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Endeavour's Orbiting Tool Bag Can Be Seen Using 10 x 50 Binoculars
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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 ...
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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
CU-Boulder team to build $34 million instrument package for environmental satellite
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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 ...
Google launches online flu shot finder
Nov 11, 2009 |
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Google on Tuesday launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States.
VLBA Movies Reveal New Details of Cosmic Jets
Jan 08, 2008 |
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Astronomers have known for decades that supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies can shoot out jets of subatomic particles at tremendous speeds. However, details about the physics of such jets, including how they ...
Japan's first lunar probe ends mission
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Jun 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Japan's first lunar probe made a controlled crash landing on the moon Thursday, successfully completing a 19-month mission to study the Earth's nearest neighbor, Japan's space agency said.
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