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Obama sets new course to conquer the final frontierKennedy Space Center, Florida (AFP) April 15, 2010 President Barack Obama Thursday set a bold new course for the future of US space travel, planning to send American astronauts into Mars orbit within the next three decades. And he sought to quell a storm of outrage that met earlier plans unveiled by his administration, vowing before NASA staff that he was "100 percent committed" to their mission and the US space agency's future. "As president, I believe that space exploration is not a luxury, it's not an afterthought in America's quest for a bri ... read more |
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New Delhi (PTI) Apr 15, 2010India will send two astronauts to space by 2017 in its own spacecraft and the Rs 12,400 project is likely to be approved before the Independence Day, ISRO chairman Dr K Radhakrishnan has said. With this achievement, India would join the select club of America, Russia and China which have such human space flight capabilities. The ISRO has submitted the Rs 12,400 crore project for indi ... more  
Glasgow UK (SPX) Apr 15, 2010An international team of astronomers have discovered compelling evidence that rocky planets are commonplace in our Galaxy. Leicester University scientist and lead researcher Dr. Jay Farihi surveyed white dwarfs, the compact remnants of stars that were once like our Sun, and found that many show signs of contamination by heavier elements and possibly even water, improving the prospects for extrat ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 15, 2010Astronomers have snapped a picture of three planets orbiting a star beyond our own using a modest-sized telescope on the ground. The surprising feat was accomplished by a team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., using a small portion of the Palomar Observatory's Hale Telescope, north of San Diego. The planets had been imaged previously by two of the world's biggest gro ... more |
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Muted reaction for Obama's new vision for US space travel Washington (AFP) April 14, 2010 President Barack Obama will travel to Kennedy Space Center on Thursday, in a bid to soothe critics of his plan to scrap an over-budget Moon launch program and reshape NASA's future. Obama will travel to the Florida center after anger greeted his decision earlier this year to scrap the bloated and behind-schedule Constellation program which had aimed to plant a new American flag on the Moon. In a nod to critics, who says the new approach will costs jobs, and who have included the first man on the ... read more |
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