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BBC News
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The American space shuttle Discovery has successfully touched down at the Kennedy space centre in the US state of Florida.
Nasa officials gave the go-ahead for the landing, saying it should not be affected by the earlier loss of a metal clip from Disco..
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BBC News
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An advanced satellite that will improve greatly the ability of UK military forces to communicate around the globe has been launched into space.
The Skynet 5C platform rode into orbit atop an Ariane 5 rocket from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana...
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SF Gate
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To everybody's relief, astronauts fixed the toilet at the international space station on Wednesday and opened up a grand new science lab.
The toilet problem had fast become the most pressing issue of the mission, so much so that a spare pump was rushed..
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BBC News
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A plan for a manned spacecraft has been announced by the European firm EADS.
Its Astrium division has designed a variant of its space station freighter that could also transport astronauts.
Limited details were released in Bremen, Germany, on Tuesda..
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CNN
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NASA says it is extending the international Cassini mission that is touring Saturn and its moons for another two years. The space agency announced the extension Tuesday. Since 2004, the unmanned probe has beamed back about 140,000 images. Its prime missio..
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BBC News
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Europe's sophisticated new space truck, the ATV, has docked with the International Space Station (ISS).
The unmanned vessel carries just under five tonnes of food, water, air, fuel and equipment for the orbiting platform's three astronauts.
The Auto..
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BBC News
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The US space shuttle Endeavour has docked with the International Space Station (ISS) hundreds of miles above Southeast Asia.
The three residents of the ISS greeted the seven astronauts with hugs as they boarded the orbiting space station.
During 12..
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BBC News
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Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis are preparing for the mission's first spacewalk.
The spacewalk was originally scheduled for Sunday, but had to be delayed by 24 hours after European crew member Hans Schlegel was taken ill.
Mr Schlegel wa..
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MSNBC
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NASA managers on Tuesday cleared space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff in two days on a mission to deliver Europe's first permanent space laboratory to the International Space Station.
Launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida is scheduled for 2:45..
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BBC News
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US space agency managers have given the go-ahead for the space shuttle to launch on Thursday of next week.
Atlantis has been dogged by an errant fuel sensor system, but Nasa is sure this is now fixed and has confirmed lift-off for 1947 GMT on 7 Februar..
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MSNBC
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For the first time astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole blasting its galactic neighbor with a deadly beam of energy.
The "death star galaxy," as NASA astronomers called it, could obliterate the atmospheres of planets but also trigger th..
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MSNBC
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Newly released NASA e-mails hint at something more than a professional relationship between former astronaut Lisa Nowak and a space shuttle pilot.
But the exchanges between Nowak and astronaut William Oefelein aren't nearly as saucy as the ones between..
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BBC News
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The US space agency Nasa has delayed launch of the Atlantis shuttle until 2008 because of a persistent problem with a sensor on a fuel tank.
Two attempts to launch the shuttle have been cancelled since Thursday, and only a few days remained for launch..
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MSNBC
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The moon formed after a nasty planetary collision with young Earth, yet it looks odd next to its watery orbital neighbor. Turns out it really is odd: Only about one in every 10 to 20 solar systems may harbor a similar moon.
New observations made by NAS..
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BBC News
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The European Space Agency (Esa) has drawn up its shortlist of the best places to look for life on Mars.
Esa will launch a mission called ExoMars in 2013 in which a robot rover will search the Martian surface for evidence of past or present life.
The..
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BBC News
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The hole in space shuttle Endeavour's underside will not be repaired before it returns to Earth, Nasa has said.
Agency officials took almost a week to decide whether to send astronauts outside to repair the 9cm (3.5in) gash.
They had been worried th..
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Associated Press
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Atlantis' seven astronauts prepared to return to Houston from California on Saturday to reunite with their families, a day after the space shuttle was diverted to the state but landed safely.
Families and friends gathered Friday at the Kennedy Space Ce..
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CNN
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Two Russian cosmonauts began to get crucial computers up and running Friday, four days after they crashed at the international space station and curbed the outpost's ability to orient itself and produce oxygen.
The progress came after days of frustrati..
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BBC News
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Russian computers controlling the International Space Station's (ISS) orientation and supply of oxygen and water have failed, Nasa officials say.
The station's three crew and seven visiting shuttle astronauts are not at any immediate risk; the ISS has..
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FOX News
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The crews of Atlantis and the international space station greeted each other with hugs and handshakes Sunday after the space shuttle arrived at the orbiting outpost.
But amid the smiles and salutations, engineers in Houston 220 miles below started eval..
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