Welcome home, Jules Verne

After its successful six month mission as part of the International Space Station (ISS), the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne has fallen to earth like a spectacular firework, as it made a controlled...

NASA: ATV ready to dock with ISS: Minute by Minute coverage

NASA: ATV ready to dock with ISS: April 3, 2008Update 10:55 am"TOULOUSE, France, April 3 (UPI) -- The European Space Agency's Jules Verne automated transfer vehicle spacecraft was successfully docked Thursday...

The Times Starts its Top-50 Lists 11 Months Early

Every year the pundits say, "This'll be the biggest year for blah blah blah..." Inauspicious start, guys and gals, with the ultimate creators of these projects still on strike: anything not already in the can or in...

Ducasse Takes Cuisine to Eiffel Tower

Alain Ducasse has already taken haute cuisine to great heights, in menus for the Concorde jet and for astronauts. But opening a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower comes with its own challenges. Though only 410 feet up,...

Canadian marine scientists discover quirky creatures

Scientists say why explore outer space, when inner space is still relatively unknown?Now Public Readers interested in science may find this an interesting read, considering only 1% of our Worlds deep oceans have been...

Today in history - Nov. 14

"Today is Tuesday, Nov. 14, the 318th day of 2006. There are 47 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 14, 1889, inspired by Jules Verne, New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to travel around the world in less than 80 days....

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