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11/22/2008
Space Station?s Purification System for Fluids Fails (New York Times)
The new $250 million system for the International Space Station to turn urine, sweat and other fluids into drinking water is off to a shaky start.
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11/21/2008
New space water recycling system has hiccups (AP via Yahoo! News)
NASA's revolutionary new space water recycling system is having serious hiccups.
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11/21/2008
NASA's space water recycling system has hiccups (AP via Yahoo! News)
NASA's revolutionary new space water recycling system is having serious hiccups. The $154 million device for turning astronauts' urine and sweat into drinking water aboard the international space station shut down again Friday, and engineers on the ground were scrambling to figure out what was wrong.
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11/21/2008
Would-be Japanese space tourist wants $21M back (AP via Yahoo! News)
Japanese millionaire Daisuke Enomoto had planned to dress up as his favorite cartoon character in outer space and spent $21 million to make it happen. Now he claims the company that was supposed make his dream come true brushed him aside with little more than a "sorry, no refunds."
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11/22/2008
Space station's new urine recycler has glitches (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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.
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11/21/2008
Space station's new urine recycler has glitches (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
NASA is experiencing problems with a $250 million machine for recycling urine and other wastewater into drinking water for astronauts, the U.S. space agency said on Friday.
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11/21/2008
Spider Success! Weightless Webs Spun in Space (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
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.
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11/21/2008
Shuttle gives space station a mile-high boost (AP via Yahoo! News)
Space shuttle Endeavour provided an orbital lift to the attached international space station on Friday as the astronauts encountered more problems with a new water recycling system.
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11/21/2008
European to become commander of space station in 2009 (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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.
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11/21/2008
Spiders get their space legs (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Spiders flying as an educational project aboard the International Space Station seem to have gotten the hang of weightlessness.
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