Search results for ‘Atlantis’
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Discovery lands after final space mission
The world’s most travelled space shuttle, Discovery, successfully lands at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida following its 39th and final flight.
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Afghan leak: what is Wikileaks?
It’s behind the biggest leak of secret information since the Vietnam “Pentagon Papers” were made public nearly 40 years ago. But what is Wikileaks? Channel 4 News examines the whistleblowers’ website.
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Photos: travelling with an astronaut
Photographs of science correspondent Julian Rush, travelling with British astronaut Tim Peake to see the space shuttle Discovery launch. Pictures courtesy of their cameraman, Dai Baker. Lightning above the lauch pad postpones the Discovery’s first liftoff slot.
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Tiling tips from Nasa
I’m looking for someone to tile my bathroom; do you think I could get NASA to do the job? I’m standing underneath the belly of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in the Orbiter Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The urge to reach up and touch the hundreds of heat-streaked tiles on the…
