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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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This reminds me of an old Twilight Zone where a guy spent 30 days in a tiny capsule to see if he would go insane. The purpose of the experiment was to see if he would be able to fly to the outer limits (that’s a show too) of the universe without cracking up. Starting [...]

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When I first started reading this story, all I could think of was “Man, what a friggin’ waste of money this is.” After reading further, I still feel the same. At 7:31 a.m. EDT on October 9, an empty rocket booster was deliberately crashed into Cabeus, a shadowed crater near the moon’s south pole where [...]

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This is going to be a bit technical, and kind of difficult to grasp I would guess, but it is something that is considered quite an important discovery so I want to at least put it out there for people to try and understand. At least describe the finding and what had originally been considered [...]

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