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Over the past year, NASA’s Voyager 1 has been sending back data from outside our solar system where it now resides. The spacecraft is about 11 billion miles from the sun, and not yet in interstellar space. “Voyager tells us now that we’re in a stagnation region in the outermost layer of the bubble around [...]

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Keeping on the topic of possible future life in the universe, we see more research that is looking back into the past of solar system formation. This time it is a burgeoning disc of in a nearby solar system that is known to contain enough water to fill thousands of oceans. Giving scientists a look [...]

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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is watching a comet downpour in nearby solar system. Why this is significant is that scientists believe it resembles our own solar system several billion years ago during a period known as the “Late Heavy Bombardment,” which may have brought water and other life-forming ingredients to Earth. (Entirely theoretical of course) [...]

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Due to government cutbacks the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, better known as SETI, will get its funding cut. The SETI Institute works with the only radio telescope array specially designed to detect potential signals from distant worlds. Something that you could argue is a bit of a luxury to even study. While there are other [...]

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Just happened to be down in Florida this week, and was about 20 miles down the beach from Cape Canaveral. Upon realizing a launch would happen while I was there I got to walk down a few miles to take a gander at the final launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery. I must say I [...]

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The NASA Space Shuttle line will be retired sometime next year (was this year so who knows how soon in reality), and NASA plans to use privately funded spacecraft in the future to deliver cargo to the space station. At some point they hope to also deliver crew in this manner. The NASA-backed mission was [...]

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We are getting closer and closer to anyone (well anyone with 10s of millions of dollars) to get a ride into space. Boeing Co. plans to offer passengers the chance to fly into space on a craft it is developing for travel in low-Earth orbit, the aerospace company said on Wednesday. The project will be [...]

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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 [...]

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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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