Source: LiveScience.com
A mockup of the Orion capsule at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston shows the space agency’s next-generation spacecraft, designed to carry humans beyond low-Earth orbit to the moon, asteroids, and Mars. CREDIT: Orion Capsule Mock ...
Oct 27 2012, 5:42pm CDT
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Source: Mercedes Sun-Star
Fifty years ago - and only two years after the first man entered space - Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova piloted the Vostok 6 through 48 laps around the Earth on a three-day solo mission under the call name Chaika (Seagull). ...
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Source: The Register
NASA's Cassini spacecraft will take a picture of Earthlings' home planet from the viewpoint of aliens on Saturn today, snapping the image from hundreds of millions of miles away. "While Earth will be only about a pixel in size from Cassini' ...
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Source: Euronews
NASA called on backyard astronomers and other citizen-scientists on Tuesday to help track asteroids that could create havoc on Earth. The US space agency has already identified 95 percent of the potentially planet-destroying NEOs – near Earth objects – w ...
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Source: WVEC.com
WALLOPS ISLAND (AP) -- A rocket carrying students' experiments is scheduled to be launched Thursday from the Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Eastern Shore. NASA says students from across the nation developed the expe ...
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Source: NDTV
Washington: Citizens of Earth, get ready for your close-up from thousands of miles away! NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be taking the first-ever natural-colour image of the Earth as seen from the Saturn system, from 1.44 billion kilometres away on Jul ...
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Source: Space.com
China’s next phase of its moon exploration program, the Chang’e-3 would soft land on the lunar surface and deploy instrument-laden rover. CREDIT: Courtesy: Dragon in Space As three Chinese astronauts zip aroun ...
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Source: Kurzweilai
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge is a large-scale effort that will use multi-disciplinary collaborations and a variety of partners ...
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Source: Webindia123
On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be turned to image Saturn and its entire ring system during a total eclipse of the Sun, as it has done twice before during its previous 9 years in orbit. But this time, the images that will be collec ...
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Source: PhysOrg.com
Strapped in an orange suit in his spaceship, Yuri Gagarin smiles as the rockets roar and chirpily tells mission control: "Let's go!" A new Russian film—"Gagarin. First Man in Space"—is the first full biopic on the pioneering cosmo ...
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