| MIAMI (Reuters) - NASA plans to send two astronauts aboard the International Space Station out on a spacewalk on Saturday to try to fix an ammonia leak in a cooling system on one of the station's solar arrays, the U.S. space agency said on Friday. The crew spotted a steady stream of sm... |
| MIAMI (Reuters) - Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station are preparing for a possible spacewalk to repair an ammonia leak in a cooling system on one of the station's solar arrays, NASA said on Friday. The crew spotted a steady stream of small, white frozen ammonia flakes... |
| There are no current plans to evacuate the six-person crew aboard the ISS. NASA has confirmed it as an ammonia leak. |
| (Reuters) - An ammonia leak was detected Thursday in the cooling system outside of the International Space Station, but no crew members were in danger as a result, the U.S. space agency NASA said on its website. The agency said that fixing the leak might require that a portion of the stati... |
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a prestigious Israeli conference as part of an academic boycott to protest against Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands, Cambridge University said on Wednesday. After conflicting explanations were given... |
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of a prestigious Israeli conference, giving conflicting reasons on Wednesday for his absence. A spokesman for Cambridge University originally suggested that the wheelchair-bound scientist was snubbing the annual event... |
| JERUSALEM (Reuters) - British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has pulled out of an Israeli conference, joining an academic boycott of Israel to protest against its occupation of Palestinian lands, Cambridge University said on Wednesday. The wheelchair-bound Hawking, who has won international r... |
| BEIJING (Reuters) - Internet users in China, a country with a long tradition of petitioning, are appealing to a new authority to resolve grievances and controversies such as the merits of salty or sweet tofu - the U.S. White House petitions website. Created by U.S. President Barack Obama, ... |
| By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Congress imposes deep spending cuts on everything from national defense to child care, shipping industry executives are urging lawmakers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on a river network that accounts for a declining share of the na... |
| By Aaron Pressman BOSTON (Reuters) - Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday, asking the U.S. Congress to act more courageously on the issue of gun control. We all have courage inside, Giffords,... |
By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing Co's X-51A Waverider made history this week when it achieved the longest hypersonic flight by a jet-fuel powered aircraft, flying for 3-1/2 minutes at five times the speed of sound, the U.S. Air Force said on Friday. ... |
| NASA time lapse captures solar eruption. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| NASA time lapse captures solar eruption. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). |
| El tamao del ojo del huracn es de ms de mil doscientos millas y segn los expertos la tormenta ha estado activa por varios aos. |
| NASA scientists released images of a hurricane with an eye 1,250 miles across, which has circled Saturn's north pole for years. |
| By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Monday signed legislation forcing municipalities to resell firearms from gun buy-back programs rather than destroy them, closing a loophole in the conservative state's laws. Brewer, a Republican ... |
| By Irene Klotz (Reuters) - A six-passenger spaceship owned by an offshoot of Virgin Group fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time on Monday, a key step toward the start of commercial service in about a year, Virgin owner Richard Branson said. The powered ... |
| By Radu Marinas and Tsvetelia Tsolova BUCHAREST/SOFIA (Reuters) - After hacking the Pentagon, NASA and Britain's Royal Navy for fun, TinKode got a real job as a computer security expert for a Romanian cyber safety consultancy. TinKode was the name used by Romanian... |
| By Maria Sheahan FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Space junk such as debris from rockets must be removed from the Earth's orbit to avoid crashes that could cost satellite operators millions of euros and knock out mobile and GPS networks, the European Space Agency said. At th... |
| Highlights of Today in History: Radio icon Marconi born; First use of "America" on a map; Hubble Space Telescope launched. (April 25) |
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