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NASA Snaps Striking Images of Earth
Tehrān :: Iran | 11 months ago
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Earth system science research, including its satellite missions, in-the-field research, and computer models. Here are a few examples below. Volcanoes on the Baja California Peninsula Volcanoes on the Baja California Peninsula are seen in an annotated...
Hamas 'might renew' truce in Gaza
Jerusalem :: Israel | 11 months ago
Credibility Hamas would consider renewing the expired Gaza truce if Israel respected its initial conditions, leaders of the Palestinian militant group have said. Hamas was ready to stop firing rockets if Israel stopped its "aggression" in Gaza and opened up border...
Tags: israel, gaza, truce, rocket, jerusalem, rockets, gaza strip, Israel-Gaza, Israeli, cease-fire
40th anniversary of Apollo 8 !
Anchorage :: AK :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility The US space agency marked the 40th anniversary of the historic Apollo 8 mission that brought three astronauts to orbit the moon for the first time. On December 21, 1968, Apollo 8 blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida and three days later, Frank Borman,...
Ariane-5 rocket set for lift-off!
Kourou :: French Guiana | 11 months ago
Credibility Ariane-5 rocket set for lift-off Bangalore, Dec 20: The countdown has begun for the launch of Ariane-5 rocket from Kourou spaceport in French Guiana, South America, early Sunday, carrying the Indian-built European satellite W2M along with Eutelsat's Hot...
Tags: satellite, rocket, Eutelsat's Hot Bird, Space Ariane, news, Europe, Kourou, French Guiana
For only $42M, you could own a shuttle
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility including $6 million for shipping and handling. Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum -- which wants at least one of the orbiters -- for rockets, capsules and other artifacts. But Wednesday, the agency issued a "Request for Information" to gauge...
Tags: shuttle, space, rocket, astronaut, launch, space shuttle
China launches Yaogan V remote-sensing satellite
Shanghai :: China | 11 months ago
Credibility The satellite was launched with a Long March-4B carrier rocket at 11.22 a.m., the centre said. It will be used for data collection and transmission involving land resources surveys, environmental surveillance and protection, urban planning, crop yield...
Tags: satellite, rocket, space, sensing satellite, China
Haaretz, Israel: The election campaign in Gaza
Gaza :: Palestine | 12 months ago
Credibility The barrages of Qassam rockets and mortar shells being fired from the Gaza Strip at communities in the western Negev, and even at Ashkelon, attest to the collapse of the lull Israel and Hamas had achieved. At first glance, it seems that those who viewed...
Tags: israel, gaza, hamas, call, qassam, attack, truce, operation, Israeli, rocket
California rocket firm has its first space tourist
Beverly Hills :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility A Danish adventurer is first in line to ride aboard a privately funded, two-seat rocket ship designed by a California rocket maker to fly about 37 miles above Earth. Xcor Aerospace said Tuesday that Per Wimmer, an investment banker based in London, will...
Tags: rocket, virgin, California
Local woman made history with Apollo program
Tallahassee :: FL :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility For all the fame the astronauts who flew into space with the Apollo program received, there were those who were forgotten. 400,000 of them to be exact. Among them was Tallahassee resident Sarah Howard, one of only 30 women engineers to work on the Saturn...
Tags: rocket, saturn, Tallahassee's Sara Howard
Chandrayaan-I reaches its final resting orbit
Bangalore :: India | about 1 year ago
Credibility Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft reached its final orbital home, about 100 kms above the moon's surface on Wednesday...On November 9, India became the fifth member of the global moon club with Chandrayaan-1 entering the lunar orbit at 5.04 pm (IST). The other...
Tags: chandrayaan-1, india, space, mission, lunar, india on moon, rocket, Miniature Indian, isro, moon
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