The ISS is a collaborative project between the Russian, Canadian European, Japanese, and US space agencies.
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Since then, the two space agencies negotiated guidelines for future amateur visits to Alpha.
Until then, such a feat had been accomplished only by governmental space agencies.
This is a best-practice time-limit adopted by the world's space agencies for the removal of their equipment from orbit once it has completed its mission.
ISU's advisory board is packed with space influencers, including Daniel Goldin, the head of NASA, and representatives from the space agencies of Japan, Russia and France.
That's a sizable chunk of an astronaut's career cap of 1, 000 millisieverts which many international space agencies use to limit the accumulated radiation dosage in space.
While NASA aim to have a moon base by 2025 other space agencies and companies have expressed an interest in the moon and its potential energy reserves.
Yes, there is a business potential there, but will the space agencies be willing to let go and redefine their roles so that business enterprise can move forward?
Under one possible scenario, the European and US space agencies would then send a European orbiter to the Red Planet in 2016 to track down the sources of methane.
It seems as though NASA or other space agencies "rediscover" water on Mars every few years, so maybe this latest announcement will be regarded as just more of the same.
The next challenge of course will be that of taking the unique insight afforded by partnership with international space agencies and turning that into innovation and new - genuinely disruptive - technologies.
The space agencies of Europe, the US, Italy, the UK, Japan and India all contributed to the latest research, each one using their own experts and methodology to model the future space environment.
The report also recommends that NASA created a database of particles too small to be tracked, step up work with other national space agencies, and begin working on ways to clean up debris.
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Last December, one of the last men on the Moon, Harrison Schmitt, told BBC News that he believed Nasa and other government run space agencies were "too inefficient" to be able to send astronauts back to the Moon.
Both Reed and Johnson say the focus over the last 30 years has been on mitigation but NASA and other space agencies are looking at ways to remove large derelict spacecraft and rocket launch stages from low earth orbit.
Despite valiant efforts by Roscosmos and other space agencies, the Russian probe Phobos-Grunt will be falling back to Earth over the weekend, most likely on Sunday night, according to projections by the Center for Orbital and Reentry Debris Studies at the Aerospace Corporation.
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Earth's magnetic field gives the planet and its inhabitants a good measure of protection, but with space agencies seemingly intent on sending astronauts to the Moon and even to Mars in the next few decades, there is a pressing need for a fuller understanding of the Sun's activity.
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While it will probably take at least another 20 years before Zubrin -- or anyone else for that matter -- makes it to the Martian surface, NASA and other space agencies are already drawing up plans for a voyage that will present astronauts not only with physical but also psychological challenges never faced by humans before.
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We are in a big transitional space, especially for agencies with social and mobile who have to decide how to build across platform strategies, how to build a campaign that is meaningful and respectful.
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Advertising agencies that purchase media space through intermediary online networks require, in their contracts, specific warranties and obligations that the company's advertisements will not be associated with any objectionable content.
Energy Star exemptions: Federal agencies are required to lease space in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ENERGY STAR-labeled buildings.
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Japanese clients have cared far less than western ones about conflicts of interest because they have used ad agencies mainly as media-space securers rather than brand defenders.
He describes a scenario in which a team from several agencies meets in the virtual space to monitor maps of agents' locations on the ground in Afghanistan in real time, communicating both with each other by teleconference and video feeds in the virtual room and simultaneously with the ground agents via mobile devices.
Experts and leading government agencies have been working on the space junk problem for decades, but it's a tricky one to solve, Schonberg told CNN.
One potential candidate is ValueClick, a publicly traded online marketing company that provides demographically targeted ad space to about 6, 000 advertisers and advertising agencies.
Despite the possibility federal budget cuts could prompt some government agencies to break leases to reduce office space, Nakash executives believe the location immunizes the company from such problems.
One potential candidate is ValueClick (nasdaq: VCLK - news - people ), a publicly traded online marketing company that provides demographically targeted ad space to about 6, 000 advertisers and advertising agencies.
If online travel agencies fail to keep up with innovation in this space, they face the risk of losing out a growing user base of online travel bookings via mobile devices.
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To get rental data for homes comparable to the one you're buying or selling, check with the relocation department of big real estate agencies, the ones that need to track down living space for executives on temporary transfers.
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