Following President Barack Obama’s call to boost controls on people entering the US, health officials say the country will impose stricter controls.
Cigars were passed around, flowers brightened desktops and Nasa employees hugged, laughed and cried after the shuttle Atlantis landed one final time.
Three weeks after the 50th anniversary of the Russian who became the first man to travel in space, the US is honouring the man who followed him.
The US space shuttle Endeavour is poised to launch on Friday, for the penultimate flight for Nasa’s 30-year program.
Nasa is preparing a violent return to the moon on Friday as part of a mission to send a satellite and a rocket booster crashing into the surface.
The US late on Friday launched a space telescope whose three-year mission is to find Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy.
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/ 16 January 2009
Plumes of methane gas detected on Mars could be an indication that life can be sustained on the ”Red Planet”, according to a new study.
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/ 14 February 2008
Burning public health issues, cloned animals and the dangers of climate change will top the agenda at a conference drawing about 10 000 eminent scientists from around the world. The annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opens on Thursday and will gather participants from 56 countries.
Nasa astronauts prepared on Tuesday to bring the space shuttle Endeavour back to Earth after a two-week mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Endeavour is scheduled to land at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with two chances to touch down, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said.
United States astronauts prepared early on Saturday for the first spacewalk of the shuttle Endeavour mission following discovery of damage in the spacecraft’s protective shield. The two spacewalkers, mission specialists Rick Mastracchio and Dave Williams, were to spend the night at a special airlock to prevent decompression sickness.