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Shuttle Discovery in 'good shape' for final flightWashington (AFP) Feb 21, 2011 Countdown to the final mission for the US space shuttle Discovery has begun, with NASA confident that fuel tank cracks are fixed and the shuttle is ready for its 39th and last launch on Thursday. The aging shuttle is "in good shape," NASA test director Jeff Spaulding said Monday, and the weather forecast was 80 percent favorable for pleasant conditions at launch time, 4:50 pm (2150 GMT) on February 24. NASA experts have repeatedly voiced confidence in repairs that shored up the brackets on the e ... read more |
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  'Wandering' planets may have water, life Liquid water may be found on planets that have gone adrift from their stars and may have acted as stepping stones to spread cosmic life, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
  ESA Astronaut Luca Parmitano Assigned To 2013 Space Station Mission ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano has been assigned to fly on the International Space Station from May to November 2013, serving as a flight engineer for Expeditions 36 and 37. Recently qualified a ... more | .. |
  The Patterns Of Life Are Universal When people on airplanes ask Alan Newell what he works on, he tells them "flower arrangements." He could also say "fingerprints" or "sand ripples" or "how plants grow." "Most patterns yo ... more | .. |
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  Google Lunar X Prize Roster Reaches 29 Teams Today, the X PRIZE Foundation announced the official roster of 29 registered teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE, an unprecedented competition to send a robot to the Moon that t ... more | .. |
 84 Student Teams Set to Roll At 18th Annual NASA Great Moonbuggy Race Forty years after the first lunar rover rolled across the moon's surface, 84 teams of enterprising future engineers will demonstrate the same ingenuity and can-do spirit at the 18th annual NASA Grea ... more | .. |
 Kepler Triples ExoPlanet Count As Search For Biosphere 2 Intensifies The rush of data released earlier this month from the Kepler science team is intriguing for what it saw and didn't see in its first 4 months of observations. The relatively small Kepler space telesc ... more | .. |
  China Mars probe set for November launch China's first Mars probe will be launched from a Russian rocket in November, two years later than originally planned, state media reported Monday. ... more |
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North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined'
ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent
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 Back To The Roots Of The Solar System Planets form in disks of dust and gas that surround young stars. A look at the birth places means a journey into the past of the earth and its siblings. Now, astronomers have been able to obtain det ... more | .. |
  Advanced NASA Instrument Gets Close-up On Mars Rocks NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, will carry a next generation, onboard "chemical element reader" to measure the chemical ingredients in Martian rocks and soil. The instrument is one ... more | .. |
  A Solar System Family Portrait, From the Inside Out What would our solar system look like if visitors from other worlds took a series of pictures? NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft did just that by piecing together the first portrait of our solar sys ... more | .. |
 Good Health Report After Hiatus In Communications Opportunity emerged from the solar conjunction in good order. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the two ... more |
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 NASA Sets Launch Date For Space Shuttle Discovery Mission Space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to begin an 11-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 4:50 p.m. EST on Thursday, Feb. 24, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. T ... more | .. |
  Cassini To Sample Magnetic Environment Around Titan NASA's Cassini spacecraft is set to skim close to Saturn's moon Titan on Friday, Feb. 18, to learn about the interaction between Titan and Saturn's magnetosphere, the magnetic bubble around the plan ... more | .. |
  Can WISE Find The Hypothetical Tyche In Distant Oort Cloud In November 2010, the scientific journal Icarus published a paper by astrophysicists John Matese and Daniel Whitmire, who proposed the existence of a binary companion to our sun, larger than Jupiter ... more | .. |
  One Month Until Mercury Orbit Insertion After more than a dozen laps through the inner solar system, NASA's Messenger spacecraft will move into orbit around Mercury on March 17, 2011. The durable spacecraft - carrying seven science instru ... more |
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New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea
Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands
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  High NOON For Microwave Photons An important milestone toward the realization of a large-scale quantum computer, and further demonstration of a new level of the quantum control of light, were accomplished by a team of scientists a ... more | .. |
 ISS Partners Mull Unique Photo-Op The international space station (ISS) partners are currently discussing a possibility to stage an extraordinary photo opportunity in March that would yield photo and video images of the space statio ... more | .. |
 Bolden to announce fate of shuttles NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden says he will decide by this spring where the agency's three shuttle orbiters will be housed in their retirement. ... more | .. |
  SpaceX to focus on astronaut capsule Commercial space company SpaceX says it has put off development of its Falcon rocket to focus on its Dragon capsule intended to take astronauts into orbit. ... more |
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 Experiment volunteers take 2nd 'walk on Mars' Astronauts on a simulated flight to Mars made a second walk on a mock-up of the Red Planet's surface in Russia Friday, collecting soil samples for analysis. ... more | .. |
NASA set for Feb 24 Discovery shuttle launch The space shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch on February 24 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, its last flight before being retired as the US shuttle program winds down, NASA said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Obama vows US will 'out-hustle' world President Barack Obama vowed Friday to make America "the best place on Earth to do business," making his case for investments that have sparked a raging budget battle with Republicans. ... more | .. |
As US cuts back, China aims to be top at science China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world, overtaking the United States and European nations, researchers at a US science conference said Friday. ... more |
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Durham scientists validate superconducting wires for ITER fusion project
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 Space Operations Inc Announces First Orbital Manned Commercial Spacecraft Operational By 2012 Space Operations, Inc. has announced plans to build a two-seat manned orbital spacecraft for commercial and government use. The company plans a test launch on February 20, 2012, with a regular fligh ... more | .. |
 Europe's ATV Johannes Kepler Supply Ship On Its Way To Space Station ESA's second Automated Transfer Vehicle, Johannes Kepler, has been launched into its targeted low orbit by an Ariane 5. The unmanned supply ship is planned to deliver critical supplies and reboost t ... more | .. |
  Southampton Scientists Develop Control System To Allow Spacecraft To Think For Themselves The world's first control system that will allow engineers to programme autonomous satellites and spacecraft to think for themselves has been developed by scientists from the University of Southampt ... more | .. |
 Direct Images Of Disks Unravel Mystery Of Planet Formation The fruits of the Strategic Explorations of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru (SEEDS) project, led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), continue with another remar ... more |
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 Waiter, There's Metal In My Moon Water Bring a filter if you plan on drinking water from the moon. Water ice recently discovered in dust at the bottom of a crater near the moon's south pole is accompanied by metallic elements like mercur ... more | .. |
 Shenzhou 8 Mission Could Top Three Weeks The next flight of China's Shenzhou spacecraft will last somewhere between 20 and 22 days, according to German sources. The information was relayed to SpaceDaily by a communications officer at DLR, ... more | .. |
 Japan eyes humanoid robot mission in space Japan's space agency is planning a mission to send a humanoid robot to space so that it can communicate with people on Earth through Twitter, an agency official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Former Spy Chapman May Participate In Creation Of Uniform For Space Industry Former spy Anna Chapman wants to participate in the designing of a uniform for ground specialists of Russian space centers, Gagarin Astronaut Training Center's chief astronaut Sergei Krikalev said o ... more |
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