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Expedition 10 Arrives At Space Station |
| The International Space Station's newest residents -- Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov -- arrived at 11:16 p.m. CDT Friday
(0416 GMT Saturday) when their Soyuz spacecraft docked with the Station's Pirs Docking Compartment - NASA |
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Genesis Crash Linked To Upside-Down Design |
| Sensors to detect deceleration on NASA's Genesis space capsule were installed correctly but had been designed upside down, resulting in the failure to deploy the capsule’s parachutes - New Scientist |
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Newfound Star Cluster May Be Final Milky Way 'Fossil' |
| Just when astronomers thought they might have dug up the last of our galaxy's "fossils," they've discovered a new one in the galactic equivalent of our own backyard - NASA/JPL |
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Los Alamos Instrument Yields New Knowledge Of Saturn's Rings |
| University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have begun to analyze data from an instrument aboard the joint U.S.-European spacecraft Cassini - Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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Scientists Prepare For Space Probe's Plunge Into Titan's Atmosphere |
| On Jan. 14, 2005, the Huygens probe will plow into the orange atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan, becoming the first spacecraft to attempt to land on a moon in our solar system since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 touched down on Earth's moon in 1976 - UC Berkeley |
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New Propulsion Concept Could Make 90-day Mars Round Trip Possible |
| A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space - University of Washington |
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Mexico Telescope To Shed Light On Cosmic Dark Ages |
| Perched on the top of one of Mexico's highest mountains is a gigantic, half-built telescope that scientists hope will reveal more secrets of the universe's early years than any before it - Reuters |
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Did The Celts See A Comet Impact In 200 B.C.? |
| We have identified an exceptional field of meteorites and impact craters stretching from the town of AltГѓВ¶tting to the area around Lake Chiemsee in southeastern Bavaria, Germany - Astronomy |
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Unmanned Chinese Return Capsule Crashes Lands Into House |
| A Chinese satellite smashed into a villager's house on its return to earth, destroying the dwelling but causing no injuries, state media reported Sunday - SpaceDaily |
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Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper Dies |
| The NASA family gathered at the Johnson Space Center in Houston today to honor the memory of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper - NASA |
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