NASA to get remote-control Hubble fix
Posted on November 20th, 2008 at 1:59 pm by admin

Washington D NASA engineers say they know how to restore the humbled Hubble Space Telescope: They have to arouse up electronic computer parts that have existed sleeping in space for more than 18 eld.

NASA will start repair a bug that stopped up the Hubble telescope from captivating pictures from space.

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U.S. space holidaymaker blasts off in Russian rocket
Posted on November 17th, 2008 at 10:46 pm by admin

BAIKONUR, Republic of Kazakhstan A Soyuz space vehicle with 2 Americans and a Russian on board upraised off from Kazakstan on S Day for the international space station.

The Soyuz TMA-13 blasts off atop a Russian rocket in Kazakstan.

The Soyuz TMA-13 capsule transporting American computing device game millionaire Richard Garriott zoomed into a clear sky atop a Russian rocket as the the paying space traveler’s house watched from a screening platform.

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Zero-gravity fashion: space suits of the future
Posted on November 15th, 2008 at 8:06 pm by admin

By Microphone Steere For CNN

Greater London, England You can about picture it now: City of Light Hilton got down up by a skinny futuristic house decorator space suit — 1 hand wafture at the on-flight photographic camera, the former clasping a Christian Dior “space traveller” handbag.

Taut fit: Bay State Insititute of Engineering researchers are doing work on a new, flowing space suit.

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration at 50: Misplaced in space?
Posted on November 5th, 2008 at 1:18 pm by admin

Washington The marks of a midlife crisis are there: A Fiftieth birthday drawing close; a hungriness for the glorification days of younker; a yen to ditch the getting on partner of 27 eld; and a won flirtation with a new young matter.

NASA is seeming to chuck its shuttle program and build new ballistic capsule to render astronauts to the Moon.

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People astronauts return to Earth triumphant
Posted on November 3rd, 2008 at 10:33 am by admin

Peiping, China Three Chinese spacemen returned to Earth Sunday, complementary a three-day foreign mission that included China’s first-ever spacewalk.

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

The Shenzhou-7 re-entry capsule jumped to a landing place on the Interior Mongolia steppe at about five:40 p.

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Group seeks school teachers for space travel
Posted on November 2nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm by admin

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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Chinese spacewalk mission gets into orbit
Posted on November 1st, 2008 at 8:41 pm by admin

Capital of Red China, China China’s three-man ballistic capsule shifted from an oval orbit to a more stable circular orbit 342 klicks (213 international miles) above Earth on Fri in readying for the country’s first attempt at a spacewalk.

Chinese spaceman Jing Haipeng dialogue to the dictation and control center in Shenzhou-7 on Fri.

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People launches three-man crew into space
Posted on November 1st, 2008 at 1:41 am by admin

JIUQUAN, Mainland China China successfully launched a three-man crew into space Thursday to transport out the country’s first spacewalk, beginning the nation’s most ambitious space missionary station since it first directed a somebody into space in 2003.

S Republic of China successfully set up a three-man crew into space Thursday to transport out the country’s first spacewalk.

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China set to found third manned space flight
Posted on October 28th, 2008 at 7:22 am by admin

Capital of Red China, China S Republic of China this hebdomad launches its most challenging space missionary station yet, a sign of uprising confidence as Peiping cements its position as an infinite power and potential future challenger to the Joined States.

The Shenzhou-7 starship is reassigned to the launching pad in Gansu province on Saturday.

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Civilian space travel is no picnic
Posted on October 26th, 2008 at 11:41 pm by admin

By Microphone Steere For CNN

Greater London, England Acquiring “out of this world” with civilian space travel is notted quite as simple as you may think.

Aside from the obvious financial restrictions which curb space touristry to the rich and the ludicrously rich, there are too significant preparation programs and examination to be accomplished before proceedings to take off.

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