AFP – The US space shuttle Endeavour landed safely Friday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, ending a 16-day mission to the international space station.
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AP – Koichi Wakata was still getting used to gravity, though it wasn’t going to stop him from diving into a deluge of sushi.
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2009 July 25
Get out yourred/blue glasses andcheck outthis remarkable stereo view from lunar orbit.Created from two photographs(AS11-44-6633,AS11-44-6634)taken by astronaut Michael Collinsfortyyears agoduring the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, the 3Danaglyphfeatures the lunar module ascent stage, dubbed The Eagle, as it rises tomeet the command module in lunar orbit.Aboard the ascent stage areNeil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, the first towalk on the Moon.The smooth, dark area on the lunarsurface is Mare Smythii locatedjust below the equator on the extreme eastern edge of the Moon’snear side. Poised beyond the lunar horizon, is ourfair planet Earth
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The Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera imaged a region close to Ma’adim Vallis, one of the largest canyons on Mars, finding craters, lava flows and tectonic features.
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SPACE.com – HOUSTON – Spaceshuttle Endeavour touched down in Florida on Friday morning, bringing to an enda successful 16-day mission to complete Japan’s Kibo science laboratory at theInternational Space Station (ISS).
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ESA’s Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain discusses the significance of the Apollo anniversary and of continuing lunar exploration.
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AFP – The shuttle Endeavour descended safely to Earth on Friday, ending a successful 16-day assembly mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with the final piece of Japan’s Kibo science laboratory.
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2009 July 26
Most photographs don’t adequately portray the magnificence of theSun‘s corona.Seeing thecorona first-hand during a totalsolar eclipse is best. Thehuman eyecan adapt to see features and extent thatphotographic film usually cannot. Welcome, however, to thedigital age. Theabove picture is a combination of thirty-three photographs thatwere digitally processed to highlight faint features of a total eclipse that occurred in March of 2006. The images of theSun’s corona were digitally altered to enhance dim,outlying waves and filaments. Shadow seekers need not fret, though, since asyet there is no way that digital image processing canmimic the fun involved inexperiencing a total solar eclipse.Last week, a spectacular totalsolar eclipse occurred over southern Asia, while theThe next total solar eclipse will bevisible from the South Pacific on 2010 July 11.
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A team of researchers working with data from ESA’s Integral gamma-ray observatory has disproved theories that some form of dark matter explains mysterious radiation in the Milky Way.
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AP – Space shuttle Endeavour’s astronauts are inspecting their ship to make sure it’s safe for Friday’s landing.
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