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Senators to Obama: We need clear space vision
Washington - A group of senators called Wednesday for a clear vision for the future of the US space programme, characterizing President Barack Obama's plans for space agency NASA as without a mission. Earlier this month, Obama's 2011 budget proposal...

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Massive solar storms subject of new NASA launch
Washington - NASA planned to launch a solar probe on Wednesday to help unlock more secrets about the sun, whose massive storms affect Earth's weather and can pose danger to Earth dwellers. The Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) is the crown jewel of a...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Space (Technology) ]

Massive solar storms subject of new NASA launch - Summary
Washington - NASA planned to launch a solar probe on Wednesday to help unlock more secrets about the sun, whose massive storms affect Earth's weather and can pose danger to Earth dwellers. The Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) is the crown jewel of a...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Space (Technology) ]

Russia to take advantage of US dependency on space shuttle
Moscow - Russia is planning to make more money out of ferrying US astronauts into space with its Soyuz capsule when NASA retires its Space Shuttles at the end of 2010, Russian space agency chief Anatoli Perminov said Tuesday. Russia, which has a co...

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Hatch opens to Tranquility and its picture window on space station
Washington - Astronauts late Friday opened the hatch to the space station's newest room - the Italian-built Tranquility node that will eventually offer a six-sided picture window on space. NASA television showed the space station and Endeavour shuttl...

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NASA cancels solar probe launch due to bad weather
Washington - High winds forced US space agency NASA to cancel the planned launch of a solar probe on Wednesday. The countdown for the launch of the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was called off because the wind load was higher than allowed, NASA sa...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Space (Technology) ]

NASA launches solar probe
Washington - An Atlas V rocket carrying a satellite to study the sun blasted off from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Thursday. The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) is the crown jewel of a fleet of NASA satellites planned to collect more details...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Space (Technology) ]

Spacewalkers outfit new space station room - Summary
Washington - Two astronauts conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station Sunday to outfit the orbiting laboratory's newest room, NASA said. Nicholas Patrick and Bob Behnken, crew members of the visiting space shuttle Endeavour, conne...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Space (Technology) ]

Space shuttle launch delayed
Washington - The planned Sunday launch of the Space Shuttle Endeavour has been postponed 24 hours due to bad weather, NASA has announced. Low cloud cover over the space station at Cape Canaveral in Florida was blamed for the delay of the mission, whi...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Space (Technology) ]

NASA radar on India's Chandrayaan-I finds ice on the moon
New Delhi - Data from a NASA radar aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft discovered evidence of ice deposits on the moon, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said Tuesday. NASA's Miniature Synthetic Aperture Radar (Mini-SAR) found more th...

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ANALYSIS: Uncertain US space future launches international shake-up
Washington - For a world that depended on the United States as the cornerstone of international cooperation in space, NASA's uncertain way forward has triggered a reshuffling of global ambit...

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OVERVIEW: Bye, bye shuttle - NASA to mothball shuttle this year
Cape Canaveral, Florida - The 15-storey hanger where NASA keeps the space shuttle is so big it has its own weather. Clouds and rain can form in the 39 million cubic metre building th...

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