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Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by ...





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Scientists prepare the Mini-Research Module 2 (MRM 2) "Poisk"

Rocket with new module for space station blasts off

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A Soyuz rocket carrying a new Russian-made module for the International Space Station blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan, television pictures showed.


Discovery is mated with external fuel tank

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 25, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space shuttle Discovery has been attached to its external fuel tank and rocket boosters in preparation for its launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla.


Space station gets new research module

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created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A cargo ship has delivered a Russian research module to the International Space Station.


Space station astronauts 'spacewalk' in airlock

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created Jun 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Two international space station crewmen squeezed into a small airlock Wednesday and moved a docking mechanism to accommodate a research module expected to arrive later this year.


Shuttle Discovery Launches With Japanese Laboratory

Shuttle Discovery Launches With Japanese Laboratory

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created Jun 01, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 5:02 p.m. EDT Saturday to deliver and install a Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station. The ...


No test needed for hand-foot genital syndrome in women without HOXA13 gene mutation

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hugh S. Taylor, M.D., professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences at Yale, and colleagues have found that women without mutations of the HOXA13 gene do not need to be subjected to x-rays ...


Station Crew Begins Spacewalk to Retrieve Soyuz Pyro Bolt

Station Crew Begins Spacewalk to Retrieve Soyuz Pyro Bolt

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 10, 2008 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

International Space Station Commander Sergei Volkov and Flight Engineer Oleg Kononenko began a spacewalk at 2:48 p.m. EDT Thursday to inspect and retrieve an explosive bolt from their Soyuz TMA-12. The bolt ...


NASA Prepares for First Unmanned Test of Orion

NASA Prepares for First Unmanned Test of Orion

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created Mar 12, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Returning humans to the moon by 2020 may seem like a distant goal, but NASA's Constellation Program already has scheduled the first test flight toward that goal to take place in less than 12 months.


Web site recreates Apollo 11 mission in real time

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Families crowded around black-and-white television sets in 1969 to watch Neil Armstrong take man's first steps on the moon.


NASA honors Apollo moon walker Buzz Aldrin

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created Mar 17, 2006 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA will honor former astronaut Buzz Aldrin for his involvement in the U.S. space program with the presentation of the Ambassador of Exploration Award.



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