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Based on NASA’s Astronaut Gyroscope Trainer, this is only the first Human Gyroscope, which lets you experience those rolls and tumbles associated with the outer space...
made popular Jun 15 2009
Filed under: Weird, Science Yesterday the three men who call the International Space Station home did something wholly unremarkable: They drank some water. I know,...
made popular May 25 2009
Astronaut Mike Massimino has sent the first tweet from space, making all the rocket buffs green with envy I presume.
From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling...
made popular May 13 2009
Here is yet another move to meet the global energy needs. The solar power generation is not a new concept, however, placing solar arrays in space to capture the maximum...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Washington
A strange giant space “blob” spotted when the universe was relatively young has got astronomers puzzled.
made popular Apr 22 2009
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European satellite launcher Arianespace SA on Monday announced a new delay in the launch of a space telescope and a spacecraft meant to gather information about the Big...
made popular Apr 20 2009
AP, Cape Canaveral
Space shuttle Endeavour is on a launch pad, ready to rocket off on a rescue mission if shuttle Atlantis needs help when it flies to repair the Hubble Space Telescope...
made popular Apr 17 2009
It’s a stereotypical geek (nerd, perhaps) dream - the invention of underwear that you don’t have to waste time changing every day yet remains pong...
made popular Apr 14 2009
For all who want to be associated with humans out of the earth ventures, and are fond of collecting space used debris, comes this wholesome goodie - an ultra-rare...
made popular Apr 14 2009
Gearing for a joint mission by 2020, Japan hopes to have human and robot astronauts travel in harmony for moon exploration. When all the other nations are enthusiastic...
made popular Apr 4 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
AP, Cape Canaveral
The international space station’s newly installed solar wings are about to get stretched.
made popular Mar 20 2009
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Spacewalking astronauts installed the last set of solar wings at the international space station Thursday, accomplishing the top job of shuttle Discovery’s...
made popular Mar 19 2009
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A pair of astronauts are out on a spacewalk 220 miles above Earth, getting ready to install a new set of solar wings at the international space station.
made popular Mar 19 2009
AP, Cape Canaveral
The astronauts in orbit have set the stage for the installation of a new set of solar wings at the international space station.
made popular Mar 19 2009
AP, Cape Canaveral
The astronauts aboard the linked space shuttle and space station began their high-priority girder work Wednesday, a two-day job that will culminate with the...
made popular Mar 18 2009
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The 10 astronauts aboard the linked space shuttle and space station are joining forces to install a new set of solar wings.
made popular Mar 18 2009
AP, Cape Canaveral
Space shuttle Discovery has arrived at the international space station.
made popular Mar 17 2009
AP, Cape Canaveral
With a kick of its rocket thrusters, space shuttle Discovery zoomed to the international space station Tuesday to deliver one last set of solar wings that should bring...
made popular Mar 17 2009
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Amid all sorts of modern astronomical devices, this 19-century-themed Steampunk telescope stands alone, tall and proud. This telescope, dubbed Captain Nemo’s...
made popular Jan 21 2009
Monocular telescopes form the base of space watching. Staring light years away into the galaxy with a single eye at times gets tiring, but then you can’t stuff both...
made popular Dec 10 2008
The National Astronomical Observatories from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has completed their long awaited project “The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber...
made popular Nov 8 2008
AP, Jerusalem
In a Sept. 23 story about Albert Einstein’s long-lost telescope going on display, The Associated Press, relying on information from Hebrew University officials,...
made popular Sep 26 2008
AP, Jerusalem
Albert Einstein’s long-lost telescope, forgotten for decades in a Jerusalem storage shed, goes on display this week after three years and $10,000 spent restoring...
made popular Sep 23 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
Scientists at NASA are looking at new ways to reduce the baggage, which space ships have to carry during inter planetary expeditions. With this in mind, a telescope has...
made popular Jun 12 2008
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NASA launched a telescope Wednesday to scout out elusive, super high-energy gamma rays lurking in the universe.Glast _ a NASA acronym standing for Gamma-ray Large Area...
made popular Jun 11 2008
University of New Hampshire astrophysicist James Ryan knows how to detect radioactive emissions across the vast sweep of our galaxy.
So when he watched National...
made popular May 20 2008
AP, Seattle
Microsoft Corp. launched its WorldWide Telescope late Monday, bringing the free Web-based program for zooming around the universe to a broad audience.WorldWide...
made popular May 13 2008
Though we cannot imagine telescopes without mirrors or lenses, Laurent Koechlin and his team from the Observatoire Midi Pyrenees have done so and have envisaged a...
made popular May 2 2008
This is for all those people who are quite adventurous and are into the habit of making their life extravagantly large. The Barska Encounter are the glasses that have...
made popular Mar 12 2008
After battling against a number of odds, the world’s largest telescope has finally been mounted on top of Mount Graham in southern Arizona. The $120 million dollar...
made popular Mar 8 2008
Heavenly bodies like Sun, Moon and stars have always remained as mysterious and startling for all of us as everybody wanna explore and know about the mysticism and...
made popular Feb 16 2008
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A project to build a pioneering telescope in Chile got a $30 million boost Thursday with donations from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and former company executive...
made popular Jan 4 2008
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Having coaxed all the life they can out of an 8-year-old ultraviolet light-detecting space telescope, scientists will reluctantly turn it off later this month.After...
made popular Oct 9 2007
AP, Pasadena
NASA on Friday resurrected a mission to launch a high-energy X-ray telescope into orbit to conduct a black hole census. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or...
made popular Sep 22 2007
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NASA on Friday resurrected a telescope mission that will use high-energy X-rays to conduct a census of black holes in the universe. The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope...
made popular Sep 22 2007
Are we alone in this Universe? This is the most fundamental question of space science. Not only scientists, common people also show significant excitement towards the...
made popular Jul 14 2007
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