Reuters – Two U.S. astronauts serving aboard the International Space Station floated outside the complex early on Wednesday to begin a spacewalk considered critical to the growth of the outpost.
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The Christian Science Monitor – One of only four in the world, the Joint Tactical Ground Station sits in a field of snow behind the high fences of this remote base in northern Japan like a windowless trailer home with a few good satellite dishes out back.
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AP – Two astronauts pulled off a riskier and trickier-than-usual spacewalk Wednesday, replacing a failed electric motor and giving the international space station a much-needed power boost.
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SPACE.com – Mercury has revealed a whole newside of itself through pictures taken by NASA’s MESSENGER probe, which flew bythe tiny planet two weeks ago in the first mission to Mercury in more thanthree decades.
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AP – The first pictures from the unseen side of Mercury reveal the wrinkles of a shrinking, aging planet with scars from volcanic eruptions and a birthmark shaped like a spider.
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Reuters – NASA managers on Wednesday cleared the shuttle Atlantis for launch on February 7 to deliver Europe’s first permanent space laboratory to the International Space Station.
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AP – The U.S. military is developing contingency plans to deal with the possibility that a large spy satellite expected to fall to Earth in late February or early March could hit North America.
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AFP – The European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday said it expected to carry out the maiden launch of a robot supply ship to the orbital space station between February 22 and March 8 or 9.
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With the launch of the first Automated Transfer Vehicle ‘Jules Verne’ rapidly approaching, ESA Programme managers and industry specialists participated in a media briefing at ESA Head Office in Paris, France, earlier today.
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AFP – Professional and amateur astronomers took their best look at a huge asteroid as it zoomed past Earth on Tuesday at a little more than half a million kilometers distance, NASA said.
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