" Payette, 45, and her team are headed for a 16-day mission focusing mostly on construction. The crew will complete the assembly of the $1-billion U.S. Japanese Kibo science laboratory aboard the orbiting...
Intresting finding of Hubble, the presence of carbondioxide can be connecting link between the existance of biological life as dies on earth."NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered carbon dioxide in the...
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"On Nov. 18, 2008, spacewalking astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper dropped her backpack-sized toolbag and it floated away from the International Space Station. The errant bag, about as big as a hiker's...
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" A day after landing India’s first probe instrument on the surface of the moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) was on Saturday getting ready to activate eight other scientific instruments on board the country’s first unmanned lunar spacecraft,...
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"Mission managers said Monday that they had not heard from the NASA spacecraft for a week and that they thought it had probably fallen quiet for good.“At this time, we’re pretty convinced that the vehicle is...
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"Orbiting satellite to help count California rats" FRESNO, California (AP) -- Scientists plan to use satellite photos to count Giant Kangaroo Rats, the first-ever monitoring of an endangered species from outer space. ...
"It's just a matter of time before Earth's twin can be found, scientists say. And they believe it is surely hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy. Momentum is building: Just last week, astronomers...
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Although they've become "routine," a spacewalk is anything but. The training and preparations for becoming a spacewalker are arduous. The work is always risky. There's no such thing as just "dinging" your thumb while doing construction work outside a space shuttle or the...
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Boston, Massachusetts (ANTARA News) - Planets resembling Earth can be found orbiting many sun-like stars in our galaxy, increasing the prospects of finding extraterrestial life on some of them, according to a study released Sunday.University of Arizona astronomer Michael...
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"Astronauts on Monday installed the European space laboratory Columbus on the orbiting International Space Station, giving Europe an important foothold for the deeper exploration of space.
"The European Columbus module is officially part of the International Space Station,"...
"The U.S. space agency is planning a mission to better understand a mysterious form of energy in the cosmos and an ambitious unmanned journey to the outer solar system, NASA officials said.
NASA would initiate seven new science missions in fiscal year 2009 that starts Oct. 1...
I've always been a bit of an atronomy nerd so this is pretty interesting. Basically a black hole is shooting radiation and energy towards a nearby galaxy. I wonder, if there was sound in space, would it sound like...
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"NASA has a long history of bringing mementos from Earth aboard space shuttles to drum up interest for the sometimes painfully slow process of constructing the orbiting International Space Station. In June the...
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"It's the ultimate high, orbiting 210 miles above the Earth in the space shuttle watching the planet whip by at 17,500 mph and listening to your favorite music.
Every astronaut on the space shuttle Endeavour has an iPod. NASA certified the MP3 players for flight about a year...
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"Britain could soon be going to the moon under plans submitted to the body which funds UK space exploration, it has been reported.
A study conducted for the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council...