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Endeavour's Orbiting Tool Bag Can Be Seen Using 10 x 50 Binoculars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 27, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Endeavor astronaut Heidi Stefanyshyn-Piper's loss has turned out to be an amateur star gazers' event of the season. The $100,000 tool bag slipped out of her reach and floated into space while ...
India abandons satellite after losing contact
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2009 |
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(AP) -- India's space agency has abandoned the country's only satellite orbiting the moon after efforts to revive communication with it failed, an official said Monday.
Astronauts take mission's 3rd and final spacewalk
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Sep 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Two spacewalking astronauts took on cable and antenna work at the international space station Saturday in their final trek outside, but encountered last-minute difficulty with a connector and had ...
$21 Billion Orbiting Solar Array will Beam Electricity to Earth
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Japanese are preparing to develop a two trillion yen (approximately $21 billion USD) space solar project that will beam electricity from space in the form of microwaves or lasers to around ...
Circus founder calls his trip to space a success
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Oct 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte on Tuesday called his 10-day space mission "a great success" because it drew attention to his efforts to guarantee access to clean water worldwide.
Dirty stars make good solar system hosts (w/ Video)
Oct 06, 2009 |
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Some stars are lonely behemoths, with no surrounding planets or asteroids, while others sport a skirt of attendant planetary bodies. New research published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explains why the co ...
NASA offers online space station guide
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Jul 19, 2007 |
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The International Space Station is now accessible in cyberspace, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced Thursday.
Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star ...
NASA weighs repair of jammed pin in third spacewalk
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Mar 22, 2009 |
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Discovery astronauts prepared for a third and final spacewalk Monday, with a busy to-do list that may include unsticking a jammed restraint pin used to clamp a toolbox to the outside of the International ...
Researcher hunts for new planets, seeking clues on solar system's origin
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cornell assistant professor of astronomy works on instrumentation that searches the night skies for planets outside our solar system, called extrasolar planets.
ISS crew stows items brought by Discovery
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Dec 30, 2006 |
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International Space Station residents spent the week processing more than two tons of materials left by the space shuttle Discovery, U.S. officials said.
ISS Crew Checks Out Spacesuits
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Jul 27, 2006 |
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Flight Engineers Jeff Williams and Thomas Reiter have conducted a system check of their spacesuits and checked out tools to be used during the Aug. 3 spacewalk. One of their key tasks was familiarization by Williams and Reiter ...
Scientists discover giant Rydberg atom molecules
Jun 24, 2009 |
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A group of University of Oklahoma researchers led by Dr. James P. Shaffer, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered giant Rydberg molecules with a bond as large as a red blood cell. Determining ...
CU-Boulder team to build $34 million instrument package for environmental satellite
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 13, 2008 |
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A $34 million solar instrument package to be built by the University of Colorado at Boulder, considered a crucial tool to help monitor global climate change, has been restored to a U.S. government satellite ...
Space station astronauts: Big family in full house
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Jun 01, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Life on board the international space station is busier and more crowded now that it's a full house.
