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Stories about: space flight

Space Experiment Pays $6,500 per Month The Mars 500 experiment is set to begin, Russian authorities in charge of the project have recently announced. The six volunteers, who will be locked together in a mock-up of a future Mars-bound spacecraft, will remain in complete isolation for more than three months, during which time they will live the life destine... 27 March 2009 09:57 GMT Discovery Rolls to Florida Launch Pad In preparation for its 36th mission in orbit, the space shuttle Discovery was positioned on its launch pad on Wednesday, in an operation that went without a hitch. The shuttle will launch from the 39A pad on February 12th, carried by one of NASA's Apollo-era vehicles, which seem to be actually quite reliable for... 15 January 2009 03:49 GMT Virgin Galactic 'Mothership' Passes Test Flight The Virgin Galactic company took a giant leap forward towards its objective – that of carrying tourists in suborbital flights – with the successful testing of the White Knight Two launch platform, an odd-shape airplane that will be the backbone of VG's future fleet. The platform has a double-fuselage... 22 December 2008 02:29 GMT