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Astronomer discounts chances of alien lifeCambridge, Mass. (UPI) Jan 24, 2011 A leading U.S. astronomer says there is no hope of finding alien life in space because all other planets discovered so far are to hostile for life. Howard Smith, a senior astrophysicist at Harvard University, says he believes humans are alone in the universe, following an analysis of the 500 planets discovered so far that shows they are all hostile to life, Britain's Daily Telegraph reported Monday. The extreme conditions found so far on all planets discovered around suns outside the sol ... read more |
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  DLR Researchers Simulate The Martian Atmosphere To support the European ExoMars Mission to explore the Red Planet, an international project is being launched on 20 January 2011 with the aim of simulating the entry of spacecraft into the martian a ... more | .. |
  'Smartphone Satellite' Developed By Surrey Space Researchers Space researchers at the University of Surrey and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) have developed 'STRaND-1', a satellite containing a smartphone payload that will be launched into orbit a ... more | .. |
  Looking Back At Uranus As NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the only close approach to date of our mysterious seventh planet Uranus 25 years ago, Project Scientist Ed Stone and the Voyager team gathered at NASA's Jet Propu ... more | .. |
  Draper Commits One Million Dollars To Next Giant Leap's Moon Lander Next Giant Leap (NGL) announced that Draper Laboratory has committed over $1 million from their internal research and development (IR and D) program to fund the design and development of a guidance, ... more |
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 Chinese Astronaut Performs Well In Mars-500 Project A Chinese participant has performed well in the Mars-500 project, a simulated space flight to Mars, the project's chief said Friday here. Boris Morukov, who is also deputy director of the Medi ... more | .. |
 SDA Now Performs Conjunction Screening For More Than 300 Satellites The Space Data Association (SDA), established by commercial satellite operators to improve the safety and efficiency of space operations, has announced that it now provides conjunction assessment (C ... more | .. |
  Launch Plus Five Years: A Ways Traveled, A Ways To Go It's been five years since New Horizons roared into the Florida skies - speeding from Earth faster than any spacecraft before it - and began its journey to the unexplored regions of the planetary fr ... more | .. |
 Meteorites May Answer Life's Chirality Question A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth, according to new NASA research. Amino acids are used to build proteins, which are used by lif ... more |
  
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  Japanese rocket puts cargo into orbit A Japanese rocket successfully took an unmanned cargo transporter to the International Space Station into orbit on Saturday, Japan's space agency said. ... more | .. |
 Google looks to its next decade Google, which prides itself on helping people navigate the Internet, is facing a tangled Web as it weaves its own future. ... more | .. |
 Space crew to simulate Mars walk next month Three men will simulate walking on Mars next month as part of a project that has seen a multinational crew locked up inside a mock Moscow spaceship since June, the head of the project said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Slow progress in U.S.-China space efforts Analysts say mutual wariness is keeping cooperative efforts on space exploration between the United States and China in low gear. ... more |
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  Russian cosmonauts complete space walk Two Russian cosmonauts successfully completed their work during the first space walk by the crew of the International Space Station in 2011, officials said. ... more | .. |
  First Delta IV Heavy Launches From Vandenberg The first West Coast Delta IV Heavy Launch Vehicle was launched from Space Launch Complex-6 here Jan. 20 at 1:10 p.m. PST. The largest rocket ever to launch from the West Coast of the United S ... more | .. |
 Cosmonauts Perform 27th Russian ISS Spacewalk Two Russian cosmonauts ventured outside the International Space Station on Jan. 21 to complete installation of a new high-speed data transmission system, remove an old plasma pulse experiment, insta ... more | .. |
 ISS Resupply From Four Corners Of Globe A quick succession of international space supply trucks will arrive on the International Space Station's loading docks early in 2011, dropping off more than 11 tons (10,000 kilograms) of food, compu ... more |
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  NASA sets final space shuttle mission for June 28 Despite budget uncertainties, NASA on Thursday announced plans to send the space shuttle Atlantis on the final mission of the US program June 28, after which the famed fleet will be retired. ... more | .. |
 Space Shuttle Program Baselines STS-135 On Thursday, the Space Shuttle Program baselined the STS-135 mission for a target launch date of June 28. It is NASA's intent to fly the mission with orbiter Atlantis carrying the Raffaello multipur ... more | .. |
 Beaming Rockets Into Space Space launches have evoked the same image for decades: bright orange flames exploding beneath a rocket as it lifts, hovers and takes off into the sky. But an alternative propulsion system proposed b ... more | .. |
 Rover Is Spending Several Weeks At Crater Rim Opportunity is in position for solar conjunction at the southeast rim of the 80-meter (262-foot) diameter Santa Maria crater. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Ma ... more |
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 Redfern Integrated Optics Awarded Contract For Development Of Laser For Space LIDAR Redfern Integrated Optics has announced that it has been awarded a Phase 1 SBIR contract for further development of its breakthrough single-frequency narrow-linewidth semiconductor laser, suitable f ... more | .. |
 Mars Sliding Behind Sun After Rover Anniversary The team operating NASA's Mars rover Opportunity will temporarily suspend commanding for 16 days after the rover's seventh anniversary next week, but the rover will stay busy. For the fourth t ... more | .. |
  More Asteroids Could Have Made Life's Ingredients A wider range of asteroids were capable of creating the kind of amino acids used by life on Earth, according to new NASA research. Amino acids are used to build proteins, which are used by lif ... more | .. |
 NASA Seeks Amateur Radio Operators' Aid to Listen for NanoSail-D On Wednesday, Jan. 19 at 11:30 a.m. EST, engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., confirmed that the NanoSail-D nanosatellite ejected from Fast Affordable Scientific and Techno ... more |
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NASA to replace injured shuttle astronaut NASA says it has chosen a replacement for an injured member of the crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery, set to launch next month. ... more | .. |
 Astronaut Steve Bowen Joins STS-133 Crew NASA selected astronaut Steve Bowen as a mission specialist on STS-133, the next space shuttle mission targeted for launch on Feb. 24. Bowen replaces astronaut Tim Kopra, who was injured in a bicycl ... more | .. |
 ISRO Allocates Resources For Research On Manned Mission The Indian Space Research Organisation has allocated Rs. 9.8 crore to Institute of Aerospace Medicine for upgrading its laboratories to conduct research for its manned mission into space. "The ... more | .. |
 Next Mars Rover Will Check For Ingredients Of Life Paul Mahaffy, the scientist in charge of the largest instrument on NASA's next Mars rover, watched through glass as clean-room workers installed it into the rover. The specific work planned fo ... more |
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 Gardening In Space With HydroTropi Plants are fundamental to life on Earth, converting light and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen. Plant growth may be an important part of human survival in exploring space, as well. Gardenin ... more | .. |
 Crosslink Capability Between STSS Demonstration Satellites Verified The effectiveness of the Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demonstration satellites has been expanded after a communications crosslink was activated and successfully tested by Northrop G ... more | .. |
Japan delays space cargo launch Bad weather delayed Wednesday the launch of a Japan space agency mission to deliver cargo to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 Cosmonauts To Perform 27th Russian ISS Spacewalk Two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Jan. 21 to complete installation of a new high-speed data transmission system, remove an old plasma pulse experiment, i ... more |
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