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ATV-5 undocking
Time-lapse showing the departure of ATV Georges Lematre from the International Space Station on Saturday, 14 February 2015. ESA #39;s fifth automated cargo ferry completed its mission to the...

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Kerbal Space Program- Space Shuttle Zeitgeist
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The huge advancements made by commercial space companies, which now fly cargo to the International Space Station and should soon send astronauts there, appear to be winning the trust of the country, according to a new poll.

Even though space flight has long been the sole province of governments, nearly 6in 10saythat private companies should be able to build and fly their own rockets, according to the poll, conducted by Monmouth University.

Meanwhile, 42 percent say they support the U.S. spending billions on programs destined for the moon, Mars and asteroids. But a large share of the public 50 percent oppose spending that much money on space, which was similar to American sentiment in 1967, two years before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.Still, most respondents in the poll said the U.S. space program has provided long-lasting benefits to society and 51 percent said increased spending would be a good investment.

Half a century after NASAs heyday, America is still fascinated by the prospects of space exploration but balk at the price tag. However, they opposed the space programs cost in the 1960s as well, said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute in West Long Branch, N.J.

The poll comes as there has been something of a renaissance in the American space program, much of it driven by daring companies, led by rich men with big dreams.

Along with Boeing, Elon Musks SpaceX won a contract to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, ending a years-long reliance on Russia. Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has been pushing the envelope of private space travel and tourism. And Jeffrey Bezoss Blue Origin recently announced it would be teaming up with the United Launch Alliance to build a rocket engine to launch national security satellites. (Bezos also owns The Washington Post.)

And John Elbon, the head of Boeing's space division, predicted that in 100 years sales of space ships would equal the $70 billion business of its commercial aircraft division today.

Late last year, NASA announced a new era of American spaceflight after its Orion space capsule flew farther than any ship designed for human space travel had gone in 40 years.

But there have been setbacks both in the government and the private sector.

In October, an unmanned Orbital Sciences rocket blew up on a mission to resupply the space station. Then a few days later a Virgin Galactic spacecraft intended to carry tourists crashed in the Mojave Desert, killing one of the pilots.

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Inspired by the dream of seeing their work soar into space, 195 students in New York City are competing for the chance to put a science experiment aboard the International Space Station.

The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York is hosting the new competition for middle school students in the public school system. Fifty groups of three to five students each will submit proposals for experiments that will test the effects of microgravity on a system. In May, one group will be selected to have their experiment shot into space and carried out by the crew of the International Space Station.

"I can't think of anything that could get a kid more excited about science and math than a chance to fly an experiment in space," saidMike Massimino, a former NASA astronaut and senior adviser of science programs at the Intrepid museum. "They're already all winners, the 200 who get to do this. Whoever's lucky enough to win this, it's an extraordinary opportunity. Not many people get to do this." [The Human Body in Space: 6 Weird Facts]

At a kick-off event for the contest at the Intrepid museum, the competing students had the opportunity to participate in microgravity workshops, and ask Massimino questions about his time in space.

"I was a New York kid," Massimino said in an interview. "And [the students] want to know, 'How did you achieve your dreams?' Because they see that I used to be where they are. There are a lot of kids [in New York] but there isn't necessarily a big presence of the space program, and now I'm working through the museum and this project to get kids involved and get them interested [in space]."

The contest, officially titled the Intrepid International Space Station Challenge (I2S2C), is being conducted in partnership with the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) and The Ramon Foundation. The 195 participating students come from five New York City schools.

Student Spaceflight Experiments Program was launched in 2010 to provide students with the opportunity to design and propose experiments to fly in low- Earth orbit, on the final flights of the space shuttle, and on the International Space Station. Recently, SSEP has worked in conjunction with private spaceflight company SpaceX to send student experiments to the stationaboard the company's latest robotic Dragon capsule.

The students who are competing in the Intrepid contest will have until the end of April to submit a proposal for an experiment "designed to assess the impact of microgravity on a physical, chemical, or biological system," according to a statement from the museum. The experiment must take place inside a 6-inch test tube, and not contain any materials that could pose a hazard to the astronauts.

"The requirements are not insignificant," Tom Barry, manager of community engagement & family programs at the Intrepid Museum, said. "These schools are going to be dedicating a whole lot of time for this program. So the schools that are on board are the schools that we felt could fulfill all the requirements for the program."

After the proposals are submitted in April, a panel of judges will select three finalists. The winner will be selected by members of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, and will need to be approved by NASA before it can go into orbit.

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In the end, Europe's fifth and final space station freighter went out in more of a fiery blaze than with the "big bang" of its namesake.

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) 5, christened the "Georges Lematre" after the Belgian priest and astronomer whose work led to the Big Bang theory of the universe's origin, was intentionally destroyed as it plunged back into the Earth's atmosphere on Sunday (Feb. 15).

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The unmanned spacecraft, the last of its type, came to its end at 1:11 p.m. EST (1811 GMT). [Europe's ATV-5 Space Cargo Ship Mission in Pictures]

The re-entry came a day after the ATV left the International Space Station (ISS), where it had been docked since last August. Launched on July 29, 2014, ATV-5 logged a total of 186 days in space.

Unpacked of its 7 tons of supplies and reloaded with 2.4 tons of trash, the "Georges Lematre" fulfilled its mission, including using its thrusters to readjust the altitude of the station to compensate for atmospheric drag, re-boosting to avoid debris and, in a first for an ATV last month, lowering the outpost's orbit in preparation for the arrival of the next cargo spacecraft.

Future visiting vehicles will not include the European ATV. Russian Progress vehicles, U.S. commercial Cygnus and Dragon freighters and Japan's H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) will resupply the space station going forward.

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"The five ATVs have paid ESA's obligations in the ISS program until 2017," Nico Dettmann, head of ESA's space transportation department, said in statement. "It has been decided to discontinue ATV, but to develop the MPCV-ESM (European Service Module) for NASA to compensate for ESA's ISS obligations until 2020."

The service module will provide propulsion and electrical power to NASA's Orion crew capsule on its missions into deep space. In return for developing the ESM, European astronauts will continue to live onboard the station to work on European experiments in ESA's Columbus lab through the end of the decade.

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