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 Seoul (AFP) Aug 1, 2009 
South Korea has rescheduled its first space rocket launch from its soil to August 11 after repeatedly postponing it due to technical reasons, officials said Saturday. The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology said South Korea and Russia, a co-builder of the rocket, set the new launch date after talks. "Both sides have set August 11 for blast-off," Kim Hong-Gab, a spokesman for th ... read more 
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 03, 20092009 will mostly be remembered by space enthusiasts as the 40th anniversary of the first Moonwalk. For me, there's a second but more personal anniversary. I'm celebrating ten years of watching China's exciting buy mysterious human spaceflight program. This has not been an easy or a conventional task, but it's certainly been rewarding. China launched its Shenzhou 1 spacecraft in 1999, publically ... more |
African Union climate summit says forming mining coalition
Press Release from Business Wire: Quectel Wireless Solutions Against the tide: Filipinos battle rising sea on sinking island Ethiopians dream of an electric car future Study warns US emissions progress may flatline Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks Smoke from 2023 Canada fires linked to thousands of deaths: study Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Press Release from Business Wire: International Treatment Solutions Group Top EU court upholds nuclear green label 
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Houston, Texas (AFP) July 31, 2009The shuttle Endeavour descended safely to Earth on Friday, ending a successful 16-day assembly mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with the final piece of Japan's Kibo science laboratory. The seven US, Canadian and Japanese astronauts aboard Endeavour touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:48 am (1448 GMT). There were concerns that early morning thunder ... more  
Houston, TX (AFP) Aug 03, 2009The shuttle Endeavour descended safely to Earth on Friday, spelling a feast of sushi and a clean pair of underpants for one Japanese crew member. Endeavour's seven member crew, including Japan's Koichi Wakata, touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:48 am (1448 GMT). Wakata, adjusting to Earth's gravity after more than four months of weightlessness, told reporters ... more  
Valencia, Spain (AFP) Aug 2, 2009Robots that can cook, dance to Michael Jackson songs or guide the blind are among the gadgets aimed at helping humans cope with illnesses on display in Spain at one of the world's biggest annual gatherings of new technology enthusiasts. Standing 58 centimetres (23 inches) tall and with a plastic shell for a body, a humanoid robot called Nao drew a crowd at the Campus Party in Valencia as it ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2009When President Kennedy announced on Sept. 12, 1962, that the United States would go to the moon before the end of the decade, life and work at NASA changed in monumental ways. By then, NASA had four manned spaceflights under its belt. A trip to the moon would leverage years of spaceflight knowledge, but traveling out of low Earth orbit, past Geosynchronous orbit to the moon, would demand increas ... more  
Oshkosh WI (SPX) Aug 03, 2009Aviation enthusiasts seek out certain destinations. There are Paris and Farnborough for the big international crowd, Kill Devil Hills, N.C. for the historians and Oshkosh, Wisc., for those who crave a look at aircraft that are a little different. For a week every summer a small airfield in central Wisconsin is an aviator's dream world. It's been that way for more than half a century, since ... more  
San Luis Obispo CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2009Fleet Management Solutions and Iridium Satellite have announced that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Detention and Removal (DRO) has selected FMS Iridium-based vehicle tracking and mobile resource management systems for deployment under a major initiative to optimize efficiency. The FMS tracking equipment and hosted Web software will improve asset readiness, enhance mis ... more |
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