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![]() Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 8, 2010 The US space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six astronauts blasted into space on a mission to deliver a module dubbed Tranquility to the International Space Station. Endeavour lifted takeoff at 4:14 am (0914 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center here after a launch planned for Sunday was aborted due to heavy cloud cover over Cape Canaveral. George Diller, a spokesman for NASA said before launch the agency was cautiously optimistic that the weather would be better Monday morning. And it was as Endeavour undertook the last planned night launch for the space shuttle ahead of it's retirement later this year. ... read more |
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No Soup For You![]() For 80 years it has been accepted that early life began in a 'primordial soup' of organic molecules before evolving out of the oceans millions of years later. Today the 'soup' theory has been over turned in a pioneering paper in BioEssays which claims it was the Earth's chemical energy, from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, which kick-started early life. "Textbooks have it that life ... more 'NASA, ESA Want To Be Part Of Chandrayaan-II Mission' ![]() NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) want to be part of Chandrayaan-II, the next Indian mission to Moon, by sending their instruments, ISRO Chairman K Radhakrishnan said here today. Replying to a query whether NASA and ESA have sent proposals to ISRO to be part of Chandrayaan-II, expected in 2012 or 2013, by sending their instruments, Radhakrishnan told reporters, "They are all there actua ... more NASA Revises Bdget For Displaying Retired Shuttles ![]() NASA has issued a follow-up Request for Information, or RFI, for ideas from education institutions, science museums and other appropriate organizations about the community's ability to acquire and publicly display orbiters after the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. The original RFI in December 2008 noted that a potential shuttle recipient would have to pay an estimated $42 million ... more |
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![]() Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2010 China launched an orbiter into space early Sunday, the latest stage in the development of its own satellite navigation system, state media said. The orbiter, launched at about 00:12 am (1612 GMT Saturday) was the third orbiter that China has launched for its Beidou Navigation System, Xinhua news agency said. "(The orbiter) will join another two already in orbits to form a network which will eventually have a total of 35 satellites, capable of providing global navigation service to user ... read more |
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