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NASA Launches Endeavour On Fifth Last Shuttle MissionCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 8, 2010 The US space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six astronauts blasted into space on a mission to deliver a module dubbed Tranquility to the International Space Station. Endeavour lifted takeoff at 4:14 am (0914 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center here after a launch planned for Sunday was aborted due to heavy cloud cover over Cape Canaveral. George Diller, a spokesman for NASA said before launch the agency was cautiously optimistic that the weather would be better Monday morning. And it was as Endeavour undertook the last planned night launch for the space shuttle ahead of it's retirement later this year. ... read more |
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Monash, Australia (SPX) Feb 08, 2010Monash University biochemists have found a critical piece in the evolutionary puzzle that explains how life on Earth evolved millions of centuries ago. The team, from the School of Biomedical Sciences, has described the process by which bacteria developed into more complex cells and found this crucial step happened much earlier in the evolutionary timeline than previously thought. Te ... more NASA Revises Bdget For Displaying Retired Shuttles
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2010NASA has issued a follow-up Request for Information, or RFI, for ideas from education institutions, science museums and other appropriate organizations about the community's ability to acquire and publicly display orbiters after the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program. The original RFI in December 2008 noted that a potential shuttle recipient would have to pay an estimated $42 million ... more GOES-P Spacecraft Being Processed In Florida
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 18, 2010During the first three weeks in January, the latest in the series of Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites also known as GOES-P is being processed and prepped for launch. Meanwhile, the first and second stages of the Delta IV rocket that will carry it into orbit, are being assembled on the launch pad. The GOES-P spacecraft is currently being processed at Astrotech Space Operat ... more |
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US shuttle Endeavor ready for second lift-off attemptCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 8, 2010 The US space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six astronauts were set Monday to make another launch attempt on a mission to deliver a module dubbed Tranquility to the International Space Station. Endeavour is scheduled to takeoff at 4:14 am (0914 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center here after a launch planned for Sunday was aborted due to heavy cloud cover over Cape Canaveral. "We are cautiously optimistic that the weather will be better Monday morning," said George Diller, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. ... read more |
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