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File - Bigelow Aerospace President Robert Bigelow talks during a press conference shortly after he and NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver toured the Bigelow Aerospace facilities on Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, in Las Vegas.
(photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls)
Nasa partner Robert Bigelow says he is 'absolute convinced' aliens are currently living on Earth
The Independent
One of Nasa's partners has said that he is "absolutely convinced" aliens exist – and that they are living on Earth right now. | Robert Bigelow, an entrepreneur who is working closely with Nasa on future space missions, has suggested that he knows that our planet has an alien presence that is "righ...
File - Astronaut Peggy Whitson is pictured May 12, 2017, during the 200th spacewalk at the International Space Station.
(photo: NASA)
Astronauts carry out International Space Station relay box repairs
Irish Independent
Spacewalking astronauts have made urgent repairs to the International Space Station, three days after a critical relay box abruptly failed. | The 250-mile-high replacement job fell to commander Peggy Whitson, the world's most experienced female astronaut, as she equalled the record for most spacewal...
TOPSHOTS Astronauts set to return after marathon ISS mission
The Times Of India
MOSCOW: French astronaut Thomas Pesquet is due to return to Earth on Friday after a marathon 196-day trip that will fall just shy of a record space mission for a European. | The world was a different place when Pesquet, Russia's Oleg Novitskiy and Am...
Colossal rocket-launching plane rolls toward testing
China Daily
SAN FRANCISCO - A colossal aircraft capable of launching satellite-toting rockets into space is closer to testing, having been rolled out of a hangar in the desert, its creators said on Wednesday. | The project, backed by billionaire Microsoft co-fou...
Rocket-launching plane in the spotlight
The News International
SAN FRANCISCO: A colossal aircraft capable of launching satellite-toting rockets into space is closer to testing, having been rolled out of a hangar in the desert, its creators said on Wednesday. | The project backed by billionaire Microsoft co-found...
Storms delay SpaceX station delivery using recycled capsule
The Florida Times Union
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Stormy weather thwarted SpaceX’s effort Thursday to launch its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station. A lightning strike within 11 miles of the pad violated launch weather rules. Moments later, SpaceX...
Storms delay SpaceX station delivery using recycled capsule
WPXI
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Stormy weather thwarted SpaceX's effort Thursday to launch its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station. | A lightning strike within 11 miles of the pad violated launch weather rules. Moments later...
Storms delay SpaceX station delivery using recycled capsule
Albuquerque Journal
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Stormy weather thwarted SpaceX’s effort Thursday to launch its first recycled cargo ship to the International Space Station. | A lightning strike within 11 miles of the pad violated launch weather rules. Moments lat...
Space
File - Astronaut Peggy Whitson is pictured May 12, 2017, during the 200th spacewalk at the International Space Station.
(photo: NASA)
Astronauts carry out International Space Station relay box repairs
Irish Independent
Spacewalking astronauts have made urgent repairs to the International Space Station, three days after a critical relay box abruptly failed. | The 250-mile-high replacement job fell to commander Peggy Whitson, the world's most experienced female astronaut, as she equalled the record for most spacewalks by an American at 10. | Even though a second re...
Science
A guard shack overlooks the U.S.-operated detention facility in Parwan, Afghanistan, Aug. 23, 2010.
(photo: US DoD / Air Force Master Sgt. Adam M. Stump)
Does Torture Work? Trump says yes, but science says no
The Irish Times
Torture has been widely used over thousands of years of human history and, despite being officially banned on moral grounds, torture can be sanctioned to this day even in highly developed countries. Systematic torture was employed in CIA detention centres under president George Bush’s administration 2002 to 2008. And president Donald Trump now sa...



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