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Thriller films, Antarctic explorers and female science pioneers featured in an informal naming poll seeking a moniker for a proposed Uranus spacecraft mission.

Fourth-grade students at Little Ridge Intermediate School were in for a treat last week as they welcomed a special NASA visitor.

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The world economy is in the doldrums, pessimism is rife around the world, and most young people, according to one survey, believe climate change means the end of human life on Earth. Yet a better future beckons, if we can only begin to look outside ourselves, and even beyond our planet. It is in space that we may find solutions to some of our most pressing problems.

The first test-vehicle mission of Gaganyaan, India's manned space mission, will start in a couple of months, said R Umamaheswaran, Director of ISRO's Human Space Flight Centre. This to check whether the crew can escape if required, whether landing can be done safely by parachute and the crew retrieved, etc., he said. He was speaking at the Bengaluru Space Expo at BIEC in

First off, whats your reaction to this liquid hydrogen leak. how big of a setback is it? >> you know, good morning and thanks for having me. its space flight. space is hard. and we find little dings along the way, but we make them work. and i have incredible confidence in the nasa team. we do have a lot of experience with these type of things. as kristin mentioned, they fixed one just from the attempt earlier this week already and they have a few things still up their sleeve to try to reseal tha...

Good work really happened today. >> bill nelson has his shuttle flight scrubbed four times. its routine for any space flight. >> this is a brand-new rocket. it is not going to fly until it is ready. the complexity is daunting. when you bring it all into focus of a countdown. >> this rocket is still the only rocket in the world that is capable of caring people to the moon and it is very close to being ready to launch. there is a similar rocket by space x but is not quite ready yet. that will be f...

Bowl-like atmosphere. even last night you could see people camping out all along the causeways on the way into here. now as we learned this has been scrubbed for today, you can see the clouds drift away. of course, its all because the sort of unofficial mantra of space flight is better safe than sorry. in this particular case, because they couldnt get hydrogen to flow through the engines properly, they decided not to risk it. the question is whether they can fix that on the launchpad where this ...

200,000 people had headed to Florida for the launch, but it now it won't launch until this Friday at the earliest.