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STS-128 delayed again: Valve problem
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-26 07:45:26
The Wednesday, August 26, 2009 launch of the space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed again, but this time because of a suspect valve in the main propulsion system. The scheduled launch date is now set for Friday, August 28, 2009, if repairs can be made in the meantime.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-26 07:45:26
The Wednesday, August 26, 2009 launch of the space shuttle Discovery was scrubbed again, but this time because of a suspect valve in the main propulsion system. The scheduled launch date is now set for Friday, August 28, 2009, if repairs can be made in the meantime.
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Stormy weather grounds STS-128/Discovery
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-25 08:12:06
Even though the weather was supposed to improve as launch time approached at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it didn’t. The NASA manned mission to the International Space Station had to be postponed 24 hours.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-25 08:12:06
Even though the weather was supposed to improve as launch time approached at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it didn’t. The NASA manned mission to the International Space Station had to be postponed 24 hours.
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STS-128 liftoff early Tuesday morning with COLBERT
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-24 08:50:57
With the space shuttle Discovery packed full of a treadmill named COLBERT and a canister called Leonardo, the NASA STS-128 mission to the International Space Station is scheduled to lift off very early Tuesday morning from the Kennedy Space Center; that is, if the weather holds.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-24 08:50:57
With the space shuttle Discovery packed full of a treadmill named COLBERT and a canister called Leonardo, the NASA STS-128 mission to the International Space Station is scheduled to lift off very early Tuesday morning from the Kennedy Space Center; that is, if the weather holds.
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NASA spacecraft finds basic ingredient of life in comet
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-18 08:30:28
A NASA scientist announced on August 16, 2009, that NASA’s Stardust spacecraft has returned sample material to Earth from comet Wild 2. The sample contains the first signs within an extraterrestrial body of an amino acid, which is used by organisms to make proteins: a building block of life.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-18 08:30:28
A NASA scientist announced on August 16, 2009, that NASA’s Stardust spacecraft has returned sample material to Earth from comet Wild 2. The sample contains the first signs within an extraterrestrial body of an amino acid, which is used by organisms to make proteins: a building block of life.
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NASA can’t do new human exploration without more money
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-15 09:06:42
That is basically the conclusion of an official and independent U.S. government review of NASA’s budget and the future of any new manned space programs for the U.S. space agency. Simply: the United States can’t make it to the Moon or Mars under the current timetable with the money currently budgeted to NASA. If you want the Moon and Mars: then give NASA more money!
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2009-08-15 09:06:42
That is basically the conclusion of an official and independent U.S. government review of NASA’s budget and the future of any new manned space programs for the U.S. space agency. Simply: the United States can’t make it to the Moon or Mars under the current timetable with the money currently budgeted to NASA. If you want the Moon and Mars: then give NASA more money!
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