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NASA - Kepler Mission Detects Exoplanet AtmosphereNASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities. The discovery will be published Friday in the journal Science. "As NASA's first exoplanets mission, Kepler has made a ...
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Astronauts return from space to sushi overload - Yahoo! NewsKoichi Wakata was still getting used to gravity, though it wasn't going to stop him from diving into a deluge of sushi. Huge amounts of the delicacy awaited the Japanese astronaut Friday after he returned to Earth aboard shuttle Endeavour with six other astronauts. Wakata, the first Japanese ...
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July 24, 1950: America Gets a Spaceport | This Day In Tech | Wired.comJuly 24, 1950: America Gets a Spaceport 1950: Cape Canaveral, Florida, launches its first rocket. Cape Canaveral , a name that would become synonymous with the U.S. space program by the late ’50s, was just an obscure spit of land jutting into the Atlantic Ocean along Florida’s eastern ...
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Spacewalkers pull off toughest Hubble repairs yetSpacewalking astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a more commanding view of the cosmos by installing a new high-tech instrument Saturday, then pulled off their toughest job yet: fixing a broken camera. It was the third spacewalk in as many days for the shuttle Atlantis crew and the most ...
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Astronaut Chef Redefines Cooking on HighYahoo! Search web search Astronaut Chef Redefines Cooking on High Buzz Up Send Share Print Reuters – Space Station crew member Sandra Magnus, who has been aboard the station for more than four months, holds … Tariq Malik Senior Editor SPACE.com tariq Malik senior Editor ...
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Space station's wings get a lift from robot armsAstronauts used a pair of robotic cranes to unpack the International Space Station's last set of solar wing panels from shuttle Discovery's cargo bay on Wednesday, part of three-day task to bring the orbital outpost up to full power. Installing the power system is the primary purpose of NASA's ...
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The Day The Sun Brought DarknessThe Day The Sun Brought Darkness ScienceDaily (Mar. 16, 2009) — On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because this one was caused ...
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2 big satellites collide 500 miles over Siberia2 big satellites collide 500 miles over Siberia Two big communications satellites collided in the first-ever crash of two intact spacecraft in orbit, shooting out a pair of massive debris clouds and posing a slight risk to the international space station NASA said it will take weeks to ...
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Kepler spacecraft to hunt Earth-like worlds - Space.com- msnbc.comNASA's Kepler space telescope, a sharp-eyed spacecraft designed to hunt for Earth-like planets, is ready to ship out for an early March launch. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. — the Boulder, Colo.-based NASA contractor responsible for developing the Kepler flight system and supporting ...
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Slashdot | Pieces Coming Together For NASA's New SpacecraftReader coondoggie notes that NASA is also looking further afield, putting out the call for ideas on moon colonization. They'll be offering a variety of grants for projects which facilitate human activities that are "not reliant on Earth's resources
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