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Flying astronaut in the world's largest swimming pool
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) built a swimming pool larger than 10 times the Olympic swimming pool standard, to train astronauts in weightless condi…
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Department of Pacific flying market
They belong to the Ommastrephidae squid family. They live in the northern part of the Pacific Ocean, around the waters of Japan, along the coast of China and Russia, sou…
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Last Journey of Space Shuttle Endeavor
Endeavor - the 185 million km flight shuttle over the past two decades - has made its final journey through the streets of Los Angeles, USA. Thousands of people and tour…
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Portrait of world famous astronaut women
The first time China has brought female astronauts to space once again proves, women are fully capable of completing missions to conquer space. According to unofficial s…
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Atlantis's last flight
The space shuttle Atlantis' perfect landing closes the 25-year career of one of America's most famous spacecraft.
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Impressive image of volcano on ice
Smoke, dust and steam rose from a crater at a depth of about 200 meters from the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in Iceland yesterday, causing a series of European flights to b…
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The first supersonic aircraft Tu-144
The big surprise at the Russian Air Show 2008 was the intact Tupolev Tu-144 passenger supersonic aircraft. This aircraft only produced 16 aircraft and currently only 7 a…
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See the full 11-hour flight only in 4-minute video time-lapse
What if you could take a full look at the journey of up to 11 hours from London to San Francisco in just 4 minutes?
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Video: The culprit makes the aircraft jump
Air turbulence causes the aircraft to vibrate when flying, but this phenomenon often does not cause disturbing consequences.
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Video: Space plane pass test dropped at 3,810 meters
The Dream Chaser automatic space plane successfully completed the drop test when flying freely from a height of 3,810 meters in California, USA.
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Video: Ship models in the space race between SpaceX and Boeing
Boeing and SpaceX must prove their system is ready to begin regular flights to the space station, meeting NASA's needs.
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Video: How does a 500-ton aircraft win gravity?
The secret to heavy commercial aircraft weighing nearly 500 tons is not sucked down by Earth gravity is applied the same principles as flying birds.
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Video: Tricycles turn into helicopters dealing with traffic jams
The PAL-V Liberty model designed by the PAL-V company in the UK can be flexibly changed between flight and steering modes to deal with traffic jams.
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Video: 'flying' paper airplane is nearly 70m
Do you know how to fold it to create a paper plane with the most far-flung flight, can even reach approximately 69 meters as a record of throwing the most distant paper…