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Endeavour blasts off on next-to-last shuttle flightCape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) May 16, 2011 The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off Monday toward the International Space Station on the penultimate flight for the US shuttle program. "We want to thank all the tens of thousands of employees who have put their hands on this incredible ship," shuttle commander Mark Kelly said moments before liftoff at 8:56 (1256 GMT). The six-member crew of astronauts including five Americans and one Italian, Roberto Vittori, is delivering a potent physics experiment to probe the origins of the universe dur ... read more |
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  Could exoplanet be a haven for life? Scientists said on Monday a rocky world orbiting a nearby star was confirmed as the first planet outside our solar system to meet key requirements for sustaining life. ... more | .. |
 Endeavour poised for next-to-last US shuttle flight NASA Sunday readied the space shuttle Endeavour for its final mission with liftoff set for 8:56 am (1256 GMT) Monday on the next-to-last flight for the American shuttle program. ... more | .. |
  Heaven is a 'fairy story': Hawking British scientist Stephen Hawking has branded heaven a "fairy story" for people afraid of the dark, in his latest dismissal of the concepts underpinning the world's religions. ... more | .. |
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 US astronomers launch search for alien life on 86 planets A massive radio telescope in rural West Virginia has begun listening for signs of alien life on 86 possible Earth-like planets, US astronomers said Friday. ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Cracks The 18-Mile Mark Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater after a brief jog last week through a small field of young impact craters, named in honor after the spacecraft of the NASA Mercury Program. ... more | .. |
  Another Ariane 5 begins its assembly at the Spaceport The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's fourth heavy-lift mission of 2011 has begun its initial build-up at the Spaceport - joining another launch campaign being conducted in parallel, and underscoring the F ... more | .. |
  DAICHI (ALOS) Operations Completed The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) had been trying to communicate with the Advanced Land Observing Satellite "DAICHI" (ALOS) for about three weeks after it developed a power generation an ... more |
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MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes
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  A Wrinkly Old Reveal Clues To Its Past Written on the moon's weary face are the damages it has endured for the past 4-1/2 billion years. From impact craters to the dark plains of maria left behind by volcanic eruptions, the scars are all ... more | .. |
  J-2X Test Series Proves Part Integrity Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center gave a key component of the J-2X engine a brisk workout to ensure it can withstand its extreme operating environment. The engine's fuel turbopump fir ... more | .. |
Astronauts board Endeavour for next-to-last shuttle flight Astronauts boarded the space shuttle Endeavour Monday as it prepared to blast off toward International Space Station on the penultimate flight for the US shuttle program. ... more | .. |
 MoonBots Challenges Teams to Conduct Lunar Missions with LEGO Robots The X PRIZE Foundation and the LEGO Group has announced MoonBots 2.0: A Google Lunar X PRIZE LEGO MINDSTORMS Challenge. This second annual contest will challenge teams of youth to design, program, a ... more |
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 ISRO to Set Up Sub-Systems Integration Facility The Indian Space Research Organisation plans to set up an advanced R and D centre in the field of spacecraft technologies in Karnataka's Chitradurga and rocket sub-systems integration facility near ... more | .. |
 India Lines Up Three PSLV Launches This Year Indian Space Research Organisation is lining up three PSLV launches from Sriharikota spaceport by October this year, its Chairman K Radhakrishnan said Friday. He said PSLV-C17 would launch GSA ... more | .. |
  Blackbody energy set the stage for clocks with unprecedented accuracy A team of physicists from the United States and Russia has announced that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic ... more | .. |
 Earth's Nearest Neighbor Within Reach NASA has created a new interactive web-based tool that incorporates observations from past and current lunar missions creating one of the most comprehensive lunar research websites to date. Th ... more |
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Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems
Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon
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 Mars Science Laboratory Aeroshell Delivered To Launch Site NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) aeroshell and cruise stage were delivered to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. yesterday. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] built the aeroshell and NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo ... more | .. |
  Andrews Space Delivers Cargo Module Power Unit for Orbital's Cygnus Spacecraft Andrews Space (Andrews) has announced that it has successfully delivered the first of four fight-qualified Cargo Module Power Units (CMPUs) that will supply power to payloads aboard Orbital's Cygnus ... more | .. |
  NASA's Dawn Captures First Image of Nearing Asteroid NASA's Dawn spacecraft has obtained its first image of the giant asteroid Vesta, which will help fine-tune navigation during its approach. Dawn is expected to achieve orbit around Vesta on July 16, ... more | .. |
 JPL Facility has Built Famed Spacecraft for 50 Years The Spacecraft Assembly Facility of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was constructed in 1961 to support NASA's Ranger and Mariner missions to the moon, Venus and Mars. Ame ... more |
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 The Sabatier System: Producing Water on the ISS Drinkable water is one of the primary and most important assets for human survival. So when preparing for a journey, whether to sea or to space, planners must take this vital resource into considera ... more | .. |
 Detecting Wandering Worlds That Host Life Interstellar planets - those without stars to orbit - could serve as havens for life. They are often thought to be nearly invisible, since they are much dimmer than stars and do not have any suns ne ... more | .. |
  'Dwarf planet' is covered in crystal ice A bizarre mini-planet that orbits the Sun in deep space is covered with crystallised water, European astronomers reported on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Science Highlights from Mercury's Orbit As the first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury, MESSENGER has the opportunity to make many observations of the Solar System's innermost planet that had not previously been possible. Each of MES ... more |
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Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research
Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech
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 Texas Space Alliance Celebrates New Space "Tourism" Law The Texas Space Alliance congratulated the governor and legislature on passing what it hopes will be the first of a new wave of pro-commercial space laws in the last weeks, and called for the Texas ... more | .. |
  Flipping Hot Jupiters More than 500 extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than the sun - have been discovered since 1995. But only in the last few years have astronomers observed that in some of these syste ... more | .. |
 Endeavour crew in Florida for shuttle launch Six astronauts arrived at Kennedy Space Center on Thursday ahead of the second to last US space shuttle flight, with Endeavour set to lift off on Monday after a technical delay. ... more | .. |
Repaired Endeavour ready to launch Monday: NASA Two weeks after technical problems postponed the launch of Endeavour, engineers have fixed the problem and the crew looks set to lift off Monday on the space shuttle's final flight, NASA said. ... more |
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 Putting the Common Housefly onto the dinner plate A continuous, self funded research effort begun in Oregon in 1975 has resulted in a mature system for the intensive farming of Musca domestica, the Common Housefly. Fly Farm Systems has a patent pen ... more | .. |
 India designing reusable spacecraft Director of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC), Thiruvananthapuram, P S Veeraraghavan on Wednesday said India`s space scientists are designing a reusable space craft, which is likely to be launched ... more | .. |
 Mayflower Test Satellite Proves Successful During Recent SpaceX Mission Northrop Grumman and Applied Minds have announced the success of a recent launch and orbit of a Mayflower test microsatellite. Data gathered from around the world was analyzed, showing all tested sy ... more | .. |
 Astronauts Learn Ropes Strapping in Crews Astronauts climbing into a space shuttle are typically thinking about lots of things, from trajectories and abort scenarios to systems and when to talk to the launch team and mission controllers. No ... more |
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