After its successful six month mission as part of the International Space Station (ISS), the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne has fallen to earth like a spectacular firework, as it made a controlled...
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NASA: ATV ready to dock with ISS: April 3, 2008Update 10:55 am"TOULOUSE, France, April 3 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's Jules Verne automated transfer vehicle spacecraft was successfully docked Thursday...
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Every year the pundits say, "This'll be the biggest year for blah blah blah..." Inauspicious start, guys and gals, with the ultimate creators of these projects still on strike: anything not already in the can or...
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Alain Ducasse has already taken haute cuisine to great heights, in
menus for the Concorde jet and for astronauts. But opening a restaurant
in the Eiffel Tower comes with its own challenges.
Though only
410 feet...
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Scientists say why explore outer space, when inner space is still relatively unknown?Now Public Readers interested in science may find this an interesting read, considering only 1% of our Worlds deep oceans have...
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"Today is Tuesday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2006. There are 47 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On Nov. 14, 1889, inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days....