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More delays for Discovery shuttle launchCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Nov 2, 2010 The launch of the shuttle Discovery was delayed until Thursday, the latest in a series of glitches that have set back its final mission to the International Space Station. An electrical malfunction forced the US space agency to announce Tuesday the third delay so far, this time due to a problem with a circuit-breaker in the shuttle's cockpit. The new launch time is set for 1929 GMT on Thursday (3:29 pm local time), but the weather forecast was gloomier than before, with just a 30 percent chance ... read more |
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  Using Planet Colors To Search For Alien Earths Earth is invitingly blue. Mars is angry red. Venus is brilliant white. Astronomers have learned that a planet's "true colors" can reveal important details. For example, Mars is red because its soil ... more | .. |
 Obama hails 'important milestone' in space exploration US President Barack Obama hailed the 10th anniversary of crews aboard the International Space Station on Tuesday as an "important milestone" in the history of human space exploration. ... more | .. |
  Where Is the New Horizons Centaur Stage When New Horizons launched at 2 p.m. Eastern time on January 19, 2006, its first Atlas V stage and solid rocket boosters fell back to Earth within minutes of launch, never entering orbit. New ... more | .. |
 Boeing Helps Prepare Space Shuttle Discovery Final Payload Boeing engineers and technicians are supporting Space Shuttle Discovery's final mission, in part by processing the shuttle's payload, which includes the last U.S. pressurized element to be delivered ... more |
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 Discovery Go For Wednesday Launch The Space Shuttle Program Mission Management Team voted unanimously to proceed toward Discovery's targeted liftoff at 3:52 p.m. Wednesday. Mike Moses, chair of the Prelaunch Mission Management team, ... more | .. |
 Shuttle Discovery counts down to final space voyage Discovery, the oldest space shuttle in NASA's fleet, is readying for its final mission Wednesday following repairs to leaks in a pressurization system that has twice delayed the launch. ... more | .. |
  The Fading Final Frontier We have all heard the expression "space, the final frontier." Over the past several decades the space age has matured, and the general public and the government have been pressed to address many oth ... more | .. |
 Slow-Motion Giants Carry Shuttles To The Pad For more than 40 years, the twin crawler-transporters at NASA's Kennedy Space Center have traveled the gravel track between the massive Vehicle Assembly Building and the two launch pads at Launch Co ... more |
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  China Goes To Mars As China's second Moon probe continues its mission, more information is being disclosed about China's ambitions for worlds beyond. China has made no secret of its plans to explore Mars, but we are g ... more | .. |
 Discovery's final home 'up in the air' As the space shuttle Discovery is prepared for its Wednesday launch on its final mission, uncertainty surrounds its eventual permanent home, U.S. officials say. ... more | .. |
  e2v To Develop Image Sensors For PLATO Exoplanet Mission e2v has been awarded a contract to develop a new Charge Coupled Device (CCD) imaging sensor by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) space scie ... more | .. |
  Moon Express Enters $30 Million Google Lunar X PRIZE Competition Moon Express has announced its official entry into the Google Lunar X PRIZE - a $30 million competition that challenges space professionals and engineers from across the globe to build and launch to ... more |
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  Witch's Brew Aids J-2X Engine Hardware Assembly Manufacturing of NASA's J-2X rocket engine includes a Halloween plunge into an icy cauldron of liquid nitrogen. Key components of the J-2X fuel turbopump, the rotating machinery that drives the liqu ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Keeps On Driving To Endeavour Crater Over the past week, Opportunity completed a short bump before the weekend and two long drives after the weekend. The short bump was a 3-meter (10-foot) move on Sol 2397 (Oct. 21, 2010), to position ... more | .. |
 Mars Volcanic Deposit Tells Of Warm And Wet Environment Roughly 3.5 billion years ago, the first epoch on Mars ended. The climate on the red planet then shifted dramatically from a relatively warm, wet period to one that was arid and cold. Yet there was ... more | .. |
  Cassini Sees Saturn Rings Oscillate Like Mini-Galaxy Scientists believe they finally understand why one of the most dynamic regions in Saturn's rings has such an irregular and varying shape, thanks to images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. And ... more |
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  Progress Docks On Auto Russian cargo transport vehicle Progress M-08M after a free flight for three days docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The contact of the docking unit of the ISS Russian Segment Pirs M ... more | .. |
 Astronauts4Hire Offers Limited Time High Profile Sponsorship Special For a limited time, Astronauts4Hire is offering a Sponsorship Special leading up to its inaugural mission testing the world's first beer brewed specifically for drinking in space. During this ... more | .. |
Ancient Mars Was Wet, Cozy And Life Friendly Light-colored mounds of a mineral deposited on a volcanic cone more than three billion years ago may preserve evidence of one of the most recent habitable microenvironments on Mars. Observatio ... more | .. |
 Energy Revolution Key To Complex Life The evolution of complex life is strictly dependent on mitochondria, the tiny power stations found in all complex cells, according to a new study by Dr Nick Lane, from the University College London ... more |
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  Advanced Ruggedized Robotic Exoskeleton Undergoes Validation Testing Lockheed Martin recently began laboratory testing of an improved next-generation design of its HULC advanced robotic exoskeleton. The testing brings HULC a step closer to readiness to support troops ... more | .. |
Robots are lords of the dance at South Korean festival "That's cool!" shouted a packed crowd as five dancing robots flashing red and blue lights started rocking and grooving to popular Korean songs. ... more | .. |
 Shuttle Discovery launch delayed to Wednesday: NASA The final scheduled mission of space shuttle Discovery was delayed another 24 hours to Wednesday as technicians struggled to repair leaks in a pressurization system, NASA said on Saturday. ... more | .. |
  Ariane 5 Lofts Dual Birds The fourth Ariane 5 mission of 2010 successfully delivered two telecommunications satellites to geostationary transfer orbit today, marking the 53rd flight for Arianespace's heavy-lift workhorse and ... more |
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