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»» Scientists Discover New Planet Orbiting Dangerously Close to Giant Star
[Tuesday, November 18, 2008] A team of astronomers from Penn State and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Poland has discovered a new planet that is closely orbiting a red-giant star, HD 102272, which is much older than our own Sun.
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»» NASA Successfully Tests First Deep Space Internet
[Tuesday, November 18, 2008] Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from JPL used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.
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»» Nations Around The World Mark 10th Anniversary Of International Space Station
[Tuesday, November 18, 2008] Nations around the world will join together to mark a milestone in space exploration this week, celebrating the 10th birthday of a unique research laboratory, the International Space Station.
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»» VLT and APEX Team Up to Study Flares from the Black Hole at the Milky Way's Core
[Tuesday, November 18, 2008] Astronomers have used two different telescopes simultaneously to study the violent flares from the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way.
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»» NASA STS-126 Report #07 Monday, November 17, 2008 - 6 p.m. CST
[Monday, November 17, 2008] The joint Space Shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station crews today took the first step toward updating the complexs interior by installing a packed logistics module on a docking port.
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»» Universal Declaration of Human Rights reaches space as the ISS gets ready for crew of six
[Sunday, November 16, 2008] The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was carried into space with the successful launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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»» STS-126 Arrives at the International Space Station
[Sunday, November 16, 2008] STS-126 has arrived at the International Space Station. Shuttle Commander Chris Ferguson was at the controls of space shuttle Endeavour docking to the station's Harmony Node at 5:01 p.m. EST.
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»» Czech flag raised over ESA
[Sunday, November 16, 2008] A historic event took place at ESA sites across Europe - the flag of the Czech Republic was hoisted alongside those of ESA's other Member States, officially symbolising the country becoming ESA's 18th Member State.
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»» Complex systems and Mars missions help understand how life began
[Friday, November 14, 2008] Understanding how life started remains a major challenge for science. At a European Science Foundation (ESF) and COST 'Frontiers of Science' conference in Sicily in October, scientists discussed two new approaches to the problem.
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»» Michelin Develops Lunar Wheel for NASA Moon Rover Vehicles
[Friday, November 14, 2008] Michelin has developed a new lunar wheel for the next generation of NASA moon rover vehicles. The structurally supported tire and wheel assembly was jointly developed at Michelin's European and North American research centers.
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