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May 28, 2000 | |
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Iffy weather could delay Monday's shuttle landing
Rainshowers and gusty crosswinds blowing across Kennedy Space Center's swamp-surrounded runway may thwart NASA's plans to bring shuttle Atlantis back to Earth in the wee hours on Monday morning.
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NASA space probe heads for fiery crash into Pacific
After nine years of near flawless operation, the Hubble-class Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, one of the most successful space telescopes ever launched, is being readied for a kamikaze plunge into the atmosphere on Sunday, June 4.
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Mercury's unseen surface revealed by astronomers
Ever since Galileo first used a telescope in 1609, astronomers have tried to capture images of the surface of Mercury with a ground-based telescope. Now, a team of astronomers from Boston University have done it.
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Saturday:
May 27, 2000 | |
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Shuttle departs station after successful service call
Atlantis left the International Space Station Friday night after restoring the outpost to good health. But a NASA manager says not every station assembly mission will be as trouble free as this one.
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Ground observations pick up where satellite left off
Europe's ISO telescope was the first space observatory revealing the infrared 'face' of the Universe with high sensitivity, and now ground telescopes are trying to learn more.
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Arctic ozone may not recover as early as predicted -- The ozone layer that protects life on Earth may not be recovering from the damage it has suffered over the Arctic region as quickly as scientists previously thought.
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Friday:
May 26, 2000 | |
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First Atlas 3 gives Lockheed Martin 'exhilarating' ride
Lockheed Martin officials were still savoring the sweet thrill of success on Thursday, one day after the Atlas 3 rocket flew a perfect inaugural flight from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Atlantis astronauts leave repaired space station
Turning out the lights and dogging the hatches, the Atlantis astronauts methodically exited the international space station early today, leaving a healthy, refurbished spacecraft behind. Undocking is planned for tonight.
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Chandra sees 1 million mph winds escaping black hole
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured what may be the most detailed X-ray spectrum taken of a galaxy with an active black hole. Scientists studying the images have noticed winds reaching 1 million mph are escaping the gravity of the black hole.
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NASA asks for help with second generation RLV -- NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has selected nine companies to help define how NASA can get into space more safely and for less money than we can today using the Space Shuttle.
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Thursday:
May 25, 2000 | |
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Atlas 3 rocket achieves success in debut launch
A rocket born of American and Russian space technology sailed smoothly through its maiden voyage on Wednesday evening, bucking the recent trend of misfortune during inaugural launches.
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Battery problem arises aboard space station
Russian engineers are troubleshooting another possible problem with one of the new batteries installed aboard the Russian Zarya module of the international space station.
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Orbiting Mars space probe images surface layers
One of the earliest observations made by the Mars Global Surveyor was that the upper crust of the planet appears to be layered to considerable depth. A newly released image illustrates this fact.
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Wednesday:
May 24, 2000 | |
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Maiden voyage of Atlas 3 rocket set for today
Lockheed Martin today will make its fifth attempt to launch the inaugural Atlas 3A rocket from Cape Canaveral on a history-making flight. See our Mission Status Center for the latest news.
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Shuttle astronauts boost space station's orbit higher
Commander Jim Halsell and pilot Scott Horowitz fired Atlantis' steering jets 27 times in 59 minutes Tuesday evening, raising the international space station's orbit. The crew continues to report no problems with air or noise in the outpost.
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Surveyor views landing site for now-nixed 2001 probe
NASA's Mars Global Surveyor has returned images of Libya Montes, a ring of mountains up-lifted by a giant impact. This region became one of the top two that were being considered for the now-canceled Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.
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'Citizen explorer' might fly to Russian space station Mir
MirCorp President Jeffrey Manber has confirmed that discussions are taking place with the Italian company Itali-Mir to send Carlo Vibert to the Mir as a guest cosmonaut.
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XMM-Newton catches dimming black hole system -- ESA's XMM-Newton is blessed with good luck! During the current calibration campaign of its science instruments the new X-ray observatory has chanced on a sudden and dramatic alteration in a binary star system, whose properties had not changed for thirty years.
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Tuesday:
May 23, 2000 | |
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Astronauts breathe easy aboard space station
The Atlantis crew entered the International Space Station Monday night, beginning several days of repair work and delivery of supplies. Unlike the previous crew to visit the outpost, the astronauts have not reported of any adverse health effects.
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20,000 new pictures added to Martian photo album
Thousands of new images of the planet Mars taken by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available in a web-based photo album -- the single largest one-time release of images for any planet in the history of solar system exploration.
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Galileo zips past Ganymede
NASA's Galileo spacecraft has successfully flown past the largest moon in our solar system -- Ganymede, which orbits around Jupiter. Galileo dipped to 503 miles above the surface.
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Cosmonauts to leave Mir in June, next crew to fly in fall
MirCorp announced Monday that cosmonauts Sergei Zalyotin and Alexander Kalery and will return to Earth as scheduled in mid-June, completing their historic mission that reactivated the Mir space station for commercial activity.
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Monday:
May 22, 2000 | |
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Lockheed Martin bumps Atlas 3 to Wednesday
It will be Wednesday afternoon at the earliest before the inaugural Atlas 3A rocket launch will occur from Cape Canaveral, officials decided this morning. See our Mission Status Center for the latest news.
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Astronauts take spacewalk
Shuttle astronauts Jeff Williams and Jim Voss ventured outside Atlantis this morning to repair and outfit the International Space Station, installing a Russian cargo crane and replacing a faulty U.S. communications system.
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Astronomy goals for the decade mapped out
Building on the progress that scientists have made in unlocking the secrets of the universe, a new report maps out the priorities for astronomy research over the next decade, with the Next Generation Space Telescope topping the list.
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Famed radio telescope reaches 20th anniversary
On May 30, scientists will mark the 20th anniversary of the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA), the most powerful, flexible and widely-used radio telescope in the world.
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Looking at asteroid's horizon -- Some of the most aesthetically pleasing views of Eros from NEAR Shoemaker have been obtained when the camera looks at the asteroid's horizon.
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