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• Space Shuttle Atlantis Crew Back on Earth

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 651
  The 11-day mission of the final shuttle flight of the year has come to an end.
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• McDonnell-Douglas Phase B Shuttle

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 439
  Two photos of the model on display at the NASM Udvar-Hazy center. Looks like a pretty neato design, doesn’t it. So neat that you’d love to see more. Hell, you’d be willing to pay to see more. Well, today’s your lucky day! A whole mess of diagrams of this beautiful beastie are available HERE and ...
  3 days ago

• NASA proposes robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 26 (ANI): NASA is proposing to build a robotic rocket-plane to explore Mars from the air, and has advertised for help building it. According to a report in the Telegraph, NASA scientists are proposing to build the Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Surveyor (ARES).Around the size of a small plane, ...
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• Awesome pictures from the Enceladus flyby

  
  Open Parachute — Authority: 510
  It’s amazing how much we are finding out about other bodies in the solar system these days. And the images we get back from some of our robotic spaceships can be incredible. Here’s one taken by Cassini during a deep swoop past Enceladus , a moon of Saturn. This is an intriguing moon because it is thought to ...
  4 days ago

• Atlantis astronauts end third spacewalk

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Washington, Nov 24 (DPA) Two astronauts from the space shuttle Atlantis ended the mission’s third and last spacewalk after successfully installing an oxygen tank on the outside of the International Space Station (ISS).The spacewalk on Monday lasted five hours and 42 minutes for astronauts Robert Satcher Jr and Randy ...
  5 days ago

• Monstrous Mechanical Marvels: 9 More Enormous Gadgets

  
  Gadget Lab — Authority: 789
  next image >> Ugly and sometimes frightening, the largest “gadgets” on Earth help mankind achieve the magnificent. Take, for example, the airplane above, whose hideous looks have earned it the nickname Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. Mock it all you ...
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• The Lightning Planets

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 651
  The Scoop: No matter what planet youre on, lighting is about storms, and about ice and rain -- even if its not necessarily water rain.If you could see Jupiters magnetic field, it would be the size of the full moon in the sky---the biggest object in the solar system (Saturn actually passed through Jupiters...
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• More indigenous components in second moon mission: ISRO

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Coimbatore, Nov 23(ANI): Mylswamy Annadurai, Project Director of Chandrayan Mission II, ISRO, on Monday said that there would be more indigenous components in country’s second moon mission. Annadurai was in the city to participate in the 30th convocation of the Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.Addressing the media ...
  6 days ago

• Crescent Earth from the Departing Rosetta Spacecraft

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 146
  Click on image to enlarge Crescent Earth from the Departing Rosetta Spacecraft Credit & Copyright: ESA (MPS for OSIRIS Team), MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA Explanation: Goodbye Earth. Earlier this month, ESAs interplanetary Rosetta spacecraft zoomed past the Earth on its way back across the Solar ...
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• Titan’s hydrocarbon lakes could be brimming with hearty soup for life

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  London, November 23 (ANI): New calculations have suggested that Saturn’s moon Titan’s hydrocarbon lakes are loaded with acetylene, a chemical some scientists say could serve as food for cold-resistant organisms.At about -180 degree Celsius, Titan’s surface is far too cold for liquid water. But, two pairs of ...
  6 days ago

• Fark thread of note: STS-134 patch design

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 439
  Fark.com has a contest thread … design the patch for the Shuttles last flight, STS-134. As always, some of the designs are brilliant.
  6 days ago

• B+S Weekly Round-Up—November 16-20,2009

  
  BLACKBURN AND SWEETZER — Authority: 438
  Click to expand — Books—Spike Jonze Signs Behind-the-Scenes ‘Wild Things’ Book at Family — Shops—AllSaints Lands Big on Robertson — Shops—Splendid Opens Today on Robertson — Shops—Clothespin’s Chic, Cozy Boutique on Melrose — Shops—Henri Bendel Now Shining for the Holidays at ...
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• Cosmonaut says Russia falling behind in space race (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP – Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and will likely fall behind in the space race, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday. Read the original:  (AP)"> (AP)">Cosmonaut says Russia falling behind in space race (AP)
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• Cosmonaut says Russia falling behind in space race (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP – Russia lacks a viable program for developing a new spacecraft and will likely fall behind in the space race, a veteran Russian cosmonaut said in an interview published Friday. Here is the original post:  (AP)"> (AP)">Cosmonaut says Russia falling behind in space race (AP)
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• The end of NASA Manned Spaceflight

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 439
  OK, hands up anyone who didn’t see this coming… Orlando Sentinel : But the launch came amid major worries about NASA’s future, as the agency has been told by the White House to consider cutting its 2011 budget by as much as 10 percent. Based on the agency’s proposed 2009-2010 budget of $18.7 billion, that ...
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• Shuttle Atlantis arrives at space station

  
  Pakistan News | News, Videos, Articles, Current Affairs, Politics, Entertainment, Technology | Geo TV | Dawn | The News | Ten Sports | Geo Super | India News — Authority: 457
  CAPE CANAVERAL: Space shuttle Atlantis arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday to deliver spare parts needed to keep the outpost operational after the shuttles” retirement next year.
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• Shuttle Atlantis Docks With Space Station

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 651
  Atlantis arrived at its intended destination Wednesday, carrying much needed cargo to the space station.
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• Space Station of 1975

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 439
  A NASA breifing on orbital payload planning from 1969 suggests that Skylab (then known as an “orbital workshop”) would be followed by a space station to be launched by Saturn V’s in 1975. Sadly, Saturn V production had been ordered stopped in 196 8 . No other data on the station presented.
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• Space Drawing set 18: Early reusable Shuttle booster

  
  The Unwanted Blog — Authority: 439
  Now available: Space Drawing Set 18, containing 22 drawings of the Model 256-20B McDonnell-Douglas/Martin Marietta manned, reusable, flyback Space Shuttle booster from 1971. The Phase B baseline booster was a wing hydrogen/oxygen powered launcher fitted with canards… and fitted within the canards werea multitude of ...
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• Eureka! NASA strikes water on lunar surface

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 708
  Scientists have long speculated about the source of significant quantities of hydrogen that have been observed at the moons lunar poles, and just a few months ago NASA announced that water molecules were indeed present, but in relatively small amounts. Now the Lunar CRater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) ...
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