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Shuttle Discovery passes up first landing try TuesdayHouston, Texas (AFP) April 20, 2010 The space shuttle Discovery passed up the first opportunity to land in Florida early Tuesday because of fog and rain showers at the Kennedy Space Center. NASA's Mission Control is now looking to a possible landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California, at 9:01 am (1301 GMT), where favorable weather was forecast, after passing up the 7:34 am (1134 GMT) Florida touchdown. There was also another opportunity to land at Kennedy at 9:08 am EDT (1308 GMT), if conditions improved. "The fog is hangi ... read more |
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Yuma AZ (SPX) Apr 19, 2010Under a brilliant early morning Arizona sky, NASA conducted a successful, record-breaking test of a drogue parachute being designed to return next-generation space vehicles safely to Earth. The 77,000-pound payload used in the test was dropped from the back of a U.S. Air Force C-17 at an altitude of 25,000 feet, setting a record for the heaviest single load ever extracted out of a C-17 dur ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Apr 19, 2010Through the study of a popular Martian meteorite's age, a University of Houston professor and his team have made significant discoveries about the timeline of volcanic activity on Mars. Thomas Lapen, assistant professor of geosciences at UH, describes his team's findings in a paper titled "A Younger Age for ALH84001 and its Geochemical Link to Shergottite Sources in Mars," appeared April 1 ... more  
Bangalore, India (AFP) April 15, 2010An Indian rocket showcasing domestically built booster technology crashed soon after take-off on Thursday in a blow to the country's space ambitions, officials said. The launch of the first Indian-made cryogenic powered rocket, a complex technology mastered by just five countries, failed soon after lift-off from India's space centre at Sriharikota in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh. ... more |
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Obama sets new course to conquer the final frontierKennedy Space Center, Florida (AFP) April 15, 2010 President Barack Obama Thursday set a bold new course for the future of US space travel, planning to send American astronauts into Mars orbit within the next three decades. And he sought to quell a storm of outrage which met earlier plans unveiled by his administration, vowing before NASA staff that he was "100 percent committed" to their mission and the US space agency's future. "As president, I believe that space exploration is not a luxury, it's not an afterthought in America's quest for a br ... read more |
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