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| Storms Delay Shuttle Missions to Hubble, Space Station
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(Fri, 05 Sep 2008)
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| SPACE.com - NASA's
space shuttle Atlantis will blast off two days late next month due to delays
from recent storms that have also waylaid a planned November shuttle mission,
agency officials said Friday. |
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| Storms delay space shuttle launch to Hubble
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(Fri, 05 Sep 2008)
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 Reuters - Space shuttle Atlantis'
launch on a final mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope
has been delayed because of tropical storms, NASA said on
Friday.
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| NASA delays Hubble mission 2 days due to storms
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(Fri, 05 Sep 2008)
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 AP - NASA has delayed next month's space shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope by two days.
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| Mars Water Mystery Surfaces
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(Fri, 05 Sep 2008)
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| SPACE.com - New data from Mars' surface is
puzzling NASA scientists: A fork-like probe on the Phoenix Mars Lander has
sensed changes in humidity in the Martian air, but finds the dirt below
perplexingly dry. |
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| Space Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Launch Pad
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(Thu, 04 Sep 2008)
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| SPACE.com - NASA's
space shuttle Atlantis moved out to its Florida launch pad Thursday to prepare
for one last flight to the Hubble Space Telescope next month after weather concerns
related to Tropical Storm Hanna eased at the seaside spaceport. |
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| NASA seeks next Carl Sagan - and extraterrestrial life
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(Wed, 03 Sep 2008)
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 Reuters - The National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, famous for its manned missions to the moon,
announced the creation of the Carl Sagan Postdoctoral
Fellowships in Exoplanet Exploration on Wednesday.
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| NASA Holds Space Shuttle Move for Tropical Storm
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(Tue, 02 Sep 2008)
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 SPACE.com - NASA is
holding off on moving the space shuttle Atlantis to its Florida launch pad this
week to ensure it is not threatened by Tropical Storm Hanna, the agency said
Tuesday.
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| Report: NASA studies extending shuttle to 2015
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(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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| AP - NASA's staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent this week. |
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| NASA Studies Shuttle Program Extension, Fall Launch Delay
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(Fri, 29 Aug 2008)
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| SPACE.com - NASA is
taking a look at what might be required to postpone the retirement of its three
space shuttles until their Orion capsule replacement begins operational flight
in 2015, but only as a preparatory measure for Congress and the incoming president,
agency officials said Friday. |
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| Galactic clash sheds light on dark matter
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(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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 AFP - Space telescopes have captured images of a mammoth collision between two galaxy clusters that have shed some light into the universe's mysterious dark matter, NASA said.
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| Stuck Pin Delays Shuttle's Trek to Launch Pad
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(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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| SPACE.com - NASA engineers
successfully freed a stuck metal pin on the space shuttle Atlantis late Tuesday,
but the work delayed plans to roll the spacecraft out to its Florida launch pad
this week. |
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| Arrest reopens mystery of missing Calif. couple
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(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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 AP - Linda Sohus was a towering blonde fantasy buff who liked to paint unicorns. Her husband, Jonathan, was a diminutive computer programmer working at a NASA lab who shared his wife's passion for science fiction.
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| McCain to Bush: Keep Space Shuttle Options Open
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(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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| SPACE.com - WASHINGTON – Acknowledging that a NASA authorization bill is unlikely to be enacted this year, three Republican senators – including presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.) – have written President George W. Bush imploring him to direct NASA to hold off for at least a year taking any action that would preclude the agency from flying space shuttles beyond 2010. |
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| Scientists See Moon as Research Outpost, Training Ground
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(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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| SPACE.com - MOFFETT
FIELD, California One of the host of challenges facing NASA as the agency plans
to rekindle robotic and human exploration of the moon is the development of a
corps of investigators and technologies suitable for long-term missions akin to
the research stations that dot Antarctica. |
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| US-Russia chill threatens NASA space program
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(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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 AFP - The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said.
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| Suborbital Rocket Carrying NASA Experiments Crashes off Wallops Island
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(Fri, 22 Aug 2008)
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| SPACE.com - WASHINGTON
An Alliant Techsystems (ATK) ALV-X1 suborbital rocket carrying two NASA
hypersonic flight experiments was destroyed by range officials shortly after its
Friday launch from the U.S. space agency's Wallops Flight Facility on
Virginia's eastern shore. |
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| NASA destroys rocket after failed launch
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(Fri, 22 Aug 2008)
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| AP - NASA destroyed an unmanned experimental rocket carrying a pair of research satellites Friday when it veered off course shortly after an early morning liftoff. |
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| Report: More Support, Testing Needed for NASA Exploration
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(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| SPACE.com - The technology storehouse supporting
NASA's effort to launch astronauts back to the moon by 2020 is dependent on
proper funding and clear mission goals, but lacks a comprehensive testing plan,
according to a new report. |
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| Parachute Test Fails for NASA's New Spaceship
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(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| SPACE.com - A
mock-up of NASA's Orion space shuttle successor twisted, tumbled and fell from
thousands of feet up after a parachute failed to inflate properly during a July
31 test. |
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| Greenland Glacier Breakup Suggests Imminent Disintegration
(LiveScience.com)
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(Thu, 21 Aug 2008)
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| LiveScience.com - New satellite images reveal that a massive ice chunk recently broken away from one of Greenland's glaciers, which researchers say will continue to disintegrate within the next year.
Scientists at Ohio State University monitoring daily NASA satellite images of Greenland's glaciers discovered that an 11-square-mile (29-square-kilometer) piece of the Petermann Glacier broke away between July 10 and 24. The chunk was about half the size of Manhattan.
They announced their finding today. ... |
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