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SpaceX Dragon capsule splash lands in PacificWashington (AFP) May 31, 2012 US company SpaceX's cargo vessel Thursday splash landed in the Pacific Ocean, capping a successful mission to the International Space Station and blazing a new path for private spaceflight. "Splashdown successful!!" SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk said in a message on the microblogging site Twitter after the unmanned capsule landed in the waters off the Mexican coast at 11:42 am Eastern time (1542 GMT), SpaceX. Recovery vessels were headed toward the vessel, which drifted down with the aid of t ... read more |
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  Enceladus Plume is a New Kind of Plasma Laboratory Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent find ... more | .. |
  Rosetta flyby uncovers the complex history of asteroid Lutetia The long and tumultuous history of asteroid (21) Lutetia is revealed by a comprehensive analysis of the data gathered by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft when it flew past this large main-belt asteroid on 1 ... more | .. |
  On The Hunt For Light-Toned Veins Of Gypsum Opportunity completed her in-situ (contact) investigation of a dust patch on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is now on the hunt for more light-toned veins of gyp ... more | .. |
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  Astronomers Probe 'Evaporating' Planet Around Nearby Star with Hobby-Eberly Telescope Astronomers from The University of Texas at Austin and Wesleyan University have used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at UT Austin's McDonald Observatory to confirm that a Jupiter-size planet in a nearby ... more | .. |
 Wind may have driven avalanches on Martian dunes In the sand dunes in the north polar sand sea of Mars, sand avalanches that appear as wedge-shaped alcoves can be seen above fan-shaped deposits. The avalanches, which are typically several meters a ... more | .. |
 Venus transit may boost hunt for other worlds Astronomers around the world will be using advanced telescopes to watch Venus cross in front of the Sun on June 5 and 6 in the hopes of finding clues in the hunt for other planets where life may exist. ... more | .. |
  Sierra Nevada Announces the Completion of Four Dream Chaser Milestones FOR NASA Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems announces that the Dream Chaser Space System has successfully completed four additional NASA Commercial Crew Development Round 2 (CCDev2) Program Mile ... more |
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 UT's Josh Emery Uncovers Clues About Asteroid That Will Pass Near Earth The work of a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professor has helped reveal a rare orbital shift and the density of an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. Josh Emery, assistant professor ... more | .. |
  Why is China sending a woman into space? "China's first female astronauts have, trained hard and conscientiously, and are now ready to take part in the Shenzhou manned spaceflights. For all astronauts the implementation of a manned spacefl ... more | .. |
  Arctic bacteria help in the search to find life on moon Europa In a fjord in Canada scientists have found a landscape similar to one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa. It consists of a frozen and sulphurous environment, where sulphur associated with Arctic bacteri ... more | .. |
  NASA Lunar Spacecraft Complete Prime Mission Ahead of Schedule A NASA mission to study the moon from crust to core has completed its prime mission earlier than expected. The team of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, with twin prob ... more |
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  New Findings on Astronaut Vision Loss Could vision changes experienced by astronauts be linked to a vitamin B-12 or folate deficiency? While investigating the vision changes recently identified in astronauts, nutritional assessment data ... more | .. |
 Intelsat Signs First Commercial Falcon Heavy Launch Agreement with SpaceX Today, Intelsat, the world's leading provider of satellite services, and Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), the world's fastest growing space launch company, announced the first commercial con ... more | .. |
 Once Upon a Time Once upon a time there where two big bad wolves, each ripping off the taxpayers by charging exorbitant prices for putting satellites into orbit. For years and years these wolves were getting away wi ... more | .. |
 Mars missions may learn from meteor Down Under A discovery about the make-up of the atmosphere of Mars could help inform future missions searching for life there. Scientists have tried to find out how the planet's environment came to contain met ... more |
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Global search and rescue system gets recognition as real lifesaver
Solar flare ions reach extreme temperatures in breakthrough study
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 NSO To Use Venus Transit To Fine-Tune Search For Other Worlds A century ago, scientists chased transits of Mercury and Venus in an effort to size up our solar system. Next week, they will use the last Venus transit for a century to learn how to size up other s ... more | .. |
 UA Lunar-Mining Team Wins National Contest In what's become a common theme in the past year, a team of University of Alabama students won a national championship. The latest championship came not on an athletic field, rather on a simulated l ... more | .. |
 BC Company Becomes First Official Producer and Distributor of Replica SpaceX Spacecraft Less than an hour after Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) made spaceflight history by becoming the first commercial company ever to dock a spacecraft at the International Space Station, an ind ... more | .. |
 Tiangong 1 Ready To Meet Shenzhou 9 After Shenzhou 8 departed in November 2011, controllers raised the orbit of Tiangong 1 to preserve it from potential re-entry brought about by the air drag that causes all low orbits to decay. ... more |
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  Robotic jellyfish could one day patrol oceans, clean oil spills, and detect pollutants Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers are working on a multi-university, nationwide project for the U.S. Navy that one day will put life-like autonomous robot jellyfish in waters around t ... more | .. |
 US cargo ship on return voyage from space station The US company SpaceX's Dragon cargo vessel was released by the robotic arm of the International Space Station early Thursday at the start of its return to Earth from an historic mission. ... more | .. |
US cargo vessel prepares to leave space station US company SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship is preparing to make its return journey to Earth after a landmark mission to the International Space Station, NASA and SpaceX representatives said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 China launches telecommunication satellite China successfully sent a telecommunication satellite, "ChinaSat 2A," into orbit on Saturday evening, using a Long March-3B carrier rocket launched from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Cen ... more |
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First U.S. On-Shore Wave-Energy Pilot Switches On at the Port of Los Angeles
Nuclearn secures $10.5 million to expand AI platform for nuclear operations
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 Astronaut-inspired bone test could speed diagnoses A simple urine test could soon reveal more about a person's bones than X-rays, US researchers said Tuesday after publishing results of an early phase study funded by NASA. ... more | .. |
  Dragon on board The first Dragon commercial space ferry has berthed at the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers and his crewmates welcomed the new cargo ship and will start unloading the supplie ... more | .. |
 J-2X Engine Continues to Set Standards Testing of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine continues to set standards. Last fall, the engine attained 100 percent power in just its fourth test and became the fastest U.S. rocket engine to ac ... more | .. |
NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away. The celestial equivalent of "guess your weig ... more |
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 Liquid Oxygen Piston Pump Ready for Reusable Space Flight XCOR has achieved a key technical milestone with its flight weight rocket piston pump hardware. XCOR engineers have successfully and repeatedly pumped liquid oxygen (LOX) at flow rates required to s ... more | .. |
 OSIRIS-REx Scientists Measure Yarkovsky Effect Scientists with the University of Arizona-led asteroid sample return mission OSIRIS-REx have measured the orbit of their destination asteroid, 1999 RQ36, with such accuracy they were able to directl ... more | .. |
 Sea Launch Prepares for the Launch of Intelsat-19 The Sea Launch vessels have departed Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach, California for the equator, in preparation for the launch of the Intelsat-19 satellite owned by Intelsat. Liftoff is planned ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 booster roars into life An Ariane 5 solid-propellant booster was test-fired yesterday at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana to help improve the reliability of Europe's heavy launcher. The firing was performed in the ... more |
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