News tagged with space walk
A chronology of China's space programme
China on Tuesday launched an unmanned spacecraft to carry out a key docking mission, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Gagarin's widow fetes space flight with US astronauts
Legendary astronauts, including a veteran of the US Apollo programme and the first man to walk in space Tuesday joined the widow of Yuri Gagarin in the Kremlin to remember his space flight 50 years ago.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 12, 2011 |
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Experiment volunteers 'walk on Mars' (Images)
Two volunteers cut off from the rest world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the dramatic half-way point of their experimental "voyage" to the Red Planet.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 14, 2011 |
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Experiment volunteers 'to land on Mars'
A group of volunteers will on Saturday reach a key stage in an unprecedented one-and-a-half year experiment to study the effects of a mission to Mars when they "land" on the Red Planet's surface.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 11, 2011 |
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China says manned space station possible around 2020
China said Wednesday that it planned to complete a manned space station around 2020, as the Asian nation pushes ahead with its ambitious space exploration programme.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 27, 2010 |
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Soviet, US astronauts mark 35 years since space handshake
Elderly US astronauts reunited with their Soviet-era counterparts in Moscow on Wednesday to mark the 35th anniversary of their epic "handshake in space" in 1975 at the height of the Cold War.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 21, 2010 |
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Soviet space dogs blast-off to animated immortality
In space, no one can hear you bark. Two mongrels named Belka and Strelka made history in 1960 when they went into orbit in a Soviet space ship and then returned to Earth -- the first animals ever to survive the trip.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2010 |
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Japan's 'space beer' sparkles among drinkers
A Japanese brewer has come up with a beer that's truly out of this world -- one made with barley grown from a line of seeds that once orbited the Earth aboard the International Space Station.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 07, 2009 |
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China to launch second lunar probe: state media
China will launch its second moon orbiter next October, state media reported Friday, as it powers ahead with a space programme that has sparked concerns abroad.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 27, 2009 |
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China breaks ground on space launch center
(AP) -- China broke ground on its fourth space center Monday, highlighting the country's soaring space ambitions six years after it sent its first man into orbit.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2009 |
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NASA uncovers cause of shuttle delay
Engineers from the US space agency NASA think they have discovered the cause of a hydrogen leak which twice delayed a high-profile shuttle launch this month, according to the agency.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 23, 2009 |
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