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Space Shuttle Retirement

The time for NASA space shuttle retirement is at hand. After almost 30 years, NASA will retire the space shuttles and send the remaining spacecraft to museums. The final shuttle flight is now scheduled for...

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SpaceShipOne test pilot Mike Melvill after the launch in pursuit of the Ansari X Prize on September 29, 2004. Photo taken by RenegadeAven during Civil Air Patrol duties.77

Space Tourism & Space Travel - How Far Off Are We?

There was very little known about space tourism until the late 1900s with a major impact on the media developing about five years ago. Space shuttle launches have always caued a media frenzy, however, and...

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Kalpana Chawla,First Indian Woman In Space77

How Women Can Become More Confident In Today's World

God created the heavens and the earth.Then he created the flora and fauna.And then his greatest creation,Man,came into being.To look after and enjoy everything that was around him and to have fellowship with...

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How many satellites orbit the Earth?

Space is big, but it can still get crowded up there. The recent collision between two orbiting satellites, including one Iridium satellite, was just an accident waiting to happen, according to debris...

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Manufacturing Industry

At this time of celebration of the achievements of Apollo 11, in fact of all 12 men who walked on the Moon, we shouldn't feel guilty about asking some questions about some of the other big projects...

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Space Shuttle Launch and the Benefits of Space Technology

  The scientific community has developed manned and robotic flights into space.  Because of the difficulty for humans to survive in the harsh conditions in outer space the robotic missions have gone as...

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Science and Space Exploration

Safety and health risks such as space radiation, cosmic rays, gamma rays, ultraviolet rays, x-rays, solar flares, space junk, meteoroids, mechanical failure, human failure, the physical or mental effects of...

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Astronauts Watch The New Star Trek Movie From Space

Star Trek 2009. Photo: Freewebs. NASA officials fulfilled the wishes of a Star Trek fan, who didn’t want to miss the premiere because of his space journey by beaming the movie to the International Space...

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Successful launch of Discovery

The U.S. space shuttle Discovery has now reached Earth orbit in less than nine minutes after launch from Florida with seven astronauts on board including a Swede to reach the International Space Station...

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Why destroy the hubble space telescope and the space station.

 Why destroy the Hubble space Telescope? Near the end of its service life around the year 2020, nasa plans to destroy the Hubble space telescope with a robot. This robot will attach itself to the rear of the...

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