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After a nine-day visit to the International Space Station, the space shuttle Discovery prepared for a return back to earth. If the weather is favourable and the shuttle passes final inspection, it is supposed to land today at Kennedy Space Centre in...
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The space tourism industry is heating up. While the Galactic Suite, the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012, a team of students have...
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Astronauts that are stationed at space stations or keep constantly visiting the bases for repair work are always aware of the dangers involved in their job. Their...
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Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata is about to start a fashion revolution – in space. The astronaut is testing new clothes developed by Yoshiko Taya and colleagues at...
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AP, Washington
NASA has started beaming live video from just outside the International Space Station, but there’s a catch: The online feeds are available only when the...
made popular Mar 11 2009
After 10 years and spending $100bn, the world celebrated International Space Station’s 10th anniversary yesterday, November 20th 2008. Sixteen countries joined hands...
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Friends and family of the world’s next space tourist _ including his astronaut father _ watched Friday as the rocket for the voyage was placed on a launch pad in...
made popular Oct 10 2008
AP, New York
The company that sends wealthy tourists to the International Space Station says that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has paid $5 million to reserve a seat on a future...
made popular Jun 11 2008
Having spent an ungodly amount of money and resources in trying to train astronauts to survive in space, you definitely don’t want them getting drunk and spacewalk...
made popular Jun 3 2008
When I get really down after reflecting on the state of the world: a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, disengagement and heightened tension with North Korea and Iran, a...
made popular May 6 2008
Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, and South Korean spaceflyer So-yeon Yi pulled in at the station aboard their Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft, which docked...
made popular Apr 11 2008
When the spacecraft Endeavour blasts off in yet another voyage to the International Space Station, it will have one more passenger in addition to it’s crew of...
made popular Mar 10 2008
Yes, the legendary author Jules Verne still has a connection with space, not just courtesy his books like the classic-Around the world in 80 days, but because the...
made popular Mar 8 2008
Do the stars interest your child? Does the planets capture your twinkling star’s imagination? Or do you find him lost in the thoughts of the animal safari? Time...
made popular Jan 1 2008
It was a teary farewell for the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle Discovery and the International space Station, as Discovery makes its return journey to mother...
made popular Nov 5 2007
It seems like space tourism is getting closer and closer to reality. Few days back I wrote about Galactic Suite, the first hotel planned in space that is expected in...
made popular Sep 6 2007
Russia’s Mission control spokesperson stated that a Russian cargo ship has successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after a three-day orbit...
made popular Aug 6 2007
Space survival gets a whole new meaning with NASA fitting in a fancy new $19 million toilet on the International Space Station. The high-tech toilet has been purchased...
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NASA expects to have twice the room it needs on the international space station after looking at a proposal to use the station as a “National Laborartory”...
made popular Jun 26 2007
June 8 will be the date that engineers and astronauts of space shuttle Atlantis would have been waiting for. Managers at the space agency have announced that the first...
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Russian cosmonauts and an astronaut stationed at the International Space Station are soon to receive their 2.5 tons of daily required amenities - be it oxygen, water...
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