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Comet 'encounter' Earth
According to astronomers, comet Hartley 2 and Earth will have a close encounter this month.
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Meteor shower threatens artificial satellites
Artificial satellites such as the International Space Station and Hubble telescope can be damaged by a meteor shower next year.
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Russia plans to build nuclear spacecraft
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on October 28 expressed his support for the proposal to build a nuclear powered spacecraft, bringing Russia to the edge of the space ra…
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Billionaires perform clowns on the universe
On October 2, Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte visited the International Space Station after two days of traveling in space, laughing at his companions.
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Earth is threatened by meteorites
According to Radio Voice of Russia on October 5, at the Applied Astronomical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. The International Conference…
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India lost contact with the moon probe
All communications with India's only satellite orbiting the moon's orbit have been cut off, the country's space agency said.
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NASA launched a spacecraft to explore the boundary area of the solar system
On October 19, the US Space Agency (NASA) successfully launched an unmanned probe into orbit to study the interstellar boundary area on the solar system.
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Meteor in the sky of Hanoi
On the afternoon of October 22, Ms. Thoa and her colleagues worked on the 12th floor, Nam Trung Yen urban area for the first time witnessed meteor shower in the sky.
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The sixth space traveler returns safely
Yesterday morning (October 24), Russia's Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft carrying American tourist Richard Garriott and two Russian astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan.
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Messenger ship is about to fly Mercury
NASA's Aeronautics and Space Agency has just said that the Mercury probe called Messenger will have the solar system's smallest cross-flight flight early next week.
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Russian spacecraft takes billionaire customers to space
A Russian spacecraft carrying an American computer game design expert and two astronauts successfully assembled with the international station on October 14.
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Morning of August 13, the most beautiful meteor shower of the year
Mr. Nguyen Duc Phuong, Vietnam Astronomical Society, said that from the night of August 12 to the morning of August 13, the biggest meteor shower in the year called mete…
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Prepare for Hubble telescope repair
Yesterday 22.5, the US Space and Aeronautics Agency (NASA) said the Hubble space telescope shuttle flight will be moved until October 8.10, according to AP. This is NASA…
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Asia races to the Moon
September Japan brought an orbit to the moon. In October China launched its first moon exploration satellite. India has planned to follow. New South Korea declared: