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...Beijing olympics, China proved it was best in the world at coming in first by dominating the gold-medal count. On Sept. 27 the country showed it can also be very happy with bronze. Forty-three years after cosmonaut Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes outside an orbiting spacecraft, China became the third nation after the former Soviet Union and the U.S. to conduct a spacewalk...
...that reason, the Manned Spacecraft Center - better known to the public as Mission Control and now formally renamed the Johnson Space Center - was built in Houston. The port city quickly became a space city, bringing in lots of people, jobs and notoriety. Ultimately, Houstonians would live to see the name of their town become the first word in two of the most evocative quotes of the space age: "Houston, Tranquillity Base here, the Eagle has landed," and "Houston, we've had a problem...
...Beijing Olympics, China proved it was best in the world at coming in first. Now the country will show it can also be very happy with bronze. Later this week, 43 years after cosmonaut Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes outside an orbiting spacecraft, China plans to become the third nation after the Soviet Union and the U.S. to conduct its own spacewalk...
...Shenzhou VII is scheduled to launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in western Gansu province in prime time between 9:07p.m. and 10:27 p.m. The mission will be the country's first to carry three astronauts - or hangtianyuan, as they are called in Chinese - into orbit. The spacecraft, a modified version of the Russian Soyuz vessel, will carry a Russian and a Chinese-designed space suit. "This is big," says Joan Johnson-Freese, an expert on the Chinese space program at the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. "It's not easy to design a space suit...
...rate anywhere in the world. That has left much of Africa reliant on satellites for its Web access. But they are costly to use and offer limited capacity. O3b - short for the "other 3 billion" around the world who are unable to tap into the Web - plans to deploy spacecraft more cheaply by orbiting them at lower altitudes than traditional satellites. That should also speed up connections...