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On June 30, 2009 the space orbiter will end an 18 year run of exploration. The Ulysses was the first spacecraft to survey the environment in space above and below the poles of the Sun in the four dimensions of space and time.
“Ulysses has taught us far more than we ever expected about [...]

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While I find Twitter to be one of the most useless and boring things out there :), I guess it does have some uses ;).
The International Space Station (ISS) is easy to spot with the naked eye if you know when and where to look. A new notification service on Twitter will tell you exactly [...]

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Odyssey Moon, a team competing for a $30 million purse in the Google Lunar X Prize contest, officially joined forces with another private space firm Friday to deliver the first greenhouse to the moon as part the “Lunar Oasis” project.
“Imagine a bright flower on a plant in a crystal clear growth chamber on the surface [...]

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While reading up on this I tried to find an accurate number as to how many man made satellites are actually orbiting the Earth right now. The numbers vary wildly depending on where you look. I saw one that suggested there were nearly 25,000 in a 1997 study. Both functional and non-functional. Another report from [...]

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This fall the next Mars mission is designed to find out more conclusively whether or not it could support life. The Mars Science Laboratory instrument package will be able to study the martian environment with more accuracy than previous missions, but it will have some obstacles to overcome. Some of the most sensitive instruments will [...]

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NASA’s Kepler Mission is set to go in Spring 2009, and they are going to let your thoughts hop on board when Kepler spacecraft is launched into space. If you go to the Your Name in Space website you can fill out a short form and have your thoughts on the mission burned to a [...]

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If you watch shows like The Universe on the History Channel on LCD HDTV you are probably familiar with a few of the moons that have been looked at in regards to possible life. With average temperatures of minus 260 degrees Fahrenheit, an almost nonexistent atmosphere and a complex web of cracks in a layer [...]

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It has long been theorized that life originally came from the stars. There is even that crazy theory out there for sale that I always loved called Panspermia, in which it was thought that life came here carried on celestial fragments that eventually landed in our atmosphere.
Scientists from Europe and the USA, say that [...]

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No kidding. The Space Shuttle Discovery launched today carrying part of the International Space Station.
Discovery shot up into the sky at 5:02 p.m. EDT (2102 GMT) from its seaside Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center carrying what will soon be the largest single room aboard the space station - the tour bus-sized [...]

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Not sure if there is a prize for this or anything like a free mortgage loan, or something, but you can vote as to where YOU would land on Mars if you had the clout to make anyone actually care about what you have to say.
Space.com has a bit of a voting mechanism up [...]

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