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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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If there is anything stranger than this I don’t know what is. I had just got done watching the television show “V” and this happened minutes later. A huge fireball in the sky came in and exploded in the midwest. This of course was just a meteor, but the timing was perfect.
Hundreds of people [...]

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So…someone actually used some far reaching data to try and figure out some of the climate change issues. In this case 1.2 million years of Earth orbital cycles.
UC Santa Barbara geologist, Lorraine Lisiecki, discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of Earth’s orbital cycle to changes in Earth’s climate.
Published in the scientific journal [...]

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Always surprises me when there is news such as this. We have been studying the moon for centuries, and we have even found ice deposits on moons for OTHER PLANETS, but we just find ice on OUR moon now?
OK…obviously the moon isn’t the easiest thing to study being in space and all, but it is [...]

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