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Discovery on the way home!

Space shuttle Discovery is set to return to Earth on Monday, with a 4:46 a.m. EDT (0846 GMT) landing at the Kennedy Space Centre. Space Shuttle Discovery flies alone. Its crew was awakened at 8:39 p.m. EDT for the last full day of spaceflight before landing, which is scheduled for 4:46 a.m. EDT Monday. This will be a quiet day

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New planet found on edge of solar system is named.

The recently discovered asteroid/planet orbiting the sun in our solar system has been given the unofficially name of Xena, after the TV series starring Lucy Lawless. The official name for Xena is 2003 UB313. It is still being debated whether or not this newly discovered planet is actually our 10th planet at all in our solar system because it’s still

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Astonomers discover 10th planet.

Astronomers have discovered an object in our solar system that is larger than Pluto. They are calling it the 10th planet, but already that claim is contested. The new world’s size is not at issue. But the very definition of planethood is. It is the first time an object so big has been found in our solar system since the

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Discovery launches successfully.

NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery has finally returned to space after more than two years of hard work by the entire NASA team to get the shuttle up to the standards it needed to be, so a reoccurrence of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster that happened two years ago does not happen ever again. NASA says that the shuttle has not

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Countdown to Tuesday Launch.

The countdown is under way for the launch of the Shuttle Discovery on the Return to Flight mission. Launch is set for no earlier than 10:39 a.m. EDT on Tuesday, July 26. At noon today, countdown clocks at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida came to life at the T-43 hour mark and immediately began counting down toward a liftoff

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NASA/Columbia Disaster Music Video Essay

I was searching around the other day on Google and came across this site and found the site and the NASA/Columbia Disaster Music Video Essay to be very good, so much that I thought I would share it with you, Enjoy! 😀 Main Site Main Site of the videos Direct Link to the 70mb video (higher quality Direct Link to

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NASA Postpones Discovery Launch Due to Faulty Sensor.

NASA today prospered there Return to Flight launch of Space Shuttle Discovery, this was to be the first space shuttle mission since the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated on its return to Earth more than two years ago. The flight was postponed when at 1:32 p.m. EDT (1732 GMT) there was an issue with a low-level fuel cutoff sensor located inside

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Launch Countdown Begins for Space Shuttle Discovery

CAPE CANAVERAL The countdown is on for the space shuttle Discovery and seven astronauts who, if all goes well, will be NASA’s first shuttle astronauts to reach space in years. At precisely 6:00 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT) Sunday, NASA began counting the days, minutes and seconds remaining before Discovery’s STS-114 mission is expected to launch into space. The spaceflight is