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Shuttle Atlantis back on Earth after final space voyageCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) May 26, 2010 The shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth Wednesday from the final space flight of its 25-year career, marking the beginning of a bittersweet end for NASA's storied space shuttle program. Shuttle commander Ken Ham touched the spacecraft down at 8:48 am (1248 GMT), completing a flawless landing on the runway at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. As it descended toward Earth, Atlantis glided over the south Pacific, Panama and the western tip of Cuba before reaching Florida and the space center, and was ... read more |
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New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 21, 2010A make-or-break attempt to clog a ruptured pipe gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico with a method dubbed the "top kill" has been delayed until at least Tuesday, officials said Friday. BP, which leased the Deepwater Horizon rig that exploded on April 20, has so far managed only to stem the flow of oil using a mile-long tube inserted into the ruptured pipe. That tube - which became operat ... more  
Washington (AFP) May 21, 2010Two US astronauts completed their final spacewalk Friday at the International Space Station, replacing batteries before heading home. Garrett Reisman and Michael Good reentered the orbiting station's decompression chamber at 1:13 pm (1713 GMT) after the Atlantis crew's third spacewalk in five days. Their sortie lasted six hours and 46 minutes. The pair plugged a new ammonia jumper cable ... more  
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 20, 2010BP faced accusations of a cover-up Thursday as pressure mounted for an accurate estimate of how much oil has really been gushing out of a ruptured pipe deep in the Gulf of Mexico for the past month. "We cannot trust BP," said Representative Edward Markey, chairman of the House subcommittee on energy and environment. "It's clear they have been hiding the actual consequences of this spill." ... more |
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Nationwide Sea-Floor Ecology Study Starts Off WACanberra, Australia (SPX) May 20, 2010 The first stage of a long-term observation study of the ecology of Australia's sea-floor was recently launched off Western Australia's Rottnest Island. The study is being conducted by the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS), CSIRO's Wealth from Oceans Flagship and The University of Western Australia Oceans Institute (UWA OI) - as a collaboration through the Western Australian Marine Science Institution (WAMSI) - to increase understanding of how ocean currents affect coastal ecosystems. ... read more |
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