INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

China Plans Space Station By 2020

China unveiled plans for its own space station, to be completed by 2020, along with a cargo ship to ferry supplies to and from orbit.
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Endeavour

NASA Back To Work After Tragedy

NASA and United Space Alliance workers resume operations on Endeavour after yesterday's tragedy, which saw a technician fall to his death.
Space shuttle Discovery crew members and other astronauts working at the ISS talk to President Barack Obama.

Discovery Crew Gets A Call From Obama

President Obama tells Discovery astronauts talks about the Discovery shuttle and gives ISS commander Scott Kelly an update on his sister-in-law, senator Gabrielle Giffords.
Japan to send Twitter-using humanoids to space

Japan to send Twitter-using humanoids to space

If Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) plans succeed, there will soon be a humanoid robot in the International Space Station. The Twitter-using humanoid will be talking companions to the astronauts and will manage the outpost when the human inhabitants of the station are asleep.

Gardening in Space: Directional Root Growth Study

Gardening in space has been part of the International Space Station (ISS) from the beginning. The latest experiment is Hydrotropism and Auxin-Inducible Gene expression in Roots Grown Under Microgravity Conditions, known as HydroTropi. HydroTropi is a Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)-run study that looks at directional root growth.

Space Tourists To Launch In 2013

Space tourists will have the chance to strap in and fly to orbit beginning in 2013, as the company that sent up the first space tourists comes back from hiatus.
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Private firm launches, lands space capsule for NASA

A privately owned company put a spacecraft into orbit and brought it back on Wednesday in a groundbreaking test flight NASA hopes will lead to cargo runs to the International Space Station after the space shuttles are retired next year.
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Private firm launches and lands space capsule for NASA

A privately owned company put a spacecraft into orbit and brought it back on Wednesday in a groundbreaking test flight NASA hopes will lead to cargo runs to the International Space Station after the space shuttles are retired next year.
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Fly to space with Boeing in 2015

You just have wait till 2015 for a trip into the space, as US aerospace giant Boeing and Space Adventure have tied up to put tourists into low-level orbit in a futuristic capsule.
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Boeing ventures into space tourism with partner

Aerospace major Boeing announced its entry into the space tourism market in partnership with its Space Adventures, and the partnership hopes to sell seats on rocket trips to the International Space Station very soon.
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Citi to raise more long-term debt in 2010

Citigroup Inc raised its estimates and now expects to issue $18 billion to $21 billion in long-term debt in 2010, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday.

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