Topic: - on October 14, 2002 at 7:45:41 PM CEST
Spacewoman Stuck in Orbit with Too Much Shrimp
Peggy Whitson, the American astronaut spending her 130th day in space, said on Sunday that she was happy in orbit, but maybe she brought along too much shrimp. "Sometimes, when you come to space, your tastes change. One of my favorite foods on the ground is shrimp, and up here I can't stand it," said Whitson, the science officer on the International Space Station.
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Topic: - on October 12, 2002 at 12:22:40 AM CEST
NASA Images Discover Ancient Bridge Between India & Lanka
Space images taken by NASA reveal a mysterious ancient bridge in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. The recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam?s Bridge is made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long.
¬> <a href="www.vnn.org"target="_blank">VNN
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Topic: - on October 11, 2002 at 1:14:54 PM CEST
Space walk 'too beautiful for words', says British astronaut
At one stage Mr Sellers asked where he was as he free-floated around the Atlantis space shuttle as it orbited 100 miles above the Earth. Mission control in Houston told him he was flying over the Pacific, approaching South America. He said: "Wow! It's too beautiful for words. Unbelievable."
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Topic: - on October 10, 2002 at 9:19:39 PM CEST
Russian space tourism TV show planned
A Russian television network, possibly in cooperation with an American producer, is planning a reality TV show whose winner would fly to space on a Soyuz taxi flight.
¬> <a href="www.spacetoday.net"target="_blank">spacetoday.net
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Topic: - on October 8, 2002 at 9:14:36 PM CEST
Media files from STS-112
Space Shuttle Atlantis launches from Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to begin STS-112, a mission to deliver the S1 (S-One) Truss to the International Space Station.
¬> <a href="spaceflight.nasa.gov"target="_blank"> 3 major streams
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Topic: - on October 8, 2002 at 7:51:09 PM CEST
Blast-off for third British astronaut
British-born astronaut Piers Sellers has become the third person from the UK to go into space. Dr Sellers, 47, originally from Crowborough in East Sussex, is one of six astronauts on board the US space agency (Nasa) shuttle Atlantis heading for the International Space Station (ISS).
¬> <a href="news.bbc.co.uk"target="_blank">BBC
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Topic: - on October 7, 2002 at 9:26:44 PM CEST
plenty of 20 minutes to Opening of Launch Window
Mission Atlantis: Shuttle Ready to Broadcast 'Must See TV' Shuttle Atlantis is being fueled for a planned liftoff this afternoon that promises to provide the most thrilling television pictures ever seen of a space shot from the Cape.
¬> <a href="www.space.com"target="_blank"> LIVE START All systems go for launch Monday, Oct. 7, 2002 at 3 p.m. EDT Atlantis remains set for launch from the Kennedy Space Center at 3:45:51 p.m. EDT.
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Topic: - on October 6, 2002 at 1:46:43 PM CEST
NASA's Must-See TV: Shuttlecam will beam down live video throughout Atlantis' launch
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In a dramatic first for human space flight, a camera will beam down live video as shuttle Atlantis soars into orbit this week. The shuttlecam view will start with the launch pad, then the whole launch site and then all of Cape Canaveral and the Eastern Seaboard as Atlantis blasts off and climbs higher and higher.
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Topic: - on October 5, 2002 at 11:01:58 PM CEST
Black Hole Spiral
The Keck II telescope has captured a spiral of dust being sucked into the black hole in the Milky Way Galaxy's core. Using a camera nicknamed MIRLIN, for Mid-Infrared Large-Well Imager, a team of scientists led by Mark Morris of the University of California, Los Angeles, has acquired the highest mid-infrared resolution ever of the mysterious galactic center. The three-million-solar-mass black hole cannot be seen directly, but it betrays itself by its gravitational influence on its neighbors.
¬> <a href="www.astronomy.com"target="_blank">Kalmbach
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:59:03 AM CEST
PHOTOS The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope
These images are copyright by the Space Telescope Science Institute (ST Sci), operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc., for NASA.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:14:11 AM CEST
NASA postpones launch of shuttle until Monday
The threat of Hurricane Lili causing the evacuation or damage to the Johnson Space Center in Houston forced NASA officials today to postpone the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis until next week.
After officials here at the Kennedy Space Center and the Johnson Space Center in Houston met this morning, a decision was made to hold off launching the space shuttle until Monday afternoon.
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Topic: - on September 21, 2002 at 11:56:10 PM CEST
Time-Lapse Movies of Crab Nebula
Sept. 19, 2002: Just when it seemed the summer movie season had ended, two of NASA's Great Observatories have produced their own action movie. Multiple observations made over several months with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to nearly the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manhattan.
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