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ATK Orion Launch Abort Offers Unmatched Crew Safety For Human Space FlightMinneapolis MN (SPX) Mar 22, 2010 Alliant Techsystems has completed the second of two ground tests of a full-scale attitude control motor (ACM) for the launch abort system (LAS) of NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle. The second test was conducted on March 17, and evaluated environment extremes and ignition system robustness in addition to confirming the motor performance. The test was conducted at ATK's facility in Elkton, Maryland, where the first successful test was conducted on December 15, 2009. Lockheed Martin, the p ... read more |
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Star City (AFP) March 19, 2010Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov brandished a small toy duck Friday as he and his crewmates prepared to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) in April. The tiny toy was picked out by his daughter as an impromptu "weightlessness sensor," said Skvortsov, who will take off from Baikonur on April 2 along with fellow Russian Mikhail Korniyenko and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-D ... more  
Sao Paulo (AFP) March 19, 2010Brazilian surgeons used a multi-armed robot to repair a hole in a woman's heart in the first operation of its kind in Latin America, they told AFP Friday. Robinson Poffo, one of the surgeons involved, said the procedure was performed on a 35-year-old patient this week at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo. "There was a hole between the right side and left side of the heart. We cor ... more 
Moscow (AFP) March 19, 2010In 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. Half a century on, the two dogs are the stars of a full-length Russian cartoon feature, "Belka and Strelka: Star Dogs," which tells the true story of their iconic space miss ... more |
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China rising in battle for Central Asia influenceBishkek (AFP) March 21, 2010 The United States wants to win supremacy to support troops for a prolonged conflict in nearby Afghanistan. Russia sees the region as its own backyard where its right for influence dates back centuries. But in the modern-day Great Game battle for influence in the strategic region of Central Asia, it is China who is stealing a march on the two Cold War-era superpowers with its vast chequebook, analysts say. China has been using the twin distractions of the Afghan war and Russia's financial woes to ... read more |
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