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The date of retirement for NASA's famous space orbiter draws ever closer by the day; thus, the US space agency has decided to publish the dates of launch for the last eight space shuttle missions expected to take place in 2009 and 2010. The other two flights that will be carried out by the space shuttle this yea... |
9 July 2008
09:23 GMT |
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2000SG344 is a Near Earth Object only 40 meters in diameter which passes periodically through the vicinity of our planet at speeds as high as 44,8 kilometers per hour. Astronomers estimate that in the next six decades or so, the asteroid will approach Earth considerably but it will not intersect the orbit of the plan... |
8 May 2008
10:21 GMT |
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The US space shuttles are supposed to retire in 2010 in order to give way to the Ares I rocket. However, it hasn't been a secret for awhile that NASA's new rocket design is fatally flawed and may shake itself to pieces during liftoff. NASA engineers believe they have found a solution to their problem, in th... |
7 April 2008
07:08 GMT |
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Putting a man on the Moon in 1969 was easy. Putting a man on the Moon today is not. I, for one, don't understand the logic of it. Do we really have to mention Mars too? According to the congressional report on NASA's replacement of the space shuttle, the Constellation Program is in serious danger of failing... |
4 April 2008
06:58 GMT |
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We all know how valuable heat shields are while making re-entries into Earth's atmosphere, the Columbia space shuttle disaster stands as testimony for the importance of such hardware, as a hole only about 30 centimeters in diameter brought down a 3.6 ton behemoth of a spacecraft, killing seven in the process. In... |
3 March 2008
05:57 GMT |
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Unlike the Apollo missions which took the first man to our natural satellite, the future Crew Exploration Vehicle that will deliver the Lunar Surface Access Module to the surface, after which it will remain on the orbit, will most probably have no humans on board, and will have dual role in the future lunar missions:... |
21 December 2007
05:55 GMT |
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Nebulae inside the Milky Way galaxy often receive high amounts of hot gas ejected by stars inside, which makes them emit radiation in the X-ray spectrum. Discovering these X-ray signatures could provide new information about young stars, which may hold secrets about the solar system and the planetary formation. The O... |
30 November 2007
06:42 GMT |
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New stuff under the sun for Boeing! Gizmag reports that the giant company will have five P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine test planes finalized by March 2009, with the actual production process expected to begin starting in 2013.The plane is said to be no less than a hundred and twenty nine feet long aircraft with a 117 ... |
10 November 2007
08:20 GMT |
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Carl Zeiss does it again. After signing partnerships with some other heavy names in the optical devices industry, they decided to look closer into the medical field or wherever some might need microscopes.This is not Carl Zeiss SMT's first attempt to revolutionize the way we view the world. The giant company ha... |
5 November 2007
07:06 GMT |
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has delivered a spectacular image revealing the birth of new stars in the Orion galaxy, a famous constellation visible in winter from the northern hemisphere. They are the result of shockwaves that occurred 3 million years ago when a massive star exploded.The Orion constellation, a... |
19 May 2007
07:11 GMT |
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The Gemini Observatory in Hawaii released the newest and most detailed images of supersonic "bullets" of gas piercing through dense clouds of hydrogen gas in the Orion Nebula.The latest image of the Orion bullets was created with a new technology, called adaptive optics, which uses a laser guide star as a reference ... |
26 March 2007
09:46 GMT |
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