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November 22, 2009 / 9:50 p.m. CT (0350 GMT Nov 23)
Baby's first space collectible: Celebrating the arrival of his baby daughter Abigail Mae, who was born on the same day as he made his first spacewalk, Randy Bresnik gave out (candy) cigars Sunday to his STS-129 and Expedition 21 crewmates onboard the International Space Station. Bresnik, wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with "It's a girl!", then revealed a gift for his girl, a special pink onesie decorated with his and his crew's STS-129 mission patch.
November 22, 2009 / 3:02 p.m. CT (2102 GMT)
Konstantin Feoktistov, 1926-2009: A crew member on the 1964 first Voskhod mission, Konstantin Feoktistov, 83, died on Saturday according to Roscosmos. An accomplished spacecraft designer who worked on Vostok, Soyuz, Progress, Salyut and Mir, Feoktistov was the first scientist in space, the first civilian and the only Soviet-era cosmonaut who was not a Communist Party member. His name now lives on as a crater on the far side of the Moon.
November 20, 2009 / 9:58 a.m. CT (1558 GMT)
Rock-ing NASA's message: Actor Dwayne Johnson, formerly known as "The Rock", is helping to spread the benefits of NASA in a set of public service announcements timed with the release of Sony Pictures' animated feature film "Planet 51." In the movie, Johnson voices the American astronaut Charles "Chuck" Baker, whose suit is adorned with the NASA insignia with the permission of the space agency. NASA also flew a DVD copy of the film to the International Space Station in August to celebrate the movie, which opened in theaters on Friday. In the PSAs, Johnson touts NASA's role in education, diversity and the development of new technologies referred to as "spinoffs."
November 19, 2009 / 5:33 p.m. CT (2333 GMT)
Instruments vs. artifacts: The National Air and Space Museum opened to the public on Thursday its first gallery devoted to the still on-going space shuttle/space station-era of human spaceflight, "Moving Beyond Earth." For astronaut John Grunsfeld, who was at the opening to see the instruments he trained with and brought back from the Hubble Space Telescope go on display, the "artifacts" were anything but. "To me they are very much alive, not artifacts," explained the self-titled "Chief Hubble Hugger." Museum director Gen. Jack Dailey replied to Grunsfeld by sharing the difference between instruments and artifacts. "Now that it is an artifact, you can't touch it any more."
November 12, 2009 / 11:00 a.m. CT (1700 GMT)
Russia's Poisk added to ISS: Roscosmos' Mini Research Module-2 (MRM2), known as Poisk ("Explore") arrived at the International Space Station Thursday at 9:41 a.m. CST. The mini module, which will serve as a new docking port, airlock and experiment platform for the ISS's Russian segment, was launched Tuesday aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. With Poisk's addition, the station now has five docking ports (or seven if the berthing ports for Japan's HTV are included).
November 11, 2009 / 8:36 p.m. CT (0236 GMT Nov 12)
End-of-program emblem: NASA is looking for an insignia to mark the end of its space shuttle program and has turned to its past and present employees to create it. Begun last month, the patch design contest invites space agency employees and those who work for NASA's contractors to express what the shuttle means to them in the form of an emblem. The winning design will be flown in space and be adopted as NASA's official commemorative.
November 9, 2009 / 1:19 p.m. CT (1919 GMT)
The man who launched John Glenn: The countdown to launch the first American into Earth orbit on February 20, 1962 built up to the push of a button. Convair test conductor Thomas J. "Terrible Tommy" O'Malley, who kept that button as a souvenir of his (and his finger's) role sending John Glenn into space, died on Friday at age 94. According to the newspaper Florida Today who spoke with his daughter, O'Malley had a brief conversation with Glenn from his Cocoa Beach home shortly before passing away.
November 3, 2009 / 6:24 p.m. CT (0024 GMT Nov 4)
Patch preview | Expedition 24: While the 24th resident crew onboard the International Space Station will not begin their expedition until May 2010, their increment's emblem is now ready to go. The red, purple and yellow patch depicts the orbiting outpost above the Earth as the Sun rises on the horizon. Six stars represent the six crew members, including Expedition 24 commander Aleksandr Skvortsov and fellow cosmonauts Mikhail Korniyenko and Fyodor Yurchikhin along with NASA flight engineers Tracy Caldwell, Shannon Walker and Doug Wheelock. The only writing on the badge are the roman numerals XXIV spread across the station's solar wings, denoting the 24th crew.
November 2, 2009 / 11:21 a.m. CT (1721 GMT)
X-38 drops into Nebraska: A mockup that flew on drop tests for NASA's once-planned ISS crew return vehicle (CRV) dropped into Nebraska Saturday to be restored and then placed on public display. The X-38 (V-132) arrived by truck on Oct. 31 in Nebraska City from where it had been in storage at Space Center Houston in Texas. It was met by Lt. Governor Rick Sheehy and Nebraska City Mayor Jack Hobbie for a ribbon-cutting ceremony before continuing to the Strategic Air and Space Museum located near Ashland. The mockup, which made three parafoil and parachute-assisted flights after being dropped from a B-52 flying over Edwards Air Force Base between March 1999 and March 2000, was shelved after budget cuts led to the development of the X-38 CRV being cancelled in 2002.
October 31, 2009 / 12:57 p.m. CT (1757 GMT)
DIY I-X: Prolific author, journalist and comic strip artist Wes Oleszewski realized quickly that he had some work to do as he watched NASA's Ares I-X rocket rollout to the launch pad October 20. A week later, by the time he attended the Ares I-X launch, his flying Ares I-X model rocket kit had been corrected. Pre-flight illustrations had shown the words "United States" stenciled in black along the length of the Ares I-X first stage; in reality, the letters "USA" appeared in red. Oleszewski's kit -- the only one to replicate Ares I-X, flying or not, is now available for those who desire to carry out their own test flight or who wish to display an Ares I-X model in the configuration that it flew.
October 30, 2009 / 3:18 p.m. CT (2018 GMT)
Astronaut-alumni archives: Space shuttle astronauts Janice Voss and Roy Bridges on Wednesday gave over their personal papers and memorabilia to their alma mater Purdue University to be added to the school's flight archives. Bridges' log books, flight notes and photographs together with Voss' childhood report cards and scrapbooks will join the personal archives from fellow astronaut-alumni Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, and Eugene Cernan, the most recent person to do so. Purdue, which has had 23 of its students later become astronauts, will maintain Voss' and Bridges' papers for study through its Libraries Division of Archives and Special Collections.
October 26, 2009 / 12:25 p.m. CT (1725 GMT)
Flight kit for a test flight: Though Ares I-X has no crew onboard, nor an official payload (other than the 700+ sensors recording data during the 28-mile high suborbital flight) that has not stopped NASA and ATK, the prime contractor, from making room for a few commemoratives. Stowed in three shoebox-size packages are mementos for the team who made possible NASA's first test flight of the Constellation program, while both the inside and outside of the rocket is adorned by markings celebrating their work.
October 23, 2009 / 2:21 a.m. CT (0721 GMT)
Amelia Armstrong: A biopic based on the 2005 authorized biography of astronaut Neil Armstrong is moving forward, a source tells collectSPACE. Renewing its option to adapt historian James Hansen's biography of the "First Man," Universal Studios has assigned screenwriter Mike Rich ("Finding Forrester", "The Rookie", "Radio") to rework Nicole Perlman's completed screenplay. Producer Wyck Godfrey and his company Temple Hill Productions ("Twilight", "New Moon") were said to now be attached to the film. Hansen has also been named as a co-producer.
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