CAPE CANAVERAL: Astronauts John Grunsfeld and Drew Feustel will exit the space Shuttle Atlantis Thursday morning for the first of five space walks to upgrade Hubble. Astronauts will replace the telescope's 15-year-old workhorse camera with one that sees deeper into the universe. The new camera is the size of a baby grand piano. The old camera will be displayed at the Smithsonian Institution.This space walk should take about six-and-a-half hours and includes replacing a computer data device that broke down last year. Atlantis grabbed Hubble Wednesday and shuttle commander Scott Altman said the two spacewalkers were ``salivating over the telescope.''
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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