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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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We can’t get enough of Mars apparently. Over the next few years at least 3 more Mars probes will be landing on the red planet. The Phoenix Lander is on its way to Mars right now, and should arrive at Mars on May 25. After this will come NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, a large rover [...]

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Every once in a while we hear about the Space Station that is floating around out there. The last few days I have been seeing reports about this new robotic handyman (VIDEO). This thing has 11 foot long freak arms that will be tested. They will also continue outfitting the station’s new Japanese room and [...]

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NASA has released a significant amount of data this week that portrays how our early universe may have developed, as well as what it is made up of. The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) collected data that measured the earliest light of the universe. The early universe is imprinted on this light, and can be [...]

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