Astronauts trying to bring device back from dead

Astronauts trying to bring device back from dead

Atlantis' astronauts suited up Sunday for their second in-orbit repair of a dead science instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope in as many days. This time, Michael Massimino and Michael Good were going to venture out of space shuttle Atlantis to try to fix a long-dead spectrograph. The day befo

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Major work on 'Big Bang' completed

Major work on ‘Big Bang’ completed

Engineers have finished the major work of fixing the broken "Big Bang" machine, the largest scientific instrument ever built. The last of 53 replacement magnets for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been lowered into the 16-mile tunnel straddling the Swiss-French border which houses the mac

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