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• Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceShipTwo, plans commercial space flights in 2011

  
  MainGadget — Authority: 164
  We’ve been waiting an awful long time for this day to come, and now we’re doing our darndest to rush away 2010. Today, Sir Richard Branson officially took the wraps off of a spacecraft that we initially peeked back in June of 2008 : the SpaceShipTwo. Designed to hold six passengers and two pilots, this magnificent ...
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• Virgin Galactic reveals SpaceShipTwo, plans commercial space flights in 2011

  
  Engadget — Authority: 849
  Weve been waiting an awful long time for this day to come, and now were doing our darndest to rush away 2010. Today, Sir Richard Branson officially took the wraps off of a spacecraft that we initially peeked back in June of 2008 : the SpaceShipTwo. Designed to hold six passengers and two pilots, this magnificent ...
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• Virgin Galactic to unveil commercial spaceship

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  This undated file photo provided by Virgin Galactic shows placement of the center beam during SpaceShipTwos construction inside the Scaled Composites plant at the Mojave Airport in Mojave, Calif. SpaceShipTwo is slated for rollout Monday, Dec. 7, 2009, in the Mojave Desert(AP Photo/Virgin Galactic) LOS ANGELES ...
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• A Poster Boy’s Retro Space Out

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  The International Year of Astronomy coincides with the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s revolutionary telescope this year. So what better way to celebrate history than with a retro look at the cosmos? With today’s artists’ renderings of space becoming increasingly detailed, realistic and flashy, these posters ...
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• Watery niche may foster life on Mars

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  Could snow on Mars harbour life? Perhaps, thanks to a form of greenhouse effect that creates liquid water beneath an icy crust. This map shows the thickness of layered ice deposits at the south polar region on Mars. The material consists of nearly pure water ice with only a small component of dust (Image: NASA / ...
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• The Milky Way supersized, talk about a galactic perspective

  
  disassociated.com — Authority: 147
  A composite image of the Milky Way galaxy which is comprised of 800,000 individual photos taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. The large image was made from stitching together 800,000 individual pictures taken by Spitzer, for a total of 2.5 billion infrared pixels. It covers an area of the sky about as wide ...
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• MOONSHOT

  
  The Discovery Enterprise — Authority: 427
  Today on discovery Enterprise we are going to present Moonshot, a dramatisation of the early NASA moon missions. "Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." American astronaut Neil Armstrong spoke those words 40 years ago this summer on July 20, 1969, just after stepping off the lunar landing module ...
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• How to Handle Mars Rocks

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 437
  " How to Protect Mars Samples on Earth " Space.com (December 3, 2009) " A returning spacecraft may someday hurtle through Earths atmosphere bearing evidence of life from Mars. But scientists wont casually crack open the precious payload in any old laboratory. They will need a specially-designed building that not ...
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• Earth May Not Be a "Class M" Planet

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 437
  " Super Earths May Be Superior at Fostering Life " Space.com (December 1, 2009) " Astronomers have discovered hundreds of Jupiter-like planets in our galaxy. However, a handful of the planets found orbiting distant stars are more Earth-sized. This gives hope to astrobiologists, who think we are more likely to find ...
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• Mini Nuclear Reactors Could Power Space Colonies

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 661
  Growing up on Star Trek, I was always told that space was the final frontier. What they never told me was that space is about as friendly to the human body as being microwaved alive in a frozen tundra–in essence, shelter is a necessity. Like any Earthen home or building, an off world shelter on the Moon or ...
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• Moon Work Design Contest Offers NASA Internships to Winners

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  WASHINGTON — Talented engineering students who have ideas on how future explorers might live on the moon could find themselves working at NASA as paid interns. The 2010 NASA Moon Work engineering design challenge seeks to motivate college students by giving them first-hand experience with the process of developing ...
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• Spitzer Unveils Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  The worlds largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope, went on display this week at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. It is 120 feet long and 3 feet wide at its sides, bulging to about 6 feet wide at the center of our galaxy. Image credit: Adler Planetarium (PhysOrg.com) — The ...
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• What Happens When an Enormous Star Blows Up?

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  Keplers supernova remnant. The explosion of a star is a catastrophic event. The blast rips the star apart and unleashes a roughly spherical shock wave that expands outward at more than 35 million kilometers per hour (22 million mph) like an interstellar tsunami. What might happen when a really gargantuan star — one ...
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• 50 Years Ago: A Look at the Far Side of the Moon

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  DECEMBER 1959 THE FAR SIDE --“Man’s first blurred view of the other side of the moon suggests that current theories of the origin and history of our natural satellite may require revision. The Soviet vehicle, launched on October 3, crossed the moon’s orbit some three days later. Shortly thereafter, in response ...
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• First Commercial Spaceship Debuts

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 156
  So far about 300 people have put down $200,000 each for tickets to ride SpaceShipTwo.
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• Documentary Film: Space Tourists, Take a Sneak Peek

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 143
  “Space Tourists” is a new product from Swiss filmmaker, Christian Frei. The documentary film focuses on private space traveler, Anousheh Ansari, launched on a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station. This epic film follows Ansari’s journey into Earth orbit, showing everyday life onboard the ...
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• House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Spaceflight Safety

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 661
  The U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space & Aeronautics held a hearing yesterday on the issue of how to ensure the future safety of human flight into space for both commercial and governmental agencies. The hearing was attended by a number of witnesses that represented NASA, one from the Commercial ...
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• STPSat-1 successfully completes extended mission

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  This is a comparison of NOGAPS synoptic weather fields for 82 km for 18 UT (Universal Time) on June 13, 2007. Shown are maps of (a) temperature, (b) abundance of water vapor (parts per million by volume) and (c) resultant saturation (proportional to relative humidity). Values greater than 1 represent super ...
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• A Superbright Supernova That’s the First of Its Kind

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  In this schematic illustration of the material ejected from SN 2007bi, the radioactive nickel core (white) decays to cobalt, emitting gamma rays and positrons that excite surrounding layers (textured yellow) rich in heavy elements like iron. The outer layers (dark shadow) are lighter elements such as oxygen and ...
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• Suzaku X-Ray Observatory Spies Treasure Trove of Intergalactic Metal

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 154
  This image from the Japanese Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics shows the X-ray glow of the 100-million-degree Fahrenheit gas that fills the Perseus cluster. The white box indicates the area explored by the Suzaku X-ray telescope to detect chromium and manganese. The image is about two degrees wide, or ...
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