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China chooses first women astronautsBeijing (AFP) March 10, 2010 China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday. The women were part of a "second batch" of seven people who will take over manned space-flight duties from the nation's first generation of astronauts, Xinhua news agency quoted a former top space programme official as saying. The two women, who were not named in the report, were both pilots in the People's L ... read more |
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Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 09, 2010Satellite preparations for Ariane 5's initial launch of 2010 have moved into a new phase with the fueling of ASTRA 3B - which is one of two passengers to be orbited by the heavy-lift vehicle on March 24. Propellant loading of ASTRA 3B was performed in the Spaceport's S5 satellite preparation facility, readying this EADS Astrium-built spacecraft for integration with its Ariane 5 ECA launche ... more  
Tehran (UPI) Mar 8, 2009 As the United States and other powers mull tightening economic sanctions on Iran, Tehran says it has begin mass production of cruise missiles - just the thing to block the strategic Strait of Hormuz. Meantime, Iran's Fars news agency reports that the air force is taking delivery of a precision-guided bomb, identified as the 2,000-pound Qassed-1, Farsi for Herald, and that a new variant ... more  
Beijing, China (XNA) Mar 09, 2010A new heavy-thrust carrier rocket is under scientific research, with the goal of sending astronauts to the moon, scientists said. Although there is no official timetable yet for China's moon landing, scientists are researching a new powerful carrier rocket with a lift-off thrust of 3,000 tons, Liang Xiaohong, vice-president of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, told China Dail ... more |
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Biggest, Deepest Crater Exposes Hidden, Ancient MoonPasadena CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2010 Shortly after the Moon formed, an asteroid smacked into its southern hemisphere and gouged out a truly enormous crater, the South Pole-Aitken basin, almost 1,500 miles across and more than five miles deep. "This is the biggest, deepest crater on the Moon - an abyss that could engulf the United States from the East Coast through Texas," said Noah Petro of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. The impact punched into the layers of the lunar crust, scattering that material across the M ... read more |
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