The seemingly humble flying-shuttle loom, originally built to make the weaving of wide cloth faster and easier, stood at the threshold between the largely handcrafted world of the past and the ...

NASA managers are providing a sneak preview of the final space shuttle mission during a series of briefings today at Johnson Space Center in Houston, but they're also previewing how the space agency ...

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At the instant of a fiery liftoff, an array of finger-size explosives is supposed to shatter the steel nuts that anchor a space shuttle to its launchpad.But for shuttle Atlantis, something went very ...

CAPE CANAVERAL (CBS4)-For the last time a United States space shuttle undocked from the International Space Station. As the shuttle pulled away, the docking port grew dimmer and fuzzier in the ...

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Amid the clatter, Daniel Meadows spent the late 1970s shooting the boiler rooms, weaving sheds and ‘mee-mawing’ workers of an industry that has since vanished Weavers communicated over the noise using ...

An indefinite strike by 200,000 power-loom operators in the Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has paralysed the transformation of yarn into cloth in one of ...

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