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NASA buys Russian spacecraft
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has accepted conditions for prices and delivery for four Russian-made spacecraft, including two Soyuz and two Progress vessels.
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Successfully launched Space Shuttle Discovery
The US shuttle Discovery was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first night launch of the ship in the past 4 years at 20 hours 47 local time on Dece…
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NASA has not yet successfully installed a new solar cell for the ISS
On the night of December 13, astronauts on the Space Shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station (ISS) were unsuccessful in winding up the entire 35-meter-long…
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NASA is about to launch Discovery ship to rebuild ISS
The US space agency (NASA) announced on December 7 that it will launch the Space Shuttle Discovery, a week earlier than originally planned. According to experts, 7-12 is…
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Maintenance of Hubble Space Telescope
Nasa director Mike Griffin said he would send the shuttle with Hubble telescope maintenance crew lying in orbit near the earth. Since being launched into the air Hubble…
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Discovery ship astronauts are not allowed to welcome the eve
The STS-116 astronauts taking off in December will not celebrate the new year on the space shuttle Discovery. The NASA agency even thought of launching one day earlier t…
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With a piece of space junk, the Atlantis ship has a small hole
The NASA agency said that in the last 11-day space mission in September, space shuttle Atlantis was struck by a piece of space trash puncturing a small hole in the radia…
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The Atlantis spacecraft landed on the ISS smoothly
According to the US Aerospace Agency (NASA), on September 11, the space shuttle Atlantis docked at the International Space Station (ISS) smoothly. This is the first trip…
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Atlantis cruise astronauts make space walks
On September 12, two space shuttle astronauts Atlantis made one of three spacewalks scheduled to add two large modules to the International Space Station (ISS), includin…
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The first female tourist to fly into space
At 4:08 am GMT, 11:00 am Hanoi on September 18, the Russian Soyuz space shuttle brought the first female passenger, Anousheh Ansari, Iranian-American
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'Strange objects' delayed the shuttle's return
The American space shuttle Atlantis had to backtrack to Earth after it was discovered that an unknown unknown object hovered nearby.
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NASA chose Lockheed Martin to build a new spacecraft
On August 31, NASA agency selected Lockheed Martin Group to build the new generation spacecraft Orion will replace the old space shuttle to bring American astronauts to…
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Atlantis space shuttle is ready to take off on August 27
Space Agency NASA has just confirmed that the Atlantis space shuttle is ready to take off from August 27 in the first mission in order to resume the construction of the…
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Discovery ship will fly again
Eventually Discovery will be launched into space on July 1, 2006, despite controversy. There have been many fears of catastrophic accidents happening with these old old…
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Discovery spacecraft was launched after 3 days of delay
On July 4, the US Discovery spacecraft was launched to carry a key mission to US space ambitions, although there were still concerns about safety three years after the s…