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Spacewalks Set For Friday And MondayHouston TX (SPX) Aug 04, 2010 Activities aboard the International Space Station remained focused on spacewalk preparations Tuesday as the Expedition 24 crew gets ready to replace a failed ammonia pump module that took down half the station's cooling system over the weekend. Expedition 24 astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, both flight engineers, currently are scheduled to start the repairs Friday during the first of two spacewalks. Mission managers, program managers, flight controllers, engineers, astronau ... read more |
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London (UPI) Jul 27, 2010 Future manned space exploration will be the province of adventurers rather than state-backed missions, Britain's astronomer royal says. In an interview 40 years after the first manned moon landing, Cambridge University Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics Martin Rees said most future space mission would likely be robotic, BBC News reported Tuesday. Manned space exploration wou ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 28, 2010Oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill has forced authorities to close or post water quality warnings at one in five beaches in the 100 days since the crisis began, a report said Wednesday. Forty-nine of 253 stretches of beach in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have had to close or post warnings for swimmers as a result of the spill, the report by the Natural Resources Defense Council ... more  
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 28, 2010Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko concluded a six-hour, 42-minute spacewalk Tuesday at 6:53 a.m. EDT. The cosmonauts began their spacewalk when they opened the hatches of the Pirs docking compartment at 12:11 a.m. This was the 147th spacewalk overall in support of International Space Station assembly and maintenance. The cosmonauts wore their Russian Orlan spacesuits ... more |
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Gulf focus shifts, but where is all the oil?New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) July 26, 2010 With BP's leaking well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, the focus shifts to the surface clean-up and the question on everyone's lips is: where is all the oil? For three long months a massive slick threatened the shorelines of Louisiana and other southern US Gulf Coast states as BP tried everything from top hats to junk shots and giant domes to stanch the toxic sludge. A cap stopped the flow on July 15 and now, thanks to frantic efforts to skim and burn the crude on the surface, the real dif ... read more |
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