News tagged with discovery
Most traveled space shuttle ready for final launch
After 143 million miles and nearly a year all told in orbit, space shuttle Discovery is poised to blast off Thursday one last time.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 23, 2011 |
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NASA clears shuttle Discovery for Thursday launch
(AP) -- NASA has given a unanimous "go" for Thursday's planned launch of space shuttle Discovery.
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Feb 23, 2011 |
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NASA: All looking good for Thursday shuttle launch
(AP) -- NASA is just two days out from sending space shuttle Discovery on its final voyage after a nearly four-month delay.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 22, 2011 |
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NASA picks Thursday for Discovery's final launch
NASA will try next week to launch space shuttle Discovery on its final voyage following a four-month delay for fuel tank repairs.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2011 |
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Final flight of space shuttle Discovery to carry 2 payloads built by CU-Boulder
Following a more than three-month delay due to technical problems, NASA's space shuttle Discovery will make its final flight Feb. 24 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying two University of Colorado ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Compound blocks brain cell destruction in Parkinson's disease
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have produced the first known compound to show significant effectiveness in protecting brain cells directly affected by Parkinson's disease, a progressive ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 11, 2011 |
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US space shuttle unharmed after tool accident
Inspectors found no damage to the Space Shuttle Discovery or to its external reserve tanks after a thin multi-piece measuring tool fell during repair work, NASA said Thursday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Researchers find public sector research responsible for many new drug discoveries
Researchers from Boston University School's of Medicine (BUSM), Management (SMG) and Law (LAW), along with collaborators from the National Institutes of Health, believe that public-sector research has had a more immediate ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Tool drops at pad, NASA checks for shuttle damage
(AP) -- NASA is checking space shuttle Discovery to see if it was damaged by a dropped tool.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 09, 2011 |
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Natural gas leak forces Space Center evacuation
(AP) -- Hundreds of people were evacuated from several buildings at Kennedy Space Center because of a natural gas leak.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 02, 2011 |
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February launch scheduled for Robonaut 2
NASA's Robonaut 2 is primed and ready for launch aboard space shuttle Discovery in February. R2 is so ready, in fact, that it's going up ahead of its legs, which will follow on a later launch.
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Feb 01, 2011 |
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Space shuttle Discovery fixed, back on launch pad
(AP) -- Space shuttle Discovery is back on the launch pad following unprecedented repairs for its final voyage.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Molecules made by IUPUI students may have potential to cure diseases
Not many college students can say their efforts in the laboratory may lead to therapies for diseases that devastate millions of people worldwide, but chemistry students in the School of Science at Indiana ...
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Antibiotics improve with visualization techniques
Researchers from the Universities of Dundee and Oxford have made a significant breakthrough in understanding how resistance to antibiotics might be overcome, by producing the first ever 3D molecular image ...
Jan 17, 2011 |
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NASA: Astronaut hurt in bicycle accident
(AP) -- NASA officials say an astronaut who had been slated for a spacewalk on the upcoming shuttle mission has been hurt in a bicycle accident.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 16, 2011 |
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