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Canadarm2 moves HTV-2 back to the nadir port of Harmony on 10 March 2011. Kounotori 2 was initially scheduled to launch on January 20, 2011, but postponed for two days for bad weather forecast
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Japan Launches Robotic Supply Ship to Space Station
Space
| Japan's robotic HTV-3 cargo spaceship launches July 20, 2012 from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. | CREDIT: NASA TV | View full size image | An unmanned Japanese spaceship soared into orbit from an island launch site Friday (July 20), beginning a weeklong journey to deliver vital suppl...
MSL Launches to the Red Planet: The Atlantic Ocean provides a backdrop as the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket clears the tower at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Sealed inside the rocket's protective payload fairing is NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft, beginning a 9-month interplanetary cruise to Mars. Liftoff was at 10:02 a.m. EST Nov. 26. MSL's components include a car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for signs of life, including methane, and help determine if the gas is from a biological or geological source.
(photo: NASA / Darrell L. McCall)
Mars Rover Curiosity Risks: NASA Scientists Say Successful Mission Not Assured (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
| An Atlas V evolved expendable launch vehicle carries NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which is scheduled to land on the Red Planet in August 2012. | In less than two weeks, NASA's hyper-sophisticated, car-sized Mars rover Curiosity will touch down on the Red Planet to begin two years of scientific dis...
Sally Ride: America's first woman in space dies aged 61
The Daily Telegraph
America’s first female astronaut to enter space has died after a 17-year battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 61. |   | Image 1 of 8 | Sally Ride communicates with ground controllers from the flight deck during the six-day...
Cargo spacecraft fails to dock to Space Station
San Francisco Chronicle
| MOSCOW (AP) — An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft has failed to dock with the International Space Station due to a technical failure, Russian space officials said on Tuesday. | The Progress cargo ship separated from the station Sunday to perform...
Cargo spacecraft fails to dock to Space Station
my SA
| MOSCOW (AP) — An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft has failed to dock with the International Space Station due to a technical failure, Russian space officials said on Tuesday. | The Progress cargo ship separated from the station Sunday to perform...
New Russian space station docking gear test fails
Reuters
| MOSCOW (Reuters) - A test of new spacecraft docking gear for Russian flights to the International Space Station failed, the U.S. and Russian space agencies said on Tuesday, casting doubt on the automated system meant to simplify missions to the orb...
The Orion spacecraft is intended to be used for beyond low Earth orbit missions, shown here is the ground test article. NASA's ongoing investigations include in-depth surveys of Mars and Saturn and studies of the Earth and the Sun
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Orion spacecraft arrives at NASA for testing
The Examiner
| The first Orion spacecraft, designed to ferry astronauts to the Moon, asteroids, and eventually Mars, has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral to begin preparati...
Cargo spacecraft fails to dock to Space Station
WPXI
| Russian officials say that an unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft failed to dock with the International Space Station early morning due to a technical failure. | Russian Mission Control said on Tuesday that the spacecraft will attempt the docking on ...
Cargo Spacecraft Fails To Dock To Space Station
National Public Radio
| MOSCOW (AP) — An unmanned Russian cargo spacecraft has failed to dock with the International Space Station due to a technical failure, Russian space officials said on Tuesday. | The Progress cargo ship separated from the station Sunday to perform...
Space
MSL Launches to the Red Planet: The Atlantic Ocean provides a backdrop as the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket clears the tower at Space Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Sealed inside the rocket's protective payload fairing is NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft, beginning a 9-month interplanetary cruise to Mars. Liftoff was at 10:02 a.m. EST Nov. 26. MSL's components include a car-sized rover, Curiosity, which has 10 science instruments designed to search for signs of life, including methane, and help determine if the gas is from a biological or geological source.
(photo: NASA / Darrell L. McCall)
Mars Rover Curiosity Risks: NASA Scientists Say Successful Mission Not Assured (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post
| An Atlas V evolved expendable launch vehicle carries NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which is scheduled to land on the Red Planet in August 2012. | In less than two weeks, NASA's hyper-sophisticated, car-sized Mars rover Curiosity will touch down on the Red Planet to begin two years of scientific discovery. | If all goes well, that is. And yet some ...
Science
Woman drinking soft drinks in a fast food restaurant.
(photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba)
Drinking sugar-sweetened soft drinks leads to fat gain
PhysOrg
| What the research proved was that regularly drinking soft drinks changes the way our muscles use food as fuel, making them prefer to burn sugars over fats.  They also showed that these changes are lasting. | Additionally the researchers showed that isolated muscle cells identify and respond to the sugary diet, and switch how they use the fue...



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