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Aircraft Rubber: From Race Cars to Space Shuttles

Five years ago Peter Regna, who hails from the east coast, bought Central Oregon based Aircraft Rubber/Fuel Safe Racing Cells. The company designs, manufactures, and distributes a variety of high-tech puncture-proof bladders used in everything from NASCAR race cars for fuel, to water containment for NASA’s space shuttles and the International Space Station.

'Interplanetary Internet' possible, thanks to NASA, Google

OTTAWA - The Internet has always reached shuttles in orbit, but they are only 400 kilometres from Earth. But now NASA and Google Inc. have successfully created an Internet connection millions of kilometres into space that just might someday portend Internet cafes on Mars.

Compact Research Freezers to Debut in Space

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Soviet space shuttle could bail out NASA

The Soviet-era Buran space programme, mothballed 20 years ago, may be revived. With NASA about to retire its ageing fleet of space shuttles, there is a pressing need for viable space transport.

NASA Tests Constellation's Launch Abort System

A mixed team of NASA experts and technicians from their contractors has recently performed a full-scale test of the launch abort system for the future Constellation program set to replace the current space shuttles by 2015. The abort operation is aimed to save the lives of the crew of Constellation's Orion capsule by taking them to a safe distance in a blink of an eye in the case of an unfortunate accident.

NASA may struggle to afford new space missions

The agency is developing the brawny Ares V rocket to take astronauts back to the moon. But it is also hopes the rocket will double up as a heavy lifter for robotic science missions which the current shuttles are too puny to lift off the ground. In the works, though yet to be approved, are a visible-light space telescope with an 8-metre mirror that would dwarf Hubble's, and an interstellar probe that could explore space beyond the boundaries of our solar system.

Work speeds up on space station

HOUSTON-- Astronauts hooked up a water recycling system and installed two new bedrooms aboard the International Space Station yesterday while crewmates prepared for a second spacewalk to fix the outpost's power system. The work is part of a final effort to complete the $100-billion orbital complex, a project involving 16 nations, by 2010 when the space shuttles are to be retired.

Astronauts install water recycler on space station

HOUSTON, Nov 19 (Reuters) Astronauts hooked up a water recycling system and installed two new bedrooms aboard the International Space Station today while crewmates prepared for a second spacewalk to fix the outpost's power system. The work is part of a final effort to complete the 100 billion dollar orbital complex, a project involving 16 nations, by 2010 when the space shuttles are to be retired. For 10 years, NASA's shuttle fleet has provided bulk delivery, construction and repair services for the space station with regular visits by seven-member crews and a cargo hold that can tote 50,000 pounds (22,680 kg) to and from orbit. The shuttle also has provided nearly all of the water needed to support the station's three live-aboard crew members.

Urine Passes NASA Taste Test

Ponca City, We love you writes "Astronauts flying aboard space shuttle Endeavour are delivering a device to the International Space Station that may leave you wondering if NASA is taking recycling too far. Among the ship's cargo is a water regeneration system that distills, filters, ionizes, and oxidizes wastewater — including urine — into fresh water for drinking or, as one astronaut puts it, 'will make yesterday's coffee into today's coffee.' The US space agency spent $250M for the water recycling equipment but with the space shuttles due to retire in two years, NASA needed to make sure the station crew would have a good supply of fresh water. The Environmental Control and Life Support Systems uses a purification process called vapor compression distillation: urine is boiled until the water in it turns to steam.

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