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European-built Node 3 starts its journey to the ISS

The European-built Node 3 module for the International Space Station will be shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, on 17 May.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers show small robots can prepare lunar surface for NASA outpost

(PhysOrg.com) -- Small robots the size of riding mowers could prepare a safe landing site for NASA's Moon outpost, according to a NASA-sponsored study prepared by Astrobotic Technology Inc. with technical ...

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created Feb 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 13




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Super-Earth unlikely able to transfer life to other planets

While scientists believe conditions suitable for life might exist on the so-called "super-Earth" in the Gliese 581 system, it's unlikely to be transferred to other planets within that solar system.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Lunar lander firing up for touchdown

Europe’s ambition of touching down at the Moon’s south pole by 2018 has been boosted by recent test firings of the craft’s thrusters. The robot lander will prove new techniques for sending humans ...

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created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Xbox workers threaten suicide in China labor tiff

(AP) -- Dozens of workers assembling Xbox video game consoles climbed to a factory dormitory roof, and some threatened to jump to their deaths, in a dispute over job transfers that was defused but highlights growing labor ...

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created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

NASA questions Apollo 13 commander's sale of list

NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations that were crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft ...

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created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 15

Missions that weren't: NASA's manned mission to Venus

In the mid-1960s, before any Apollo hardware had flown with a crew, NASA was looking ahead and planning its next major programs. It was a bit of a challenge. After all, how do you top landing a man on the ...

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created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

With 'Google Earth' for Mars, explore the red planet from home

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new software tool developed by the HiRISE team in the UA's Lunar and Planetary Lab allows members of the public to download high-resolution images of the Martian landscape almost instantaneously ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Apollo 13 checklist part of space artifacts auction

A notebook containing Apollo 13 commander James Lovell's handwritten calculations to guide the damaged spacecraft back to Earth is being auctioned along with other artifacts from the 1970 mission.

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created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists find evidence for 'great lake' on Jupiter's moon Europa, potential new habitat for life

In a significant finding in the search for life beyond Earth, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have discovered what appears to be a body of liquid water the volume of the North ...

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created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (38) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

NASA to demonstrate communications via laser beam

It currently takes 90 minutes to transmit high-resolution images from Mars, but NASA would like to dramatically reduce that time to just minutes. A new optical communications system that NASA plans to demonstrate ...

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created Sep 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Mission possible or impossible? UA space systems engineer has the answer

Scientists have endless ideas for extraterrestrial exploration. Some are feasible, some not. In a two-part series, we look at how UA engineer Roberto Furfaro gives the red or green light to space missions. ...

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created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


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