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Space Tour: $30 million Purchases Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission

Space Travel: $30 million buys Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission. An Austin space tourist will blast off early Sunday with an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a voyage to the international space station.
Richard Garriott, 47, who made a fortune designing computer games, and the two [...]

October 11th, 2008 | Posted in American space shuttle, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, Space Travel | No Comments

Iflove Science Summary This Week: Shuttle Discovery, Phoenix Lander and NASA Mission

Iflove Science Summary This Week: Shuttle Discovery, Phoenix Lander and NASA Mission. Dated from June 9 - 15, 2008
Phoenix Gets Some Dirt on Mars
An image of a sample collected from the Martian soil shows many kinds of particles. The white bar represents 1mm. (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University Arizona) A second image clearly shows the strips of machine [...]

June 15th, 2008 | Posted in 3G Apple iPhone, American space shuttle, Discovery Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Satellite Launches, Science and Technology, Verizon Wireless Palm Centro, wireless Wii controller maker | 4 Comments

Discovery American space shuttle successfully lands at the Kennedy space centre in Florida, despite losing clip

Discovery American space shuttle successfully lands at the Kennedy space centre in Florida, despite losing clip
Discovery landed safely in Florida after its mission to the ISS
The American space shuttle Discovery has successfully touched down at the Kennedy space centre in the US state of Florida.
Nasa officials gave the go-ahead for the landing, saying it should [...]

June 15th, 2008 | Posted in American space shuttle, Discovery Space Shuttle, International Space Station, Science and Technology, Technology Reporter | 1 Comment