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| Robot Ship Cleared to Dock With Space Station |
(Wed, 02 Apr 2008)
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| Managers of the International Space Station on Wednesday cleared Europe’s new Jules Verne cargo ship for its first docking with the orbiting research outpost. |
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| Shuttle Retirement May Bring Loss of 8,600 Jobs, NASA Says |
(Wed, 02 Apr 2008)
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| Hardest hit would be the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., which could lose 6,400 of its 8,000 contract workers by 2011. |
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| G. David Low, 52, Astronaut and Aerospace Executive, Dies |
(Mon, 31 Mar 2008)
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| Mr. Low flew three space shuttle missions and later became an executive in the space industry. |
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| Space Shuttle Completes 16-Day Mission, and Lands |
(Thu, 27 Mar 2008)
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| The space shuttle Endeavour’s mission was the longest flight to the International Space Station since construction of the station began. |
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| Star’s Dust May Hold Clue to New Planet |
(Wed, 26 Mar 2008)
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| Observations of a star 470 light years away see, for the first time in high resolution, what may be a planet forming. |
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| Company Plans Vehicle for Trips to Cusp of Space |
(Wed, 26 Mar 2008)
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| Xcor Aerospace’s co-founder said the first version would be flying by 2010 and reach an altitude of 38 miles. |
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| Observatory: Salt Deposits on Mars Appear to Be Like Those Seen in Earth’s Deserts |
(Mon, 24 Mar 2008)
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| Researchers have found evidence of chloride-bearing materials — in other words, salts — in the Martian southern highlands. |
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| Shuttle Undocks From Station |
(Mon, 24 Mar 2008)
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| The space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station parted ways on Monday evening after an emotional farewell ceremony. |
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| The Lede: NASA Elated by Orbital Putty |
(Fri, 21 Mar 2008)
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| When astronauts tried out the sticky stuff NASA developed to repair chips and gouges in the shuttle’s thermal skin, it seemed to work fine. |
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| Tests in Space on Repairing Shuttle Tiles |
(Fri, 21 Mar 2008)
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| For the first time in space, astronauts used a tool they call a “goo gun” for test repairs on tiles and panels that protect the space shuttle from the heat of re-entry. |
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| A Burst of Light From Halfway to the Beginning of the Universe |
(Fri, 21 Mar 2008)
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| Astronomers have spotted one of the largest examples yet of the explosions known as gamma-ray bursts in the constellation Bootës. |
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| Surf’s Down on Titan, 50 Miles Below the Surface, Scientists Say |
(Fri, 21 Mar 2008)
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| New calculations suggest that Saturn’s moon has an under-ice ocean that is a mix of water and ammonia. |
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| Stuff of Life (but Not Life Itself) Is Detected on a Distant Planet |
(Thu, 20 Mar 2008)
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| Astronomers reported Wednesday that they had made the first detection of an organic molecule, methane, in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system. |
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| National Briefing | SCIENCE: Up and Running in Space |
(Sat, 15 Mar 2008)
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| The new Canadian robot for the International Space Station, known as Dextre, had been unable to draw power from the station. |
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| What a Star’s Orbiting Disk Is Made Of |
(Fri, 14 Mar 2008)
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| Researchers are reporting that they have determined what is in the protoplanetary disk surrounding the star known as KH 15D. |
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| Cassini Gets a Cool Shower From an Ice-Spewing Moon |
(Wed, 12 Mar 2008)
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| NASA’s Cassini spacecraft had a deliberate near-miss with Enceladus on Wednesday afternoon, passing about 30 miles above its surface. |
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| Shuttle Is Carrying Laboratory and Robot to Space Station |
(Wed, 12 Mar 2008)
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| The space shuttle Endeavour made its way toward the International Space Station on Tuesday after launching from Cape Canaveral, Fla. |
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| A Space Robot With Arms to Make R2D2 Jealous |
(Tue, 11 Mar 2008)
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| The space shuttle takes off on Tuesday with a robot named Dextre in its cargo bay, which will be assembled during three of the mission’s five scheduled spacewalks. |
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| Kissing the Earth Goodbye in About 7.59 Billion Years |
(Fri, 14 Mar 2008)
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| What exactly will happen to our planet when an aging Sun expands and brightens? |
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| Q & A: The Planet Club |
(Mon, 10 Mar 2008)
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| I am perplexed by the sentence chosen by National Geographic to help remember eight planets and three dwarf planets. |
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| Gauging Age of Universe Becomes More Precise |
(Sun, 09 Mar 2008)
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| Two additional years of data from a NASA satellite have narrowed the uncertainty in the age of the universe by tens of millions of years. |
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| Shuttle Is Set for an ‘Exciting Mission’ |
(Sun, 09 Mar 2008)
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| The shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to light up the skies over Florida early Tuesday, kicking off a busy 16-day mission to the International Space Station. |
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| George B. Litchford Sr., 89, Aviation Inventor, Is Dead |
(Mon, 10 Mar 2008)
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| Mr. Litchford had a vital role in the development of the collision warning system now used on every airliner in the United States. |
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| Ideas & Trends: Please Call Earth. We Still Haven’t Found You. |
(Sun, 02 Mar 2008)
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| You might think we have made some headway in finding extraterrestrial life since the dawn of the space age. But you would be wrong. |
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| The Moon’s Craggiest Stretch Comes Into Focus |
(Thu, 28 Feb 2008)
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| New images of the Moon’s south polar region reveal spectacularly rugged terrain. |
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| Starship Kimchi: A Bold Taste Goes Where It Has Never Gone Before |
(Sun, 24 Feb 2008)
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| South Korea has devoted several years and millions of dollars to make a cabbage dish suitable to go into space with its first astronaut in April. |
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