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USA/SPACE: SPACE SHUTTLE DISCOVERY IN ORBIT
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The seven astronauts on board the space shuttle Discovery have begun their first full day in orbit on a mission to repair the ailing Hubble space telescope.
They spent Monday closing the four-thousand mile gap between...
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NASA is scrambling to figure out what's wrong with a key cooling unit on the International Space Station, and it may take a spacewalk to fix it. (Dec. 12)
NASA is scrambling to figure out what's wrong with a key cooling unit on the International Space Station.
On Wednesday, one of two identical cooling loops shut down.
The system uses ammonia to dissipate heat from on-board equipment....
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Space probe's crash landing, comments
1. Genesis space capsule re-entering atmosphere
2. Capture helicopters en route
3. NASA telemetry officers celebrating at the Dugway Proving Ground
4. Genesis tumbling in midair
5. Reporters watching from hangar
6. Genesis impacts with...
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Space: NASA: Spacewalk: international space station
Space, 12 March 2001
1. Various stills of exterior of space station
2. Graphic of space station
3. Various stills of hatch
4. Various graphics of am picking up cargo carrier
5. Astronauts in space station preparing vestibule to lead to...
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WRAP Presser about Endeavor shuttle mission, shuttle in orbit with ISS
1. Wide shot NASA briefing
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Shannon, chairman of NASA mission management team:
"We have a cavity in the tile that has been analysed through computational flow dynamics, through thermal analysis, through two...
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NASA's new Orion spacecraft streaked into orbit Friday on a high-stakes test flight meant to usher in a new era of human exploration leading ultimately to Mars. (Dec. 5)
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NASA's new Orion spacecraft streaked into orbit Friday on a high-stakes test flight meant to usher in a new era of human exploration leading ultimately to Mars.
The unmanned journey began...
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Preps for landing of spacecraft carrying space dust
1. NASA animation of the spacecraft collecting spacedust and then releasing shuttlecock-shaped capsule to earth
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Ken Atkins, Former Stardust Project Manager:
"The scientists believe what they are looking at in...
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While astronauts were trying to install a solar power array, they found a tear in another panel. That will have to be fixed for the European and Japanese labs to dock with the ISS.
HEADLINE: Tear found in space station solar array
CAPTION: Spacewalking astronauts bolted a solar power tower to the international space station on Tuesday. Their joy turned to concern, however, when a rip was spotted in the second...
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Billionaire tourist arrives at space station
HEADLINE: Billionaire tourist arrives at space station (space-station)
CAPTION: American billionaire Charles Simonyi and a pair of Russian cosmonauts arrived at the International Space Station on Monday. The Russians will stay for six...
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NASA's new Orion spacecraft made a "bull's-eye" Pacific splashdown Friday following a dramatic journey 3,604 miles beyond Earth. The achievement opens a new era of human exploration aimed at putting people on Mars. (Dec. 5)
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NASA's new Orion spacecraft made a "bull's-eye" Pacific splashdown Friday following a dramatic journey 3,604 miles beyond Earth.
The achievement opens a new era of human exploration aimed...
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+4:3 NASA celebrations for 50th anniversary of Glenn spaceflight
Cape Canaveral, Florida - 17 February 2012
1. Wide of astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter speaking to reporters
FILE: Cape Canaveral, Florida - 20 February 1962
2. Various of countdown and Friendship 7 capsule blasting off,...
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Mars makes closest approach to Earth in almost 60,000 years on Wednesday
1. Mid shot of people looking through telescope
2. Close shot of boy looking through telescope
3. Still photo image of Mars taken through telescope
4. Boy inspecting telescope
NASA Animation
5. Medium ground view of Martian surface
6....
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USA: GLOBAL SURVEYOR SPACECRAFT SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED
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NASA has successfully launched its Global Surveyor spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Centre after bad weather scuppered an attempt on Wednesday.
The rocket took off on time at 1700 G-M-T (noon Eastern time), Thursday, on...
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Preparations for Discovery Shuttle launch following Columbia disaster
Kennedy Space Centre, Cape Canaveral, Florida - June 2005
1. Discovery on launch pad
2. Side view of shuttle Discovery
3. Shuttle's nose cone
Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas - June 2005
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eileen Collins,...
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USA/SPACE: "ENDEAVOUR" RADAR ANTENNA DEPLOYED
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Astronauts on the space shuttle \"Endeavour\" have successfully completed the biggest challenge of their mission.
They've deployed a 197-foot (60 metres) radar antenna - the longest rigid structure ever deployed in...
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Space station radiator leak said to be 'serious but not life threatening'
International Space Station - 259 miles (416 kilometres) above Earth - 10 May, 2013
1. International Space Station crew members Chris Cassidy (his back to the camera) and Tom Marshburn preparing for a possible space walk
International...
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Atlantis connects with ISS, last ever shuttle docking
In Space
1. Mid shot of space station through window
2. Mid, as Shuttle Atlantis turns UPSOUND (English) Mission Controller: "Poetry in motion as Atlantis conducts the final R-bar pitch manoeuvre in shuttle programme history."
3....
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USA/SPACE: MIR SPACE STATION CREW PREPARE FOR REPAIR MISSION
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The Russian-American crew aboard the Mir space station is preparing for one of the most dangerous repair missions in space history.
But NASA officials say they are confident all precautions have been taken to ensure the...
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NASA explores returning to moon by 2018
1. NASA Administrator Michael Griffin walks in
2. Press
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Michael Griffin, NASA Administrator:
"We're talking about returning to the moon in 2018. There will be a lot more hurricanes and a lot more other natural...
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USA/SPACE: TROUBLED MIR SPACE STATION RECEIVES 2 TONS OF SUPPLIES
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Cosmonauts aboard the troubled Mir space station received two tons of supplies from a cargo ship on Monday.
The supplies included equipment to repair the station's damaged power system after a collision 12 days ago.
But Frank...
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Two flight engineers aboard the International Space Station took a spacewalk and launched a Russo-Peruvian nanosatellite on Monday. (Aug. 18)
Two flight engineers of the International Space Station (ISS) crew conducted a spacewalk and launched a Russo-Peruvian nanosatellite on Monday.
Engineers Oleg Artemyev and Aleksandr Skvortsov also carried out a number of technical...
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Space - Spaceship crashes into Mir
A Russian supply spaceship crashed into the Mir space station at 0930 GMT Wednesday (25/6), but US and Russian crewmembers were unhurt, the US and Russian space agencies said.
0:00 Ms of space station with picture break up;
0:06 Clear...
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USA: PLANS TO CRASH LUNAR PROSPECTOR
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It's certainly not the most glamourous finish for an old satellite.
Scientists in the U-S plan to crash the Lunar Prospector into the surface of the moon at about 6-thousand kilometres per hour (nearly 4-thousand miles) on...
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Space shuttle Discovery salutes nation''s capital
1. Various of Space Shuttle Discovery on top of jumbo jet flying over Washington DC on final flight
The space shuttle Discovery soared over the Washington Monument, the White House and the Capitol in a high-flying salute to the US...