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June 09, 2014

Orion Ready To Feel The Heat
Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jun 09, 2014
NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers have installed the largest heat shield ever constructed on the crew module of the agency's Orion spacecraft. The work marks a major milestone on the path toward the spacecraft's first launch in December. "It is extremely exciting to see the heat shield in place, ready to do its job," said Mark Geyer, Orion Program manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "The heat shield is such a critical piece, not just for this mission, but for our plans to send huma ... read more

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Next ATV transferred to Final Assembly Building at Kourou Arianespace has taken delivery of the Ariane 5 for its launch of Europe's fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) following the heavy-lift workhorse's roll-out from the Spaceport's Launcher Integrati ... more		New evidence supporting moon formation via collision of 2 planets A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that the Moon formed from the collision of the Earth with another large, planet-sized astronomical body, around 4.5 billi ... more		DARPA Z-Man Program Demonstrates Human Climbing Like Geckos DARPA's Z-Man program has demonstrated the first known human climbing of a glass wall using climbing devices inspired by geckos. The historic ascent involved a 218-pound climber ascending and descen ... more
				Chatty Japan robot makes friends on first day at work A chatty humanoid robot whose makers claim it can understand people's emotions made its first friends Friday as it struck up conversations with shoppers in Tokyo. ... more		NASA's human spaceflight program doomed to fail: study The US space agency NASA has been warned that its mission to send humans to Mars will fail unless its revamps its methods and draws up a clear, well-planned strategy to conquer the red planet. ... more

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Massive Beast asteroid to have close call with Earth The so-called Beast asteroid is expected to miss Earth by about 777,000 miles, which is a good thing because the 1,100-foot wide behemoth could do serious damage. ... more		Big Brother creators to document Mars One mission The Dutch-based nonprofit Mars One, which aims to establish a human settlement on the Red Planet, has announced that it has signed a deal with Darlow Smithson Productions, an Endemol-owned company, ... more				NASA could not deliver humans to Mars Landing humans on Mars is unattainable for NASA if the space agency's current strategy and level of funding are not modified in the near future, according to a new congressionally-mandated report. T ... more
				Two planets orbit nearby ancient star An international team of astronomers, including five Carnegie scientists, reports the discovery of two new planets orbiting a very old star that is near to our own Sun. One of these planets orbits t ... more		First light for SPHERE exoplanet imager SPHERE passed its acceptance tests in Europe in December 2013 and was then shipped to Paranal. The delicate reassembly was completed in May 2014 and the instrument is now mounted on VLT Unit Telesco ... more

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NASA And Virgin Galactic Select Payloads For First Research Flight NASA and Virgin Galactic, the privately-funded spaceline owned by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Abu Dhabi's aabar Investments PJS, have identified twelve innovative research payloads that w ... more		Lockheed system to help track orbiting space objects Advanced S-Band phased array radars are to be provided to the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin for the Space Fence program, the company announced. ... more		NASA Invites Universities to Submit Innovative Technology Proposals NASA is seeking proposals from universities to advance the agency's plans for exploration to deep space and Mars. The Early Stage Innovations NASA Research Announcement calls for innovative space te ... more		Rover Corrects its Spacecraft Clock Opportunity is exploring south on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is conducting an in-situ (contact) science campaign in the northern part of the region of aluminum/hydroxyl clay mineral ... more

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NASA Missions Let Scientists See Moon's Dancing Tide From Orbit

Russian, German and US astronauts dock with ISS

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