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NASA's launch pad repairs will be finished in time for Hubble trip PDF E-mail
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Monday, 30 June 2008
A $2.7 million repair job is being performed on Launch Pad 39A after the NASA space shuttle Discovery damaged it when it lifted off May 31, 2008, for its STS-124 mission to the International Space Station.

 
Mars, Saturn, Regulus put on evening show in July skies PDF E-mail
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Monday, 30 June 2008
During the first ten days of July 2008, the two planets Mars and Saturn and the bright star Regulus will be seen low in the western sky after dusk and into the evening, less than one-third the way up from the horizon.

 
Study shows girls "ignore" while boys "grab" when competing PDF E-mail
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Sunday, 29 June 2008
Emmanuel College researchers show that pre-school girls and boys are equally competitive, only girls don’t directly show their competitive nature as much as boys.

 
Genetically modified wheat to Australia? PDF E-mail
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Sunday, 29 June 2008
Under the drought conditions present in Australia, scientists are testing genetically modified wheat that is drought-resistant. Will Australia accept such GM wheat?

 
Arctic ice may be liquid by September 2008 at North Pole PDF E-mail
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Saturday, 28 June 2008
According to scientists at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A., the Earth’s Arctic seawater around the North Pole may be ice-free by the end of summer.


 
NASA ready to fly a kite in space with NanoSail-D PDF E-mail
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Saturday, 28 June 2008
As early as July 29, 2008, NASA will attempt to deploy a solar sail in space after launching it into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket.


 
Life can exist on Mars PDF E-mail
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Friday, 27 June 2008
According to NASA scientists with the Phoenix Mars Landers, Martian soil could support life--based on initial analysis from the spacecraft's wet chemistry laboratory.

 
LCROSS passes final test before trip to Moon PDF E-mail
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Friday, 27 June 2008
The U.S. space agency NASA announced that its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, nicknamed LCROSS, passed a thermal vacuum test in June 2008, which now gives it the go-ahead to investigate whether the Moon has water ice in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.


 
Chocolate lovers like taste of Mars Cocoa Genome Project PDF E-mail
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Friday, 27 June 2008
Announced on Thursday, June 26, 2008, Mars, USDA, and IBM are joining forces to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome for increased profits, sustained supplies, and improved farming and production of chocolate.


 
Mars once rained water, according to California study PDF E-mail
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Friday, 27 June 2008
According to research led by University of California--Berkeley geoscientists, the atmosphere of ancient Mars once held enough liquid water for a light drizzle or dew to fall onto the surface of the planet.

 
Solar system's largest crater discovered by NASA PDF E-mail
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Thursday, 26 June 2008
The giant northern basin on Mars is the largest impact crater in the solar system, according to US scientists.

 
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