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April 02, 2014

Health risks of Mars mission would exceed NASA limits
Washington (AFP) April 02, 2014
Efforts to send humans to Mars would likely expose them to health risks beyond the limits of what NASA currently allows, an independent panel of medical experts said Wednesday. Therefore, any long-term or deep space missions - which are still decades off - need a special level of ethical scrutiny, said the report by the Institute of Medicine. "These types of missions will likely expose crews to levels of known risk that are beyond those allowed by current health standards, as well as to a rang ... read more

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NASA suspends Russia ties, except on space station NASA has cut all contacts with Russia except for cooperation aboard the International Space Station, according to an internal memo obtained by the online news site The Verge on Wednesday. ... more		Mars and Earth move closer together this month Spring is here, love is in the air, and Mars and Earth are getting a little closer this time of year. ... more		Dawn draws ever closer to dwarf planet Ceres Powering its way through deep space, Dawn draws ever closer to dwarf planet Ceres. To reach its destination, the interplanetary spaceship gently reshapes its path around the sun with its extraordina ... more
				EUTELSAT 3B Mission Status Update During the final "dry" roll-out phase of integrated launch vehicle (ILV) processing at Home Port in support of the EUTELSAT 3B mission, a discrepancy in the nominal movement of the cable-mast and th ... more		NASA Awards Digital Processor Assembly Contract for LCRD Flight Payload NASA has awarded the Digital Processor Assembly contract to SEAKR Engineering Inc., Centennial, Colo., for use on the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) project. This is a sole so ... more

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Scientists date Moon at 4.470 billion years The Moon was formed about 95 million years after the birth of our Solar System, in a collision that also settled the structure of Earth as we know it, according to the latest attempt at dating that impact. ... more		A Question of Atmospheres: On Earth and Beyond Scientists recently discovered the source of naturally occurring aerosol particles in Earth's atmosphere that play an important role in cloud formation. The particles in questions are known as 'clim ... more		Taiwan running out of time for satellite communications, space chief tells AFP US lawmaker warns of military 'misunderstanding' risk with China Venezuela accuses US of waging 'undeclared war,' urges UN probe		Misleading mineral may have resulted in overestimate of water in moon The amount of water present in the moon may have been overestimated by scientists studying the mineral apatite, says a team of researchers led by Jeremy Boyce of the UCLA Department of Earth, Planet ... more
				Soyuz ready for Sentinel-1A satellite launch The Soyuz for Arianespace's seventh mission with its medium-lift workhorse launcher is now in the launch zone at French Guiana, ready to receive the Sentinel-1A satellite payload for Europe's Copern ... more		NASA Commercial Crew Partners Complete Space System Milestones NASA's commercial space partners continue to meet milestones under agreements with the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), as they move forward in their development of spacecraft and rockets tha ... more

Developing the Next-Generation Military Radar while Maintaining Current Systems; IDGA�s Military Radar Summit - April 2014

International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

Nuclear Supply Chain Summit - April 28-29 Greenville SC

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Boeing wins contract to design DARPA Airborne Satellite Launch What Boeing vehicle would hitch a ride on an F-15E, drop from the aircraft, fire its engines and deploy microsatellites into space? It's a new satellite launch vehicle concept designed by Phantom Wo ... more		Space Observation Optics Cover from IR to X-ray Wavelengths Optical Surfaces is a leading designer and supplier of high precision, ground telescope and satellite-based space observation optics operating over the entire spectral range from infrared to x-ray w ... more		Toxic homes a lasting legacy of Los Angeles fires 'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years		Study finds astronauts' hearts become more spherical in space New findings from a study of 12 astronauts show the heart becomes more spherical when exposed to long periods of microgravity in space, a change that could lead to cardiac problems, according to res ... more
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Soyuz ready for Sentinel-1A satellite launch

Boeing wins contract to design DARPA Airborne Satellite Launch

EUTELSAT 3B Mission Status Update

The Opposition of Mars

Health risks of Mars mission would exceed NASA limits

Mars and Earth move closer together this month

Misleading mineral may have resulted in overestimate of water in moon

Scientists date Moon at 4.470 billion years

Unique camera from NASA's moon missions sold at auction

Dwarf planet 'Biden' identified in an unlikely region of our solar system

Planet X myth debunked

WISE Finds Thousands Of New Stars But No Planet X

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Cleaner NASA Rover Sees Its Shadow in Martian Spring

Cosmic collision creates mini-planet with rings

Russian spacecraft brings three-man crew to ISS after two-day delay

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Mars One building simulated colony to vet potential colonists

Four Moons About Saturn's Rings

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Robotic arm probes chemistry of 3-D objects by mass spectrometry

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Advancing the Technology Readiness Of SLS Adaptive Controls

You've got mail: Clinton-to-space laptop up for auction

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First Ring System Around Asteroid

Technical hitch delays US-Russia crew's ISS docking

NASA Seeks Suborbital Flight Proposals

The NASA Z-2 Spacesuit Design Vote

Mars-mimicking chamber explores habitability of other planets

Unique camera from NASA's moon missions sold at auction

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