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 Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 30, 2009 
The US shuttle Discovery chased the International Space Station Sunday to deliver a treadmill, food and a laboratory freezer to the orbiting outpost. As the shuttle raced toward the ISS, the astronauts conducted a routine inspection of Discovery's heat shield by maneuvering a sensor on a robotic arm to look for possible damage. The crew also checked the spacesuits that will be used for t ... read more 
Bangalore, India (AFP) Aug 29, 2009India's first moon mission, launched amid much fanfare last year, came to an abrupt end Saturday after controllers lost contact with the country's lunar craft, the national space agency said. India launched an unmanned satellite and put a probe on the moon's surface late last year in an event that the national space agency hoped would give the country international "brand recognition" in the ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Aug 29, 2009 Europe may buy a Soyuz spacecraft to try to ensure at least one European astronaut heads to space each year, officials say. Simonetta Di Pippo, director of human spaceflight for the European Space Agency, told the BBC the agency has asked Moscow if it could increase production of Soyuz spacecrafts from four to five a year. That could enable the ESA, possibly in a partnership with the ... more  
Pasadena CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2009The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of the sunshine at Spirit's location. The team operating the rover has responsively trimmed Spirit's daily activities and is keeping an eye on weather reports from observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbi ... more  
Houstin TX (SPX) Aug 28, 2009On Earth, we all know that exercise is good for us. But do we know exactly how good? The situation is similar on the International Space Station. Astronauts and cosmonauts have been working out on orbit for close to 10 years, and researchers believe the exercise is a good countermeasure for the bone and muscle density loss that occurs when humans live for a long time without gravity. But ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Aug 27, 2009When Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte flies as the latest tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) next month, he promises to bring a comic touch to the mission. Already his screen saver pictures his mission colleagues - US astronaut Jeffrey Williams and cosmonaut Maksim Surayev - in space suits and red clown noses, and he says he will bring six more clown snouts to those now ... more  
Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England (UPI) Aug 27, 2009 British scientists are trying to determine why a Jupiter-style planet orbiting close to its sun has not spiraled into the star and burned up. Wasp-18b is so close to the star Wasp-18 that it completes its orbit in less than an Earth-length day, astrophysicists at Keele University in Staffordshire say. In an article in Nature, they say standard astronomical theories hold the planet shoul ... more  
Seoul (AFP) Aug 26, 2009A satellite launched by South Korea's first space rocket fell to earth and burnt up after missing its designated orbit, officials said Wednesday. The science and technology ministry said the problem was caused by one of the two fairings which covered the satellite at the rocket's tip. Because one of them did not fall away from the rocket after opening, the rocket could not achieve en ... more |
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