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June 12, 2014

NASA Selects Five Projects for 2015 X-Hab Academic Innovation Challenge
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 12, 2014
NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation have selected five universities to design systems, concepts and technologies to enhance capabilities for deep space missions for the 2015 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge. The selections are the first milestone in a yearlong design and development effort for these five projects. Throughout the 2014-2015 academic year, the teams must meet a series of milestones to design, manufacture, assemble and test their systems and concepts ... read more

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CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

William Cress Corporation - We Build To Last

UAV Payloads 2014, 24 - 25 June - London, UK

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

NASA again delays flying saucer test For the fourth time in a week, NASA is postponing the inaugural launch of the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), a flying saucer prototype the space agency hopes one day can land on Mars. ... more		Maggie Aderin-Pocock goes boldly into space exploration Space travel could become widely affordable within the next 30 to 50 years and astronauts could one day live on Mars, scientist and The Sky at Night presenter Maggie Aderin-Pocock told a lecture aud ... more		US lawmaker warns of military 'misunderstanding' risk with China Spain approves 'total' arms embargo against Israel Khamenei says Iran 'won't yield' to pressure to abandon uranium enrichment		Orion Crew And Service Modules Stacked Following the completion of the heat shield installation, Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has stacked the Orion crew module atop of the service module. The stacking took place inside the Final Assembly ... more
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Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

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NASA Invites Universities to Submit Innovative Technology Proposals

DARPA Z-Man Program Demonstrates Human Climbing Like Geckos

Rover Corrects its Spacecraft Clock

Next ATV transferred to Final Assembly Building at Kourou

Orion Ready To Feel The Heat

Russia, US resume talks on new joint projects for ISS

CU-Boulder payload selected for launch on Virgin Galactic spaceship

One docking ring to rule them all

Here come the 'brobots'

Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World

Airbus's SpacePlane demonstrator tested in South China Sea

NASA Should Maintain Long-Term Focus on Mars as "Horizon Goal"

NASA And Virgin Galactic Select Payloads For First Research Flight

US may lose 'star wars' to Russia

Japan's SoftBank unveils 'family member' robot

Two planets orbit nearby ancient star

First light for SPHERE exoplanet imager

Galaxy possibly teeming with 100 million life-sustaining planets

Harsh space weather may doom potential life on red-dwarf planets

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