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Japanese scientists and origami masters hope to launch a paper airplane from space and learn from its trip back to Earth.
It's no joke. A prototype passed a durability test in a wind tunnel this month, Japan's space agency adopted it Wednesday for feas..
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China is developing the ability to limit or prevent the use of satellites by potential adversaries during times of crisis, the Pentagon said Monday in a report to Congress.
The report, the latest in a series of annual assessments of China's military po..
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Among the things Malaysia's first astronaut will be worrying about next month: how does an observant Muslim pray toward Mecca while soaring hundreds of miles (kilometers) above the Earth?
Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor, 35, is one of three people who will bla..
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A union representing 570 space shuttle program workers at the Kennedy Space Center voted to strike Saturday, less than a week before the planned launch of the shuttle Atlantis.
The International Association of Machinist and Aerospace Workers, which rep..
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Two months ago, China fired a medium-range missile into space to destroy one of its own weather satellites in low Earth orbit, attracting the attention of many in the strategic community.
For some, the Jan. 11 test revealed China’s increasing militar..
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has put down $5 million toward a flight to the international space station with the company that has sent millionaires and even a billionaire into orbit.
Virginia-based Space Adventures announced the identity of the future..
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Before returning home, Discovery's astronauts will pull out the laser-tipped inspection boom that they retrieved from the space station after it was left by another shuttle in March, and survey their ship's wings and nose cap.
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The one-time pride of the Soviet space program is making a decidedly sedate journey to its new home, chugging up the Rhine River aboard a pontoon boat.
The Buran 002 space shuttle is headed for the Technik-Museum Speyer in southwestern Germany, which s..
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A European supply vessel carrying over five tons of freight is scheduled to dock with the international space station on Thursday in a major advance for Europe's space program.
Officials of the European Space Agency said the docking of Europe's first A..
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Europe's massive Jules Verne space freighter wrapped up its final dress rehearsal high above Earth on Monday, priming the ship for a Thursday docking with the international space station.
Looking something like an overweight X-wing fighter from the mov..
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The experiment should have been conducted last year but was bumped because of a more pressing space station problem.
It's one of the many safety measures developed after Columbia was destroyed during re-entry in 2003 because of a gashed wing.
The fi..
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This isn't the first time hydrazine has posed a problem in space: The fuel freezes at temperatures below 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2 degrees Celsius), and satellites without active heating will drop to temperatures below that — as a case involving the Sovi..
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A South Korean scientist and amateur boxer soon to become his country's first astronaut said on Tuesday he would bring soil from each side of the divided Korean peninsula and mix them together in space during his flight.
"We still think this is one cou..
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As expected, the tentative 24 January launch of US shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS) has been pushed back to 7 February.
The new date will give engineers more time to work on the orbiter's errant fuel sensor system.
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The United States should keep flying the space shuttles past their 2010 retirement date to avoid depending on Russia to fly astronauts to the international space station, a Florida congressman said Monday.
U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, a Republican whose Flor..
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UK schoolchildren are being offered the chance to design an experiment for a small satellite in an effort to boost interest in space science.
The contest, organised by the British National Space Centre (BNSC) and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL), is..
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Near perfect weather was forecast over Florida for Thursday afternoon, giving NASA confidence that Shuttle Atlantis can continue its streak of on-time takeoffs. NASA began fueling the space shuttle at daybreak.
Each of the year's previous shuttle count..
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Nearby Venus is looking a bit more Earthlike, with frequent bursts of lightning confirmed by a European space probe.
For nearly three decades, astronomers have said Venus probably had lightning — ever since a 1978 NASA probe showed signs of electrica..
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Crew members aboard the international space station on Monday used a robotic crane to reposition the space shuttle's docking port, a key step toward preparing the complex for the arrival of Europe's science laboratory next month.
Newly arrived station..
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Fifty years ago, Sputnik's launch marked humanity's epochal breakout into space, and during the 20 years that followed, engineers created all of the fundamental types of space vehicles and space missions we see today. That amazing burst of human creativit..
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