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| Life Out There | The Cost of Dreams: SETI Research Is Revived - Life Out There |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Operating on money and equipment scrounged from the public and from Silicon Valley millionaires, a band of astronomers recently restarted the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Extraterrestrial Life |
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| National Briefing | Science: Job Seekers Still Drawn to Space |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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The space shuttles are headed for museums, but NASA said Friday that more than 6,300 people responded to its latest call for would-be astronauts, the second highest in its history.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
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| Roger Boisjoly, 73, Dies; Warned of Shuttle Danger |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Mr. Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion, warning that if it was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle’s rocket boosters could fail.
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Author: By DOUGLAS MARTIN |
Category: Challenger (Space Shuttle) |
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Radiation Blamed in Doomed Space Mission |
(Wed, 01 Feb 2012)
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Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its mission to a moon of Mars, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings.
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Author: By REUTERS |
Category: Radiation |
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| Political Science | The Question of Space: For a Moon Colony, Technology Is the Easy Part |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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Could America build a lunar base during an eight-year Newt Gingrich presidency, as Mr. Gingrich promised this week? The obstacles would lie in money and politics.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Gingrich, Newt |
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| NASA Tackles Problem of Missing Moon Rocks |
(Thu, 02 Feb 2012)
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Hundreds of moon rocks and other stuff from space have been lost, destroyed, stolen or remain unaccounted for, according to inspectors.
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Author: By MANNY FERNANDEZ |
Category: Moon |
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| After Space Probe’s Failure, Russia Looks to U.S. Radar |
(Wed, 18 Jan 2012)
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Officials said on Tuesday that they were looking into whether powerful American radar systems might have caused the failure of a $170 million scientific probe headed toward Mars.
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Author: By GLENN KATES |
Category: Russia |
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| Russia’s Phobos-Grunt Mars Probe Crashes Into Pacific |
(Fri, 20 Jan 2012)
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The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft had stalled in Earth orbit shortly after its launch on Nov. 9, losing a few miles of altitude each day until it fell to Earth.
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Author: By ANDREW E. KRAMER |
Category: Space |
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| Observatory: Kepler Telescope Finds More Planets Orbiting Two Stars |
(Thu, 02 Feb 2012)
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The discovery, scientists say, suggests there are probably millions of these so-called circumbinary planets.
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Author: By SINDYA N. BHANOO |
Category: Stars and Galaxies |
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| A Push for Historic Preservation on the Moon |
(Tue, 31 Jan 2012)
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Some archaeologists and historians worry that the next generation to visit the moon might carelessly obliterate the site of one of humanity’s greatest accomplishments.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Apollo Project |
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| Russian Official Suggests Weapon Caused Spacecraft Failure |
(Wed, 11 Jan 2012)
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A scientific spacecraft whizzing out of control around the Earth may have failed because it was struck by some type of antisatellite weapon, the director of Russia’s space agency said.
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Author: By ANDREW E. KRAMER |
Category: Russia |
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| Spaceflights Get Ready to Board Business Class |
(Thu, 05 Jan 2012)
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The first excursions by new airlines that will take tourists out of Earth’s atmosphere are poised to take off in 2012.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Private Spaceflight |
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| Two NASA Spacecraft Set to Orbit the Moon |
(Sat, 07 Jan 2012)
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A pair of spacecraft arriving in orbit on Saturday and Sunday will map the moon’s gravitational field in order to get a clear picture of its interior.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Moon |
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| China Unveils Ambitious Plan to Explore Space |
(Fri, 30 Dec 2011)
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A five-year development timeline unveiled Thursday by the Chinese government could establish it as a major rival in space at a moment when the American program is in retreat.
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Author: By EDWARD WONG and KENNETH CHANG |
Category: China |
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| World Briefing | Europe: Soyuz Spacecraft Raises Doubts on Russian Space Program |
(Wed, 28 Dec 2011)
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Despite a successful trip to the International Space Station on Friday, an engine failure in a different version of the Soyuz rocket caused a satellite not to launch, raising further questions about the state of Russia’s space industry.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Category: Russia |
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| World Briefing | Science: Smooth Start to Latest Space Mission |
(Fri, 23 Dec 2011)
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A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Dutchman to the International Space Station blasted off from Russia’s launching facility in Kazakhstan on Wednesday.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Category: Soyuz Project |
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| NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft Discovers 2 Earth-Size Planets |
(Wed, 21 Dec 2011)
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The discovery of Kepler 20e and Kepler 20f may be an encouraging sign that planet hunters would someday succeed in finding other Earth-like planets.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Planets |
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| Boris Chertok, Russian Rocket Engineer, Dies at 99 |
(Thu, 15 Dec 2011)
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Mr. Chertok was a rocket engineer who played a central role in designing the navigation systems for Soviet spacecraft during the race to the moon, among them the one that carried the first human into space.
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Author: By DENNIS HEVESI |
Category: Chertok, Boris |
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| Paul Allen’s Plan: Airplanes as Launching Pads for Rockets |
(Wed, 14 Dec 2011)
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The huge plane, which could be ready in 2016, would dwarf today’s biggest airplane, first taking satellites and then, perhaps, people into orbit.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Rocket Science and Propulsion |
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| Observatory: Forecast for Sagittarius A* Black Hole: A Cold Gas Cloud |
(Thu, 29 Dec 2011)
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The tremendous gravity of the hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*, should accelerate and compress the gas, causing it to emit X-rays.
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Author: By RITCHIE S. KING |
Category: Stars and Galaxies |
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| Physicists Will Have to Wait a Little Longer for Higgs Boson |
(Wed, 14 Dec 2011)
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Two teams of scientists say they have recorded only hints of a subatomic particle, the Higgs boson, whose existence is a key to explaining why there is mass in the universe.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Science and Technology |
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| Joseph M. Chamberlain Dies at 88; Led Hayden and Adler Planetariums |
(Tue, 13 Dec 2011)
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Dr. Chamberlain spent nearly four decades leading planetariums in New York and Chicago into a new era of technology, instruction and visitor experience.
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Author: By DOUGLAS MARTIN |
Category: Chamberlain, Joseph M. |
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| Astronomers Find Biggest Black Holes Yet |
(Tue, 06 Dec 2011)
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Cosmologists have measured the biggest black holes ever found, work that could shed light on the formation and evolution of galaxies.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Black Holes (Space) |
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| Search Resumes for Evidence of Life Out There |
(Tue, 06 Dec 2011)
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An effort to find radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations starts anew using an innovative set of radio telescopes.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Extraterrestrial Life |
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| Life Out There: Scientists Are Hot on Trail of Exoplanets Suitable for Life |
(Sun, 11 Dec 2011)
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Scientists say they are closing in on finding distant worlds in the habitable zones of their stars.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Planets |
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| NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sets Off for Mars Mission |
(Fri, 02 Dec 2011)
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The one-ton Curiosity is a mobile, nuclear-powered laboratory holding 10 scientific instruments that will sample Martian soil and rocks.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
Category: Curiosity (Mars Rover) |
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| Life Out There: Aboard Mars Curiosity Rover, Tools to Plumb a Methane Mystery |
(Wed, 23 Nov 2011)
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The Mars Science Laboratory, to be launched on Saturday, will seek to confirm claims that the Martian atmosphere contains methane, one of the building blocks of life.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Mars (Planet) |
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| Soyuz With 3 Astronauts Lands in Kazakhstan |
(Tue, 22 Nov 2011)
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Astronauts from the United States, Russia and Japan touched down safely in the snow-covered steppes of Kazakhstan early Tuesday morning.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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| Neutrino Finding Is Repeated in Second Experiment, Opera Scientists Say |
(Tue, 22 Nov 2011)
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Physicists in a group known as Opera say a second experiment has confirmed their first results and eliminated a leading criticism of their first experiment, which elicited wide disbelief.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: Neutrinos |
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| On View: ‘Beyond Planet Earth’ - Museum Review - Oh, the Places We Could Go |
(Tue, 15 Nov 2011)
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The exhibition “Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration” opens Saturday at the American Museum of Natural History.
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Author: By DENNIS OVERBYE |
Category: American Museum of Natural History |
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| Russian Rocket Gives NASA a Lift to Space Station |
(Thu, 17 Nov 2011)
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A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from Kazakhstan on Monday morning, beginning a two-day trip to ferry three astronauts to the International Space Station.
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Author: By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN |
Category: Space |
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| NASA and Russia Begin New Chapter in Space |
(Fri, 18 Nov 2011)
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The flight of a Russian spacecraft with an American astronaut opened a new chapter for NASA, which is turning to foreign governments and commercial enterprises for space transportation.
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Author: By KENNETH CHANG |
Category: Space |
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Hopes for Space Probe Fade |
(Fri, 11 Nov 2011)
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Hopes of salvaging an ambitious unmanned mission to Mars dwindled on Thursday, with Russian scientists failing to make contact with a multimillion dollar space probe that stalled in a low-earth orbit.
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Author: By MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ |
Category: Russia |
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| Russia Fights to Save Mars Probe After Launch Mishap |
(Thu, 10 Nov 2011)
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If space engineers cannot save it, the probe, which is loaded with toxic fuel, could re-enter the atmosphere within days or weeks.
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Author: By HENRY FOUNTAIN |
Category: Mars (Planet) |
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| World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Probe to a Martian Moon Malfunctions Shortly After Launch |
(Fri, 11 Nov 2011)
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Russia’s first effort at an interplanetary mission in more than two decades went awry on Wednesday when an unmanned spacecraft failed to take the proper course toward Mars after its launch
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Author: By REUTERS |
Category: Space |
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| China’s Space Program Bolstered by First Docking |
(Mon, 14 Nov 2011)
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A pair of Chinese spacecraft coupled and brought the country one step closer to its four-decade question for manned space exploration.
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Author: By ANDREW JACOBS |
Category: Space |
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| Huge Asteroid Swings Close to Earth |
(Wed, 09 Nov 2011)
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An asteroid as big as an aircraft carrier zipped by Earth on Tuesday in the closest known encounter by such a massive space rock in more than three decades. Scientists ruled out any chance of a collision.
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Author: By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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| Q & A: What Will Happen to the Planets as the Sun Dies? |
(Fri, 03 Feb 2012)
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As our Sun dies, what will happen to Earth and the other planets?
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Author: By C. CLAIBORNE RAY |
Category: Sun |
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| Essay: With Chocolate at Stake, Physicists Bet on Whether the Higgs Boson Will Be Found |
(Tue, 29 Nov 2011)
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In a castle in Sweden, two of the world’s leading particle physicists made a bet about an elusive, long-sought and much-theorized particle.
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Author: By ROBERT GARISTO |
Category: Physics |
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| Opinion: Planets in the Sky With Diamonds |
(Mon, 03 Oct 2011)
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The past month has brought one marvel after another. It’s tantalizing. There could be life out there.
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Author: By DIANE ACKERMAN |
Category: Extraterrestrial Life |
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| Where No Museum Has Gone Before |
(Tue, 15 Nov 2011)
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A sneak peek at the exhibition “Beyond Planet Earth: The Future of Space Exploration,” which opens Saturday at the American Museum of Natural History.
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| Endeavour’s Final Flight |
(Fri, 22 Jul 2011)
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On May 16, the shuttle Endeavour rose slowly on a pillar of fire, picking up speed and eventually disappearing from view as it stabbed through a layer of clouds on its way to orbit.
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| A Shuttle Town’s Glory Days |
(Tue, 10 May 2011)
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The launching of the space shuttle Endeavor is expected to be one of the biggest ever, jamming the roads in Titusville, Cape Canaveral and other nearby Florida towns.
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| The First Close-Ups of Mercury |
(Wed, 30 Mar 2011)
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NASA’s Messenger spacecraft sent back the first of what is expected to be 75,000 photographs during a yearlong investigation of Mercury.
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| An Inflatable Space Station |
(Mon, 07 Jun 2010)
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In four years, a small company called Bigelow Aerospace is to launch a private space station that will be leased to governments, companies and perhaps space tourists.
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