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Discovery blasts off for International Space StationCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) April 5, 2010 The US space shuttle Discovery blasted off at dawn Monday toward the International Space Station for a mission that will put more women in orbit than ever before. Discovery lifted off from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida at 6:21 am (1021 GMT) as scheduled. The two booster rockets, which account for 80 percent of the shuttle's lift during takeoff, peeled away as planned 120 seconds after the launch. They fell into the Atlantic Ocean, where they will be subse ... read more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 2, 2010Three astronauts blasted off Friday for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Russian rocket as the clock ticks down to the retirement of the US space shuttle later this year. The Soyuz rocket lifted off on schedule from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppe at 0404 GMT carrying US astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyen ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 29, 2010This image shows NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched on the edge of "Concepcion" crater in Meridiani Planum, Mars. The image was acquired by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on February 13, 2010, during the 2,153rd Martian day, or sol, of Opportunity's mission on Mars. Concepcion crater is a fresh crater, 10 ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 2, 2010A US government spokesman on Friday made light of Venezuela's pursuit of cooperation with Russia on space, saying that the South American nation would do better to look at "terrestrial" concerns. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is visiting Latin America's largest oil producer for talks with leftist firebrand leader Hugo Chavez in a bid to deepen military, energy and financial relations ... more |
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Dawn Sailing Smoothly Through The Asteroid BeltPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 01, 2010 Dawn continues patiently forging through the asteroid belt, its permanent residence, as it climbs away from Earth and the Sun. Having thrust with its ion propulsion system for more than 1.5 years, the spacecraft remains healthy and on target for its rendezvous with alien worlds. Our interplanetary adventurer still has a great deal of ion thrusting to complete before it can begin its orbital exploration of Vesta next year. Although it will suspend thrusting for a few weeks this summer to cond ... read more |
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