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LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists believe microscopic worms which are biologically very similar to humans may be the key to helping humans colonize other planets like Mars by giving clues on coping with long-term space living.A team of scientists led by Nathaniel ...
ALMATY (Reuters) - Three astronauts inside a Russian Soyuz capsule parachuted safely back to Earth on Tuesday, landing on the snowbound Kazakh steppe after nearly six months on the International Space Station.U.S. astronaut Mike Fossum, Japan's Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Sergei ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak said it sold its Image Sensor Solutions business to Platinum Equity for an undisclosed sum in a move that will provide it with much needed capital as it grapples with a dwindling cash pile.The deal comes ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pale-faced but smiling, the crew of a long-duration isolation study emerged bleary-eyed to daylight and applause Friday after 520 days locked away in windowless, cramped cells to simulate the length of a journey to Mars.The $15 million Mars500 experiment ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The crew of an isolation experiment to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars are in the final countdown before the opening on Friday of the hatch on the windowless cells in which they have been locked away since June ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia launched its first unmanned space flight to supply the International Space Station Sunday since an August crash left a half-sized crew on the orbital outpost and raised concerns over Moscow's role as the sole space flight provider.The Progress ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Wednesday it will launch within weeks its first spacecraft capable of docking with a module it put into orbit last month, in what will mark a crucial test of its growing space program.The unmanned Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles were advised to stay indoors on Tuesday after a 200-pound bear was spotted roaming the campus.The lab arranged escorts for workers at the north side of the facility, which ...
KOUROU, French Guiana (Reuters) - A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana Friday bearing the first two satellites in Europe's Galileo global positioning system.The launch from Europe's space base in South America -- the first for a Soyuz rocket outside ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Deputy space shuttle program manager and former flight director Mike Moses is leaving NASA to oversee operations for Virgin Galactic, the commercial spaceflight company owned by Richard Branson's Virgin Group, the company said on Tuesday.Moses oversaw space ...
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