Body clocks 'hinder' space travel
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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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By Erica Werner THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  WASHINGTON -- Thrill-seekers looking to blast into space would need to be informed in writing of serious risks -- including death - - and promise not to sue the government under the first-ever rules for commercial space travel.
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Not content to simply stand in one place, NASA's mechanical astronaut has found not one, but two new bodies that will allow it&nbsp;to move across land and space.
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The flight of the world's first female space tourist to the International Space Station (ISS) will be put off by four days because of delays in launching the US space shuttle, the Russian space agency Roskosmos has said.
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HOUSTON -- The loss of vital computers governing Russian systems aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has left the orbital laboratory dependent on U.S. gyroscopes and NASA&#39;s visiting Atlantis shuttle, and may lengthen the orbiter&#39;s already extended flight, mission managers said late Wednesday.
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NEW YORK  - Regularly getting 5 hours or less of shut eye a night does not appear to have a considerable influence body weight or waist size over time, according to findings from a long-term study of British workers.
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Tiny atomic clocks could be slipped into cellphones, hand-held computers and global positioning system receivers.
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Cutting calories in space is more about sorting food packets than eating a little less and saving the rest for later. In space, there are no leftovers.
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By Joe Stinebaker Associated Press  HOUSTON -- An astronaut collapsed twice Friday, a day after she returned to Earth in the shuttle Atlantis, and officials attributed her wobbles to the adjustment from 12 days at zero gravity.
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NASA -- A NASA-funded study has found the human body's ability to fight off disease may be decreased by spaceflight. The effect may even linger after an astronaut's return to Earth following long flights...
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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
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Blog: No need to reset your watch yet, but redistribution of ocean mass could make days a fraction of a second shorter in the next 200 years.
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NASA&#39;s plan to send a robot to do an astronaut&#39;s job is too expensive, technically risky and too time-consuming to develop, said a scientific panel that
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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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Clocks at the Kennedy  Space Center in Florida began ticking down on Saturday toward  Tuesday's planned launch of the space shuttle Discovery on a  construction mission to the International Space Station.
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By Daniel Patrick SheehanAs any science fiction buff can tell you, no good can come from fiddling with time. Alas, Congress did it anyway, by extending daylight-saving time.
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Since the starting and ending dates for daylight time are changing this year, do I need to adjust my computer system clock manually?