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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 [...]

US Army Looks towards the Future and Plans to Launch Satellites Once Again

US Army Looks towards the Future and Plans to Launch Satellites Once Again.
After a 50-year hiatus from launching its own satellites, the United States Army plans to build and launch miniature communications satellites.
The U.S. Army looks towards the future and has big plans for its own satellite launches - As part of the $5 million [...]

Phoenix Gets Some Dirt on Mars, Returns Images to Earth

Phoenix Gets Some Dirt on Mars, Returns Images to Earth
After a short sticky situation, Phoenix returns some images to Earth.
After successfully reaching Mars at the end of a nine and a half month jaunt through interplanetary space, the Phoenix Lander landed safely on the surface and began broadcasting data back to Earth. Phoenix’s well known [...]

Google Maps upgrade provides CTA routes via cell, public transit route information on Web-enabled mobile phones

Google Maps upgrade provides CTA routes via cell, gets public transit route information on Web-enabled mobile phones
As the gadget world waits to hear what Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs may say Monday about the second iteration of the iPhone, another relative newcomer to the mobile phone space quietly offered an upgrade this week that [...]

Google’s experimental Gmail toys: 13 settings for users to play around with

Google’s experimental Gmail toys: 13 settings for users to play around with
In a first, Google is opening up its testing process by calling on tens of millions of Gmail users to put new features of the service through their paces.
Gmail Labs has launched 13 settings for users to play around with and tell engineers directly [...]