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[ad_1] Russia suspended all launches after the accident on October 11, unprecedented for Russia’s post-Soviet manned launches, that saw the rocket fail minutes after blast-off Russia on Wednesday said the first manned …
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[ad_1] New Vanderbilt research finds how long humans and other warm-blooded animals live–and when they reach sexual maturity– may have more to do with their brain than their body. More specifically, it …
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[ad_1] ESO's exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added more evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the center of the Milky Way. New observations show clumps of …
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[ad_1] Experts at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan will dismantle the four boosters of the Soyuz-FG aircraft launch rocket, which is scheduled for launch in November, and will inspect them again …
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