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Friday, 18 April 2008 01:06
Space Junk: Maybe we need Andy Griffith's Salvage 1?
On late-1970s U.S. television, Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) ran a space salvage operation (Salvage-1), in which he and partners used a spaceship made from junk to reclaim NASA Apollo debris left on the Moon and junk satellites in orbit about the Earth. Maybe we need an Andy Griffith-type Salvage-1 operation to clean up space around the Earth?
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Monday, 14 April 2008 20:25
NASCAR In the Air: the Rocket Racing League
The Rocket Racing League, a sort of NASCAR in the Sky, has announced its first exhibition rocket-powered aircraft races on August 1-2, 2008, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin at the annual Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture air show.
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Monday, 04 February 2008 19:14
Iran successfully launches Kavoshgar-1 rocket
On February 4, 2008, Iran launched a sub-orbital rocket called Kavoshgar-1 (Explorer-1, in English) from its new secret space launch complex.
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Monday, 21 January 2008 22:21
India launches Israeli spy satellite: With Iran in its sights
An advanced spy satellite built by Israel called TecSAR was launched by India on January 21, 2008. One of its purposes is to track Iran’s supposed nuclear weapons program.
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Saturday, 19 January 2008 14:50
New Ares Moon rocket likes to shake, rattle, and roll
NASA designers are working on a way to calm down an early design flaw in the yet-to-be-built Ares I launch vehicle that will help send U.S. astronauts to the Moon beginning in 2015 and later to Mars and other space destinations.
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 23:08
Jules Verne goes to space in February 2008
The European Space Agency’s first automated transfer vehicle (ATV), called the Jules Verne (ATV-1), is being prepared for its first launch in February 2008--a mission to the International Space Station.
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Monday, 14 January 2008 19:42
Forty years ago: Apollo 5 lifts off to test lunar module
On January 22, 1968, NASA’s Apollo 5 was launched from Cape Canaveral’s Launch Pad 37B on an unmanned mission around Earth to test the lunar module. Its success led directly to America’s eventual landing on the Moon.
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