ISS Orbit Adjustment to Continue on August 22

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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2012
The European Space Agency's ATV-3 space freighter will carry on with a planned manouver to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) on August 22, the agency said on Thursday. The regularly planned reboost, by the "Edoardo Amaldi" Automated Transfer Vehicle-3, stopped "prematurely" on Wednesday due to a temperature alarm in the vehicle's propulsion system, the ESA said in

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First Evidence Discovered of Planet's Destruction
by Its Star

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Philadelphia PA (SPX) Aug 21, 2012
The first evidence of a planet's destruction by its aging star has been discovered by an international team of astronomers. The evidence indicates that the missing planet was devoured as the star began expanding into a "red giant" - the stellar equivalent of advanced age. "A similar fate may await the inner planets in our solar system, when the Sun becomes a red giant and expands all the w

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Fantastic Phobos

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Paris, France (ESA) Aug 21, 2012
Some 135 years after its discovery, Mars' largest moon Phobos is seen in fantastic detail - and in 3D - in an image taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft as it passed just 100 km by. This view is much different to the faint object that astronomer Asaph Hall would have just been able to make out as he observed the Red Planet through the United States Naval Observatory's 66 cm telescope in

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Cosmonauts Begin First Expedition 32 Spacewalk

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Houston TX (SPX) Aug 21, 2012
Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Yuri Malenchenko began the first spacewalk of the Expedition 32 mission at 11:37 a.m. EDT Monday. The primary task during the 6.5-hour excursion is to move the Strela-2 cargo boom from the Pirs docking compartment to the Zarya module. The move is another step in preparing Pirs for its eventual undocking and disposal, which will ma

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BepiColombo Composite Spacecraft Vibration
Testing

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Paris, France (ESA) Aug 21, 2012
The BepiColombo Structural and Thermal Model test campaign has passed another milestone with the completion of sine vibration testing at qualification level along all three spacecraft axes. One of the design drivers for any space mission is the severe mechanical and acoustic environment to which a spacecraft is exposed during launch. Ensuring that every subsystem will maintain nominal perf

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Lao skull earliest example of modern human fossil
in Southeast Asia

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An ancient skull recovered from a cave in the Annamite Mountains in northern Laos is the oldest modern human fossil found in Southeast Asia, researchers report.

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More healthful foods to nourish the non-human you

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The focus of nutrition for good health is quietly shifting to include consumption of food ingredients specifically designed to nourish the non-human cells that comprise 80 percent of the cells in the typical person, an authority on the topic said here today.

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How to teach microbes to make fuel

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Genetically modified organisms could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel.

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Sacrificing sleep to study can lead to academic
problems

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Regardless of how much a high school student generally studies each day, if that student sacrifices sleep in order to study more than usual, he or she is more likely to have academic problems the following day.

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Floating rocks in the ocean lead to an undersea
eruption seen from space!

[Note: At the bottom of this post is a gallery of more amazing pictures of volcanoes taken from space.]Sometimes, the best way to observe the Earth is to get off it. It really helps if you want to solve some mysteries.And scientists had a good one on[...]

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