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First astronauts enter orbiting China space moduleBeijing (AFP) June 18, 2012 Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network and a key step towards the nation's first space station. The astronauts, two men and a woman, passed into the Tiangong-1 ("Heavenly Palace") module a little under three hours after it docked with the Shenzhou-9 ("Divine Vessel") spacecraft. The Shenzhou-9 took off Saturday carrying the first Chinese woman to go into space, before undergoing the third auto ... read more |
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  US regains top spot for fastest supercomputer An IBM supercomputer developed for US government nuclear simulations and to study climate change and the human genome has been recognized as the world's fastest. ... more | .. |
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 All the colors of a high-energy rainbow, in a tightly focused beam For the first time, researchers have produced a coherent, laser-like, directed beam of light that simultaneously streams ultraviolet light, X-rays, and all wavelengths in between. One of the few lig ... more | .. |
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 Physicists use ultrafast lasers to create first tabletop X-ray device An international research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has generated the first laser-like beams of X-rays from a tabletop device, paving the way for major advances in many fields i ... more | .. |
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 Kepler Telescope star data creates musical melody Why stop at the dark side of the moon to make music when you can look thousands of light years into space? That's what a team of Georgia Tech researchers have done, using data from two stars in our ... more |
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 China astronauts enter space module for first time Three Chinese astronauts on Monday entered an orbiting module for the first time, a key step towards the nation's first space station, in a move broadcast live on China's state television network. ... more | .. |
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  Kazakhstan gives Russia the go-ahead for Baikonur launches Kazakhstan has given Russia permission to carry out launches from the Baikonur space center, Kazakh Prime Minister Karim Massimov said on Friday. Russia and Kazakhstan have failed so far to re ... more | .. |
  U.S. Navy, Northrop Grumman Complete X-47B Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base, Move Second Unmanned Aircraft to East Coast The first major phase of flight testing the X-47 B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft came to a successful conclusion on May 15 when Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy wrapped u ... more | .. |
  2nd Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Successfully Completes 1st Flight Boeing reports the successful de-orbit and landing of the second X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office. The X-37B landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5 ... more |
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 Flying to space is also women's work: Russian cosmonaut There are no jobs specifically for men or women, so flying to space is also women's work, former Soviet female cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya told Xinhua in an interview. Savitskaya, 63, who fl ... more | .. |
 Contingency plans to address 700 space scenarios China has designed contingency plans to address more than 700 emergencies during the Shenzhou-9 space mission, which includes both automated and manual docking between the spaceship and the target o ... more | .. |
 China's manned space mission "hits target": Russian expert The successful launching of the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft on Saturday proves again China's grasp of essential space techniques and shows Chinese vision on how to develop the space program with steady st ... more | .. |
 China develops new rocket engine China announced Thursday that it has developed a new engine for its new generation of carrier rockets, making it the second in the world to harness such engine technologies. The 120-tonne liqu ... more |
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  Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy A Princeton University-led team of scientists has shown how electrons moving in certain solids can behave as though they are a thousand times more massive than free electrons, yet at the same time a ... more | .. |
China sends its first woman astronaut into space China on Saturday launched its most ambitious space mission to date, sending its first female astronaut to the final frontier and bidding to achieve the country's first manual space docking. ... more | .. |
  Russian to fund personal robots quest A Russian entrepreneur says he hopes to speed up a robotics revolution by creating a $25 million investment fund in New York focused on personal robots. ... more | .. |
 Liu Yang: China's first female astronaut As a child, Liu Yang once wanted to be a bus conductor and later had her sights set on becoming a lawyer, but decades later she has travelled into space as China's first ever female astronaut. ... more |
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