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Astronauts have been forced to take extra decontamination procedures after encountering a toxic amonia leak during a spacewalk to connect the International Space Station's new…
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Wednesday, 31 January 2007 23:19
Big Bang theory gets more competition from an endless cycle universe theory
Theoretical physicists from the University of North Carolina suggest that the universe was not created in a Big Bang but, rather, expands and contracts in…
Wednesday, 31 January 2007 05:14
ISS astronauts perform spacewalks to speed assembly of space station
Beginning January 31, 2007, International Space Station (ISS) crew members will perform a series of spacewalks in order to help the Space Shuttle astronauts assemble…
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The nearly five-year-old Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope shut down at about 7:34 a.m. EST on Saturday, January 27, 2007,…
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A European Space Agency trial has shown that PDAs are suitable platforms for 'real' applications used by astronauts, not just personal or entertainment software.
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The ESA-led unmanned Rosetta spacecraft launched to study two asteroids and one comet will do a Mars fly-by on February 25, 2007. Later, the spacecraft…
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On the morning of January 28, 1986, a cold weather front was stuck over Georgia and the decision to launch STS 51-L was on the…
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Scientists at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center have been designing, developing, and testing microshutters that will be placed on the James Webb Space Telescope.…
Friday, 26 January 2007 09:23
Mars Express scientists think Mars might have plenty of water underground
The Mars Express spacecraft, from the European Space Agency (ESA), has indicated to scientists that the dry atmosphere and surface on the planet Mars does…
The COROT telescope put into orbit to help find rocky planets in other solar systems has been successfully opened and its first observations have lived…
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