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Asteroid Sample Return Capsule Recovered In Outback AustraliaSydney (AFP) June 14, 2010 Scientists in Australia's vast Outback on Monday recovered a capsule that they hope contains the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth - perhaps offering a glimpse into ancient space history. The pod was ejected from a Japanese space probe as the host vessel burned up in a spectacular display over Australia following a seven-year odyssey across the solar system to the far-off Itokawa asteroid. It lay in the desert dust overnight before scientists were given the go-ahead to retrieve it a ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 11, 2010The space and astronomy worlds have June 13 circled on the calendar. That's when the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) expects the sample return capsule of the agency's technology demonstrator spacecraft, Hayabusa, to boomerang back to Earth. The capsule, along with its mother ship, visited a near-Earth asteroid, Itokawa, five years ago and has logged about 2 billion kilometers (1. ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 11, 2010A South Korean rocket, launched from the Naro space center, exploded two minutes after take-off, Yonhap news agency said. The KSLV-1 (The First Korean Space Launch Vehicle) rocket-carrier with STSAT-2B climate satellite onboard blasted off at noon Moscow time [08:00 GMT]. Later the Yonhap agency said the space center's control service had lost contact with the vehicle. It is the second uns ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 10, 2010You won't find any light sabers on the International Space Station, but you will find a trio of "droids" that look a lot like what any self-respecting science fiction fan remembers as a Star Wars "remote." That's the tricky little device that Luke Skywalker used to hone his light-saber skills before he went up against Darth Vader and the rest of the evil empire. But instead of being ... more |
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Detailed Martian Scenes In New Images From Mars OrbiterPasadena CA (SPX) Jun 10, 2010 Six hundred recent observations of the Mars landscape from an orbiting telescopic camera include scenes of sinuous gullies, geometrical ridges and steep cliffs. Each of the 600 newly released observations from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter covers an area of several square miles on Mars and reveals details as small as desks. The HiRISE images taken from April 5 to May 6, 2010, are now available on NASA's Planetary Data ... read more |
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