Some Scary Moments in Space
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By The Associated Press  A look at some close calls in space:  INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ALARM: On Sept. 18, 2006, a faulty oxygen generator caused smoke and led to a spill of a toxic irritant. Astronauts got the situation under control within half an hour.
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Researchers think our body clock could mean humans find it difficult to adapt to life in space.
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NASA engineers are wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem with a yet-to-be-built rocket. It's possible that the new moon rocket could shake so violently during the launch, that the multibillion dollar craft could be destroyed.
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In a series of landmark observations gathered over a period of four months, NASA's Swift satellite has challenged some of astronomers' fundamental ideas about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are among the most extreme events in our universe.
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With two short trips to the edge of space, the little rocket that could may have ushered in a new era in high-tech travel.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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Frightening incidents often take place, especially when shooting at different locations. But one incident
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By Miami Herald and staff reports  Space adventures are all the rage. Some  like the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Launch Experience and Mission: Space at Epcot  are priced for the mortals among us; others cost the moon and stars.  Space Camp, Huntsville, Ala.  The U.S.
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The scares come more from human predicaments than from special effects and blaring music.
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You&#39;re speeding through space at 28 000 kilometres per hour, at times the outside temperature gets down to a chilling minus two hundred degrees Celsius, there is no quick getaway.
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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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Some marriages grind slowly to a halt. Others, like the author's, explode midflight, a space shuttle torn asunder in the clear blue sky as the stunned crowd watches in disbelief.
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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.
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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 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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The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, is quite small, amounting to 6 feet in the distance that satellites, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour, cover in their orbits in a year, but it is within the ability of NASA&#39;s instruments to detect.
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A cosmic explosion that seems to have come out of nowhere&#x2014;thousands of light-years from the nearest collection of stars&#x2014;has left astronomers baffled.
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Astronomers spot a space oddity in Earth's neighbourhood: a dead star with unusual characteristics.