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NASA goes low tech for high-tech problem
May 16, 2008Read full story for latest details.
Hubble mission delayed to fix shuttle tanks
May 16, 2008Read full story for latest details.
Astronaut calls landing 'one big hit and a roll'
May 16, 2008NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, along with two cosmonauts, rode in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that made a gut-wrenching, off-target landing last month.
Russia probes Soyuz capsule's re-entry
May 16, 2008Read full story for latest details.
NASA extends Saturn mission
May 16, 2008Read full story for latest details.
El Nino may have helped Magellan cross the Pacific (AP)
May 16, 2008
AP - The El Nino phenomenon that has puzzled climate scientists in recent decades may have assisted the first trip around the world nearly 500 years ago.
Researchers warn of nitrogen hazard to environment (AP)
May 16, 2008AP - While carbon dioxide has been getting lots of publicity in climate change, reactive forms of nitrogen are also building up in the environment, scientists warn.
Da Vinci to be honored by small helicopter flight (AP)
May 16, 2008
AP - A Japanese man who developed the world's smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius' original idea.
Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era (AP)
May 16, 2008
AP - Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times.
Why the China Quake Was So Devastating (LiveScience.com)
May 16, 2008
LiveScience.com - The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province, leveling buildings and taking tens of thousands of lives, might not have wrought such destruction in the United States, experts say.
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