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NASA censors 'without clothes' question

Tue, 09/08/2009 - 01:11 by surajdogra

Stockholm, Sweden -- A Swedish student said U.S. space officials made him change a question posed to an astronaut on the International Space Station because it mentioned nudity.

Zhiwar Naeimiakbar, 14, one of the students at Stockholm's Satraskolan school chosen to interview Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesang via phone, said the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration told him he could not ask Fuglesang if a person can survive in space "without clothes," Swedish news agency TT reported Monday.

"At first I was hysterical. Oh my God, now I won't be a part of this. But then I understood why," Naeimiakbar said.

He said NASA allowed him to ask the question provided he changed "without clothes" to "without a spacesuit."

ISS crew prepares to move Soyuz spacecraft

Wed, 07/01/2009 - 03:08 by surajdogra

Houston -- Three International Space Station crew members will board an attached Soyuz spacecraft and move it to a different docking port, U.S. space officials said.

Expedition 20 Commander Gennady Padalka and astronauts Mike Barratt of NASA and Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are to undock the Soyuz
TMA-14 spacecraft Thursday from the Zvezda service module and fly a short distance to the Pirs docking compartment. The flight is expected to take about 30 minutes.

NASA said the relocation of the Soyuz spacecraft opens the Zvezda docking port for the arrival of a new Russian Progress cargo vehicle in late July.