Jun 16, 2012 US_Shenzhou space flight is'big test' for China – journalist China is gearing up to launch its first female astronaut into space on Saturday. The Shenzhou 9 crew comprising three astronauts will dock with the Tiangong 1 space station, a prototype module that has been in orbit since September 2011. Tariq Malik, Managing Editor of Space.com, says the flight is a major step for the Chinese space program. Continue reading
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Space freighter starts suicide plunge: ESA
NASA image shows the International Space Station in 2005. A bus-sized craft that had delivered food to the International Space Station will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere overnight for a controlled implosion over the South Pacific, the European Space Agency said Tuesday. A bus-sized craft that had delivered food to the International Space Station will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere overnight for a controlled implosion over the South Pacific, the European Space Agency said Tuesday Continue reading
Asylum seekers reach Cocos Islands
A group of 63 asylum seekers, including four who swam ashore, have joined another group on the Cocos Islands awaiting transfer to detention on Christmas Island. Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said the asylum seekers who made it to shore were detained on their arrival. “An additional four people left the vessel and swam to shore, where they were detained by waiting Customs and Border Protection and Australian Federal Police officers,” Mr Clare said in a statement Continue reading
Asylum seekers swim ashore at Cocos Islands
A boat carrying 69 asylum seekers is believed to have arrived undetected at the Cocos Islands. Local resident Jack O’Donnell, who has a beachfront house, says he spotted the boat just after 8:00 am local time, about 200 metres offshore. Continue reading
Smugglers open passage to Cocos
The Cocos Islands cluster lies a little under halfway between Australia and Sri Lanka. THE remote Cocos Islands are being targeted as an asylum destination, with Sri Lanka’s top envoy to Australia confirming his government stopped a boat carrying 113 people departing the Indian Ocean nation Continue reading
Health care a top issue for businesses in New Hampshire
Health care tops the concerns of New Hampshire businesses and influences whether some businesses locate here, according a state business group. More than three of five businesses surveyed last October cited health care as a top concern, the highest of any issue, according to David Juvet, senior vice president of the Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire. Group President Jim Roche said health care costs are becoming an increasingly important factor in business relocation and expansion in New Hampshire Continue reading