Posts Tagged ‘ astronauts ’

SPACE.com – Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are on a quest to snap photos of the northern lights so the public can better appreciate this spectacular cosmic display. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – The six astronauts aboard the International Space Station can’t come home for the holidays, but they’re doing their best to make the season bright hundreds of miles above Earth’s surface. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Reuters – NASA plans to spend $ 1.6 billion over the next two years bolstering industry efforts to develop space taxis, officials said on Monday. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Question by typicaljoe: What innovation could help assist astronauts during spacewalk construction of the International Space Station? It can be used by the crew on a spacewalk, or by an astronaut inside the shuttle, or inside the space station. It can be a remotely operated or manually controlled piece of equipment, a tool, a...
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SPACE.com – NEW YORK — The last astronauts ever to fly on a NASA space shuttle visited the future home of the prototype for their winged spaceship today (Aug. 18): a World War II aircraft carrier that now serves as a floating museum. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. – As a journalist you become used to, comfortable even, with covering events from the periphery, from the outside. On a recent training flight, that comfortable veneer disappeared as I joined the commander and pilot of the final space shuttle mission in a specially modified aircraft to practice landing...
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Reuters – The shuttle Atlantis astronauts finished packing more than 2 tonnes of old equipment and trash from the International Space Station into a cargo hauler on Sunday for the last shuttle ride back to Earth. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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AP – The shuttle astronauts have dealt with another computer problem aboard Atlantis. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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AP – The astronauts making NASA’s last shuttle flight turned into moving men and garbage haulers Wednesday with no time to dwell on their place in space history, after enjoying a special salute from the original “Rocket Man,” Elton John. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With a real ‘rocket’s red glare’ awaiting them , the four American astronauts who will fly NASA’s final space shuttle mission made an Independence Day arrival today at their Florida launch site for a planned July 8 liftoff. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – The first photos of Gabrielle Giffords, wife of astronaut Mark Kelly, have been released since the Congresswoman was critically wounded in a January shooting in Arizona. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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SPACE.com – HOUSTON – The astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavour woke up this evening to a song that was written specially for the crew who are flying the orbiter on its final mission. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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