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First woman in space dreams of flying to Mars
Reuters   Wednesday, 07 March 2007

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova in a 1963 photo courtesy of NASA. The world's first female astronaut, marking her 70th birthday on Tuesday, says she still dreams of flying to Mars -- even on a one-way ticket. (NASA/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - The world's first female astronaut Valentina Tereshkova, marking her 70th birthday on Tuesday, says she still dreams of flying to Mars -- even on a one-way ticket.


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Astronaut may have found steamy notes
AP   Tuesday, 06 March 2007

In this undated file photo released by the Orange County Sheriff's Department, NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak is shown. Florida prosecutors charged an astronaut Friday, March 2, 2007, with trying to kidnap a romantic rival, but they declined to file an attempted murder charge recommended by police.   Nowak, 43, was formally charged almost a month after she was arrested at an Orlando airport parking lot.       (AP Photo/Orange County Sheriff's Department, FILE)AP - NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak's bizarre 900-mile road trip to confront a romantic rival may have been sparked when she uncovered steamy e-mails sent to her boyfriend by the other woman, documents released Monday showed.


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NASA can't pay for killer asteroid hunt
AP   Tuesday, 06 March 2007
AP - NASA officials say the space agency is capable of finding nearly all the asteroids that might pose a devastating hit to Earth, but there isn't enough money to pay for the task so it won't get done.
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Asian pollution affects Pacific storms
AP   Tuesday, 06 March 2007

Workers carry reeds which are used to make paper at a paper mill in Yuanjiang, in China's Hunan Province Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007. Paper mills and chemical plants around the area which have not met the environmental protection standards have contributed to pollution in nearby Dongting Lake. (AP Photo/EyePress)AP - Pollution from Asia is helping generate stronger storms over the North Pacific, according to new research. Changes in the North Pacific storm track could have an impact on weather across the Northern Hemisphere. Satellite measurements have shown an increase in tiny particles generated from coal burning in China and India in recent decades, researchers report in Tuesday's issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.


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Total lunar eclipse wows stargazers
AP   Tuesday, 06 March 2007

A Lunar Eclipse is seen by the Big Ben in London, Saturday, March 3, 2007.  Amateur star-gazers and astronomers worldwide dusted off their telescopes and unsheathed their binoculars Saturday for the first total lunar eclipse in three years.  (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - The moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of gray and orange Saturday night during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargazers and astronomers around the world.


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Europe moves to safeguard Galileo frequencies
AFP   Tuesday, 06 March 2007

The 'Galileo' satellite system on display at a Baikonur cosmodrome workshop in 2005. The European Space Agency (ESA) says it has awarded a contract to a British satellite firm to help safeguard frequencies allotted to the Galileo satellite system.(AFP/File)AFP - The European Space Agency says it has awarded a contract to a British satellite firm to help safeguard frequencies allotted to the Galileo satellite navigation system.


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Shuttle finishes move back to hangar
AP   Monday, 05 March 2007

The space shuttle Atlantis rolls back from launch pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs to the external tank at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida March 4, 2007. Atlantis' external tank was damaged during a hail storm February 26, 2007. REUTERS/Scott Audette (UNITED STATES)AP - Space shuttle Atlantis on Sunday was moved from the launch pad back to a hangar so technicians can inspect damage caused by an hail storm and determine what kind of repairs should be made.


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Shuttle Atlantis heads back to hangar for repair
Reuters   Monday, 05 March 2007

A pelican sits on a pylon as the space shuttle Atlantis rolls back from launch pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs to the external tank at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida March 4, 2007. (Scott Audette/Reuters)Reuters - Space shuttle Atlantis was removed from its seaside launch pad on Sunday for repairs after a freak hailstorm battered the spaceship's fuel tank last week.


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Shuttle begins move back to hangar
AP   Sunday, 04 March 2007

The space shuttle Atlantis leaves the launch pad for its rollback to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Sunday, March 4, 2007. Atlantis suffered damage from a hail storm forcing the cancellation of its scheduled March 15 launch and the need to return to the VAB for repair. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)AP - Space shuttle Atlantis on Sunday began a slow trek from the launch pad back to a hangar so technicians can inspect damage caused by an hail storm and determine what kind of repairs should be made.


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Stargazers watch total lunar eclipse
AP   Sunday, 04 March 2007

The moon is totally eclipsed by the earth's shadow as seen from south London, England, Saturday, March 3, 2007. Amateur star-gazers and astronomers worldwide dusted off their telescopes and unsheathed their binoculars Saturday for the first total lunar eclipse in three years. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - The moon darkened, reddened, and turned shades of gray and orange Saturday night during the first total lunar eclipse in nearly three years, thrilling stargazers and astronomers around the world.


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Sky-gazers watch total lunar eclipse
AP   Sunday, 04 March 2007

At 17.53 the moon can be seen,  partially eclipsed,  during an English Premiership soccer match, in Portsmouth, southern England, Saturday March 3, 2007. The first total lunar eclipse in three years will give nearly every continent at least a partial view when the moon turns a shade of crimson as light reaching it from the sun is blotted out by the Earth.  The event is rare because the moon is usually above or below the plane of Earth's orbit. Sunlight still reaches the moon during total eclipses, but is refracted through Earth's atmosphere, bathing the moon in an eerie reddish light. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - A dark red shadow crept across the moon, leaving only a silver, crescent-shaped sliver as a total lunar eclipse began late Saturday.


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