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Astronauts to make first space walk of last Atlantis missionCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) May 17, 2010 US astronauts were to venture into outer space Monday for the first time since the shuttle Atlantis linked up with the International Space Station in the final rendezvous of its 25-year career. Mission Specialists Garrett Reisman and Steve Bowen were "camping out" in the Quest airlock overnight to purge nitrogen from their circulatory system, the US space agency said. Their space walk - the first of three - was scheduled to begin Monday at 8:15 am (1215 GMT) and last 6.5 hours, according to N ... read more |
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Venice, Louisiana (AFP) May 12, 2010Chemical dispersants will be used to battle a massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill only as long as their environmental benefits outweigh the costs, the head of the US Environmental Protection Agency pledged Wednesday. More than 1.5 million liters (400,000 gallons) of dispersants have been sprayed across the massive slick spreading out of the wreckage of a BP-leased offshore rig which sank nearly ... more  
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) May 13, 2010Wednesday is "L-2" at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, meaning there are only two days remaining until the scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission. Countdown clocks across the launch complex were activated at 4 p.m. EDT Tuesday and the countdown continues on schedule for liftoff Friday at 2:20 p.m. During the 12-day mission, Atlantis and the mission's six a ... more  
Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 11, 2010NASA's Ames Research Center generated 5,300 jobs and $877 million in total annual economic activity in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area in 2009, according to a new economic benefits study. The study found that nationally, NASA Ames supports more than 8,400 jobs and generates $1.3 billion in annual economic activity. Coordinated by the NASA Research Park Office and prepared by Emeryvi ... more |
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All ideas welcome: BP looks to public for oil leak solutionsNew Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 10, 2010 With the impending threat of a growing oil slick just offshore, US Gulf coast states are seizing at all straws to avert disaster - with police in north Florida even suggesting protecting beaches with rolls of hay. "That's why we get a lot of inventions in wartime, because people are willing to take a chance," Eric Smith, an oil and gas expert at Tulane University in New Orleans, said of the flood of ideas on how to stop the spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On Florida's Santa Rosa Beach, Walton Coun ... read more |
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