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The crew of STS-124 participated Friday in a launch dress
rehearsal at NASA's Kennedy Space Center
in Florida. Part
of the three-day terminal countdown demonstration test, the rehearsal called
for the astronauts to be fully suited for liftoff as they simulated the final
hours of the countdown.
Friday afternoon, the astronauts returned to their home base
at NASA's Johnson Space Center
in Houston.
They'll report to Kennedy once again a few days before their launch aboard
space shuttle Discovery, currently targeted for May 31.
Navy Cmdr. Mark E. Kelly will command the STS-124...
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Microsoft's Chairman Bill Gates said that the long-awaited Worldwide Telescope will be launched before the end of the month. The software uses the best images from the Hubble Space Telescope and approximately ten earth bound telescopes and allows users to view outer space. More precisely, it will also allow viewing Earth similar to NASA World Wind, Microsoft Virtual Earth and Google Earth, although it will not be powered by Virtual Earth and it will only share the image database with it. "This is taking data that's very complex, gathered over many years from many telescopes, and making...
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California has approved funding worth $271 million in total to create twelve stem cell research centers throughout the state. The money was raised following a 2004 voter initiative strongly supported by Schwarzenegger to issue bonds worth 3 billion to fund stem-cell research, mainly into human embryonic stem cells. Through this initiative, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will provide a steady stream of stem cell research funding to scientists in California over the next 10-12 years. As for now, Stanford University will receive the largest grant, $43.6 million, while nearly...
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An
international scientific team announced Wednesday they had finally decoded the
genetic blueprint of the platypus, one of the strangest creatures on Earth.
Decoding
the platypus genome has long been an important goal for scientists who wanted
to thoroughly understand the origins of mammal evolution. The study, conducted
by nearly 100 scientists, was published in the journal Nature.
"The platypus genome is extremely important, because it
is the missing link in our understanding of how we and other mammals first
evolved," explained Oxford University's Chris Ponting, one...
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History met history earlier this
week, when John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth and the third to go
into space, attended the launch of a Discovery Channel documentary to premiere
June 8, which includes over 100 hours of footage adapted for high-definition
television, created with the help of original NASA archives.
The documentary, entitled “When
We Left Earth: The NASA Missions,” includes footage from NASA’s Mercury, Gemini
and Apollo space missions, and the DVD set is available for purchase here for
$69.95 (or $79.95 for the Blu-ray version).
In addition to the DVD...
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On Tuesday, the US space
shuttle Atlantis returned to the launch pad. Atlantis was set to launch...
On Monday, US President George W Bush requested a draft of
federal rules in order to to cut petrol...
A new Progress freighter spacecraft carrying more the 2.5
tons of supplies for ISS was launched...
NASA’s officials confirmed that repairs on the external tank
on Space Shuttle Atlantis have been...
According to a NASA study published in the April issue of
Jounral of Climate, global warming may...
US space agency NASA announced that astronomers have
witnessed the brightest ever explosion of one...
Do you remember the movie “Finding Nemo”? About a little
fish who is trying to find his way...
Walter Schirra, which is one of the first US astronauts, has died at the age of 84, the US
space...
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