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| Bright Lights, Big Dreams |
The night sky above this city built on gold and diamonds is an astral stage for a mesmerizing, luminous dance.
The Northwest Territories' capital lies below a vast halo of energy, where lines of a magnetic field born in the Earth's molten core form an oval that transforms invisible particles from the sun into spellbinding waves of light. Read |
Toronto Star
Posted October 10, 2009
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| Space Tourist Guy Laliberte Returns to Earth |
LONGUEUIL, Que. — Canada's first space tourist has his feet back on solid ground after returning to Earth aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
Guy Laliberte, the 50 year old founder of Cirque du soleil, along with American astronaut Michael Barratt and Russia cosmonaut Gennady Padalka floated under a canopy of parachutes to a safe landing in Kazkhstan in central Asia. Laliberte's mother and father, Gaston and Blondine, joined about 50 family members and friends who watched the landing at the Canadian Space Agency, just outside Montreal. Read
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Canadian Press
Posted October 10, 2009
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| 25th Anniversary of first Canadian in Space |
OTTAWA — Canada is marking a milestone: Marc Garneau blasted into space as the country's first astronaut 25 years ago Monday.
Garneau, now a Montreal Liberal MP, said he could never have anticipated how far space tourism or co-operation with the Russians would have come in just 25 years. Read |
Canadian Press
Posted October 5, 2009
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| Moon Crash: Public yawns, Scientists Celebrate |
NASA's great lunar fireworks finale fizzled. After gearing up for the space agency's much-hyped mission to hurl two spacecraft into the moon, the public turned away from the sky Friday anything but dazzled. Photos and video of the impact showed little more than a fuzzy white flash. Read |
Associated Press
Posted October 9, 2009
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| Adhesive Tape Caused STS-127 Nozzle Leaks |
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne engineers have found the application of “tacky tape” – used to seal the throat plugs on the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME) since the 1990s – was the initial root cause of 340 leaks on Endeavour’s number one engine during STS-127’s ascent. Read |
NASA Spaceflight.com
Posted September 24, 2009
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| Rogue Satellites to be Cleared By Robots |
Robots that rescue failing satellites and push "dead" ones into outer space should be ready in four years, it has emerged. Experts described the development by German scientists as a crucial step in preventing a disaster in the Earth's crowded orbit. Read |
The Guardian
Posted October 11, 2009
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| Asteroid Looks Like Planet Wannabe |
A large asteroid in our solar system called 2 Pallas is actually a protoplanet - a moon-sized body that might have formed into a full-sized planet under different circumstances, scientists report. Read |
Space.com
Posted October 10, 2009
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