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Monday, 05 November 2007 19:40

One physical stretch by an astronaut will lead to one long intellectual stretch for humankind

Without the successful NASA spacewalk conducted on Saturday, November 3, 2007, to repair a damaged solar array, future planned missions would have had to be halted. One man, one team, one community performed a makeshift operation to save the day and, in the process, to save the International Space Station.                     
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Wednesday, 03 October 2007 18:18

Actor George Takei ('œSulu') gets an asteroid named after him

Asteroid 1994 GT9 has been renamed by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) as 7307 Takei, in honor of Japanese American actor George Hosato Takei.          
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Friday, 28 September 2007 19:57

Sputnik 1: The event that started space exploration

The Soviet Sputnik program was launched at 19:28:34 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), or 22:28:34 Moscow Time (MSK), on October 4, 1957. Fifty years later, on October 4, 2007, the fifieth anniversary of Sputnik 1 will be celebrated.      
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Tuesday, 25 September 2007 20:20

Study of space-mutated bacteria helps astronauts and earthlings

Dr. Cheryl Nickerson headed a study onboard NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis that found disease-causing bacteria become worse in space, which can help scientists learn more about how to control bacteria on Earth.           
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Monday, 24 September 2007 13:00

NASA reopens black hole search

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) project that will provide a new way of looking at the universe has been restarted by NASA.
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Monday, 17 September 2007 19:52

SPACE 2007 conference September 18-20: 'œThe Next 50 Years'

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics is holding its SPACE 2007 conference and exposition from September 18 to 20 at the Long Beach (California) Convention Center.         
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Friday, 14 September 2007 02:05

New X Prize sets lunar challenge

The $US30 million Google Lunar X Prize challenges private sector engineers and entrepreneurs to put a robotic rover on the Moon's surface by 2014.
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 19:40

British may reverse course, manned space program possible by 2010

The United Kingdom’s British National Space Centre is recommending to the government that manned missions should begin. If approved, a manned British space program could be up and running by 2010.             
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Sunday, 09 September 2007 20:05

Jay Barbree's new book: 'œLive From Cape Canaveral'

Jay Barbree, NBC television and radio correspondent who specializes in covering space launches, no doubt has written a book that all space enthusiasts will want to read. The book is called “Live From Cape Canaveral: Covering the Space Race, from Sputnik to Today”.       
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Monday, 03 September 2007 19:50

September 5th is 30th anniversary of NASA Voyager 1

On September 5, 1977, Voyager 1 lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to explore the outer solar system. Originally a five-year mission, in 2007, the interstellar space probe is still functioning and is expected to be the first spacecraft to exit the solar system and enter interstellar space.            
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Thursday, 30 August 2007 03:43

NASA: No evidence of drunk astronauts

A review carried out by NASA has found "no evidence" to support allegations that two astronauts flew into space while under the influence of alcohol.
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Saturday, 25 August 2007 21:33

The emptiness of space is really empty in constellation Eridanus

A giant hole in the universe was found by University of Minnesota astronomers using the NASA Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite.       
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Tuesday, 21 August 2007 19:05

Space dust in plasma organizes into double helix shape'”like DNA

Researchers used computer modeling to show that microscopic inorganic interstellar dust (space dust) injected into plasma will organize into single and double-helixes, the shape of DNA, with properties that look similar to living organisms.
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Monday, 20 August 2007 06:45

Hurricane coming, so Endeavour returning early

The space shuttle Endeavour has undocked from the International Space Station a day early in order to land at Kennedy Space Center before Hurricane Dean affects operations at Mission Control, Houston.
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Sunday, 12 August 2007 20:54

Welcome to the space hotel Galactic Suite

According to its founder the grand opening in 2012 of the world's first space hotel--to be called Galactic Suite--will give wealthy tourists a luxury trip around the world fifteen times each day for three days.
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Wednesday, 01 August 2007 03:09

Phoenix launch postponed

NASA has postponed the launch of the Phoenix Mars Lander for 24 hours.
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007 17:28

2007 Perseid meteor shower is upon us

The Perseid meteor shower, sometimes generally called shooting stars, will be putting on a great performance in August—with hundreds of streaks crossing the night sky in mid-August.
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Sunday, 22 July 2007 19:33

Dark energy? It's mysterious! It may decide the fate of our universe!

Dark energy is a type of energy that is only hypothesized to exist. If it does exist, it may permeate all of the universe, may increase the rate of the universe's expansion, and finally decide our fate.  To find out if it exists, cosmologists are proposing several large-scale experiments.

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Saturday, 07 July 2007 21:30

UPDATE #2: NASA's Dawn mission delayed by mechanical plane and locational ship problems

NASA officials announced that the Monday launch has been scrubbed after continuing mechanical problems developed with a tracking airplane and a substitute ship has not been properly positioned to take over tracking of the Dawn spacecraft. The earliest launch date is now Sunday, July 15, 2007.

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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 18:40

Cosmic Forgetfulness: Time before the Big Bang

What if our universe is an endless series of Big Bangs (expansions) and Big Crunches (contractions)? Can we see time before the Big Bang? One scientist is looking into this possibility.
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