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NEWS ABOUT: spaceflight

spaceflight stories: 3 news summaries

 Mock Mars Mission Blasts Off 

Experimenters will spend 105 days locked in fake spaceship

Mar 31, 09 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Europe launched its first shot at a manned mission to the Red Planet today—by locking six scientists in a tiny capsule in Moscow for 105 days to simulate the voyage, the BBC reports. The volunteers, who can leave the experiment but score $20000 if they make it, will perform... More »

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Russia • Mars • Moscow • astronauts • experiments • spaceflight • simulation

 Iran Aims to Put a Man in Space 

State also hopes to aid other Muslim countries via satellite program

Aug 21, 08 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran plans to send a manned mission into orbit within the next 10 years, the CBC reports. The news comes on the heels of a recent, and disputed, rocket launch the Iranians claim put a satellite, its first, into space. The country says its space presence would monitor weather and... More »

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Iran • astronauts • satellite • rocket • spaceflight • space program

Islamic Rituals Face a
Celestial Test

Scholars send astronaut aloft with guide to following Koran in orbit

Oct 10, 07 1:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - He wasn’t the first Muslim in space, but Malaysia's Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor will be the first to follow customized guidelines for religious observance in orbit, the Guardian reports. Praying toward Mecca and fasting between sunrise and sunset seemed impossible until scholars spent a year bringing the challenges down to... More »

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Islam • Mecca • Ramadan • spaceflight

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