Astronauts prepare to open station room
By LIZ AUSTIN PETERSON, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
HOUSTON - Wearing goggles and surgical masks, the commander of the international space station and an Italian astronaut on Saturday opened the hatch to christen the complex’s brand new room.
The grand opening came about a half hour ahead of […]
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Images: (Neptune) NASA via epsc.wustl.edu; (W) AP photo via britfilms.com
The Kennedy piece is here.
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REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA)
Malaysia’s Tooth King Breaks World Record
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 (Bernama) — Malaysia’s Tooth King, Rathakrishnan Velu broke a new world record today when he completed a successful attempt using his teeth to pull three Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB) commuter coaches, weighing 297.1 tonnes, for a distance of 2.8 metres.
The feat is his […]
Fly me to the moon: space hotel sees 2012 opening
By Pascale Harter Fri Aug 10, 1:21 PM ET
BARCELONA (Reuters) - “Galactic Suite,” the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes.
Its Barcelona-based architects say the space hotel will be […]
Posted on Thu, Jul. 26, 2007
Report: Astronauts drank before launch
By MARCIA DUNN
At least twice, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, an aviation weekly reported Thursday, citing a special panel studying astronaut health.
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The independent panel also found “heavy use of alcohol” […]
NASA Recycles Old Spacecraft for New Missions
Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
SPACE.com Wed Jul 4, 1:00 AM ET
Two NASA probes well past their prime have a fresh lease on life and new missions ahead, the space agency announced Tuesday.
The motherships for NASA’s completed Deep Impact and Stardust missions - which smacked one comet and returned samples from another […]
This still image from NASA video shows US space shuttle Atlantis Mission Specialist Danny Olivas working outside the International Space Station. The International Space Station Tuesday spread its new solar wings after astronauts of the US shuttle Atlantis wired them up during a space walk, television pictures broadcast by NASA showed.(AFP/NASA-HO)
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the bear idea was soon abandoned because the ursine tutors refused to allow the astronauts to eat, drink and leave their children at home while in the various spacecraft.
Astronauts Get a Tip from Hibernating Bears
Jeanna Bryner
Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Fri May 18, 6:30 PM ET
WASHINGTON—Stretch. Yawn. Ahhh. Black bears are just waking up from their winter […]
This artistic illustration released by the European Southern Observatory on Tuesday, April 24, 2007, shows the newly discovered planet Gliese 581 c orbiting the red dwarf star, Gliese 581. Astronomers believe that the newly discovered planet is potentially habitable. (AP Photo/European Southern Observatory)
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Potentially habitable planet found
By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer 2 hours, 31 minutes […]
by their failure to have ever noticed this body of water.
Wednesday, 14 March 2007, 09:51 GMT
Probe reveals seas on Saturn moon
By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News, Houston
Cassini radar image of the sea on Titan compared with image of Lake Superior
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Nasa’s Cassini probe has found evidence for seas, probably filled with liquid hydrocarbons, at […]