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Daily News: Reuters Science News Headlines - Russian-American crew taking short cut to space station

Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 10:24 PM PDT

Russian-American crew taking short cut to space station 
Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 10:24 PM PDT
The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew blasts off from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodromeBy Steve Gutterman and Irene Klotz MOSCOW/CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut took a short cut to the International Space Station on Thursday, arriving at the orbital outpost less than six hours after their Soyuz capsule blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The express route, used for the first time to fly a crew to the station, shaved about 45 hours off the usual ride, allowing NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin to get a jumpstart on their planned 5.5-month mission. ...
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Solar plane to set out to cross U.S. in early May 
Thursday, Mar 28, 2013 02:31 PM PDT
A man walks below a wing on the Solar Impulse at Moffett Field in Mountain ViewBy Braden Reddall MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) - The first crossing of the United States by a solar-powered plane is expected to start in just over a month, its creators said on Thursday, as they make final preparations for an attempt two years from now at the first round-the-world flight without any fuel. Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard and project co-founder and pilot Andre Borschberg, whose Solar Impulse made its first intercontinental flight from Spain to Morocco last June, aim for their plane to take off from near San Francisco in early May and land at New York's John F. ...
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