Astronauts try to work out kinks in urine-to-water machine that will let station add more crew

Space & Science

• Astronauts prep for work on urine-recycling system

• At 10th anniversary, space station's future hangs in balance

• Mission mishap: Endeavour spacewalker drops bag of tools

• Clothes encounters: Endeavour mission's spacesuit technology

• Astronauts inspect shuttle Endeavour for damage

• Behind spacesuit technology stands astronaut's 'leap of faith'

• India celebrates planting its flag on moon as probe plummets to lunar surface

• Space shuttle Endeavour rockets into orbit on mission to space station

• NASA chief Michael Griffin wants to keep job under Obama

• NASA pressured to keep shuttles flying beyond 2010

• Phoenix lander dead on Mars after 5 months

• Axing shuttle won't end as many jobs as feared, NASA says

Science News From the Wire

• NASA trims flagship Mars mission; mega-rover to fly without storage box

• Invasive mussel confirmed in high-elevation lake in south central Utah

• Happy Birthday: 10 astronauts celebrate space station's 10th anniversary 220 miles above earth

• Study shows people are messier when they see others doing the same

• Herod's possible tomb had lavish paintings and regal mausoleum, Israeli archaeologists say

• Scientists map woolly mammoth's DNA, bringing 'Jurassic Park' step closer to reality

• Learning the name of a color changes the part of the brain that handles color perception

• Oops! Spacewalking astronauts sometimes lose grip, drop items that float away in space

• Aussie scientists unravel kangaroo's DNA, find out 'Matilda' more like humans than thought

• Stone-age graves yield clues to ancient family relationships, marriage patterns

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