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 Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 27, 2009 
NASA will wait until late Friday to make its fourth attempt to launch the space shuttle Discovery so mission specialists can review tests on a faulty valve, after a week of false starts for the US space agency. The decision to make the launch attempt a minute before midnight (0359 GMT Saturday), nearly a day later than planned, was issued after experts reviewed tests on a liquid hydrogen ... read more 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 27, 2009NASA on Thursday delayed the debut test of the first stage motor of the Ares 1 rocket, the launch vehicle for the space shuttle's successor, Orion, the space agency said. The static test, which was supposed to have been conducted at NASA's Promontory test center in Utah, was postponed indefinitely following a problem in an auxiliary motor that supplied hydraulic pressure, a NASA official sai ... more
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Aug 27, 2009NASA on Thursday delayed the launch of the space shuttle Discovery until 0359 GMT Saturday so mission specialists could review tests on a faulty valve, the US space agency said. The decision to make the launch attempt nearly 24 hours later than planned was issued after experts reviewed tests on a liquid hydrogen fill-and-drain valve that malfunctioned earlier in the week in Discovery's main ... more  
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 |
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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
Washington (AFP) Aug 27, 2009Initial testing on a malfunctioning valve that grounded the space shuttle Discovery is encouraging and countdown will resume Thursday ahead of the next launch attempt, NASA said. "There is no issue in the initial testing," Kennedy Space Center spokesman Allard Beutel told AFP late Wednesday. Engineers, he said, commanded the liquid hydrogen fill-and-drain valve in Discovery's main propul ... more  
Seoul, South Korea (Yonhap) Aug 26, 2009Naro Space Center aims to become the cradle of South Korea's aspirations to build up its nascent aerospace sector, the state-run think tank operating the facility said Tuesday. Located 485km south of Seoul, the sprawling complex covering 5.07 million square meters was built at a cost of 312.4 billion won (US$251.4 million), with construction beginning in January 2005, the Korea Aerospace ... more |
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