Reuters – If aspiring space tourist Richard Garriott wants advice on living in orbit, he can ask his father, a former NASA astronaut who spent two months aboard the first U.S. space station 24 years ago.
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Reuters – Satellite images confirm reports earlier this year of burned villages, forced relocations and other human rights abuses in Myanmar, scientists said on Friday.
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For the first time, the compatibility of the final Jules Verne Automatic Transfer Vehicle flight software has been successfully tested this month with the rest of the vast ISS flight software by international teams at the NASA Software Verification Facility (SVF) in Houston.
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SPACE.com – Threeastronauts living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took a short tripThursday to move their Russian-built lifeboat to a new parking spot.
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AFP – The US space agency NASA on Thursday launched the space probe Dawn on its eight-year mission to unlock the secrets of the solar system by studying the two largest asteroids orbiting the sun.
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SPACE.com – NASA's Dawnspacecraft in fine health after rocketing into space just after sunrise today,ending a long wait for mission scientists even as the probe's own eight-yearjourney to two large asteroids is just beginning.
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Reuters – Astronomers who stumbled upon a powerful burst of radio waves said on Thursday they had never seen anything like it before, and it could offer a new way to search for colliding stars or dying black holes.
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SPACE.com – A NASAprobe blasted into space early Thursday, kicking off an unprecedented mission toexplore the two largest asteroids in the solar system.
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AP – NASA’s rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments.
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AP – NASA took aim at the heart of the asteroid belt Thursday, launching a spacecraft on a nearly decade-long journey that will include two never-before-attempted close encounters.
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