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Astronaut counts down to daughter's birth (AFP)

AFP - NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik entered an unusual space countdown on Friday as he waited onboard the International Space Station for the birth of his daughter back on Earth.

Astronauts Unfazed by False Alarms in Space (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronauts on the linked shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station said Friday that they're not worried about recent false alarms that disrupted their sleep with erroneous reports of calamity.

Key Parts Returned from Hubble Telescope Now on Display at Smithsonian (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - The camera that captured many of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" that focused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted Wednesday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. along with the first phase of a new interactive gallery devoted to humans living and working in space.

Stuck Mars Rover Finally Budges, a Little (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA's stuck Mars rover Spirit took a tiny step Thursday, its first progress in months, during the latest attempt to extricate the robot from deep Martian sand.

Maine Engineer Wins $250,000 in NASA Space Glove Contest (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - An aerospace engineer from Maine, the reigning champion of NASA's Astronaut Glove Challenge, held onto his title Thursday to win first prize in a competition to build a better space glove than those worn by astronauts today.

Giant Cannibal Galaxy's Last Meal (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - New images show the "last meal" of a giant cannibal galaxy as it gobbles down a smaller spiral galaxy, which has been twisted and warped from being devoured.

Astronaut in space while wife giving birth (Reuters)

Reuters - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik can be forgiven if he's having a tough time focusing on work -- his wife is due to give birth on Friday to a baby girl.

Cosmonaut says Russia falling behind in space race (AP)

AP - Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and will likely fall behind in the space race, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday.

Astronaut Stuck in Space for Daughter's Birth (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - It may be the mother lode of all bad timing: Atlantis shuttle astronaut Randy Bresnik is stuck at the International Space Station, hundreds of miles from his pregnant wife Rebecca, who is expected to give birth to a baby girl as early as today.

Dark Energy Search Could Aid Planet Hunters (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Dark energy isn't good for life in the universe. This mysterious substance, which cosmologists believe makes up around 70 percent of the universe, may eventually pull apart galaxies, then stars and planets, and finally atoms and molecules, in what some call the Big Rip.

Ask AP: Shuttle complexity, credit union agency (AP)

AP - A space shuttle is no tinker toy. But is it the most complex machine ever built?

Astronaut in space while wife giving birth

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik can be forgiven if he's having a tough time focusing on work -- his wife is due to give birth on Friday to a baby girl.