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• Atlantis lifts off as space shuttle program continues to wind down

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  Space shuttle Atlantis blasted off Monday afternoon from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, beginning an 11-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The orbiters six-member crew will deliver some 13 metric tons of parts to the station as NASA wraps up its final scheduled shuttle launches and seeks to ...
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• Worms in space – British creatures board Atlantis space shuttle

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Microscopic worms taken from Bristol rubbish tip for study in space station lab Britains aspirations to become a spacefaring nation inched a little closer tonight as thousands of microscopic worms boarded the Atlantis space shuttle at Cape Canaveral for a mission to the international space station. The diminutive ...
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• Dawn Takes up Residence in Asteroid Belt

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 672
  The Dawn spacecraft – which is on a course to study the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres – has taken up permanent residence in the asteroid belt as of November 13th. Dawn is officially the first human-made object to become a part of the asteroid belt, which is sandwiched between the orbits of ...
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• Progress on Space Elevator Technology

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 787
  For over a century, space exploration enthusiasts have proposed building an elevator into low earth orbit using a very long cable stretching from the surface of the earth into space. Huge technical (particularly material) obstacles have prevented this dream from becoming a reality. But technology marches on, and ...
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• Bubbling Ball of Gas: SUNRISE Telescope Delivers Spectacular Pictures of Sun’s Surface

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  The IMaX instrument not only depicts the solar surface, it also makes magnetic fields visible; these appear as black or white structures in the polarised light.The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, ...
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• Rosetta Space Mystery Could Be a Clue to New Laws of the Universe

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 152
  Scientists are eagerly anticipating the ROSETTA probes next pass of Earth, because they know that something they dont know about might happen.  Probes passing by Earth to pick up a gravitational slingshot have been experiencing unexplained extra accelerations, and the reasons could reveal fundamental facts of ...
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• Mystery ‘dark flow’ extends towards edge of universe

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 152
  SOMETHING big is out there beyond the visible edge of our universe. Thats the conclusion of the largest analysis to date of over 1000 galaxy clusters streaming in one direction at blistering speeds. Some researchers say this so-called "dark flow" is a sign that other universes nestle next door . Galaxies going ...
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• NASA to restart primate irradiation testing

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 152
  Late last month, NASA announced the winners of 12 awards for studying the biological effects of radiation. Topping the list is a $1.75 million project to irradiate up to 28 squirrel monkeys in an effort to find out what space radiation does to the central nervous system. Monkeys are back at NASA (Image: NASA) ...
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• NASA finds water on the moon

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 152
  The dramatic revelation of a "significant amount" of frozen water found on the moon has been hailed by the jubilent US space agency as heralding a giant leap forward in space exploration. "The discovery opens a new chapter in our understanding of the moon," NASA said after the startling find was announced Friday, ...
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• Water - On the Moon?!

  
  Apathetic Lemming of the North — Authority: 438
  " Significant Amount of Water Found on Moon " Space.com (November 13, 2009) " Its official: Theres water ice on the moon, and lots of it. When melted, the water could potentially be used to drink or to extract hydrogen for rocket fuel. " NASAs LCROSS probe discovered beds of water ice at the lunar south pole ...
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• Take part in space exploration with NASAs coming MMO

  
  Massively — Authority: 686
  How would you like to take a trip into space? No, not the stylized science fiction that Star Trek Online promises, or the fantasy-with-spaceships of Star Wars: the Old Republic . Weve heard the announcement about NASA s coming space MMO, Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond , but the game hasnt been making ...
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• Nasa’s LCROSS Mission Finds Frozen Water on the Moon

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 605
  Nasa’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) had made an impact into Cabeus crater near south pole of Moon on 9th October and had kicked up debris as high as one mile. Scientists have analyzed the plume of the debris and concluded that it was frozen water. It seems quite a significant quantity of ...
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• Rosetta Performed Final Earth Swingby

  
  OrbitalHub — Authority: 116
  On November 13, 2009, at 8:45 AM CET, ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta passed just South of the Indonesian island of Java at an altitude of 2481 km. Its speed relative to Earth was 13.34 km/s. The maneuver provided a boost of 3.6 km/s. Please visit OrbitalHub to read more...
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• Water Discovered On The Moon

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 689
  In a word, cool: There is water on the Moon, scientists stated unequivocally on Friday. “Indeed yes, we found water,” Anthony Colaprete, the principal investigator for NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, said in a news conference. “And we didn’t find just a little bit. We found a ...
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• Take a Video Freefall: Apollo 11 Landing Site

  
  Space Coalition Blog — Authority: 144
  Thanks to NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and the talented folks at Arizona State University in Tempe you can take a video freefall of Apollo 11s landing site, Tranquility Base. Very small details of Tranquility Base can be discerned. The footpads of the Lunar Module are clearly discernible, components of ...
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• Spirits Great Escape? : Big Pic

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 733
  On Monday, the embattled Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will make a break for freedom. However, its going to be more of a marathon than a sprint and the outcome is far from known.
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• NASA reveals secrets Moons been holding for billions of years. Moon is not a dry, desolate place but has water!

  
  WcP Blog - World Culture Pictorial — Authority: 121
  (quote) NASA scientists have been outlining their preliminary results after crashing two unmanned spacecraft into the Moon in a bid to detect water-ice. A rocket stage slammed into the Moons south pole at 1231 BST (0731 EDT) Oct. 9, 2009. Another craft followed just behind, looking for signs of water in debris kicked ...
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• Nasa crash reveals water on moon

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  • Scientists say significant amounts of liquid found • Mission may shed light on evolution of solar system It might not be quite as exciting as life on Mars, but water on the moon is surely the next best thing. Nasa scientists yesterday announced that a probe that was deliberately crashed into the moons ...
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• Space exploration: Taking the long view

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  Right on cue, a heavy box of instruments swooped high above the island of Java yesterday and then accelerated away into space, for the last time. It was a European spacecraft called Rosetta , and yesterday was its final loop past the home planet, as it gathered speed for a journey that will take it to a distant ...
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• LCROSS impact plumes contained moon water, NASA says

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 151
  A spacecraft that performed a choreographed two-part dive to the lunar surface in October churned up detectable levels of water ice, NASA announced Friday . [More]
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