Topic: - on November 28, 2002 at 9:42:56 PM CET
Thanksgiving business as usual in space
Two astronauts stepped out Thursday to hook up the plumbing on the international space station's newest addition, a 45-foot (13.5-meter) high-tech beam.
It was the second spacewalk this week for shuttle Endeavour crewmen Michael Lopez-Alegria and John Herrington, the first American Indian in space.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 2:59:12 AM CET
Telescope to challenge moon doubters
Conspiracy theorists, you have a problem. In an effort to silence claims that the Apollo moon landings were faked, European scientists are to use the world's newest and largest telescope to see whether the spacecraft are still on the lunar surface.
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Topic: - on November 18, 2002 at 9:49:05 PM CET
Black Hole Breakaway: Supernova Gives Birth to Cosmic Monster
Astronomers have spied a black hole that is speeding through our galaxy dragging and feeding on an old star as it goes. The observation is reported by scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
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Topic: - on November 15, 2002 at 10:56:44 AM CET
Sign Up for Mars!
NASA invites you to send your name to Mars on the next Mars Exploration Rover-2003 mission!
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:08:38 AM CET
Shuttle launch reset for Monday
Oxygen leak must be fixed first
NASA will try again Monday to launch the shuttle Endeavour toward the international space station, but only if an oxygen leak that foiled Sunday night's launch can be fixed in time. The liftoff from Kennedy Space Center has been tentatively rescheduled for Monday during a four-hour period that begins at 6 p.m. CST.
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Topic: - on November 3, 2002 at 2:05:36 PM CET
Spacecraft sweeps by asteroid
A NASA spacecraft swept within 1,900 miles of a small asteroid in a practice run before a much closer brush with a comet scheduled for January 2004. A NASA spacecraft swept within 1,900 miles of a small asteroid in a practice run before a much closer brush with a comet scheduled for January 2004.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 11:43:00 AM CET
Space station marks two years of continuous crews on board
The International Space Station marks two years of continuous habitation Saturday as a three-man Soyuz crew visits the station's residents.
The three-person station crew - Commander Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson and Sergei Treschev - welcomed the Soyuz crew at 12:01 a.m. EST Friday. The Soyuz was brought up by Russians Sergei Zalyotin and Yuri Lonchakov and Belgian Frank De Winne, who will return to Earth in the old Soyuz docked to the station.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 11:40:03 AM CET
The future of public space travel
Is it just a playground
AN UNABASHED SPACE CASE, Bass had prepped for a seat aboard that 12-day Soyuz taxi mission for months. He learned Russian. He got an A-OK flight physical. He received high-tech tutoring by top-notch cosmonauts and astronauts not to touch certain buttons. However, Bass was unable to pay the “going rate” to become the third ever space tourist, running out of the time needed to pull together the hefty $20 million fee.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 10:20:47 AM CET
NASA releases Cassini spacecraft's first Saturn images
NASA on Friday released the first picture of Saturn created from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft en route to the ringed planet. The picture, a composite of images made with various filters, was a result of a successful test of Cassini's camera, Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement.
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 11:14:50 AM CET
Space-Based Power System Needed to Solve Earth’s Energy Woes
Civilization faces an urgent need to develop space-based power generation systems that would beam energy to the planet from satellites that would shine like "golden apples" in the night sky, a large team of scientists said today. The researchers also recommend looking into deploying some cosmic Coppertone, giant sunscreens that would block solar energy and curb global warming.
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Topic: - on November 1, 2002 at 10:59:55 AM CET
China's Space Activities
China National Space Administration assumes the following main responsibilities: signing governmental agreements in the space area on behalf of organizations, inter-governmental scientific and technical exchanges; and also being in charge of the enforcement of national space policies and managing the national space science, technology and industry.
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Topic: - on October 31, 2002 at 9:13:56 AM CET
Space pic of Etna blowing
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