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US shuttle mission to ISS extended
Washington (AFP) Oct 30, 2007NASA said on Tuesday it would extend the space shuttle Discovery's mission by one day to allow for a closer inspection of a flawed rotary joint that turns the solar arrays aboard the International Space Station. The decision was taken by the director of the orbiting space lab, Mike Suffredini, on Monday and relayed Tuesday to the Discovery crew by mission control in Houston. As the US sp ... more Spirit Continues Studies Of Rocks On Home Plate 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007Spirit is healthy and continues to investigate "Home Plate." After completing extensive studies of "Site 3" using the Moessbauer spectrometer and other instruments, the rover proceeded toward "Site 4." Meanwhile, it's already time for Spirit to start thinking about winter again. Over the coming weekend, the rover was scheduled to acquire long-baseline stereo images of Home Plate and surrounding ... more Phoenix: Tasks En Route To Mars Include Course Tweak And Gear Checks 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2007NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, launched on Aug. 4 and headed to Mars, fired its four trajectory correction thrusters Wednesday for only the second time. The 45.9-second burn nudged the spacecraft just the right amount to put it on a course to arrive at the red planet seven months from today. At Mars, Phoenix will face a challenging 7-minute descent through the atmosphere to land in the far no ... more Astronauts find damage on space station 
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2007US astronauts completed the second of five spacewalks Sunday, shifting around a key piece of equipment but also finding a problem with mechanisms supporting an energy unit at the International Space Station. Damage was discovered in a joint supporting the station's solar arrays, a problem that NASA engineers will now have to solve. US astronaut Daniel Tani noticed metal shavings and unusual ... more If We Had No Moon 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2007The Earth has a large moon, making it unique in the inner solar system. Mercury and Venus have no moons, and Mars has only two small asteroid-sized objects orbiting it. In this essay, the father of the SMART-1 lunar mission, Bernard Foing of the European Space Agency, looks at the effect the Moon has had on the Earth, and explores how different our world would be if we had no planetary companion ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Oct 25, 2007The US shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station on Thursday for a complex construction mission to pave the way for the installation of European and Japanese laboratories. The mission is also making space exploration history as shuttle Commander Pam Melroy, 46, and the station's crew chief, Peggy Whitson, 47, became the first women to hold the reins of the two spacecraft ... more Asia's space race heats up as China launches first lunar orbiter 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 24, 2007Asia's space race heated up on Wednesday as China launched its first lunar orbiter, an event hailed in the world's most populous nation as a milestone event in its global rise. China's year-long expedition, costing 1.4 billion yuan (184 million dollars), kicks off a programme that aims to land an unmanned rover on the moon's surface by 2012 and put a man on the moon by about 2020. The la ... more US shuttle blasts off on key space station mission 
Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Oct 23, 2007US space shuttle Discovery blasted off successfully Tuesday on an ambitious, complex mission to the International Space Station, key to future manned flights to Mars. The launch went ahead at 11:38 am (1538 GMT) despite safety concerns voiced by a team of independent NASA engineers, and the discovery of a chunk of ice outside the craft. The shuttle took off on schedule carrying seven ast ... more First Stop Moon. Next Stop, Mars 
Vienna, Austria (SPX) Oct 19, 2007The distant red planet Mars has captured the imagination of humankind for generations. It has inspired novelists to write stories about its exploration and motivated scientists to find ways to make space travel there a viable possibility. Now, for the first time in Europe, scholars such as historians, philosophers and sociologists are banding together with space scientists to share their thought ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 17, 2007The Soyuz rocket, carrying an American, a Malaysian and a Russian, was a study in world peace as it thundered toward the stars on the latest mission to the International Space Station. "The more people in space the better it is for human beings," declared American reserve astronaut Michael Fincke as he drank toasts with Russian colleagues at a dilapidated viewing platform at Baikonur cosmodr ... more Hawaii Reveals Steamy Martian Underground 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2007Is Mars dead, or is it only sleeping? The surface of Mars is completely hostile to life as we know it. Martian deserts are blasted by radiation from the sun and space. The air is so thin, cold, and dry, if liquid water were present on the surface, it would freeze and boil at the same time. But there is evidence, like vast, dried up riverbeds, that Mars once was a warm and wet world that could ha ... more Hummocky And Shallow Maunder Crater 
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 17, 2007The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express orbiter has obtained pictures of the Noachis Terra region on Mars, in particular, the striking Maunder crater. The images were taken in orbits 2412 and 2467 on 29 November and 14 December 2005 respectively, with a ground resolution of approximately 15 metres per pixel. Maunder crater lies at 50 South and 2 East, approximately in the ... more NASA extends Mars probes' mission for 5th time 
Washington (AFP) Oct 16, 2007NASA Tuesday announced it was extending for the fifth time the mission of Mars space probes Spirit and Opportunity, in their indefatigable exploration of the Red planet. The two robots touched down three weeks apart on Mars in January 2004 for an expected 90-day mission that instead could stretch out to 2009, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said on its website. In Septe ... more
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