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Got Milk? – Apparently early humans didn’t E-mail
Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Researchers from England and Germany have discovered that European adults several thousand years ago could not drink milk.
 
SpaceShipTwo being built for space tourism venture of Virgin Galactic E-mail
Tuesday, 27 February 2007
Headed by U.S. aircraft designer Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites has designed and is building SpaceShipTwo, for its first customer Virgin Galactic, which is planning to send private citizens into space by the year 2009.
 
World powers troubled with Iran’s space rocket launch E-mail
Tuesday, 27 February 2007
After Iran sent a rocket into a suborbital trajectory on Sunday, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, France, Germany, and Russia are very concerned with whether Iran’s space and nuclear ambitions are peaceful or not.

 
Pluto probe passes Jupiter on Wednesday E-mail
Monday, 26 February 2007
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft will make a flyby of Jupiter this Wednesday (28 February 2007), picking up an additional 9000mph from the slingshot effect and accelerating it towards Pluto. Already the fastest spacecraft ever launched, New Horizons will be travelling at over 52,000mph when it leaves Jupiter.

 
Iran announces it has launched a payload-carrying rocket into space E-mail
Monday, 26 February 2007
Iranian officials announced on Sunday, February 25, 2007, on Iranian government-controlled television that it has successfully launched a rocket to about 150 kilometers (90 miles) above the Earth for research and scientific purposes.

 
Rosetta swings by Mars, heads towards the Sun E-mail
Monday, 26 February 2007
The Rosetta comet probe successfully completed its swing-by of Mars and is now heading towards the Sun on its way back to Earth, according to the ESA's Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany.

 
391 years ago this week Galileo at center of Church controversy E-mail
Monday, 26 February 2007
On Thursday, February 25, 1616, the Catholic Church passes a censure against Galileo who had earlier stated that the Sun is the center of the universe and that the Earth moves around it—directly against the Church’s belief that the Earth, instead, was at the center of the universe and the Sun revolved around it.

 
Spaced-out NASA psycho astronaut plan is mental E-mail
Sunday, 25 February 2007
Ever since a female NASA astronaut went mental over a failed love affair with a fellow space traveler, the focus on space safety has momentarily shifted from stopping spacecraft from blowing up, to stopping mentally exploding astronauts from doing damage to themselves in space, or to the spacecraft they are travelling in.

 
Rosetta swings by Mars for 2nd of 4 maneuvers to comet E-mail
Sunday, 25 February 2007
On Sunday, February 25, 2007, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe will use the orbit of Mars as a springboard to propel it on its way to its 2014 encounter and landing on the distant comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

 
Chimps and humans part ways 4m years ago E-mail
Sunday, 25 February 2007
According to a new study in the journal PLoS Genetics, humans and chimpanzees became separate species about four million years ago—much later than previous thought.

 
How to deal with spaced-out astronauts E-mail
Sunday, 25 February 2007
According to a NASA official, NASA has previously written a detailed set of procedures for dealing with suicidal or psychotic astronauts while  in space.

 
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