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Astronauts take call from White House
The crew of the International Space Station and space shuttle Discovery received a phone call from...
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Milestone for space station: final solar panel unfurled
Washington - With sunlight glowing golden across its expanse, the fourth and final pair of solar...
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ISS Final Solar Wings to Be Installed Today
Today, the crew aboard the Discovery space shuttle and the International Space Station (ISS) will...
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Obama Raises Hope On Tackling Climate Change Issues
These days, talks of efficient energy policies and reforms are once again in the spotlight, and the...
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Mars Lander Short On Power Supply, Almost Hits End Of The Road
It’s a sad time for the Phoenix team, as the Mars lander
approaches its final days on the Red...
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Update: Hubble Telescope Hits Another Ditch In The Road
The Hubble Telescope is still under serious investigation, after the specialists at NASA’s Goddard...
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Hubble Telescope Hits Another Ditch In The Road
The Hubble Telescope is still under serious investigation, after the specialists at NASA’s Goddard...
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Update2: Hubble Ready To Send First Post-Repairing Images?
After postponing the Hubble Telescope servicing mission due
to an unexpected communications...
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NASA Postpones Hubble Mission To October 14
Due to the closure of the NASA's Johnson
Space Center
in Houston, as
a result of Hurricane Ike,...
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Solar Wind's Record-Low Level Puts Future Space Missions At Risk
Solar activity reached new levels this year, with solar
wind declining at lowest values in five...
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Discovery's Astronauts To Conduct The Third And Final Spacewalk
Spacewalkers Mike Fossum and Ron Garan has started the STS-14’s
third and final spacewalk at 9:55...
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Spacewalkers Make Kibo See
The two spacewalkers, Mark Fossum and Ronald Garran, have completed
their second mission outside...
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Japanese Lab Opened, Second Spacewalk To Follow
Mission specialists Karen
Nyberg and Akihiko Hoshide have conducted a leak check on the newly...
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Climate Change – Can U.S. Fight This Chain Reaction?
There’s no doubt about it,
climate is changing, and we’re feeling it now, scientists warned in a...
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High Chances of Lake Mead Drying Up
Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States, could dry up by 2021...
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February 7 Confirmed As Atlantis Launch Date
The NASA officials announced today that the space shuttle Atlantis
is scheduled for take off on...
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NASA Sets February 7 As Atlantis' Launch Date
NASA officials announced that February 7 is the new launch
date of the space shuttle Atlantis. ...
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NASA Says Atlantis To Be Launched No Earlier Than January 24
According to NASA officials, the launch of space shuttle
Atlantis will be launched no sooner than...
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Atlantis Launch Called Off After One ECO Sensor Fails
NASA announced that today's attempt to launch the space
shuttle Atlantis has been officially...
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Atlantis Launch Delayed Again Due To ECO Sensors Problems
After a Friday meeting, NASA managers decided to postpone
again the launch of US
space shuttle...
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Next Attempt To Launch Atlantis Scheduled For Saturday
NASA mission managers announced that the launch of space
shuttle Atlantis would be delayed for 48...
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Discovery Lands In Florida After A Successful Mission
The 15-day mission of Discovery has finished today after the
space shuttle landed successfully at...
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After A Successful Mission, Discovery Ready To Return Home
After the success of yesterday’s mission when Mission
Specialists Scott Parazynski and Doug...
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Discovery Astronauts To Conduct A Risky Spacewalk
Mission Specialists Scott Parazynski and Doug Wheelock are
scheduled to leave the station in order...
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Progress 26 Supply Vehicle Docks To ISS
Russia's
Mission Control and NASA announced that the ISS Progress 26 (P26) successfully...
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At ISS Yurchikhin And Anderson Concluded Spacewalk
Two astronauts, the Russian Fyodr Yurchikhin and the American
Clay Anderson have conducted a...
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Atlantis Crew Ready For First Spacewalk
The crew of Atlantis is prearing for first spacewalk after a
successful docking with the...
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Technology
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Spring cleaning a computer speeds it up
Crumbs, fingerprints and dust bunnies: every computer gets dirty. And the dirt is not just...
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Could You Imagine Apple Without Steve Jobs?
The announcement made by Steve Jobs that he is leaving the company until June due to medical...
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HP Launches Firebird Gaming Desktop PC
This week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, HP will highlight its new...
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$1 billion Needed for US-Made Lithium Ion Batteries Master Plan
Electric cars seem more and more close to become a practical, normal alternative to those using...
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Space Premiere: Private Company SpaceX Successfully Launches Rocket Into Orbit
The private space industry sector has been growing and
developing quite rapidly during these...
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GM Not Worried About Toyota Speeding Up Prius Production
As the general acceptance for the hybrid technology has
grown extensively in recent years, Toyota...
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CherryPal Mini-Desktop: Tiny Package, Small Consumption, Big Promises
What can we expect from a tiny paperback-sized desktop
computer? A lot, CherryPal promised, as it...
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Toyota To Add Solar Power Supply To Next-Generation Prius
Toyota Motor Corporation, the world’s largest automaker, is
planning on installing solar panels on...
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Nintendo Wii Still No.1, Xbox Left Behind
Sony‘s PlayStation 3 was far from being top of the list in terms of last month’s U.S. sales, but it...
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CIA Says Hackers Are Responsible For Multi-City Power Outage
During a security conference held in New
Orleans, US
Central Intelligence Agency senior analyst...
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Faster FireWire Announced by 1394 Trade Association
The IEEE 1394 Trade Association announced a newer FireWire standard, the FireWire S3200, which...
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Microsoft Building a Data Center in Siberia?
Surprisingly or not, the world’s
largest software maker, Microsoft, seems to have plans of...
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NVIDIA Says Your PC Will Work Better With ESA
NVIDIA announced today the details of its new open standard
for real-time monitoring and control...
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Xbox 360 Wireless Racing Wheel Recalled Due To Overheating
Microsoft decided to take a precautionary measure and
voluntarily providing customers with a free...
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Western Digital Unveils Energy Efficient HDDs
Hard drive producer Western Digital has recently unveiled a new class of energy efficient hard...
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World
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Hundreds of thousands without heating in the Balkans
Belgrade/Sofia - Gas shortages triggered by the Russia- Ukraine row over payments have left...
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Can Anyone Win The Russia-Ukraine Gas War?
Brussels - "A strange game: the only way to win is not to play."
The quote comes...
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Ukraine Far From Helpless In Energy Duel With Russia
Kiev - Russia is screwing down on the natural gas taps to Ukraine, and as Kiev media spin would...
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Bangladesh Prepares To Vote And Return To Democracy
Dhaka - Bangladesh votes in national elections Monday to return the South Asian nation to...
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Gazans Struggle Amid Three Weeks Of Near-Total Closure
Gaza/Tel Aviv - Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have become world champions in improvisation....
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UN renews call for more aid to the poor on World Food Day
New York - United Nations leaders on Thursday called on the international community to assist the...
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South American Leaders Back Bolivian President
Bolivian President Evo Morales received surprisingly strong
backing from South American leaders on...
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Sliver of Light in Zimbabwe's Long Night: Unity Deal Agreed
Johannesburg/Harare - After a decade-long political and economic crisis in Zimbabwe, Africa's...
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US Ambassador Ordered to Leave Bolivia
The US ambassador
was ordered to leave Bolivia
being accused of supporting the opposition by...
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Hurricane Ike finds Cuba ready for the struggle
Havana/Port-au-Prince/Mexico City - Hurricane Ike was by Monday a serious threat to the whole of...
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EPA Did It Again! Federal Court Rejects ‘Clean Air Mercury Rule’
The Bush administration took a
nasty rejection from a federal court on Friday on their attempt to...
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Fiji Cyclone Kills 6, Electricity Cut
A tropical cyclone with winds gusting up to 140 km per hour
hit Fiji’s main island of Viti...
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Lights Out In South Africa... Officials Dismiss World Cup Fears
South Africa is currently
dealing with a national power crisis, which forced three gold mining...
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Israel Will Allow Industrial Diesel Fuel Into Gaza
A spokesman of the the Israeli Ministry of Defence announced
Monday evening that that the military...
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Gaza’s Electric Plant Shuts Down Today
Gaza’s only electric power plan has begun shutting down today, Palestinian officials said. The shut...
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Russia’s First Shipment of Nuclear Fuel Reaches Iran
The firs shipment of Russian nuclear fuel has reached Iran’s Bushehr power plant, thus giving...
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Chilean President Visits Earthquake Damaged Areas
On Thursday, as President Michelle Bachelet was visiting
residents in Tocopilla reassuring them...
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Around 800 Miners Still Underground, of which 200 Are Women
Around 800 of the 3,200 miners are still trapped underground in the South African collapsed mine,...
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Around 1300 Miners Saved From South Africa Mine
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) announced on Thursday
morning that around 1,200 of the...
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Hurricane Dean Pounds Yucatan Peninsula Before Returning to Sea
Hurricane Dean unleashed its wrath on the Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday before losing some power and...
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Blackouts in Gaza After EU Cuts Funding
Palestinians battle blackouts in Gaza after the European Union decided to stop paying for fuel used...
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Uruguay Faces The Worst Floods Since 1959
Up to 110,000 people have been affected by the worst floods
in Uruguay
since 1959, with more...
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