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• European lab opens at space station

  - 2008-02-12

  HOUSTON, Texas AFP — Astronauts at the International Space Station Tuesday opened up the new Columbus laboratory, a research facility that gives Europe a key foothold for the deeper exploration of the cosmos. "There is no problem whatsoever. We have the basic power, the light, the computer system" working...

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• Discovery mission key to International Space Station construction

  - 2007-10-21

  WASHINGTON AFP — The next mission of the space shuttle Discovery set for liftoff Tuesday is critical to building the International Space Station, ferrying in the Harmony module key to installing the European lab Columbus and Japan's Kibo lab. Harmony, a big Italian-made aluminum tube weighing in at 14.3...

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• Peek into deep space could rewrite history of Universe

  - 2005-03-02

  PARIS AFP — The discovery of a rich cluster of hundreds -- possibly thousands -- of galaxies in deep space suggests the Universe evolved into its present form far sooner than was once thought, space agencies announced. The sphere-like cluster of galaxies is "the most distant massive structure yet...

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• Mission chiefs exult as Titan probe sends back data

  - 2005-01-14

  DARMSTADT, Germany AFP — A European robot lab parachuted to the surface of the Saturn moon Titan, successfully climaxing a venture to explore one of the most beguiling phenomena in the Solar System, mission leaders here said. Operating in the dark and friendless chill of deep space, the unmanned...

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• European spacecraft detects ice at Martian pole

  - 2004-01-23

  DARMSTADT, Germany AFP ? The European orbiter Mars Express has detected frozen water at Mars' South Pole, mission officials revealed. "We have identified water ice on the South Pole," European Space Agency ESA scientist Vittorio Formisano said Friday as he unveiled preliminary data garnered by the unmanned spacecraft. ...

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• European Space Agency gives cautious welcome to Bush plans for space travel

  - 2004-01-15

  PARIS AFP ? The European Space Agency gave a cautious welcome to plans by US President George W. Bush to send American astronauts to the Moon as early as 2015 and to build a lunar base as a launch pad for manned missions to Mars. "This is great and...

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• Scientists take another shot at contacting Beagle 2 on Mars

  - 2004-01-07

  LONDON AFP ? Space scientists were hopeful that they would finally hear an electronic bark from the Beagle 2 probe, missing since it was supposed to have landed on Mars on Christmas Day. Repeated attempts to make contact with the pint-sized probe using NASA's Mars Odyssey craft orbiting the...

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• Third night of silence from Mars, Beagle 2 awaits mothership

  - 2003-12-27

  LONDON AFP ? Mars Express, the Beagle 2's mothership, was looking more and more like the final hope for scientists on Earth seeking to confirm the British-built space probe's safe arrival on the Red Planet. After three nights of fruitless sweeping for a radio signal, scientists in Britain remained...

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