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Astronauts outfit space station observation deckWashington (AFP) Feb 14, 2010 Endeavour shuttle astronauts wrapped-up a near six-hour spacewalk early Sunday, installing fluid tubes to the landmark observation deck on the International Space Station. US astronaut Bob Behnken and British-born Nicholas Patrick used their second spacewalk of the mission - which NASA said had been extended by a day - to connect two ammonia loops to the new Tranquility node, hooking it to the International Space Station's cooling system. Behnken, Patrick and others aboard the ISS have so far ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Jan 17, 2010China 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 users around the world around 2020. ... more  
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 12, 2010Two NASA astronauts were readying to undertake a second spacewalk Saturday to complete work on a seven-windowed observation dome aboard the International Space Station. Crew members from the shuttle Endeavour and space station entered the newly set-up Tranquility node and cupola late Friday, but the dome's window shutters remained closed, denying astronauts the first spectacular panoramic vi ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 12, 2010US President Barack Obama's fortunes will sink further and nuclear threats will grow, but the world economy will bounce back in the turbulent Year of the Tiger, Chinese soothsayers predict. "Obama will start going downhill this year. He will not be able to achieve much," said Peter So, one of Hong Kong's celebrity feng shui masters peering into the future as the Lunar New Year rolls around o ... more |
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Layers Piled In A Mars Crater Record A History Of ChangesPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2010 Near the center of a Martian crater about the size of Connecticut, hundreds of exposed rock layers form a mound as tall as the Rockies and reveal a record of major environmental changes on Mars billions of years ago. The history told by this tall parfait of layers inside Gale Crater matches what has been proposed in recent years as the dominant planet-wide pattern for early Mars, according to a new report by geologists using instruments on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. "Looking at the ... read more |
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