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Nasa finally ran a successful test on equipment that turns urine into drinking water.
Friday, November 28, 2008 ibnlive.in.com
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New Delhi: After five frustrating days, astronauts aboad space shuttle Endeavour finally ran a successful test on equipment that turns urine into drinking water.
Samples of the processed urine, sweat and condensation will be tested on Earth before astronauts can start drinking the purified water next year.
But until early Tuesday, the machine couldn't last the four hours needed for a successful
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After India's spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 successfully entered the lunar orbit.
Monday, November 24, 2008 www.ndtv.com
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Britain is set to launch its maiden moon mission to study the phenomenon of mysterious moonquakes, weeks after India's spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 successfully entered the lunar orbit.
The 100-million-pound unmanned mission 'MoonLITE' would aim to understand the cause of mysterious quakes that vibrate through the lunar rock and put it into the satellite's orbit before firing a series of probes i
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NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars.
Saturday, November 22, 2008 www.mid-day.com
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Los Angeles: NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mission.
The decision to slash the storage bin from the Mars Science Laboratory's payload came as engineers raced to meet an October 2009 launch deadline on a project beset by escalating costs and technic
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The orbital assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) began rather humbly ten years ago.
Thursday, November 20, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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It’s the largest spacecraft ever built, but the orbital assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) began rather humbly ten years ago, with the launch from Kazakhstan of its first bus-sized component, Zarya, on Nov 20, 1998.
The launch began an international construction project of unprecedented complexity and sophistication.
“The ISS is the largest ever experiment in international technol
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NASA successfully tested first deep space communications network modeled on Internet.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 www.indianexpress.com
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New York: The US space agency NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet.
Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million mile
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Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted into the night sky on Friday, bound for the International Spac
Monday, November 17, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Cape Canaveral: Space shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted into the night sky on Friday, bound for the International Space Station and the most extreme home makeover project ever attempted by astronauts.
The shuttle rose off its launch pad, on time, at 7:55 pm EST (6:55 am Indian Standard Time).“It’s our turn to take home improvement to a new level,” commander Christopher Ferguson radioe
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Hubble Telescope has captured for the first time visible- light snapshot of a planet circling anothe
Friday, November 14, 2008 justsamachar.com
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New York: The US space agency’s 18-year- old Hubble Telescope has captured for the first time visible- light snapshot of a planet circling another star outside our solar system.
Estimated to be about three times Jupiter’s mass, the planet - Fomalhaut b - orbits the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located at 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis or the “Southern Fish,” the NASA
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NASA’s robotic Phoenix Mars lander has been declared dead by scientists
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Washington: After months of dust storms and severe cold, NASA’s robotic Phoenix Mars lander has been declared dead by scientists, who celebrated its success as the first to touch ice on the Red Planet.
Mission managers said on Monday that Phoenix had lasted long after its planned 90 days, and they celebrated the success of the spacecraft.
“It’s really an Irish wake and not a funeral,” said princ
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NASA chose November 14 for its next space shuttle launch
Friday, October 31, 2008 timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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CAPE CANAVERAL: With a visit to the Hubble Space Telescope off until next spring at the earliest, NASA chose November 14 for its next space shuttle launch, a flight by Endeavour to the international space station.
The Hubble repair mission had been planned for this month, but was postponed until next year because of problems with the orbiting telescope. The telescope is beaming back pictures agai
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Americans from all over the world will vote for the next US president on November 4 but some ballots
Thursday, October 30, 2008 www.mumbaimirror.com
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Washington: Americans from all over the world will vote for the next US president on November 4 but some ballots will come from the space also. Commander Edward Michael Fincke and flight engineer Gregory Chamitoff are living and working on board the International Space Station.
Although they are 350 km above the earth, orbiting at 28,000 km per hour, they will still be able to participate in the
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