Peking, China A Chinese cosmonaut has finished his country’s first-ever spacewalk as part of an challenging program that is setting about to equal the Joined States and USSR in its rapid enlargement.

Mission commanding officer Zhai Zhigang waves Chinese flag after rising from his starship.

Zhai Zhigang beckonned to an external photographic camera as he came forth from the hatching of the Shenzhou-7 starship on Sat.

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By Chelna Khatau For CNN

Capital of the United Kingdom, England It may be 1 small step for civilian space travel, but it’s a bound for pedagogy.

The Infinite Frontier Groundwork hopes finally to direct 200 spaceman teachers into space every year.

In a dictation to exalt the immature generation, the private Space Frontier Foundation is seeming for 2 instructors — Scouts — who will get the first pedagogues to wing to space and then return to the schoolroom.

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By Hilary Whiteman CNN

British capital, England If the hilly, icy west coast of Gronland doesn’t animate them, possibly Vanessa Carlton’s vodka infusions will.

British comic Marcus Brigstocke on board the Ness Farewell ship in 2007. He’s back over again this twelvemonth.

On Fri, the American singer-songwriter and self-professed “expert infuser” will join an improbable ensemble of 40 creative persons, scientists and instrumentalists aboard the 10-day “Ness Farewell” hostile expedition to Disko Bay.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif Earthquake scientists want to take over your laptop computer or perchance a little space in your cellar or garage.

Seismology graduate pupil Julian Lozos monitors temblors on a laptop computer with an inherent motion sensing element.

Researchers don’t have enoughed high-tech monitoring stations to go after every instance of anchorred shaking, so they are recruitment help from ordinary citizenry to document quakes and pinpoint countries of possible damage.

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