group&#8217;s leader Robert Frisbee spoke to Hyperbola on 21 July for a five minute interview about his design for an antimatter powered interstellar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6097</link>
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		<title>STFC Media Release: Polarised sunglasses see black hole disks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	For the first time astronomers have found a way to get a clean view of the elusive disks of matter surrounding supermassive black holes. By using a polarising filter on the Science and Technology Facility Council s UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) in Hawaii, they have been able to see through the clouds of dust which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6096</link>
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		<title>New NASA &#8216;Fire And Smoke&#8217; Web Page Shows Latest Fire Views, Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	PASADENA, Calif. &#8212; NASA satellites, aircraft and research know-how, including resources and expertise from NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., comprise a wealth of cutting-edge tools to help firefighters battle wildfires. These tools also have helped scientists understand the impact of fires and smoke on Earth&#8217;s climate and ecosystems. Now, a new NASA Web site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6095</link>
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		<title>Purple Haze</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	
	(NASA) - How do you weigh the biggest black holes in the universe? One answer now comes from a completely new and independent technique that astronomers have developed using data from NASA&#8217;s Chandra X-ray Observatory. 
	By measuring a peak in the temperature of hot gas in the center of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4649, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6094</link>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s Ames, JPL Win NASA Software of Year Award</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	WASHINGTON, (NASA) &#8212; Computer programs that are used to define safety margins for fiery spacecraft re-entries and help detect planets outside our solar system are co-winners of NASA&#8217;s 2007 Software of the Year Award.
	Software engineers at NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., developed the Data-Parallel Line Relaxation, or DPLR, which is used to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6093</link>
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		<title>Two Holes from Using Rasp in &#8216;Snow White&#8217; (Stereo)</title>
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	(NASA) - This view from the Surface Stereo Imager on NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Mars Lander shows a portion of the trench informally named &#8220;Snow White,&#8221; with two holes near the top of the image that were produced by the first test use of Phoenix&#8217;s rasp to collect a sample of icy soil. 
	The test was conducted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6092</link>
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		<title>Germany’s first satellite-based reconnaissance system now completed - SAR-Lupe 5 successfully launched</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	(OHB System) - Full system operability for the German Federal Armed Forces planned for the autumn 
	Oberpfaffenhofen/Plesetsk
	The fifth German SAR-Lupe reconnaissance satellite was successfully launched this morning from the Russian space center Plesetsk south of Archangelsk. The Russian Cosmos 3M launch vehicle lifted off on schedule at 4:40:09 hours CEST, releasing the radar satellite into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6091</link>
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		<title>Explore space with Disney/Pixar’s WALL-E (and Friends)</title>
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	(ESA) - To mark the European launch of WALL-E, Disney/Pixar&#8217;s exciting smash hit movie, ESA is launching a new website which highlights the multitude of educational resources and fun activities that are available on the Agency&#8217;s Internet pages.
	In the blockbuster movie, a lonely little robot named WALL-E develops a deep curiosity that eventually inspires it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6090</link>
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		<title>Arianespace chosen to launch MSG-4 weather satellite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	(Arianespace) - Lars Prahm, Director-General of EUMETSAT, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman &#038; CEO of Arianespace, signed today the launch Service &#038; Solutions contract for the MSG-4 meteorological observation satellite in Kourou, French Guiana, during an informal meeting of European space ministers. 
	The MSG-4 satellite is scheduled for launch in the first half of 2013 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6089</link>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night</title>
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The double doors on the right are wide open in this image of four pairs of oven doors on Phoenix&#8217;s Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Texas A&#038;M University
	TUCSON, Ariz., (NASA) &#8212; To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6088</link>
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		<title>NASA Sets Media Credentials Deadlines for Next Shuttle Flight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	WASHINGTON, (NASA) &#8212; NASA has set media accreditation deadlines for space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; STS-125 mission to return to the Hubble Space Telescope, targeted to launch Oct. 8. The 11-day flight will include five spacewalks to make final repairs and upgrades to the telescope, leaving it better than ever and ready for another five years &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6087</link>
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		<title>NASA Ames Awards Contract for Financial Services Support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., (NASA) &#8212; NASA&#8217;s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., will award a Small 8 (a) Business performance-based task order under a General Services Administration Financial and Business Solutions schedule valued at $29 million to Al-Razaq Computing Services of Houston, to provide financial services support to the center. 
	Under the terms of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6086</link>
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		<title>Pinwheel Looks &#8216;Fab&#8217; in Infrared</title>
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	(NASA) - The tangled arms of the Pinwheel galaxy, otherwise known as Messier 101, are decked out in red in this new infrared image from NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Space Telescope. 
	The Pinwheel galaxy is located 27 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is what&#8217;s called a flocculent spiral, which means that its spiral [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6085</link>
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		<title>Station Crew Begins New Week of Science, Maintenance</title>
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Image above: Expedition 17 Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff works inside the International Space Station’s Kibo Laboratory. Credit: NASA TV 
	(NASA) - The Expedition 17 crew members began another busy week of science and maintenance aboard the orbiting International Space Station Monday. 
	Flight Engineer Greg Chamitoff performed troubleshooting procedures on a problem that occurred over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6084</link>
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		<title>Hubble Equipment Being Processed</title>
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Image above: Technicians uncover Hubble&#8217;s Super Lightweight Interchangeable Carrier and the Orbital Replacement Unit Carrier prior to processing. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller 
	(NASA) - Work on space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; thermal protection system continued over the weekend in NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Orbiter Processing Facility. 
	Three of NASA&#8217;s Hubble Space Telescope&#8217;s payload carriers, the Flight Support [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6083</link>
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		<title>Spitzer Reveals &#8216;No Organics&#8217; Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA&#8217;s Spitzer Space Telescope. 
	The fluffy-looking galaxy, officially named Messier 101, is dominated by a mishmash of spiral arms. In Spitzer&#8217;s new view, in which infrared light is color coded, the galaxy sports a swirling blue center and a unique, coral-red [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6082</link>
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		<title>Virgin Galactic Update - Will Whitehorn combines industrial research with luxury goods</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Times Online, What do the following have in common? The French designer Philippe Starck, Stephen Hawking, the former Dallas actress Victoria Principal, Brian Singer, who directed the latest Superman movie, and James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia concept that the Earth functions as a single connected organism. 
	The answer is that all have paid £100,000 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6081</link>
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		<title>JP Aerospace - Away 35 Nearing Completion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Blog Update: 
	Last Saturday was another day of bits and boards for Away 35. We modified the main controller’s power harness. We reprogrammed the extra camera controller to take more high altitude pictures and less on the way up. We also reprogrammed the backup balloon release system to take into account the higher altitude Away [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6080</link>
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		<title>Ed Linhart Joins Rocketplane as VP of Manufacturing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Ed Linhart has joined the Rocketplane Global team as the Vice President of Manufacturing. In this position Ed will be responsible for all aspects of manufacturing for the company. He will lead the company in developing partnerships with existing manufacturing companies and building in house capabilities to meet the company’s production needs. 
	David G. Faulkner, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6079</link>
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		<title>Space Elevator - Conference Day 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	More blog updates from the Space Elevator Blog 
	SEC2008 - Day 3 - Crow is off the menu, at least for now… 
	Alas, the SPS issue I talked about in the last post may still be intractible - the problem I’m running into now is just the range of data on the US Department of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6078</link>
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		<title>Apollo 11</title>
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	(NASA) - On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade.
	Eight years later at 9:32 a.m. EDT on July 16, 1969, that dream became a reality as the swing arms moved away and a plume of flame signaled the liftoff of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6077</link>
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		<title>NASA Statement on Inaccurate Reports About Japanese Cargo Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	WASHINGTON, (NASA) &#8212; Contrary to news reports, NASA has not officially or unofficially been discussing the purchase of H-II Transfer Vehicles (HTV) &#8212; uninhabited resupply cargo ships for the space station &#8212; from the Japanese Space Agency, or JAXA. 
	NASA is committed to domestic commercial cargo resupply to the space station and does not plan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6076</link>
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		<title>Pratt &#038; Whitney Rocketdyne Provides Financial Gift to U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	HUNTSVILLE, Ala., (Pratt &#038; Whitney) – Pratt &#038; Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company, recently pledged $400,000 to help create an interactive exhibit at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center (USSRC). “The Force” will allow guests to experience virtual visits to NASA and Pratt &#038; Whitney Rocketdyne to explore innovations and confront [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6075</link>
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		<title>This Week On The Space Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The Space Show, hosted by David Livingston under www.TheSpaceShow.com, will have the following guests this week:
	1. Monday, July 21, 2008, 2-3:30 PM PDT (21-23:30 GMT)
Dan Linehan comes to the show, author of SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated History.  Born in Miami in 1969 and then raised on Long Island, Dan Linehan received an A.S. in electrical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6074</link>
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		<title>Boeing Delivers 4th High-Definition TV Satellite to DIRECTV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	ST. LOUIS, (Boeing) &#8212; The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced that DIRECTV Inc. has taken on-orbit delivery of the DIRECTV 11 satellite, which will continue to expand DIRECTV&#8217;s industry-leading lineup of high-definition television channels and services to millions of households in the United States. 
	Sea Launch launched DIRECTV 11 March 19 on a Sea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6073</link>
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		<title>Mars Sample Return: bridging robotic and human exploration</title>
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iMARS is a mission design report which outlines the Mars Sample Return mission&#8217;s scientific and engineering requirements
	(ESA) - The first robotic mission to return samples to Earth from Mars took a further step toward realisation with the recent publication of a mission design report by the iMARS Working Group. The report, defines key elements of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6072</link>
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		<title>European Satellite Navigation Competition with ESA special prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	(ESA) - For the first time ESA is offering an Innovation Prize as part of this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition. ESA has already been supporting this competition through its Technology Transfer Programme Office since the start four years ago.
	The aim is to find new ideas for the commercial use of global satellite navigation systems, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6071</link>
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		<title>Odyssey Moon Announces Second Customer and Second Mission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Mountain View, CA – The world’s first astronomical observatory bound for the Moon was announced today as a joint venture between the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA) and Google Lunar X PRIZE contender Odyssey Moon Limited. A dual function ILO precursor instrument demonstrating observation and communication techniques will be part of the scientific and commercial [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6070</link>
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		<title>NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests with Rasp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	TUCSON, Ariz. &#8212; The team operating NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander today to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground. 
	The planned test is a preparation for putting a similar sample into one of Phoenix&#8217;s laboratory ovens in coming days. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6069</link>
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		<title>Space Elevator Conference - Day 2 Blog Update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Another Blog update: 
	2008SEC - Day 2 - Eating crow?
I hate it when I’m wrong, and I think I might have been wrong about the Space Elevator and Solar Power Satellites (SPS). I’ve had some ‘really smart people’ look over the calculations I put on my blog last year, and I think they’ve found a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6068</link>
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		<title>British Students Win U.S.-UK Rocket Contest at Farnborough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Farnborough, England - A student rocket team from England edged a squad from North Carolina to win the Trans-Atlantic Trophy Friday in the inaugural contest between champions from the United States and United Kingdom. 
	In an extremely close competition, students from Horsforth Secondary School in Yorkshire, England prevailed over their counterparts from Enloe High School, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6067</link>
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		<title>Astrobotic - Composite Fabrication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Fabrication of carbon fiber composites with low void content is a delicate process.
Lay-up of the fibers (Left).
Vacuumed to the substrate to debulk them (Center).
Composites in the oven with thermocouples attached (Right).
End product ready for trimming (Bottom)


	Please feel free to discuss this topic further in the forum&#8230;

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		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6066</link>
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		<title>Astrobotic - Rover Egress from the Lander</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	There are no guarantees of lander orientation due to uncertainties of rocks and terrain. After landing, the rover can point-turn on the lander to choose a favorable departure direction. This skeletal rover is for test purposes only. It is one-sixth the mass of the flight rover, so tractive forces in earth testing approximate those expected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6065</link>
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		<title>News from the X PRIZE Foundation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Another Prize in the Making 
	On July 10, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters announced an FAA grant to the X PRIZE Foundation to research a potential prize for renewable aviation fuels and technologies to reduce pollution from air travel. 
	________________________________________
BT to Help Spur Innovation 
	The X PRIZE Foundation is proud to announce a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6064</link>
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		<title>MRO HiRISE Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	MARS RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER HIRISE IMAGES July 16, 2008 
	o Mystery Mounds
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_008778_1685 
	o Layering and Inverted Streams
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_008774_1755 
	o Cratered Cones in Utopia Planitia u
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_008767_2055 

o Layered Rocks in Orson Welles Crater
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_008391_1790 
	All of the HiRISE images are archived here: 
	http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ 
	Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro. The mission is managed by NASA&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mars Odyssey THEMIS Images</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	July 14-18, 2008 
	o THEMIS ART #89 (Released 14 July 2008)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20080714a 
	o THEMIS ART #90 (Released 15 July 2008)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20080715a 
	o THEMIS ART #91 (Released 16 July 2008)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20080716a 

o THEMIS ART #92 (Released 17 July 2008)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20080717a 
	o THEMIS ART #93 (Released 18 July 2008)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20080718a 
	All of the THEMIS images are archived here: 
	http://themis.asu.edu/latest.html 
	NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6062</link>
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		<title>Space Elevator Conference Blog Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Here are the opening lines from the latest Space Elevator Conference Blog Posts 
	2008SEC - Day 1 - The Japanese presence… 
	We have a large Japanese presence at the conference this year, and they have made a tremendous contribution to the proceedings. In addition, to making several presentations (and some very exciting announcements), they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6061</link>
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		<title>Unreasonable Rocket - Telemetry, Software, GPS, and progress.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Paul Breed Writes: 
	Sorry for the long delay in the blog posts, all is going well its just been a busy summer. 
	I’ve been doing embedded hardware/software development for a very long time. (More than 20 years) One of the things I’ve learned is that you NEVER ever ignore a glitch. Even a harmless glitch. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6060</link>
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		<title>Masten Space Systems - StartupRiot, Fall Interns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Michael Mealling mentioned a few posts ago that he did a short pitch on our company at Startup Riot. The video and slides are now online, you can watch them here or here: 
	Our current interns are working out great. Melissa Schaffer has been working on a model of XA-0.2’s landing gear, so we can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6059</link>
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		<title>Ultimate &#8216;Ask the Experts&#8217; Experience for Corpus Christi Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	HOUSTON, (NASA) &#8212; Students from the STARBASE Atlantis Naval Air Station education program in Corpus Christi, Texas, will have an opportunity to experience the excitement of spaceflight first hand. They will be participating in a live in-flight education downlink with the International Space Station on Wednesday, July 23, from 9:15 a.m. to 9:35 a.m. CDT. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6058</link>
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		<title>NASA Announces Competitive Grant Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	WASHINGTON, (NASA) &#8212; NASA&#8217;s Office of Education at headquarters in Washington has announced three new extramural funding opportunities that could result in the award of grants or cooperative agreements. 
	One of the three funding opportunities is the K-12 Competitive Grants Opportunity, a competitive education grant program targeting secondary school level teaching and learning, with grants [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6057</link>
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		<title>NASA Conducts Full-Scale Test Firing of Orion Jettison Motor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	
	(NASA) - A full-scale rocket motor fires from the Aerojet facility in Sacramento, Calif. 
	This test will help in the development of NASA&#8217;s Orion jettison motor that is being designed to separate the spacecraft&#8217;s launch abort system from the crew module during launch. (Image credit: Aerojet) 
	Feel free to discuss this article in the forum&#8230;

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		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6056</link>
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		<title>Crew Reconfigures Station for Post-Spacewalk Activities</title>
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Image above: Sergei Volkov works outside the Pirs docking compartment during the second spacewalk of Expedition 17. Credit: NASA 
	(NASA) - Cosmonauts Sergei Volkov, station commander, and Oleg Kononenko, flight engineer, performed two spacewalks in less than a week. They outfitted Russian station components and inspected their docked Soyuz vehicle. The spacewalkers also retrieved a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6055</link>
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		<title>STS-125 - Busy Weekend Ahead</title>
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Image above: An overhead crane lifts off the cover of the shipping container containing Hubble&#8217;s Super Lightweight Interchangeable Carrier and the Orbital Replacement Unit Carrier. Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller 
	(NASA) - Work on space shuttle Atlantis&#8217; thermal protection system will continue over the weekend in NASA Kennedy Space Center&#8217;s Orbiter Processing Facility. 
	Three of NASA&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6054</link>
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		<title>Northrop Grumman Employee Honored by NASA for Contributions to Future Spacecraft Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	EL SEGUNDO, Calif., (Northrop Grumman) (PRIME NEWSWIRE) &#8212; A Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) employee has been honored by NASA for his contributions to the design of composite structures for crew modules on future spacecraft. 
	Jerry L. Stuart, a structural design engineer at Northrop Grumman&#8217;s Integrated Systems sector in El Segundo, received an Engineering Excellence Award [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6053</link>
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		<title>Oh Canada!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	
	(NASA) - This color mosaic image of the protective cover of the lidar onboard NASA&#8217;s Phoenix Mars Lander was taken by the Surface Stereo Imager (SSI) on Sol 35, or the 35th day of the mission, June 30, 2008. The lidar is part of the Canadian-built weather station, contributed to the mission by the Canadian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://spacefellowship.com/News/?p=6052</link>
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