Archive for February 28, 2009

NASA Delays Discovery Launch Fourth Time

  NASA announced yet another delay for the launch of the Discovery STS-119 mission to the International Space Station Friday, marking the fourth time the mission has been postponed. An all-day review of the craft’s readiness for launch left managers still under-confident about the operations of three hydrogen control valves that channel gaseous hydrogen from the main engines [...]

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Astronaut draws enthusiastic crowd in Fort Morgan

Morgan Community College?s Bloedorn Hall was packed with about 100 people Tuesday night who came to see former astronaut Joe Tanner.

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Russian cargo ship blasts off for ISS

A Russian cargo ship carrying supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off Tuesday from the Baikonour cosmodrome, Russian state television pictures showed.

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‘Star Trek’ exhibit at the Detroit Science Center is a Trekkie’s dream come true

Explore strange, new worlds and seek out new life with a virtual trip aboard the starship Enterprise at the Detroit Science Center. “Star Trek: The Exhibition” opens Saturday with a cargo bay full of goodies for fans of the various incarnations of the classic TV and movie franchise.

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One small step for Iran: Why Nasa has competition

It can be seen clearly, if you know where to look ? a faint, moving point of light in the night sky. Amateur observers, and the US military, have already spotted Iran’s first home-made satellite, called Omid, meaning “hope”, and they have picked up its radio signals, too. For just a few months, Omid will remain in space, along with the upper stage of the Safir-2 rocket that took the satellite …

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