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![]() Houston TX (SPX) Apr 27, 2012 Three astronauts on Friday landed safely in the Kazakh steppe aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule after a stay of almost six months aboard the International Space Station. Live NASA TV footage showed Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronaut Dan Burbank touched down at 1145 GMT under a clear blue sky after deploying a massive parachute that helped their capsule glide safely through the lower reaches of orbit. ... read more |
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![]() Martian Volcanic Glass Could Be Hotspot for Life Glass sand on Mars may point the way to chemically-rich water ideal for hosting life. The newly discovered glass dune fields, spread across almost a third of the planet, likely formed from interacti ... more | .. |
![]() Moon Express Delivers Lunar Mission Design Report for mining the Moon for precious resources Moon Express has announced that it has successfully delivered a mission design package to NASA under its Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data (ILDD) Program, providing NASA continuing data on the dev ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Research Estimates How Long Titan's Chemical Factory Has Been in Business Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" cr ... more | .. | ||
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![]() ORBITEC and Sierra Nevada Space Systems Begin Testing Dream Chaser Life Support and Thermal Systems Orbital Technologies (ORBITEC) is the prime contractor for Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) and Thermal Control System (TCS) for the Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Dream Chas ... more | .. |
![]() Mars Express explores the roots of Martian volcanoes Recent analysis of radio signals sent back by ESA's Mars Express orbiter has enabled a team of Belgian and German scientists to probe deep beneath the surface of Mars. The first targeted, high resol ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Finds Saturn Moon has Planet-Like Qualities Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought. Scientists had their first close-up look at Phoebe when Cassini began exploring t ... more | .. |
![]() Expedition 30 Crew Returning Home Friday The six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station packed cargo and shifted their sleep schedule Thursday as three Expedition 30 crew members prepare to return to Earth early F ... more |
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![]() Three Earthlike planets identified by Cornell astronomers It's not little green men, but it could be a step in that direction: Cornell astronomers, using data from the NASA Kepler Mission, have identified three Earthlike planets orbiting their own suns, al ... more | .. |
![]() Space -- the next frontier for Hillary Clinton? She has been the US secretary of state, a senator and nearly became president, but Hillary Clinton joked Thursday that she might want to try another role - space tourist. ... more | .. |
![]() Lava flows carved Mars valleys: study Lava flows carved valleys on Mars, US scientists said Thursday amid a long-running debate over whether water or volcanoes formed part of the red planet's landscape. ... more | .. |
![]() Dawn Reveals Secrets of Giant Asteroid Vesta Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure. The f ... more |
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![]() Did Exploding Stars Help Life On Earth To Thrive? Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars - supernovae - near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of life. Prof. Henrik Svensmark of the Techni ... more | .. |
![]() Indian rocket being fuelled for Risat-1 launch With 5.47 am Thursday set for the blast-off of the Indian rocket carrying a remote sensing/earth observation satellite - Radar Imaging Satellite (Risat-1) - into space, the Indian space agency is fu ... more | .. |
![]() Company to Create 'Gas Stations' in Space A company based in the northwestern United States called Planetary Resources says it plans to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. Planetary Reso ... more | .. |
![]() J-2X Engine Ready For Second Test Series The next-generation engine that will help carry humans deeper into space than ever is back, bigger and better. The J-2X engine is currently on the A-2 Test Stand at NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mi ... more |
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![]() Three astronauts to land from ISS Friday Three astronauts are due to land on Earth Friday after almost six months on board the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian flight control centre said on its website. ... more | .. |
![]() First fertile, then futile: ammonites or the boon and bane of many offspring Ammonites changed their reproductive strategy from initially few and large offspring to numerous and small hatchlings. Thanks to their many offspring, they survived three mass extinctions, a researc ... more | .. |
![]() SpaceX aims for May 7 launch to ISS SpaceX confirmed Tuesday it plans to launch a rocket and capsule on May 7 in a historic first flight of a private spaceship to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
![]() SwRI Scientists Assess Age Of Titan's Organic Atmosphere Shrouded in a thick, complex, organic haze, Saturn's giant moon Titan is proving to be one of the most scientifically interesting destinations in the solar system. Titan's atmosphere, which is mostl ... more |
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![]() Computer scoring of student work debated Computers may someday help teachers grade their students' essays, and can provide results that mirror human scores, some U.S. educators say. ... more | .. |
![]() US firm plans to mine asteroids A startup backed by top Google executives and film director James Cameron on Tuesday unveiled a plan to mine asteroids for precious minerals and water. ... more | .. |
![]() Scientist unveils mind-controlled robot for paraplegics A professor at a Swiss university on Tuesday unveiled a robot that can be controlled by the brainwaves of a paraplegic person wearing an electrode-fitted cap, news agency ATS reported. ... more | .. |
![]() NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Brings 'Earthrise' to Everyone Imagine yourself in orbit, your spacecraft flying backward with its small window facing down toward the surface of the moon. You peer out, scouring the ash-colored contours of the cratered landscape ... more |
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![]() New brain-machine interface moves a paralyzed hand A new Northwestern Medicine brain-machine technology delivers messages from the brain directly to the muscles - bypassing the spinal cord - to enable voluntary and complex movement of a paralyzed ha ... more | .. |
![]() Intelsat 19 Satellite Arrives at Sea Launch Home Port Site The spacecraft for the Intelsat-19 mission contracted for launch by Sea Launch AG has been delivered on April 17th to the "Home Port" launch complex in Long Beach, California. The Intelsat 19 ... more | .. |
![]() Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn Ring Scientists working with images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered strange half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails b ... more | .. |
![]() People to Land on Mars in Next 40 Years The world may see a manned spaceflight to Mars in the first half of this century, a prominent Russian academic said on Monday. "I think [a manned trip to Mars] will take place in the first hal ... more |
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![]() Assembly begins for the third Ariane 5 to be launched in 2012 The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's third heavy-lift mission of 2012 is now taking shape at the Spaceport, using procedures that have become routine with this workhorse vehicle's operations from French G ... more | .. |
![]() The 'Missile Woman' behind Indian test launch Hailed as a trail blazer in male-dominated India, Tessy Thomas juggles domestic duties with her day job - as the country's top ballistic missile expert. ... more | .. |
![]() Mechanical tests for SHEFEX The SHEFEX II (SHarp Edge Flight EXperiment) spacecraft successfully withstood vibration on a shaker and spinning at two rotations per second. These tests represented the final simulation of the con ... more | .. |
![]() Crash of hypersonic test craft analyzed A U.S. military drone that hit 13,000 mph before crashing in the Pacific was damaged by the excessive heat of hypersonic flight, military officials say. ... more |
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