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China launches riskiest space mission yet Jiuquan, China (AFP) Sept 25, 2008 
China Thursday launched its riskiest space flight yet, sending three men into orbit around the earth on a mission that will include the nation's first ever space walk, state media said. The Shenzhou VII spacecraft lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest China at 9:10 pm (1310 GMT) in the presence of President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders, state television reported live. ... read moreSpace key to mankind's survival: NASA chief 
Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Mankind's very survival depends on the future exploration of space, said NASA chief Michael Griffin in an interview with AFP marking the 50th anniversary of the US space agency. This journey, said the veteran physicist and aerospace engineer, is full of unknowns and has only just begun. "Does the survival of human kind depend upon it? I think so," he said. Griffin compared the first ... more |
UN warns nations at climate science meeting 'time is not on our side'
Nations at odds over major UN climate science report US pipeline case heads to court in high-stakes free speech fight Cuba opens solar park hoping to stave off blackouts Pre-vote fears for Germany's bumpy green energy shift Trump aid cut imperils water scheme in scorching Pakistan city Trump aid cut imperils water scheme in Pakistan's hottest city Musk in X spat with Danish astronaut over 'abandoned' ISS crew Odds plummet that asteroid will hit Earth in 2032 Australia seeks to turn failing steel plant into 'green' hub 
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NASA marks 50th birthday, looks to new frontiers
Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Half a century after NASA was created at the height of the Cold War when the United States sought to prove its superiority by winning the race to the Moon, the space agency faces new challenges ahead. At its conception NASA sought to assert American dominance over the Soviet Union, but in the new 21st century it finds an emerging rival in the space race: China. The birth of the National ... more Penpix of Chinese astronauts to blast off on historic mission 
Jiuquan, China (AFP) Sept 25, 2008Here are biographical details of the three Chinese astronauts due to blast off Thursday for the country's third manned space mission, including a first space walk. The details are impossible to verify as all China's astronauts are military personnel and their files are in the possession of the armed forces. China has treated all its space heroes as role models, especially for the young, ... more NASA at 50: still taking science to the limit 
Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2008In 50 years, NASA has earned itself an unparalleled reputation as an engineering, technological and scientific pioneer by pushing science to the limit. "Because our mission is flight in all its forms, in space and in the air, we think and work in our engineering and our science at the extremes -- and that's where the greatest discoveries are made," NASA administrator Michael Griffin said in ... more  |
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Facts about NASA, the world's biggest space agency
Washington (AFP) Sept 25, 2008The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has the world's largest budget for space exploration with some 17 billion dollars on hand each year for space missions and robotic research. It was created by the US Congress in July 1958 to challenge the former Soviet Union's rise in the space race, a year after the Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik, into space. ... more Sea Launch Successfully Delivers Galaxy 19 To Orbit 
Long Beach CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2008Early this morning, the Sea Launch Company successfully delivered the Galaxy 19 satellite to orbit from its ocean-based platform on the Equator. This is the international company's fifth successful launch from sea in 2008. A Zenit-3SL rocket lifted off at 2:28am PDT (9:28 GMT) from the Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned at 154 degrees West Longitude. Just over an hour later, the Block ... more US telecoms satellite put into orbit: company 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 24, 2008The Russo-Ukrainian rocket Zenit on Wednesday put the US telecommunications satellite Galaxy-19 in orbit, Russia's space flights regulator said. "The Galaxy-19 satellite was launched at 0928 GMT and successfully put into orbit," the agency's spokesman Valeri Lyndine told AFP. The satellite, manufactured by the California-based firm of Space Systems/Loral, has a wide footprint covering ... more US astronomers discover inter-planetary collision 
Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 23, 2008Two planets about 300 light years from Earth slammed into each other recently, US astronomers said Tuesday, the first time evidence of such a catastrophic collision has been seen by scientists. Astronomers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) said the crash involved two planets orbiting a star in the Aries constellation. ... more |
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