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 The International Space Station had a close encounter with a piece of space debris this week, when Expedition 18 members were required to take cover in the shelter of the Soyuz landing spacecraft. The Mission Control gave them an all-clear at around 12:45 p.m. on Thursday.NASA reported that the piece of space debris was around 13...
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 As the three-day climate-change meeting in Copenhagen wrapped up, British economist Nicholas Stern talked about the relationship between the climate change and the economic recession, pointing out the opportunity to build a more energy-efficient economy.Lord Stern, the author of a major British government report detailing the cost of...
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 The Discovery launch had to be postponed until Sunday, after a gaseous hydrogen vent line began leaking on Wednesday, during countdown. According to shuttle launch director Mike Leinbach, NASA workers will take a closer look at the vent line on Thursday afternoon.Following initial assessments, the repair should take no longer than three...
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 The U.S. space shuttle Discovery is preparing for lift-off Wednesday night on a mission to boost the power supply of the International Space Station. If the launch goes as planned, the shuttle will arrive at the International Space Station on Friday. Moreover the wheather is favorable for the launch from Kennedy Space Center in the...
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 The countdown for the launch of the Discovery mission is on, and astronauts in charge of landing the spacecraft are continuously practicing landing maneuvers. The spacecraft will launch from Launch Pad 39A on Wednesday night, at 9:20 p.m. EDT.The mission was initially scheduled to launch on February 12, however NASA decided to take...
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 While there are still people out there who think global warming is about politics rather than a real threat to us, scientists attending the Copenhagen conference on climate change warned that the predictions on sea level rise have actually been too mild, and that in fact, if we don’t take action soon to lower greenhouse gas emissions, at...
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 A team of researchers are warning that global warming is accelerating faster than previously forecasted by UN experts two years ago.Sea levels this century may rise several times higher than predictions made in 2007, research presented March 10 at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Copenhagen shows.The three-day...
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 As the world prepares for more bad news on global warming, and over 2,000 scientists prepare to attend the Copenhagen gathering where they will present their findings, another event taking place in New York warns about global warming nonsense.While news of global warming have gotten worse every year, and countries all over the world are...
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 As the countdown for the Discovery launch is ready to begin, the mission’s management team has given green light for Wednesday’s event. No technical issues have been reported, and the weather seems favorable for the launch.The STS-119 members arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday. The crew of seven includes Commander...
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 Planning is considered to be a fundamental property of intelligent behavior, which begins with the thinking process that ultimately terminates in a goal. We know humans are capable of it, and this is probably one of the processes that characterize us the most, yet we are not the only ones who can think ahead.A male chimp at the Furuvik...
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