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The first launch of a private rocket that could one day make space travel commonplace, successfully launched from Cape Canaveral on Friday. This is the first non-government funded launch of a rocket.
The 180-foot rocket put a model of its Dragon capsule into orbit about 160 miles up, setting the stage for possible flights to [...]

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If you could think of anything you would never volunteer for would this rank up there in the top 5? I think it would for me. These 6 men are going to be isolated for 520 days while they act as if they are on a trip to Mars.
Unlike a real trip to the Red [...]

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I’m sure you remember all the talk that stemmed from President Reagan’s administration about “Star Wars”. The name has changed, but space weapon research is still quite heavily funded. Space.com has a good article about some of the more recent weapon/vehicle testing that has been done in space here.
Interestingly enough, I see this article [...]

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Last week I mentioned the retirement of the Shuttle program was scheduled this year, but might not make it. Originally schedule to have the last flight on October1, it has been pushed back to November so scientists can adapt a $2 billion particle detector for an extended life aboard the International Space Station, officials said [...]

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A new $1 billion telescope project is expected to be built in Chile’s northern desert. The 42-meter European Extremely Large Telescope (sounds like an

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Reading some headlines today about the

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Yesterday, President Obama outlined NASA’s new path during a visit to the Kennedy Space Center. Not only did he mention flying beyond the moon, but actually landing on an asteroid.
“By 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space,” [...]

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Even after the U.S. Budget slashed the part that committed sending men back to the moon for 2011, President Obama maintained that his commitment to NASA was unwavering Wednesday.
“My commitment to NASA is unwavering,” Obama said on a video-conference with astronauts aboard the International Space Station. Speaking from the White House, Obama called the [...]

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The world of technology isn’t just for entertainment purposes. We can use it in any way possible. It helps with so many rescue efforts these days that it is probably not all that newsworthy when something like satellites is linked to helping relief efforts after disasters such as Haiti. Of course it is still interesting [...]

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Astronomers have observed that a star is no more. What they observed is that it didn’t die an ordinary death. New results from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes (their stellar security cameras)suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the [...]

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