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  • Earliest light in universe since Big Bang measured for 1st time

    The evolution of the extragalactic background light (EBL) over the past 5 billion years has been measured for the first time. That bath of ancient and young photons suffusing the Universe today is called the extragalactic background light (EBL). An accurate measurement of the EBL is as fundamental to cosmology as measuring the heat radiation left over from the Big Bang (the cosmic microwave ...

  • Russia plans four spacecraft launches in 2014

    Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ...

  • Private firms may travel to lunar surface NASA report

    A study of future human missions has indicated corporate researchers could be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, Daily Mail quoted Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm, as ...

  • Space History Photo LASRE Pod Mating to SR-71

    In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, a rear/side view of the Linear Aerospike SR Experiment (LASRE) pod on NASA SR-71, tail number 844 is shown. This photo was taken during the fit-check of the pod on Feb. 15, 1996, at Lockheed Martin Skunkworks in Palmdale, California. The LASRE experiment was designed to provide in-flight data to help Lockheed Martin evaluate the aerodynamic ...

  • Paper Japan government says unaware of ghosts at PM residence

    TOKYO (Reuters) - A delay in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife moving into their official residence, the site of past assassinations, has revived talk of ghosts in the corridors, prompting the government to deny any knowledge of hauntings. Abe has not moved into the prime minister's official residence for five months since he took power. Asked by an opposition lawmaker ...


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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers [DVD]

Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers [DVD]

The problem with Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers is that it's a bridge movie, linking Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), which jump-started the series back into existence after a long hiatus with the introduction of Jamie Lloyd (Danielle Harris), Michael's niece, and Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995), which answers the mystery left at ... ...

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  • Friend of suspect in U.K. slaying arrested

    Lee Rigby , hacking at his body with knives and a meat cleaver, on a London street in front of dozens of passersby on Wednesday afternoon. Both suspects were shot by police at the scene and are hospitalized under guard in stable condition. The BBC said Nusaybah was arrested by police outside its studios Friday night immediately after recording the interview. "This interviewee had ...

  • Russia wants US to pay for astronaut flights to Space Station

    Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ...

  • NASA One shuttle tank fixed

    NASA has modified the first huge external space shuttle tank, a fix meant to avoid repeating a 2003 tragedy that killed seven astronauts and has grounded the shuttles since, the agency said Tuesday.An inquiry board recommended the repair to prevent pieces of insulating foam breaking away from the skin of the tanks and striking the shuttle itself, which was the apparent cause of the February 1, ...

  • Female suicide bomber injures 11 in Russian region of Dagestan

    MAKHACHKALA, Russia - A female suicide bomber injured at least 11 police officers and civilians, including two children, in the southern Russian region of Dagestan on Saturday, police said. Police spokesman Vyacheslav Gasanov said the bomber blew herself up in the central square in the provincial capital, Makhachkala. He did not give details about the injured children. Since 2000, at least two ...

  • Suicide bomber dies in blast in Afghan capital

    KABUL, Afghanistan-A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said. The apparent failed attack came a day after a major Taliban assault on an international compound in Kabul left 10 people dead including the six attackers. Another blast in the country's east killed 12 people at a mosque during ...

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