Physicist Hawking plans brief test of zero gravity
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and best-selling author famed for his work on time and space theory while confined to a wheelchair, will soon experience the reality of zero gravity.
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WASHINGTON: NASA will today conduct the final and fastest test flight of its pilotless X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, aiming to send it zooming across the Pacific Ocean at about 10 times the speed of sound -- almost 3.2 kilometers (two miles) per
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The world's biggest collider hopes to create a smorgasbord of exotic particles, from the so-called God particle to dark matter and maybe even miniature black holes. John Borland goes to the edge of theory.
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By Jeff Postelwait World Staff Writer  Sending a message to mission control, Cmdr. Garrett Pool asked for the countdown to commence as the five-member team of the Hawkings Explorer was ready to begin its mission to Mars. "We are ready for liftoff," Garrett said.
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Talk about science fiction: Stephen Hawking, author of the million-selling "A Brief History of Time," is writing a "middle-grade" novel.
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A NASA experiment that could help shape the future of space exploration as part of a new generation of potentially life-saving space crafts has launched
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Astronauts driven up the wall NASA boffins have developed a curious new method of simulating the effects of exercise on astronauts in weightless conditions. They plan to conduct Earth-based trials on human test subjects suspended horizontally in mid-air while running on a vertical treadmill.â¦
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WASHINGTON: Nasa will conduct the final and fastest test flight of its pilotless X-43A hypersonic research aircraft, aiming to send it zooming across the Pacific Ocean at about 10 times the speed of sound - 3.2 km per second.
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Former US astronaut Lisa Nowak will pursue a defence of temporary insanity at her trial next month, her lawyers say.
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Richard Branson, Britain&#39;s best-known entrepreneur and part-time daredevil, plans to launch the world&#39;s first passenger service to space in 2007, offering zero-gravity flights for 110,000 pounds ($198,600).
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By Christina Cooke, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Feb. 8--Four Battle Academy teachers will freefall in NASA's  reduced-gravity plane today and Friday to test scientific experiments designed  by their students.
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named Swift for its fast pivoting and pointing -- launched this weekend will detect and analyze gamma ray bursts, which astronomers believe represent the birth cries of black holes.
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MERIGNAC, France  - French surgeons performed the   first zero-gravity operation on Wednesday aboard a plane   free-falling to create weightless conditions in what they hope   can be a trial run for surgery on astronauts in space.
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LAUREL, Md. -- NASA's New Horizon's space probe was pointed toward Pluto and the frozen, sunless reaches of the solar system on a nine-year journey after getting a gravity boost Wednesday from Jupiter.
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Cambridge University -- Scientists have pieced together the journey of a bundle of doomed matter as it orbited a black hole four times, an observational first. Their technique provides a new method to measure the mass of a black hole; and this may enable the testing of Einstein's theory of gravity to a degree few thought possible...
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French doctors are set to carry out the first operation on a human patient under zero-gravity inside an aircraft.
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By measuring variations in satellite orbits, scientists have found the first direct evidence of one of the hallowed tenets of Albert Einstein&#39;s theory of general relativity - that the Earth and other large celestial bodies distort space and time as they