The US space shuttle Atlantis has lifted off its seaside launch pad at the Kennedy Space Centre near Florida’s Cape Canaveral, loaded with spare parts to keep the International Space Station flying after the shuttles are retired next year.
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Russia’s space agency chief is proposing to build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine. Reportedly, Anatoly Perminov told a government meeting Wednesday that the preliminary design could be ready by 2012. It would take about nine more years and 17 billion rubles (about $600 million or 400 million euros) to build the ship. [...]
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LIHU?E ? A Japanese navy ship with a state-of-the-art, American-built, missile-defense system will attempt to shoot a target missile out of the sky this afternoon.
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NASA released spectacular footage Monday from an aircraft stationed near the landing site of the Ares 1-X first stage booster, showing remarkable views of liftoff, the botched parachute deployment and splashdown.
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