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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Afghanistan Sun.com http://www.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:18:12 -0500 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:18:12 -0500 30 Washington, Nov 22 : A new research has challenged the existing theory about the formation of galaxies like out own Milky Way. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/433273/cs/1/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:00:27 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/433273/cs/1/ Paris, Nov 22 : Scientists have used the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Mars Express to produce the first crude map of aurorae on Mars, which are a powerful tool with which scientists can investigate the composition and structure of the Red Planet's atmosphere. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/433257/cs/1/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:00:37 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/433257/cs/1/ Washington, Nov 21 : A geologist is using thermal infrared technology and data from NASA and weather satellites to determine when and how violently volcanoes will erupt, a research that will help to save lives. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/432951/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:01:25 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/432951/cs/1/ London, Nov.21 : Ecologists, academics, scientists and religious leaders from around the world will gather in London next week. Their aim will be to prevent the destruction of the Gulf of Mannar, one of the last remaining intact ecosystems on earth and home to the famous Ram Sethu or Adam's Bridge, a site sacred to one billion Hindus worldwide. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/433042/cs/1/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:00:31 -0500 Afghanistan Sun.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/433042/cs/1/ In this image from NASA TV, mission specialists Shane Kimbrough, left, and Steve Bowen prepare their space suits on the International Space Station, Friday, Nov. 21, 2009, in preparation for Saturday'... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19766009/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:48:20 -0500 The Ledger http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19766009/ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gum... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19766373/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:41:19 -0500 The Miami Herald http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19766373/ HOUSTON — Astronauts vowed to double-check, even triple-check, to make sure a bag of tools is properly tied down during a spacewalk today so it doesn't float away like one did earlier this week.... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19767671/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:08:22 -0500 Pioneer Press http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19767671/ WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi will launch into space on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in December next year and return to the Earth in May 2010 after completin... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19766531/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:47:42 -0500 Breitbart http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19766531/ LOS ANGELES: NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mis... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19765358/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:12:16 -0500 Times of India http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19765358/ LOS ANGELES: NASA is scrapping a controversial piece of hardware from its next-generation Mars rover that would have allowed the spacecraft to store rock fragments in a mini-basket for a future mis... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19763242/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:47:32 -0500 Times of India http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19763242/ Nasa is having problems with a $250 million system it just delivered to the International Space Station to recycle urine and other wastewater into drinking water for astronauts. But the glitches we... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19758511/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:08:19 -0500 One News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19758511/ black hole nestled in the center of a distant galaxy controls its own growth and the growth of surrounding stars by pumping out energy at regular intervals, a new study says. "It looks like a beati... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19760692/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:59:37 -0500 National Geographic News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19760692/ Britain may be scorned for refusing to send humans into space, but from next week it will have the next best thing: its own university course on how to be an astronaut.Staff at Leicester University ha... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19758760/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:15:56 -0500 The Guardian http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19758760/ When the Constellation Program is completed, we'll have a brand new generation of rocket design (Ares) and a hi-tech space ship (Orion). It only seems fair that we should also have a new kind of ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19760780/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:54:38 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19760780/ NASA's plans to service Hubble Space Telescope suffer another setback Ground testing of a critical replacement computer taking longer than expected "Delivery in April to support a May launch,&quo... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756987/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:06:03 -0500 CNN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756987/ Space Shuttle Endeavour will head to international space station on November 14 Endeavour to deliver supplies for future expansion of space station crew Hubble repair mission delayed until next spring... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756988/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:06:01 -0500 CNN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756988/ Posted on: Friday, 21 November 2008, 13:16 CST NASA, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and their international partners cut the ribbon Friday in Nairobi, Kenya, for SERVIR-Afric... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19753103/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:29:29 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19753103/ In the project, sponsored by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, a recorded video therapist guides astronauts through a widely used depression therapy called "problem-solving treatm... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756989/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:05:52 -0500 CNN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756989/ Astronomers have new images of four likely planets outside Earth's solar system Images were recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope and a telescope in Hawaii The planets are probably too faint to detec... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756960/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:06:07 -0500 CNN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756960/ Images of the meteor. Credit: SpaceWeather.com A bright fireball lit up the sky over parts of Canada and was probably a meteor which may have hit the ground in central Alberta. Reports from all over w... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756991/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:56:16 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756991/ Houston: Astronauts at the International Space Station prepared to work on a urine-recycling contraption and to re-fire the space shuttle's thrusters on Friday, before enjoying a half-day off to reboo... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19753079/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:49:15 -0500 Gulf News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19753079/ NASA: Onset of the Martian winter means Phoenix Mars Lander's days are numbered Solar-powered spacecraft has suspended operations due to low fuel With no sunlight reaching the solar panels during the ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19755142/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:05:58 -0500 CNN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19755142/ Unmanned Indian probe lands succesfully on the moon Friday Probe hit the moon at a speed of 5760 kilometers per hour Two-year mission seeks high-resolution, 3-D imaging of the moon's surface Probe wil... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19753898/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:06:09 -0500 CNN http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19753898/ If you wanted close-up photos of the moon in the late 1800s, you were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of lunar craters and then snapped careful... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19751632/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:47:10 -0500 Wired News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19751632/ — In announcing the 2008-2009 U.S. Winter Outlook for meteorological winter from December through February, forecasters at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center are calling for warmer-than-normal te... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756965/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:40:41 -0500 Science Daily http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756965/ — The bright pinwheels and broad star sweeps iconic of disk galaxies such as the Milky Way might all be the shrapnel from massive, violent collisions with other galaxies and galaxy-size chunks of... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756969/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:40:39 -0500 Science Daily http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19756969/ The International Space Station (ISS) next year will be commanded for the first time by a European, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced here on Friday. Belgian astronaut Frank de Winne will be t... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19753351/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:21:07 -0500 Breitbart http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19753351/ NASA's Dawn spacecraft shut down its ion propulsion system yesterday as scheduled, NASA announced. The spacecraft is now gliding toward a Mars flyby in February. Then it will sail on to the http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750614/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:23:00 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750614/ has encountered its first glitch, mission managers said late Thursday. Astronauts were stymied when they attempted to run the first batch of urine through station's new Water Recovery System... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750626/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:45 -0500 Yahoo http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750626/ Quantum fluctuations in space, science, exploration and other cosmic fields... served up regularly by MSNBC.com science editor Alan Boyle since 2002. Alan Boyle covers the physical sciences, anthro... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19746008/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:17:37 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19746008/ In this handout from NASA, the Space Shuttle Endeavour approaches the International Space Station before docking with the International Space Station while in orbit November 16, 2008. The shuttle's 15... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750627/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:06 -0500 Fox 23 http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750627/ Mortal Kombat has never been about realism, so a tie-in with DC's stable of superhero cut-outs makes perfect sense. What we get are fighters from the two camps, with the likes of Sub Zero and Shao Kah... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750619/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:12:04 -0500 The Guardian http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750619/ A constellation of Indian stars will come out for the upcoming Live Earth India concert next month, joined by a handful of international celebrities also set to take the stage at the eco-minded fundra... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19744857/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:55:06 -0500 CBC News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19744857/ Dawn mission banner. Credit: NASA/JPL The Dawn spacecraft's three ion engines have done their work for now, and mission engineers shut down the frugal but powerful ion propulsion system on Thursd... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750635/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:40 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750635/ Earth -Sun distance, and it's likely a giant planet that astronomers suspected was there from the peculiar shape of the disc that surrounds the star. If the object is actually a planet, this woul... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750634/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:42 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750634/ in their lab enclosure during their first days in weightlessness. But now they've taken another stab at weightless web construction. "We noticed the spiders' made http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750624/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:56:49 -0500 Yahoo http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750624/ and vast oceans . However, at some point in its evolution, the planet seemed to leak the majority of its atmospheric gases into space, and its oceans evaporated (or froze and then sublimated, dependin... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750636/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:39 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750636/ Betelgeuse creates a bow shock as it travels through the interstellar medium, just like a ship traveling trough water. Image Credit: ESA You may be familiar with Betelgeuse, as it is the upper-left st... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750637/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:39 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750637/ Flames shot more than 100 feet high in a successful 5.5-second ground test firing Nov. 20, of a launch abort motor for NASA's next generation spacecraft, the Orion crew exploration vehicle. Credit: NA... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750630/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:48:06 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750630/ If promises such as 'zero-to-60 in less than 10 seconds' get your adrenaline rushing, then consider this. Shaking up the midday somnolence of delegates at the HT Leadership Summit was a man who has zi... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19746476/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:19:00 -0500 Hindustan Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19746476/ Look to the southwest after sunset on Dec. 1 for a close conjunction between three bright solar system objects: the Moon, Venus, and Jupiter. If you have binoculars, you might even be able to fit all ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750628/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:48:10 -0500 Space.com http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750628/ Perspective view of a mountain in the eastern Hellas region of Mars surrounded by a deposit that scientists think are debris-covered glaciers. Image is 20 miles (31 km) across. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750618/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:17:40 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750618/ Actors Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart arrive at Summit Entertainment's 'Twilight' World Premiere at Mann Village on November 17, 2008 in Westwood, California. (Alexandra Wyman/WireImage/Getty Im... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750638/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:42:06 -0500 ABC News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750638/ In this image from NASA TV, mission specialist Sane Kimbrough is seen in the lower part of the photo during a space walk on the International Space Station on Thursday. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750620/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:09:52 -0500 eTaiwan News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750620/ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The astronaut who lost her tool bag on a spacewalk admitted Wednesday that she made a mistake by not checking to see if the sack was tied down, and said she's still smarting ov... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750639/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:15:09 -0500 Daily Herald http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750639/ Shuttle Endeavour astronauts working outside the orbiting International Space Station faced glitches during a second spacewalk on Thursday, as one astronaut experienced high carbon-dioxide levels. Le... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750631/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:47:24 -0500 New Scientist http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750631/ These are tough economic times for almost everyone, including those of us interested in doing a little backyard astronomy. Even if you're a casual astronomer or have never done much observing, ga... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750633/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:44:44 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750633/ November 21, 2008 · The Mars Phoenix Lander hasn't transmitted a signal since Nov. 2. With a cold polar winter approaching and declining light levels, the Lander appears to be gone for good. Ir... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19748400/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:19:15 -0500 NPR http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19748400/ NASA announced late Thursday that it has discovered vast glaciers hidden under rubble. One glacier is three times the size of the city of Los Angeles and up to a half-mile thick, according to an al... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750621/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:07:28 -0500 Computerworld http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750621/ — Scientists using ESA’s Mars Express have produced the first crude map of aurorae on Mars. These displays of ultraviolet light appear to be located close to the residual magnetic fields ge... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750592/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:25:56 -0500 Science Daily http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750592/ Two plucky spiders on the international space station have bounced back from a tangled false start to weave amazing new webs in zero gravity, astronauts said Friday. http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750617/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:17:42 -0500 MSNBC http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750617/ As the government reviews its opposition to human spaceflight, a new course at the university will teach budding astronauts the basics of living and working in space http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750567/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 14:11:43 -0500 The Guardian http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19750567/ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Spacewalking astronauts performed more repair work on a jammed joint at the international space station yesterday, keeping a tight grip on all their tools so nothing would get a... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19742581/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:28:24 -0500 Boston Globe http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19742581/ Washington, Nov 21 : Astronomers, using NASA's Hubble space telescope, have resolved a long standing puzzle about why a small, nearby, isolated galaxy is pumping out new stars faster than any galaxy i... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19738428/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:06:34 -0500 New Kerala http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19738428/ It looks like Julianne Hough is hanging up her dancing shoes, at least for now. The two-time champ says she wants to concentrate on her country music career. The Las Vegas native made the announcement... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19738429/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:03:28 -0500 KTNV http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19738429/ Repeated attacks from abroad on NASA computers and Web sites are causing consternation among officials and stirring national security concerns http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19738433/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:45:04 -0500 Business Week http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19738433/ CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Spacewalking astronauts performed more repair work on a jammed joint at the international space station on Thursday, keeping a tight grip on all their tools so nothing woul... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19738435/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:33:01 -0500 Deseret News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19738435/ WASHINGTON, November 21 (RIA Novosti) - Two U.S. astronauts completed without mishap on Thursday a 6 1/2 hour spacewalk to perform maintenance on the International Space Station, NASA Mission Control ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19736522/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:56:26 -0500 Russian Information Agency http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19736522/ VT iDirect has announced that Gateway Communications, the largest independent provider of carrier and business network solutions in Africa, will implement a pan-African DVB-S2/ACM satellite network bu... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19732262/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:12:17 -0500 Space Daily http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19732262/ Washington - Astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour on Thursday completed a second spacewalk on their construction mission to the International Space Station, which was marking its 10th anniversa... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734491/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:02:10 -0500 Earth Times http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734491/ Registration is open for NASA's 16th annual Great Moonbuggy Race, taking place April 3-4, 2009, in Huntsville, Ala. Each year, NASA challenges high schools and colleges across the country and the worl... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734488/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:12:18 -0500 Space Daily http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734488/ The explosion of a binary star inside a planetary nebula has been captured by a team led by UCL (University College London) researchers - an event that has not been witnessed for more than 100 years. ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734487/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:12:19 -0500 Space Daily http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734487/ This is what Copernicus looked like, based on forensic reconstruction from his skull. Image credit: The Kronenberg Foundation The rightful place of the man who put the http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734496/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:43:44 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734496/ battered by the combined solar panel-coated dust layer plus dust storm , nearly draining its batteries (as can be seen in the comparison above, after two years on the http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734497/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:43:43 -0500 Universe Today http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734497/ ' }, { url: 'http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2008/11/18/image4614797g.jpg', alt: 'Space Shuttle Endeavour', text: 'Crew members from Space Shuttle Endeavour embark on a spacewalk for an unprec... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734498/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:41:35 -0500 CBS News http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19734498/ Three-dimensional films, once blamed for making audiences nauseous, are making a comeback and are likely to become the future of cinema thanks to digital technology, Hollywood studio moguls say. The ... http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19731967/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:12:17 -0500 Space Daily http://story.afghanistansun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/19731967/