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By - Darren Straight

OrcaLive has LIVE webcasts of Orcas.

OrcaLive is a site which has LIVE webcasts of Orca whales with two channels both with video and sound, it’s been around for a while now but I only just came across it yesterday night after a friend told me she was whale watching on the internet! So if you love to watch whale’s check it out now! Requirements: Real

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Send your Name to Pluto!

NASA is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Pluto’s discovery by sending a new probe to Pluto called Horizons. But here’s to good part and that is that you can actually have your name on it, now isn’t that great, all you have to do is visit the site and give them your full name, please be aware that the e-card

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Space Shuttle Discovery back in Florida

The Space Shuttle Discovery has finally arrived back at Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre after travelling piggy-back across the US on a modified Boeing 747. It had originally left Edwards Air Force Base on Friday but bad weather had delayed its arrival in Florida. At this current stage the future of the shuttle is uncertain after NASA announced the fleet would

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched

The $720m (£397m) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has just launched into space at the time of 0740 local time (1145 GMT 1243 BST). This was the probes third attempt of being launched into space after two days of delays with weather troubles and sensor malfunctions. The probe is on its way to Mars on a four-year mission to map and

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter ready for launch

NASA is to launch a new Mars probe after the rocket designed to send it into orbit was found not to be faulty; the $500m (£280m) Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) will lift off from Florida today, after a delay of one day over safety concerns. It will arrive in orbit around Mars in March 2007 to look at the history

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Discovery returns safely to Earth

The Space Shuttle Discovery has touched down successfully at Edwards Air Force Base in California at around 1312 BST (0512 PST; 1212 GMT) after bad weather forced it to land here instead of the intended Florida landing site, this was the first space shuttle mission since 2 years ago in 2003 when Columbia broke up on re-entry. Image above: The

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Discovery’s return put on hold for 24 hours

Space shuttle Discovery’s return to Earth has been put on hold for at least 24 hours due to bad weather at its landing site. The seven crew members aboard Discovery had been preparing for their re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. Low-lying cloud which could obscure the landing strip forced flight controllers to scrub Monday’s two landing windows at Nasa’s Kennedy Space