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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
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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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Houston, Texas (AFP) July 31, 2009 The multinational crew of the space shuttle Endeavour prepared to return to Earth on Friday, following a marathon mission to the International Space Station. There was only a slight chance that rain showers near NASA's Kennedy Space Center runway in Florida might force the seven-member crew to spend an extra day in orbit, according to forecasters. "It's time to come back." said Endeavou ... more 
Houstin TX (SPX) Jul 31, 2009Twin satellite deployments and a check of the systems that will control Endeavour's return home to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, are on tap today as the shuttle leads the International Space Station in orbit. The crew was awakened at 1:03 a.m. CDT to the sounds of "I Got You Babe," performed by Sonny and Cher. The song was a special request for Koichi Wakata, the first Japan Aerospace ... more 
Galveston TX (SPX) Jul 30, 2009When the Apollo 11 crew got back from the moon, 40 years ago this week, they showed no ill effects from seven days spent in weightlessness. But as American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts began conducting longer-duration space flights, scientists noticed a disturbing trend: the longer humans stay in zero gravity, the more muscle they lose. Space travelers exposed to weightlessness for a ... more |
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