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US going into NKorea nuclear deal with 'eyes open': Cheney
AFP   Friday, 23 February 2007

US Vice President Dick Cheney arrives at Sydney International Airport, 22 February 2007. Cheney said Friday that the United States was going into last week's landmark nuclear deal with North Korea "with our eyes open."(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - US Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday that the United States was going into last week's landmark nuclear deal with North Korea "with our eyes open."


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Russian, U.S. astronauts fix antenna in spacewalk
Reuters   Friday, 23 February 2007

International Space Station Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria gathers equipment at the beginning of a planned six-hour spacewalk in this view from NASA TV February 22, 2007. (NASA TV/Reuters)Reuters - A U.S. and a Russian astronaut fixed a problem antenna on a cargo vessel docked at the International Space Station in a six-hour spacewalk on Thursday.


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Orbital Finale: ISS Spacewalkers Free Stuck Cargo Ship Antenna
SPACE.com   Friday, 23 February 2007
SPACE.com - Two astronauts successfully freed a stuck cargo ship antenna and broke records outside the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday despite a late start and spacesuit glitches during the last planned spacewalk of their six-month spaceflight.
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Asia's majestic Mekong begins to feel pinch of development
AFP   Friday, 23 February 2007

Thai fisherman are seen in their boat along the Mekong River at Chiang Khan, near Thai-Laos border on 12 February 2007. China has built two dams on the river, and has blasted rocks and sandbars in portions of the 4,000-km (2,400-mi) river to make it easier to navigate, opening a shipping channel to Southeast Asia. Fishermen here say the increased traffic on the river is one of the reasons why their work has become more difficult.(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)AFP - Phol Nasa cannot recall a time when his family wasn't fishing on the Mekong River where it sweeps through the misty hills along Thailand's northern border with Laos.


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ISS astronauts begin six-hour space walk
AFP   Thursday, 22 February 2007

A view taken from the space shuttle Discovery of the Internatonal Space Station (ISS). Two astronauts at the ISS have begun a six-hour space walk on Thursday to repair an antenna on a refuelling vessel, Russia's space flight control centre said.(AFP/NASA/HO/File)AFP - Two astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) began a six-hour space walk on Thursday to repair an antenna on a refuelling vessel, Russia's space flight control centre said.


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NASA, Virgin Galactic Eye Cooperative Efforts
SPACE.com   Thursday, 22 February 2007
SPACE.com - NASA is studying the potential of future cooperation with the suborbital tourism firm Virgin Galactic on a variety of fronts, agency officials announced Wednesday.
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Rosetta space probe in Mars swing-by
Reuters   Thursday, 22 February 2007
Reuters - Europe's pioneering Rosetta space probe will swing around the back of Mars early on Sunday in a critical phase of its 10-year mission to meet a distant comet.
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Russian and U.S. astronauts start spacewalk
Reuters   Thursday, 22 February 2007

International Space Station Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria gathers equipment at the beginning of a planned six-hour spacewalk in this view from NASA TV February 22, 2007. (NASA TV/Reuters)Reuters - Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station began a spacewalk from its Russian segment on Thursday to affix a transmitter cable to a telescope and free a stuck antenna on a cargo vessel.


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Space station crew begins spacewalk
AP   Thursday, 22 February 2007

In this image from NASA Television, Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria, right, leaves the Russian air lock on the International Space Station to start a space walk, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2007.  (AP Photo/NASA TV)AP - A U.S. astronaut and his Russian crewmate ventured outside the international space station Thursday for a strenuous six-hour spacewalk intended to fix a faulty antenna.


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ISS Astronauts to Free Jammed Spacecraft Antenna in Spacewalk
SPACE.com   Thursday, 22 February 2007
SPACE.com - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are setting the stage for the spacewalk finale of their six-month mission Thursday to free a jammed antenna on a Russian cargo ship.
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Distant planets: Warm, weird, waterless
AP   Thursday, 22 February 2007

This undated artist's conception released by NASA shows extrasolar planet HD 209458 b, also known as Osiris, orbiting its star in the constellation Pegasus, some 150 light years from Earth's solar system. Scientists have used an infrared spectrum, the first ever obtained for an extrasolar planet, to analyze Osiris' atmosphere, which is said to contain dust but no water.(AFP/NASA)AP - The first "sniffs of air" of two huge far-away planets reveal that they seem to be missing water, a surprising finding amid weather unlike any planets in our solar system with blast furnace-like gusts amid supersonic winds.


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