 EU Galileo satnav project gets final greenlight April 23, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Europe's long-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system passed its final legal hurdle on Wednesday after the European Parliament gave the flag-ship project its green light. | |
Space station crew lucky to survive re-entry: agency April 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Three astronauts were lucky to survive a dangerous re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere last week, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday, citing a source close to an investigation into the incident. | |
 Mars Express in orbit around Mars April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Artificial intelligence (AI) being used at the European Space Operations Centre is giving a powerful boost to ESA's Mars Express as it searches for signs of past or present life on the Red Planet. | |
 Life-Probing Instrument Preparing for Mission to Mars April 29, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A new life-detecting instrument is preparing for a mission to the Red Planet. The Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector instrument, developed by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC ... | |
German whizzkid got it wrong: NASA April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth ... | |
 Japan to send cherry seeds into space April 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Japan's famed cherry trees have carried the hearts of a nation for centuries but they will soon enjoy another honour -- their seeds being blasted into outer space. | |
 Powerful antenna attached to NASA's GLAST satellite April 21, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The powerful antenna system that will enable NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) to communicate with stations on Earth has been successfully connected to the spacecraft in the Astrotech payload processing ... | |
 Moondust and Duct Tape April 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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At this year's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alabama, Prof. Paul Shiue of Christian Brothers University was overheard joking that duct tape was his team's "best engineering tool." Others felt the same ... | |
 Cuneiform clay tablet translated for the first time March 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 94 vote(s)
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A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at Köfels, ... | |
 Discovery Ready for Final Assembly and Checkout April 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Space shuttle Discovery rolled into the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, where the shuttle's external tank and two solid rocket boosters await. Discovery was ... | |
 NASA official envisions six-month stays on the moon April 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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NASA wants astronauts who will return to the moon to take one long step for mankind. | |
 MIT professor will lead science team for NASA satellite to map Earth's water cycle April 28, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
MIT Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team designing a NASA satellite mission to make global soil moisture and freeze/thaw measurements, data essential to the accuracy of weather forecasts and ... | |
Is there anybody out there? April 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Is there anybody out there? Probably not, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia. | |
 Mars radar opens up a planet’s third dimension April 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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ESA’s Mars Express radar sounder, MARSIS, has looked beneath the martian surface and opened up the third dimension for planetary exploration. The technique’s success is prompting scientists to think of all ... | |
 NASA Completes First Full-Scale Motor Test for Orion Spacecraft April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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NASA has completed the first full-scale rocket motor test for the Constellation Program's Orion spacecraft, a test of a solid rocket that will be used to jettison the craft's launch abort system. | |
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