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I’d just returned from meeting with Dr. Yi So-yeon, a Korean cosmonaut, arranged by the Institution of Engineers Australia.
Also general information of a first Korean cosmonaut’s flight made news round a globe already, in person meeting a living...
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The Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle onboard computer lost control of the actuation system in 47 sec after start.
made popular Dec 25 2010
It was the breathtaking solar event that sparked spectacular displays of Northern Lights across much of the northern hemisphere.In August the sun’s surface...
made popular Dec 16 2010
The Wright Brothers flew their first successful powered flight from Kitty Hawk, N.C., over 100 years ago. Ever since that first lift off, aviation has provided...
made popular Nov 17 2010
For the first time, a black hole has been seen being born out of an exploding star just 20 times the mass of our sun — right in our cosmic neighborhood.
made popular Nov 17 2010
We often look up at the sky at night and wonder at the stars, but from space Earth has its own impressive light show.These pictures taken by an astronaut on the...
made popular Nov 12 2010
Some people believe in UFO’s and some people struggle with the concept. I’m sure with all the satellites flying around in the atmosphere that some of them get...
made popular Nov 3 2010
Israel launched a spy satellite from the south of the country, with the device reportedly capable of monitoring arch foe Iran’s nuclear program.
The Ofek-9...
made popular Jun 24 2010
Japan was set to launch its first Venus probe Tuesday (Thursday, 10 May 2010, more recently revelled) using a rocket that will deploy an “space yacht”...
made popular May 19 2010
German team are first to create device that makes object disappear in three dimensions-pity, I was so lazy to continue with “The X-Challenge: Realm of...
made popular Mar 19 2010
They are, of course, in peak physical condition, with the flying skills required of any air force ace. But China’s first female astronauts have faced an extra...
made popular Mar 9 2010
An unlikely newcomer is about to make the final frontier a little more crowded: Bolivia is to launch a satellite into space.
The impoverished South American country,...
made popular Feb 15 2010
The sleek twin-engined jet closely resembling the Raptor flew for 47-minutes from an airfield at Sukhoi’s production plant in the Far Eastern city of...
made popular Feb 1 2010
Opening a new chapter in planet hunting, NASA scientists reported Monday the discovery of five worlds orbiting nearby stars, using the space agency’s Kepler space...
made popular Jan 5 2010
Almost all of us in our childhood, in one way or the other were made to conceive the idea of Chanda Mama and no berceuse was ever complete without the honorable mention...
made popular Jan 5 2010
Long the realm of sci-fi fiction and dreamers, commercial space flight may soon be a reality. A series of private American and one British firm have been working for...
made popular Dec 14 2009
WTF went down in Norway. A blue spiral in the sky giving way to a spinning white circle was seen over the skies of Norway. It immediately caught the attention of...
made popular Dec 10 2009
Okay, so maybe we aren’t actually launching the Atlantis, but in a round about way, we’ll be there as American astronaut of Mexican heritage, José...
made popular Aug 24 2009
Nasa is charged with spotting most of the asteroids that pose a threat to Earth, but doesn’t have enough money to
complete the task, according to a new report.
made popular Aug 14 2009
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Oleg Batishchev, a research scientist at MIT’s department of aeronautics and astronautics, has developed the Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster, a compact, economical...
made popular Aug 3 2009
I bet a predominant majority of Insta-bloggers associates 1969 with something alike the Jurassic Park epoch which is a normal feeling for all us comprehending events...
made popular Jul 22 2009
As Russian-American summit is going ahead fruitfully these days in Moscow where participants, according to President B. Obama ,are “committed to leaving behind the...
made popular Jul 8 2009
As understood from the latest Nature publication on Wednesday, 25March 2009, Russian-Italian science team of PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and...
made popular Apr 3 2009
While global warming meetings had most recently been overshadowed with international gatherings on economics crisis, news from outer space is no a Fool’s Day joke...
made popular Apr 1 2009
Among the many things that President Obama did and called for in his first week as President of the United States was a lightly covered, highly overlooked, yet...
made popular Jan 28 2009
The suitability of robots for space missions is obvious: they’re tough, they’re precisely controllable, they don’t sissy out and die without air and...
made popular Oct 9 2008
Mankind’s very survival depends on the future exploration of space, said NASA chief Michael Griffin, marking the 50th anniversary of the US space agency. Unlike...
made popular Sep 26 2008
A team of scientists led by researchers from the Instituto Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has succeeded in identifying naphthalene, one of the most complex molecules...
made popular Sep 22 2008
NASA is about out of options for keeping U.S. astronauts in space after 2011.
made popular Sep 10 2008
Just how big can a black hole grow? Two astronomers reckon they have worked out the answer: colossal black holes with a mass of up to 50 billion suns could be lurking...
made popular Sep 5 2008
A weirdly wonderful sight appeared to astronauts aboard the International Space Station this summer — thin blue clouds hovering at the boundary between Earth’s...
made popular Sep 2 2008
Within the next 10 years, the U.S., China, Israel, and a host of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does that give...
made popular Aug 25 2008
Iran plans to send a manned rocket into space in the next 10 years, state television reported on Thursday, just days after the Islamic Republic announced it had put a...
made popular Aug 22 2008
This article proposes an unusual way to land objects from orbit and probes returning from deep space. I won’t dwell on details best left for future study, but will...
made popular Aug 18 2008
Exquisite close-ups of fissures on a tiny ice-ball moon of Saturn will provide the latest clues in solving how a 310-mile-wide ice ball could possibly be shooting...
made popular Aug 17 2008
Solar flares, massive energetic explosions that rise up from the Sun, can damage man-made satellites and pose a radiation hazard to astronauts.
made popular Aug 6 2008
Ror the first time in Europe, historians, philosophers and sociologists are banding together with space scientists to share their thoughts and ideas on how humankind...
made popular Aug 2 2008
We’ve heard about the possibility of extraterrestrial life arriving on Earth from another planet, asteroid or comet, but the mode of transport usually includes a...
made popular Jul 26 2008
FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have...
made popular Jul 25 2008
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Russian police officer guards the Russian-built Soyuz TMA 14 rocket that will carry a new crew to the international space station as it is transported to the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, March 24, 2009. The...
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