Topic: Manned Space Flight
Space shuttle Discovery transported to launch pad
AP News
Space shuttle Discovery transported to launch pad for Easter Monday flight to space stationSpace shuttle Discovery is at its launch pad for an Easter Monday flight to the International Space Station. NASA moved the shuttle out of its giant hangar around midnight Tuesday. The three-and-a-half-mile trip took much of Wednesday ...
Russia halts space tours as U.S. retires Shuttle
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STAR CITY, Russia (Reuters) - Russia announced a halt to space tourism on Wednesday, saying it would struggle to ferry professional crews to the International Space Station after the U.S. mothballs its shuttle fleet this year. NASA plans four more shuttle flights to the $100-billion, 16-nation space outpost before retiring ...
Space Shuttle Discovery Rolls Out To Launch Pad
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China's space station plan delayed
AFP Global Edition
China has postponed the next step in its ambitious space station programme until 2011 for technical reasons, state media said Wednesday. China had originally planned to place the Tiangong-1 space module in orbit late this year and undertake experimental docking manoeuvres in subsequent missions, Xinhua news agency cited rocket designer ...
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