AP – The space shuttle Atlantis’ mission to the international space station likely will be pushed back a few more days or weeks as engineers study problems with electrical connectors in the spaceship’s external fuel tank, a top NASA manager said Thursday.
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AFP – Space tourists may have to seek alternative transport after 2009 due to a lack of room on the Russian capsule serving the International Space Station, Russia’s space agency chief said Thursday.
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SPACE.com – GOLDEN, Colorado — It has to be somesort of record. At no time over the five decades of sending robot craft intothe heavens have so many spacecraft been on duty at such a variety of far-flungdestinations or en route to their targets.
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AP – An unmanned Russian cargo ship docked Wednesday at the international space station carrying two tons of supplies including holiday gifts, officials said.
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Reuters – An unmanned Russian Progress supply vessel docked with the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday to deliver fresh food, water, fuel, equipment and holiday presents for the crew.
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SPACE.com – Christmascame a day late for astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS)with the successful Wednesday arrival of a Russian cargo ship bearing gifts andfresh supplies.
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AP – Russia’s satellite navigation system is still taking shape, but President Vladimir Putin already has a plan for how to use it: to keep tabs on his black labrador.
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AP – While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for its energy.
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AFP – A Russian Progress spacecraft blasted off Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan delivering vital supplies, as well as presents and goodies for Christmas and New Year’s, to the International Space Station.
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AP – As NASA astronaut Daniel Tani orbited Earth, hundreds of mourners filled a suburban Chicago church Sunday to remember his 90-year-old mother as someone who endured hardship to raise five children and worked until age 70.
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