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Space agency satellites to monitor climate change
January 18th, 2008
Space agencies including NASA have agreed to use their next generation of satellites to help monitor climate change, the United Nations weather agency said.
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Global warming rapidly progresses
December 13th, 2007
Scientists say that this summer’s accelerated Arctic ice melt could be a sign that global warming has passed the tipping point
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NASA Scrambles to Plan Spacewalk
November 1st, 2007
NASA worked Thursday to plan a spacewalk to fix the ripped solar wing at the international space station. They wanted the spacewalk to be on Friday but had to push back the outing to Saturday.
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Astronauts install solar unit on space station
October 30th, 2007
Astronauts made a tricky job look easy Tuesday when they used a robot arm to latch a 17.5 ton solar power girder to its new home at the end of the International Space Station.
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