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Three astronauts land on Earth from ISS in Russian capsuleHouston TX (SPX) Apr 27, 2012 Three astronauts on Friday landed safely in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after a stay of almost six months aboard the International Space Station. Live NASA TV footage showed Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronaut Dan Burbank touched down at 1145 GMT under a clear blue sky after deploying a massive parachute that helped their capsule glide safely through the lower reaches of orbit. ... read more |
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  Risat-1 catapults India into a select group of nations On an early on Thursday morning, an Indian rocket successfully launched into orbit a microwave Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) from the spaceport here in Andhra Pradesh, some 80 km from Chennai. W ... more | .. |
  Martian Volcanic Glass Could Be Hotspot for Life Glass sand on Mars may point the way to chemically-rich water ideal for hosting life. The newly discovered glass dune fields, spread across almost a third of the planet, likely formed from interacti ... more | .. |
  NASA Astrophysicist Sten Odenwald to Discuss Transit of Venus The public is invited to a free lecture being held at the Library of Congress, about the rare Venus transit event. On June 5, 2012, the planet Venus will move across the face of the sun. Such ... more | .. |
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  Tiny 'spherules' reveal details about Earth's asteroid impacts Researchers are learning details about asteroid impacts going back to the Earth's early history by using a new method for extracting precise information from tiny "spherules" embedded in layers of r ... more | .. |
  NASA's Webb Telescope Flight Backplane Section Completed The center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed, marking an important milestone in the telescope's hardware development. The ... more | .. |
  Moon Express Delivers Lunar Mission Design Report for mining the Moon for precious resources Moon Express has announced that it has successfully delivered a mission design package to NASA under its Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data (ILDD) Program, providing NASA continuing data on the dev ... more | .. |
  Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school stud ... more |
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Trump orders 'pause' on military aid to Ukraine, White House officials say
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 NASA's Landsat Satellites See Texas Crop Circles A water-rich polka dot pattern takes over the traditional rectangular patchwork of fields in this time series animation of 40 years of Landsat images. In the dry Texas panhandle near the town of Dal ... more | .. |
  Do Milky Way's Companions Spell Trouble for Dark Matter? Astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have discovered a vast structure of satellite galaxies and clusters of stars surrounding our galaxy, stretching out across a million light-years. T ... more | .. |
  NASA Research Estimates How Long Titan's Chemical Factory Has Been in Business Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" cr ... more | .. |
  First payload ready for next batch of Galileo satellites The next Galileo navigation payload has been completed and is on its way to meet the satellite platform that will host it in orbit. The first of 14 Galileo 'Full Operational Capability' (FOC) naviga ... more |
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  ORBITEC and Sierra Nevada Space Systems Begin Testing Dream Chaser Life Support and Thermal Systems Orbital Technologies (ORBITEC) is the prime contractor for Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) and Thermal Control System (TCS) for the Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Dream Chas ... more | .. |
 Mars Express explores the roots of Martian volcanoes Recent analysis of radio signals sent back by ESA's Mars Express orbiter has enabled a team of Belgian and German scientists to probe deep beneath the surface of Mars. The first targeted, high resol ... more | .. |
 Cassini Finds Saturn Moon has Planet-Like Qualities Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought. Scientists had their first close-up look at Phoebe when Cassini began exploring t ... more | .. |
 Expedition 30 Crew Returning Home Friday The six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station packed cargo and shifted their sleep schedule Thursday as three Expedition 30 crew members prepare to return to Earth early F ... more |
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Rare tropical cyclone swirls off eastern Australia
Hundreds evacuated as torrential rains flood Indonesia capital
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  Three Earthlike planets identified by Cornell astronomers It's not little green men, but it could be a step in that direction: Cornell astronomers, using data from the NASA Kepler Mission, have identified three Earthlike planets orbiting their own suns, al ... more | .. |
 Pieces of meteorite found in California A NASA astronomer says he found fragments of the meteor that exploded in a giant fireball over California Sunday morning. ... more | .. |
  British media watchdog boosts probe into Murdoch's BSkyB Britain's media regulator said Thursday it was stepping up its probe into whether BSkyB, the pay-TV giant partly owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., is a "fit and proper" owner of a broadcasting licence. ... more | .. |
  Space -- the next frontier for Hillary Clinton? She has been the US secretary of state, a senator and nearly became president, but Hillary Clinton joked Thursday that she might want to try another role - space tourist. ... more |
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 Lava flows carved Mars valleys: study Lava flows carved valleys on Mars, US scientists said Thursday amid a long-running debate over whether water or volcanoes formed part of the red planet's landscape. ... more | .. |
 Latest CryoSat result revealed After nearly a year and a half of operations, CryoSat has yielded its first seasonal variation map of Arctic sea-ice thickness. Results from ESA's ice mission were presented at the Royal Society in ... more | .. |
  Finding the roots and early branches of the tree of life A study published in PLoS Computational Biology maps the development of life-sustaining chemistry to the history of early life. Researchers Rogier Braakman and Eric Smith of the Santa Fe Institute t ... more | .. |
  State of Himalayan glaciers less alarming than feared Ever since the false prognoses of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Himalayan glaciers have been a focus of public and scientific debate. The gaps in our knowledge of glacier ... more |
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  N. Korean missile failure setback for Iran The failure of North Korea's latest missile launch could prove to be a setback for Iran's efforts to develop a missile that could threaten the United States and Europe. ... more | .. |
  Russia to Test Fly First Combat Drone in 2014 Russia will test fly its first domestically-produced strike unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in 2014, First Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Sukhorukov said on Friday. In February, Army General ... more | .. |
 International Team Installs First Of Three Telescopes In Antarctica A team of scientists representing several international institutions, including Texas A and M University, has succeeded in installing the first of three Antarctic Survey Telescopes (AST3-1) at the C ... more | .. |
  Dawn Reveals Secrets of Giant Asteroid Vesta Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure. The f ... more |
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 Splatters of molten rock signal period of intense asteroid impacts on Earth New research reveals that the Archean era - a formative time for early life from 3.8 billion years ago to 2.5 billion years ago - experienced far more major asteroid impacts than had been previously ... more | .. |
  Did Exploding Stars Help Life On Earth To Thrive? Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars - supernovae - near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of life. Prof. Henrik Svensmark of the Techni ... more | .. |
 NASA Tests GPS Monitoring System for Big US Quakes The space-based technology that lets GPS-equipped motorists constantly update their precise location will undergo a major test of its ability to rapidly pinpoint the location and magnitude of strong ... more | .. |
  Indian rocket being fuelled for Risat-1 launch With 5.47 am Thursday set for the blast-off of the Indian rocket carrying a remote sensing/earth observation satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - into space, the Indian space agency is fu ... more |
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