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NASA Tests Load Limits for Ares I Rocket Main Parachute

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and industry engineers conducted a design limit load test of the Ares I rocket's main parachute Oct. 8 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz. The Ares I is the first ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA to Test World's Largest Rocket Parachutes for Ares I

(PhysOrg.com) -- With Memorial Day just around the corner, NASA plans a spectacular aerial display May 20 of the newly designed parachute recovery system for its Ares I rocket. The centerpieces for the test ...

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created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NASA's Ares I Rocket First Stage Igniter Successfully Tested

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has completed a successful test firing of the igniter that will be used to start the Ares I rocket first stage motor.

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created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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Canada looks to the future in space

When it comes to space, the first thing most people think of is NASA. Or Russia and the European Space Agency, or even more recently, countries like China and Japan. In the public eye, Canada has tended to ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Aero-engineers debut open-source fluid dynamics design application

Each fall at technical universities across the world, a new crop of aeronautical and astronautical engineering graduate students settle in for the work that will consume them for the next several years. For many, their first ...

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Delay for space station's 1st private cargo run (Update)

The first commercial cargo run to the International Space Station is off until spring.

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created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Fear gone viral

If you were paying attention to the flap over two recent flu experiments involving ferrets, you may have come away with the impression that scientists all but waved a red flag in front of terrorists and said, "Here's a perfect ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Russian spacecraft to crash soon, risks unclear

(AP) -- A Russian space probe designed to burnish the nation's faded space glory in a mission to one of Mars' moons has turned into one of the heaviest, most toxic pieces of space junk ever.

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3

Russia hints at foul play in its space failures

The head of Russia's beleaguered space programme hinted on Tuesday that foreign powers may be behind the string of failures that struck his agency in the past year.

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 7

Doctors look to treat sick children in virtual worlds

Doctors in a domed laboratory in Canada are designing a virtual world where they hope to one day treat traumatized children with colorful avatars using toy-like medical gadgets.

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created Dec 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twin probes to circle moon to study gravity field

The moon has come a long way since Galileo first peered at it through a telescope. Unmanned probes have circled around it and landed on its surface. Twelve American astronauts have walked on it. And lunar ...

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created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (11) | comments 25

Delhi's air as dirty as ever despite some reforms

(AP) -- A decade ago, plans for a metro and clean-fuel buses were hailed as New Delhi's answer to pollution. But air in the Indian capital is as dirty as ever - partly because breakneck development has brought ...

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created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Russia space agency 'bans foreign travel'

They may be working to reach the final frontier, but employees of Russian space agency Roscosmos face going no further than Russia for their holidays.

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 8


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