NASA must feel bruised by capsule&#39;s botched landing
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Have you ever ordered, say, a new laptop online, and you were so excited about it that you kept hitting Fedex.com&#39;s package tracker nine times an hour, day after day, like a lab rat flicking a lever to get his next hit of smack?
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A space capsule containing NASA&#39;s first sample from space in more than 30 years crashed into the Utah desert today after its parachutes failed to open.
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maggeth writes &quot;In an update to a previous story, NASA damage assessment teams have begun work at the Kennedy Space Center, which was hit by Hurricane Frances.
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Astronaut Lisa Nowak's attack on a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut sent shockwaves on Tuesday through a tightly knit NASA community accustomed to its crewmembers showing the "right stuff," not getting involved in love triangles.
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Hurricanes Charley, Frances and Ivan have cost NASA a least a weekâs worth of work and upset its tight schedule for resuming shuttle flights, throwing into doubt the
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The third hurricane to hit NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s spaceport in just over a month blew out more panels and left more gaping holes in the massive
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUND, Utah, Sept. 8 &#0151; A NASA capsule bearing precious atomic specimens that Hollywood stunt pilots were prepared to catch as it came into earth's atmosphere crashed into the desert this morning after a parachute that was to slow its fall failed to deploy.
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It's reality TV at its most sci-fi. Two Hollywood stunt pilots hired by NASA are practicing to snag the 400-pound Genesis capsule Wednesday to give it a softer landing as it hurtles to earth. It'll be broadcast live so they better get it right.
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Even as NASA marks the second anniversary of the Columbia accident, and the tragic loss of seven astronauts returning home after a successful flight, agency officials and astronauts are looking&nbsp;toward&nbsp;a return to space shuttle flights.
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Summary - (Sep 17, 2004) After its crash landing, NASA scientists weren&#39;t too hopeful that they&#39;d turn up much science in the wreckage of Genesis&#39; sample capsule, but the results so far have been a pleasant surprise.
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U.S. News & World Report - NASA's press briefing last Monday felt like it should have been broadcast in black and white.
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One of the ironies of Wednesdayâs flight of SpaceShipOne is that those who had the worst view of the flightâand the drama that unfolded during the ascentâwere the members of the media who came to report on the event.
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NASA knows Columbia sustained damage on liftoff. But engineers' concerns get swept aside by mission control, at the cost of seven lives. Compiled by Tony Long.
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NASA&#39;s high hopes for a clean reading of the Sun&#39;s atomic signature seemed dead Wednesday after the 450-pound Genesis spacecraft came tumbling down in Utah, where it landed with a terrible thud.
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US space agency Nasa is criticised for issuing an incomplete and unanalysed   report on air safety.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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Despite weather concerns and a small chunk of ice that threatened to delay the beginning of the shuttle Discoveryâs mission, everything seemed to fall into place.