China Launches Longest Manned Mission to Tiangong-2 -- Permanent Space Station Soon a Reality? and other top stories.

• China Launches Longest Manned Mission to Tiangong-2 -- Permanent Space Station Soon a Reality?

  

  Oct 18, 2016 04:39 AM EDT China is serious about becoming the next space giant. The Chinese Space Agency recently launched a manned spacecraft bound for its experimental space lab module Tiangong-2. Two astronauts aboard the manned spacecraft will remain in space for a total of 30 days. This crewed mission is in preparation for China's new space station that will be operational in the next few years. Two astronauts were sent to space aboard the Shenzhou 11 on a Long March-2F rocket from the J..

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• The amazing sweating robot

  

  At 5 1/2 feet tall, its face fixed between a grin and a grimace, the humanoid robot Kengoro is something of a synthetic Arnold Schwarzenegger. That is not to say the machine, created by the University of Tokyo’s JSK laboratory, is a recursive time-traveling assassin. Rather, Kengoro is a sweaty beefcake among metal bipeds. The average two-legged machine does not have Kengoro’s stamina. For a svelte robot, Kengoro is strong, powered by 108 motors. Thanks to this large number of motors plus a u..

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• Why tomatoes lose flavor in fridge: their genes chill out

  

  This Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015 photo shows a variety of miniature tomatoes displayed for sale at a farmers market in Falls Church, Va. Cooling tomatoes below 54 degrees stops them from making some of the substances that contribute to their …more. If you ...

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• Private US Rocket Launches On Resupply Mission To ISS

  

  A private U.S. company has launched a rocket carrying supplies for the International Space Station, two years after an explosion destroyed the company's launch facility. The blastoff occurred on an island off the coast of the U.S. state of Virginia, unlike most U.S. rocket launches, which occur at NASA's famed Cape Canaveral facilities in Florida. Its first stage manufactured in Ukraine, and powered by Russian-built engines, Orbital ATK's Antares rocket is carrying 5,000 pounds of supplies tha..

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• Orbital ATK's Antares Rocket Returns to Flight with Gorgeous Night Cargo Launch

  

  WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. — We have liftoff! For the first time in two years, an Orbital ATK Antares rocket has successfully launched into space, departing NASA's Wallops Flight Facility here this evening (Oct. 17) on a mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station (ISS). The upgraded Antares rocket soared into the night sky at 7:45 p.m. EDT (2345 GMT) today, topped with Orbital ATK's uncrewed Cygnus cargo capsule. Millions of observers along the U.S. East Coast had the oppo..

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