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Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2008	CCD Imaging Sensors From e2v Equip Unmanned Spacecraft Headed for International Space Station The sensors will help determine the spacecrafts orientation and aid in docking.
Popular Mechanics April 2009 Michael Belfiore	7 International Spacecraft that Could Replace NASA's Shuttle NASA's Orion won't be ready until at least 2015, but the current space shuttle is due to retire next year. Meet the seven international spacecraft from the world's space fleet that could inherit the job of ferrying supplies into space.
Popular Mechanics July 29, 2008 Rand Simberg	The Uncertain Future of the International Space Station: Analysis The International Space Station isn't scheduled to be completed for two more years, but a growing chorus of engineers and executives is already brainstorming about what to do with the ISS after its life span ends in 2015.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 Courtney E. Howard	Boeing-Built Truss Provides Increased Electrical Power to International Space Station Astronauts aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle Atlantis have installed a truss element, built by Boeing Co. engineers to provide additional power to the International Space Station.
IndustryWeek September 14, 2011	Cost in Space NASA is encouraging U.S. companies to create vessels capable of transporting cargo on the 'final frontier.'
Popular Mechanics December 2006 Thomas D. Jones	Tech Watch: Resident Astronaut To cut costs, NASA plans to outsource its shipping jobs.
IEEE Spectrum August 2005 Anatoly Zak	Europe to Join Russia in Building Next Space Shuttle Russian space officials confirmed that the European Space Agency will partner with them to build a new reusable orbiter dubbed Kiper. The agreement will give Russia new flexibility as the U.S. and Russia separately plan long-term space efforts.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 John McHale	Manned Space Missions, International Space Station, Get Increases in 2008 NASA Budget Request Officials at NASA are looking for increased funding for the International Space Station, manned space systems and other programs that fulfill President Bush's goal of reaching the Moon by the end of the decade.
Popular Mechanics November 20, 2008 Andrew Moseman	For 10th Anniversary, 10 Headaches and Near-Mishaps on the International Space Station It's not the fault of any single mishap, but today is the space station's 10th birthday and it's still not fully assembled.
Popular Mechanics November 15, 2007 Thomas D. Jones	High-Wire DIY Can Save the Space Station: Resident Astronaut The space station is giving us a graduate-level course in how people and machines can survive in space for the long term.
Popular Mechanics March 11, 2009 Tom Jones	An Astronaut's Letter to President Obama: Six Space Policy Musts Looming decisions facing the president will make or break America's status as the world leader in space. Here is some advice for Obama on what he needs to do to keep NASA on the right trajectory.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005 John McHale	The Moon, Mars and beyond... The Space Shuttle program is due to be replaced by the Crew Exploration Vehicle.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2007 John McHale	`Fly me to the moon...' and the Space Station, too Designers of Orion, the next manned space vehicle from NASA that will service the International Space Station and return man to the moon, are using open-architecture designs for the avionics and crew cockpit.
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg	Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon.
Popular Mechanics September 9, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	5 Ways the Augustine Commission's Report States the Obvious A group of respected aerospace experts spent the entire summer coming up with plans for the future of NASA, and the advice is far from shocking.
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 William Sweet	Europe Punts on Human Space Exploration Excitement in Europe is high, but spending is low. Leaders still can't decide how aggressively to push for crew launch capabilities or a major Mars mission
Popular Mechanics March 2009 Joe Pappalardo	Making the Space Station a Home Deliveries of home hardware and solar panels are making the ISS a home for more astronauts. Here is a look at the ISS as home, sweet home.
Popular Mechanics November 16, 2009	The Retirement of the Space Shuttle--And What's Next for NASA We look back at coverage of the technology behind the Constellation Program and the development of the International Space station as well as news surrounding the Space Shuttles
Popular Mechanics September 2007 David Noland	The 'New Space' Race: Handicapping the Billionaire Rocketeers Fueled by interest in space tourism, as well as NASA contracts to replace the shuttle in 2010, the private "New Space" industry is finally looking like the real thing.
Popular Mechanics March 24, 2010 Joe Pappalardo	Orbital Upkeep: International Space Station Home Improvement During a recent NASA and Russian Flight Readiness Review (FRR), engineers described some problems afflicting the International Space Station that may, at first, seem familiar to homeowners on Earth.
Popular Mechanics February 8, 2010 Rand Simberg	The New NASA: A Path To Anywhere, And Everywhere The author believes that NASA's new path, outlined by the president's budget, holds promise of real progress.
Popular Mechanics January 6, 2010 Joe Pappalardo	Private Space on Pace to Run NASA's Space Supply NASA contracts to private space companies represents a shift away from government-run space hardware toward rockets and spaceships designed and operated by the private sector.
IEEE Spectrum August 2010 James Oberg	ISS Repair Space Walk: A Glimpse Into the Station's Future NASA is changing the way it handles hardware problems
Popular Mechanics October 23, 2009 Joe Pappalardo	5 Surprise Passages From the Full Augustine Report There are significant vulnerabilities outlined in the report on our current space programs.
IEEE Spectrum November 2006 James Oberg	Breathing Easy in Space Is Never Easy Problems with oxygen generators aboard the space station could have big implications.
IEEE Spectrum April 2006 James Oberg	Stellar Engineer For nearly 40 years, manned spacecraft have relied on Russian engineer Vladimir Syromyatnikov's mechanisms to link up in space safely.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA: We're Leaving The Space Station To The Private Sector Due to a combination of government budget cuts and declining costs for the private sector, private space companies have increasingly taken over space exploration and logistics for the U.S.
Geotimes July 2006 Jennifer Yauck	Shuttle liftoff, despite early snags The space shuttle Discovery lifted off for the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 4. It was the first launch since the shuttle fleet was grounded last summer -- and the first-ever on Independence Day!
IEEE Spectrum February 2007	Station Watching Packed with colorful, carefully annotated and detailed illustrations and photographs, Reference Guide to the International Space Station makes it easy to track both past and planned ISS evolution.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 David A. Mindell	The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut How do you justify human spaceflight?
Popular Mechanics June 2009 Joe P. Hasler	17 Steps to the Moon and Back: Anatomy of a Moonshot Here are the critical events that had to go right with the Apollo 11 launch, and what would have happened had they gone wrong.
Popular Mechanics February 2, 2010 Tom Jones	Launching NASA on a Path to Nowhere: Analysis The president released his FY 2011 budget Monday, and his policy for NASA's human spaceflight program sets the nation on a course to second-class status in space.
Popular Mechanics May 12, 2008 Michael Milstein	NASA Makes Space U-Turn, Opening Arms to Private Industry The agency seems to be shifting course, as NASA officials insist that the budding commercial spacecraft fleet represents the only way the United States can realize its dreams of solar-system conquest on schedule and at an affordable cost.
Outside December 2005 Michael Behar	Blast Off on a Budget David Gump is blazing a trail to the solar system with a low-cost plan to launch manned expeditions to the moon and Mars.
Popular Mechanics August 2008	Soyuz Spacecraft Re-Entry Mishaps Force Fix: What Went Wrong As Russian and American space officials scramble for answers about the rockets that will soon be filling in for the space shuttle, cosmonauts will upgrade finicky modules this week.
CIO October 1, 2001 Lafe Low	This Isn't Houston Talk about a long-distance call -- astronauts aboard the International Space Station orbiting miles above Earth are now phoning home. ISS astronauts use Cisco Systems SoftPhone software running on flight-approved laptops through a voice-over-IP system...
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 James Oberg	Space Station: Internal NASA Reports Explain Origins of June Computer Crisis A mistake like that on the way to Mars would be fatal.
Popular Mechanics August 2009 Aldrin & Noland	Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives.
Popular Mechanics February 1, 2008 Thomas D. Jones	5 Years Later, 5 Hard Lessons From the Columbia Shuttle Disaster: Resident Astronaut As NASA readies Atlantis for a Feb. 7 launch to the International Space Station, it observes a week packed with painful memories of three spaceflight tragedies: Apollo 1, Challenger and the fifth anniversary of the loss of Columbia.
Geotimes July 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Discovery Returns to Flight The space shuttle Discovery and its seven member crew lifted off, successfully returning NASA to flight after a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. The launch follows a 13-day delay after a faulty fuel sensor halted the first launch attempt during countdown.
IEEE Spectrum May 2008 James Oberg	Internal NASA Documents Give Clues to Scary Soyuz Return Flight Engineers are attempting to reconstruct the 19 April Soyuz descent from the ISS.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 James Oberg	Could China Get to Mars First? Maybe -- if it adopts a less top-down approach
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	Dream Job Alert! NASA Puts Out Call For New Astronauts NASA today put out a call for new astronauts, including those who might support a future manned mission to Mars.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 James Oberg	Putting up the Ritz What happens when a real estate tycoon who's made a pile of money starts thinking really big? In the case of Robert Bigelow, he starts working out a way to build hotels in outer space. And he just might be smart enough, rich enough, and driven enough to pull it off.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 Olivier L. de Weck	What To Pack For Mars A successful mission requires a well-planned supply strategy
IEEE Spectrum June 2009	The Amazing Orbiting Garriotts In 1973, Owen Garriott made electrical engineering history as the first EE astronaut to travel into space, spending 60 days aboard Skylab, the U.S. -- run space station.
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet	Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars.
Popular Mechanics September 2007 Thomas D. Jones	The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	NASA's Space Station Robot Gets Legs The latest SpaceX delivery to the International Space Station, which took off on Friday from Cape Canaveral, included some unusual cargo: legs for NASA's robotic space station helper.