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After two weeks of frustrating delays, the shuttle rose from its seaside launch pad through a partly cloudy sky at 11:15 a.m. ET. It's the first space station mission since the 2003 Columbia disaster.
"By our count, it has been almost four years, two return to flight missions, a tremendous amount of work by thousands of individuals," said Brent Jett, Atlantis' commander.
Debris seen hitting the shuttle during liftoff was not a significant problem and the fuel cells were working properly, without the problems that had dogged earlier...
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felix 2 years 4 months ago
The war in Lebanon is now showing its consequences in the digital world and a huge number of websites has been attacked and defaced as a protest against the invasion of Lebanon by Israel.
Today two NASA websites were attacked as well. The intrusion was carried out by the Chilean group of crackers known as Byond Hackers Crew through a leak in the SQL Injection they entered the system and subtracted user names, passwords and e-mails from the NASA web server.
After that these information had been stolen, they managed in entering the...
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The trip involves an eight-day stay aboard the International Space Station and a 90-minute spacewalk in a Russian space suit.
You do not have to be an astronaut anymore to experience the out-of-this-world freedom of walking in space. All you need is $35 million (Rs 1,633,100,000) and the willingness to risk your life.
Space Adventures Ltd., a private Vienna, Virginia, firm that already has sent three men to the international space station for $20 million (euro15.8 million) on Friday said it is now offering an even rarer trip: A stroll...
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