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US intensifies strikes at Al-Qaeda targets: reportWashington (AFP) Aug 14, 2010 The US military conducted in May a secret air strike against a suspected Al-Qaeda target in Yemen and killed a deputy provincial governor in the process, The New York Times reported late Saturday. Citing unnamed US officials, the newspaper said the air strike hit a group of suspected operatives for Al-Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province. But it also killed the province's deputy governor, a respected local leader who Yemeni officials said had been trying to talk Al-Qaeda members into gi ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 7, 2010Two International Space Station astronauts set out Saturday on the first of two spacewalks to fix a cooling pump that dramatically failed last week. ISS astronauts will need at least two spacewalks to remove the failed ammonia pump unit and replace it with a new one after the device failed a week ago. Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson slept in the Quest airlock module overnight to a ... more  
Tucson AZ (SPX) Aug 05, 2010NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA, have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and have selected five science instruments - including one from the University of Arizona - for the first mission. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scheduled to launch in 2016, is the first of three joint robotic missions to the Red Planet. It will study the chemical makeup of t ... more 
Houston TX (SPX) Aug 04, 2010Activities 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 ... more |
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Spacewalk Preparations Continue After Loss Of Cooling LoopHouston TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 Teams of flight controllers are continuing engineering analysis and refining spacewalk procedures to replace a failed International Space Station ammonia pump module later this week. Expedition 24 astronauts Doug Wheelock and Tracy Caldwell Dyson currently are scheduled to start the repairs on the station's starboard truss Thursday. The pump failed Saturday night after a spike in electrical current tripped a circuit breaker. When the 780-pound pump failed, it shut down half of the station's coolin ... read more |
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