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Alien tells the story of a crew of space explorers whose return to earth is postponed when they receive an SOS signal from a nearby planet. Ordered to investigate, they discover a damaged spacecraft infested with thousands of alien eggs. When one of the eggs hatches and its man-eating inhabit arrives aboard the humans’ own ship, the crew endangered and a mutiny nearly breaks out when Lieutenant Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) tries to get the crew to leave, despite the new weaponry it is believed they might find...
Astrophysicists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) shut down instruments they maintain aboard NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft for several hours yesterday in order to avoid damage from the resulting radiation...
NASA is also making concerted efforts to prevent “forward contamination,” in which we would be the evil alien invaders who seed other planets with Earth bugs. NASA crashed the Galileo spacecraft into Jupiter last month in an effort to avoid the remote possibility that the spacecraft would one day smash into Europa and cause an unforgivable planetary pandemic on that watery moon. Three new spacecraft are headed for landings on Mars in the next couple of months, and their missions are all focused on the search for current life, past life and conditions conducive...
...true capitalist fashion, on how to exploit space travel for a quick buck. Stamps bearing the Shenzhou image have become collectors' items, and the Jianlibao company promotes its sports drinks with pictures of an astronaut. Several companies even applied to put their corporate logos on the side of the spacecraft for its first manned launch. Beijing declined, perhaps feeling that Shenzhou is its own best...
...tomorrow." Lieut. Colonel Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut, shortly before liftoff of the Shenzhou V spacecraft...