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Operated by an Expedition 40 crew member inside the station's Cupola, the Canadarm2 grapples the Orbital Sciences' Cygnus cargo craft as it approaches the International Space Station
(photo: Public Domain)
Space station accepts first Virginia delivery in 2 years
Deccan Chronicle
The International Space Station received its first shipment from Virginia in more than two years Sunday following a sensational nighttime launch observed 250 miles up and down the East Coast. | Orbital ATK's cargo ship pulled up at the space station bearing 5,000 pounds of food, equipment and re...
File - Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-134 crew member on the space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation, 29 May, 2011.
(photo: NASA)
Move over ISS, China inches closer to operationalise its space station
Newstrack India
Beijing, Oct 17 (IANS) With the launching of its manned spacecraft, Shenzhou-11, into orbit in a project designed to develop its ability to explore space, China on Monday came a step closer to complete its first space station by 2020 and operationalise services two years later. | The spacecraft, lau...
Chinese scientists decode technology on Tiangong-2
China Daily
LANZHOU - As China's space exploration continues to grab national attention, scientists on Thursday decoded an important technology on China's space lab Tiangong-2. | Scientists with the Lanzhou Institute of Physics have created important equipment ...
Float calmly through the International Space Station with this new NASA video
Mashable
A soothing new 18-minute video from NASA lets you float through the nooks and crannies of the International Space Station in ultra high definition. | The fly-through starts in the station's cupola, a set of huge windows that let astronauts and cosmon...
It Took 15 Months, but all of New Horizons’ Data Has Finally Been Downloaded
Universe Today
Finally, the New Horizons team has their entire “pot of gold.” 15 months after the mission’s flyby of the Pluto system, the final bits of science data from the historic July 2015 event has been safely transmitted to Earth. | “The New Horizons...
Boeing's profit climbs on tax gains, lower costs for Dreamliner
The Oklahoman
Boeing's profit climbed as the plane maker benefited from one-time tax gains and lower expenses for the 787 Dreamliner, its costliest-ever jetliner. | "The Boeing story continues to be all about execution and cash generation and this quarter didn't d...
Chinese scientists decode technology on Tiangong-2
Xinhua
LANZHOU, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- As China's space exploration continues to grab national attention, scientists on Thursday decoded an important technology on China's space lab Tiangong-2. | Scientists with the Lanzhou Institute of Physics have created im...
J.J. Abrams is making another 'Cloverfield' movie with a surprising twist
Business Insider
"10 Cloverfield Lane." | It seems J.J. Abrams is hard at work producing another movie in the "Cloverfield" franchise.  | According to TheWrap, the sci-fi thriller "God Particle," which Abrams is producing and will be directed by Julius Onah and star...
Space
File - Backdropped by the blackness of space and Earth's horizon, the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-134 crew member on the space shuttle Endeavour after the station and shuttle began their post-undocking relative separation, 29 May, 2011.
(photo: NASA)
Move over ISS, China inches closer to operationalise its space station
Newstrack India
Beijing, Oct 17 (IANS) With the launching of its manned spacecraft, Shenzhou-11, into orbit in a project designed to develop its ability to explore space, China on Monday came a step closer to complete its first space station by 2020 and operationalise services two years later. | The spacecraft, launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, ha...
Science
Corythosaurus casuarius, Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada, Late Cretaceous. Exhibit in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
(photo: Public Domain / Daderot)
Researchers Have Found The First Ever Fossilized Dinosaur Brain
IFL Science
Dinosaur fossils aren’t always the mineralized remnants of bones. Every now and then, you get an impression of a footprint, or the trace outlines of a feathered arm or “wing.” | Sometimes, paleontologists strike proverbial gold and find a segment of dinosaur tissue, including skin, capillaries, and – as revealed in an incredible special pub...



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