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The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center Feb. 8 on one of NASA's most anticipated missions to the International Space: the delivery of the Tranquility node, the final module of the U.S. portion of the space station. Tranquility will provide additional room for crew members and ...

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The Americans may still go to the moon before the ChineseWHEN America’s space agency, NASA, announced its spending plans in February, some people worried that its cancellation of the Constellation moon programme had ended any hopes of Americans returning to the Earth’s rocky satellite. The next footprints on the lunar ...

OEMs and chip makers are aggressively pushing into the high-end Unix space, a profitable but shrinking area of the server market. Analysts say IBM with its new Power7 systems has the inside track to expand its market share, though Hewlett-Packard and Intel are coming out with systems based on new ...

Endeavour's payload includes the Tranquility node -- the last U.S. portion of the International Space Station -- which will provide additional room for crew members and many of the space station's life support and environmental control systems. Attached to Tranquility mode will be a a cupola, which houses a robotic ...

Dynamic weather conditions at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida force NASA to order at least a 24-hour delay for the space shuttle Endeavour's 11-day mission to the International Space Station. - Last-minute weather concerns forced NASA to scratch the Feb. 7 predawn launch of the space shuttle ...

A long-overdue overhaul of America’s space agency has been announcedIN 2004 George Bush announced a plan for America’s space agency, NASA, to return to the moon by 2020, land there, explore the surface and set up a base. The moon would then serve as a staging post for a journey ...

A plan to overhaul America’s space agency is long overdueIN 2004 George Bush announced a plan for America’s space agency, NASA, to return to the moon by 2020, land there, explore the surface and set up a base. The moon would then serve as a staging post for a journey ...

Wasting little time on implementing President Obama's new direction for NASA, the space agency awards $50 million to commercial companies for developing support transport of astronauts to and from low Earth orbit. Among the winners was Amazon founder Jeff Bezo's Blue Origin space venture. - NASA began ...

President Barack Obama wants to end Nasa's moon programme, turn over space transportation to commercial companies and jump-start technologies needed for future human exploration of Mars and other destinations, officials said yesterday. The plan is part of Obama's budget for the financial year to

The space shuttle program will begin marking off milestones as the fleet prepares for its final year before hitting the mothballs. The first of five flights in 2010 kicks off with a final night launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Feb. 7 on a mission to the International Space Station ...

With a slight improvement in fiscal 3Q10 results and a cautious outlook, industrial landlord Ascendas REIT (A17U.SG) is not giving market confidence to stay invested, says Kim Eng Securities. “We do not expect strong rental recovery due to the new industrial space coming on line and a still-weak office ...

The space agency orders a safety review for the scheduled March 18 launch of the space shuttle Discovery following the discovery of a small amount of cocaine in a restricted hangar. NASA officials anticipate no delay in the shuttle fleet's 2010 schedule. - They are apparently using more ...

The Indian space agency is launching five rockets Friday to study the effects of the millennium’s longest annular solar eclipse in the southern part of the country, an official said. “Five rockets are being launched Friday between 1 and 3 p.m. to investigate the effects of the solar eclipse in the ...

Anatoly Perminov, Russia's space agency chief, says Russia is considering a mission to knock the asteroid Apophis off course from a possible collision with the Earth. It works in the movies, but in real life, many questions remain. - If it sounds like a bad movie script, ...

With its acquisition of Perot Systems, Dell is looking to quickly expand its capabilities in the $800 billion IT services space, currently dominated by IBM. Both Dell and Hewlett-Packard, which has integrated EDS into the fold, want to increase the recurring revenues available from their services businesses. Meanwhile, IBM continues ...

As space debris grew 13 percent in 2009, engineers and scientists are facing a daunting challenge: how to mitigate the dangers to the $200 billion-a-year satellite and launch industries from hundreds of thousands of bits of space debris whizzing around Earth at 17,000 miles per hour. - ...

The rapidly changing unified communications market, which is seeing consolidations and partnerships among established players like Cisco, BT and Polycom, is also now getting new entrants like Logitech and Adtran. Both are looking to get traction in the UC space through the SMB sector. - Adtrans entrance ...

Virgin Galactic’s spaceship makes its first appearanceIN THE 1960s Pan Am, an American airline, set up a waiting list for people hoping to fly to the moon. Such was the interest that 80,000 people signed up. In the end, Pan Am died before the space dream did. So when a ...