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Entries from Houstonist tagged with 'internationalspacestation'

December 23, 2007

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. NASA Plans TV Coverage Space Station Holiday Delivery NASA Television is planning to provide live coverage on Wednesday, December 26th when the International Space Station will receive a post Christmas gift, a new shipment of food, fuel and supplies as well as holiday gifts. Check your local listings for coverage of this event. Grand Stream Dreams Grand Stream Dreams has been busy this week. He's got......

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June 6, 2007

Good morning, Houston. The bad news: You've missed your chance to see the International Space Station this morning as it orbits above Texas. (We suppose it's only bad news if you're interested in seeing the space station — if you're not, hey, you won't be disappointed!) The good news: You'll have three more opportunities before the end of the week. The ISS will be visible at 4:08 a.m. Thursday (for nearly four minutes, beginning......

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May 2, 2007

You've probably never thought that building training equipment for astronauts is so easy that high school students could do it. Turns out, though, that it is. Several Houston high school students were given the opportunity by NASA to help build equipment that will be used to train International Space Station crews. The program, High School Students United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH), was created by a Johnson Space Center engineer who wanted to create......

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April 15, 2007

Local tech news in a compact, digital format. "Houston, we have a problem" It was 37 years ago yesterday, April 14th, that those tragic words transmitted to Mission Control in Houston as Apollo 13 suffered an oxygen tank explosion that damaged critical on board systems and forced the moon mission to be aborted. The crew underwent an intense repair job to save their lives. UK website Apollo Explorer has info on the event as......

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February 12, 2007

So let's be honest: All weekend, you were sitting around thinking, "Sure, I'd like to know who the father of Anna Nicole's daughter is, but what I really wonder is: What's going on with Lisa Nowak?" Fortunately, the media provided a heathy dose of astronaut-related updates over the weekend. Here's what you might have missed: On Thursday, some friends had dropped by Nowak's Clear Lake home for a visit, according to an AP report carried......

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December 20, 2005

If you're the kind of person who walks around looking at the sky — no, we don't want to know why you do that — you just might see something this week: the International Space Station will be visible from Houston in the coming days. The ISS is passing 220 miles over Houston and will be visible with the naked eye just after dusk or just before dawn, when the sun is below the horizon......

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