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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 07:30

NASA 101 shows why we're better off here on Earth

NASA announced it has a new interactive Web program that shows how NASA technologies over the past fifty years have improved our lives. The Home and NASA City website features over 1,500 examples of how NASA technologies are used on Earth each and every day.             
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 17:27

Sun to destroy Earth in 7.6 billion years

No need to panic just yet, but in 7.6 billion years, the dying Sun will expand and burn up our planet completely. The answer? Use a large passing asteroid to ‘nudge’ our orbit further outwards; live on space ‘life rafts’ or leave the planet in search of strange new worlds.

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Friday, 15 February 2008 19:32

Ailing spy satellite seen by skygazers, Pentagon announces attack plan

The U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) spy satellite USA 193/NROL-21 is being seen over the night skies of the United States and Europe. The U.S. Pentagon announced it will try to break up the satellite to reduce its chances of hitting the Earth.
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 02:41

NASA 2009 budget crafted at $17.6 billion

On Monday, February 4, 2008, NASA announced that its fiscal year 2009 budget is $17.6 billion for continuing to build the International Space Station, operate the space shuttle fleet, explore the solar system, study the Earth, and conduct aeronautics research.    
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 02:48

Mercury data surprises scientists

Data received from NASA's MESSENGER Mercury probe has delivered some surprises for scientists studying the solar system's innermost planet.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 11:35

Automated spaceship loaded for ISS resupply

Jules Verne, the first European automated transfer vehicle (ATV) has been loaded with oxygen ahead of its first trip to the International Space Station.
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 21:57

Book your spaceflight: SpaceShipTwo almost ready

On Wednesday, January 23, 2008, Burt Ratan and Sir Richard Branson displayed for the first time the design of their new suborbital spaceplane, SpaceShipTwo, at the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, New York, U.S.A., Earth.              
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Friday, 18 January 2008 16:33

Diseases being watched from space

Members of NASA’s National Space Science and Technology Center and University of Alabama at Birmingham’s (UAB’s) School of Public Health are teaming up to identify human health concerns on Earth from satellites circling above the planet.      
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Sunday, 13 January 2008 21:23

Astronomers hit Einsteinian jackpot

An international team of scientists used the Hubble Space Telescope to find a never-before-seen  double Einstein ring. The important discovery helps astronomers learn more about dark matter, dark energy, and curved space of the universe.         
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Wednesday, 09 January 2008 04:06

Hubble repair scheduled for August

Space Shuttle Atlantis has been scheduled for an August mission to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Sunday, 06 January 2008 21:57

Fifty years ago U.S. begins to explore space: Explorer-1

The month of January 1958 was very busy for the pioneers that began space exploration for the United States. Satellite 1958 Alpha (commonly called Explorer-1) lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, in Florida, on January 31, 1958--the beginning of the Space Age for the United States.       
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Tuesday, 01 January 2008 21:30

U.S. presidential candidates and positions on Space, Science

The citizens of the United States are in the midst of its election of a new president in 2008. Their responses to the topics of space, science, and education say much about their campaigns and how they will direct the country.        
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Thursday, 27 December 2007 11:41

Ariane ends year with successful launch

The sixth and final Ariane launch for the year successfully took a pair of commercial satellites into orbit.
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Tuesday, 11 December 2007 20:19

Voyager 1 and 2 say solar system is dented

NASA scientists used data from the long-running, far, far away interstellar Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft to find that the solar system has an asymmetrical (not balanced or regularly arranged) shape.               
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 22:58

Thirty Meter Telescope gets $200 million boost

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gave the University of California and the California Institute of Technology a commitment of $200 million for future development and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).        
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 10:15

Successful test of ESA rocket

A successful test firing of ESA's new P80 rocket motor has been conducted at Guiana Space Centre.
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Wednesday, 05 December 2007 19:14

NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory finds star moving at hypervelocity speed

The star is called RX J0822-4300. It is a neutron star created from the Puppis A supernova explosion—and it is moving away from the explosion, according to two U.S. scientists, at about three million miles per hour.        
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Saturday, 24 November 2007 22:04

Has first evidence of another universe been seen?

Astronomers announced in August 2007 the discovery of a large hole at the edge of our universe. Since then, theoretical physicist and cosmologist Laura Mersini-Houghton and colleagues have claimed it is an “unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own.”
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Friday, 23 November 2007 20:26

South Korea gets serious about space ambitions

Under the guidance of their aeronautics and space agency, Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), South Korea announced plans to launch a satellite, in 2020, to orbit the Moon and another satellite, in 2025, to land an unmanned rover on the lunar surface.        
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Thursday, 22 November 2007 00:34

Russia to build new space launch facility

An official of the Russian government announced on Wednesday, November 21, 2007, that it will build the Vostochny (Eastern) Cosmodrome in the far eastern part of Russia.       
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