Space's largest window is built
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The largest window built for use in space has been completed, promising a spectacular view from the International Space Station.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 13 -- Two astronauts spent more than six hours in space Tuesday attaching large new girders to the international space station -- the first major addition to the half-finished station in almost four years.
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By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - Two spacewalking astronauts Tuesday began installing the first big addition to the international space station in more than 3 1/2 years, and NASA pronounced the outing a success, even though a small bolt floated off and got lost.
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Already a leading launch area for scientific balloons in northern Europe, operations at Sweden's Esrange launch facility will expand next year with NASA's decision to use it for launches of its largest scientific balloons, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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Regardless, space competitions are poised to become big business.
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The telescopeâs 34-foot-wide mirror, one of the largest in the world, is designed to take advantage of pristine skies over the northern Atlantic islands.
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The International Space Station grew a bit longer this week as astronauts attached the Starboard 3 and 4 truss segment during a six-hour spacewalk.
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Bill Gates and a former Microsoft employee have thrown their monetary support behind an ambitious project to build a movie camera for space that will allow scientists to monitor fast-changing events like supernovae explosions.
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By Traci Watson  Home renovations are never easy. In space, where there's no gravity to keep things in place, construction is even tougher.
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LOS ANGELES -- To the untrained eye, the sleek, airy building constructed atop a decommissioned nuclear reactor at the University of California at Los Angeles could pass for high-tech office space.
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The University of Texas and Texas A&amp;M University are planning to construct what they call the world's largest telescope with the help of a Houston businessman's &#36;1.25 million gift.
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The tin-can-shaped Columbus science laboratory, is the newest addition to the International Space Station and Europeâs largest contribution.
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By RASHA MADKOUR, Associated Press writer  HOUSTON  NASA unfurled the international space station's new solar wings for the first time Thursday in what looked like the stretching of a giant accordion in orbit.  "Big day for space station.
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When scientists are looking into space, the more they can see, the easier it is to piece together the puzzle of the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope's mirror blanks have now been constructed.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Dec. 10--CAPE CANAVERAL -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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By RASHA MADKOUR HOUSTON - Using their ship's robotic arm, astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis handed over the first big addition to the international space station in more than 3 1/2 years Monday and will conduct three spacewalks to install the giant new section.