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September 30, 2008
Along with rewiring the International Space Station, the Discovery crew dropped off two tons of equipment and brought two tons back. In this mission, the Discovery completed 204 orbits and ...
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September 30, 2008
The base would be build on the lunar south pole and serve as a test bed for technologies needed for an eventual mission to Mars.
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September 30, 2008
The area of the Cape of Rodoni is one of the pearls of Albania, but its precious beaches are going waste because of the increasing pollution. And it's not just the rubbish on the surface, ...
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September 30, 2008
Yves Rossy from Switzerland has become the first person to gain altitude and maintain horizontal flight with strap-on wings thanks to a jetpack that would make James Bond jealous. The former ...
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September 30, 2008
NASA wanted to rewire the station in 2003, but the destruction of space shuttle Columbia halted all shuttle flights. Assembly resumed in September, with a new deadline to complete the outpost ...
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September 30, 2008
This discovery has helped scientists understand how one female lizard could start a new colony by herself.
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September 30, 2008
In the second spacewalk of this mission, half of the International Space Station must be powered down, leaving little back up. Turning half of the power off in the space station leaves little back ...
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September 30, 2008
NASA astronauts, on an unprecedented 4th spacewalk of the mission, successfully folded up the jammed-up solar panel.
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September 30, 2008
The technology, which until now has only been seen in movies like Mission: Impossible, projects a wide screen video image unnoticeable to anyone but the bespectacled individual.
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September 30, 2008
During the Discovery's mission crew members conducted 4 spacewalks to continue construction on the station, rewire the station's power system and assist in the retraction of a ...
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September 30, 2008
At least 14 more missions are needed to finish the $100 billion outpost. Shuttle flights were grounded after the 2003 Columbia accident and NASA only returned to station assembly this year. While ...
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September 30, 2008
Tokyo's zoo puts its newborn Koala bear on show to the public for the first time.
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September 30, 2008
Almost two years after the devastating Asian tsunami, Thailand has unveiled its first detection buoy. The device will be situated a thousand miles west of Phuket as part of an Indian Ocean tsunami ...
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September 30, 2008
The scientists say that death rate is enough to make gorillas extinct if people keep hunting them too. Their study - in the U.S. journal Science - looked at gorilla colonies in Gabon and the ...
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September 30, 2008
NASA scientists compared images of the Martian surface taken seven years apart and found the existence of 20 newly formed craters caused by impact from space debris as well as the evidence ...
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September 30, 2008
The twins have yet to be named and their sex has yet to be confirmed. The mother, 12-year-old Mei Mei and the father, 14-year-old Yong Ming were loaned from from China's Chengdu reserve. ...
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September 30, 2008
NASA continued with plans for a Thursday night launch of the space shuttle Discovery despite lingering clouds that could threaten the evening launch.
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September 30, 2008
The polar bears that are a famous part of Canada's North could soon be officially deemed a threatened species by the U.S. government, it was announced Wednesday.
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September 30, 2008
Telecommunications firms in Asia scrambled Thursday to restore service to millions of Chinese affected by an internet blackout after an earthquake snapped six undersea cables.
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September 30, 2008
An ancient ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields that broke off Ellesmere Island could be dangerous when it starts to drift in the spring, a scientist says.
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