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June 24, 2014

Elon Musk plans to take people to Mars within 10 years
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 24, 2014
Entrepreneur and inventor Elon Musk has some travel suggestions that are out of this world. The SpaceX CEO known as the brains behind the Tesla electric car says he wants to take humans to Mars during the next decade. Speaking to CNBC this week, the South African-born billionaire said that his main goal at this moment is to perfect technology that would make space travel possible in the not-so-distant future. In less than 12 years' time, he said, Musk wants to make the red planet a must-stop trave ... read more

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NASA's Science Mission Directorate Cubesat Initiative Beginning in October 2013, the NASA Science Mission Directorate, or SMD, started a new CubeSat Initiative - a cross divisional project to develop scientific CubeSats for all four science divisions ... more		Moon to see first tourists by 2017, single roundtrip ticket costs $150 mln The moon will welcome its first tourists as early as 2017, Space Adventures, a US-based space tourism company, said Wednesday. According to Space Adventures' head Tom Shelley, two brave folks have a ... more		US firm scrambles to replace Russian-made engine for Atlas rockets United Launch Alliance (ULA), the US joint venture providing space launch services in the US, has signed a number of contracts to find a replacement for the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engine, which ... more
				Scientists work on 'quantum superclock' to reveal mysteries of time itself Physicists say they believe they're on track to creating a "quantum superclock" that would revolutionize the way the world tells time. If the work proves to be a success, than the concept of time as ... more		Can we see the arrow of time? Einstein's theory of relativity envisions time as a spatial dimension, like height, width, and depth. But unlike those other dimensions, time seems to permit motion in only one direction: forward. T ... more

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NASA considers sending quadcopter drone to look for life on Titan While one NASA probe whizzes by Saturn's moon Titan on Thursday to analyze its atmosphere, the American space agency is also considering a plan to send a quadcopter drone capable of searching for li ... more		SpaceX to launch six satellites all at once Tonight, private aeronautics company SpaceX is planning to launch six satellites into orbit via its Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket is set to blast off at 6:08 p.m. from its launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. ... more				Companies to merge expertise for space program products Sierra Nevada Corporation plans to acquire Orbital Technologies Corporation, a sub-systems integrator and high-tech company. ... more
				A Laser Message from Space Anyone who remembers dialup internet can sympathize with the plight of NASA mission controllers. Waiting for images to arrive from deep space, slowly downloading line by line, can be a little like t ... more		Cosmic Impacts May Help Create Suitable Habitat for Life Cosmic impacts are known to trigger mass extinctions on Earth. However, a new study adds to evidence that asteroid and cometary bombardment can also shelter life by generating pores in rocks that sh ... more

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Titan Flybys Test the Talents of NASA's Cassini Team As NASA's Cassini spacecraft zooms toward Saturn's smoggy moon Titan for a targeted flyby on June 18, mission scientists are excitedly hoping to repeat a scientific tour de force that will provide v ... more		NASA Turns Down the Volume on Rocket Noise NASA engineers recently went on an auricle ride as a scale model of the Space Launch System (SLS), including solid rocket motors, was fired - giving an "earful" of information about how low- and hi ... more				NASA Invites Comment on Mars 2020 Environmental Impact Statement NASA is requesting the public and interested organizations to review and comment on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the agency's proposed Mars 2020 mission. The comment period ru ... more
Opportunity is exploring the west rim of Endeavour Crater On Sol 3684 (June 4, 2014), Opportunity drove over 62 feet (19 meters) south along the ridgeline of the crater rim. Over Sols 3686 to 3688 (June 6 to June 8, 2014), the plan was to perform a ' ... more		Mega-Earth in Draco Smashes Notions of Planetary Formation Worlds like this one aren't supposed to exist. In Draco the Dragon-the 8th largest constellation in our sky-there exists asolid planet weighing close to 17 times as much as Earth. This announcement ... more		NASA Announces Latest Progress in Hunt for Asteroids NASA is on the hunt for an asteroid to capture with a robotic spacecraft, redirect to a stable orbit around the moon, and send astronauts to study in the 2020s - all on the agency's human Path to M ... more		Japan PM Abe wants to stage 2020 Robot Olympics Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to stage a "Robot Olympics" in 2020, the same year Tokyo hosts the Summer Games, local media reported Thursday. ... more

	Arianespace A World Leader In The Satellite Launch Market At CommunicAsia 2014 from June 17 to 20, Arianespace confirms its predominant position among satellite manufacturers and operators in the Asia-Pacific region with more than 60% market share. This ye ... more		D-Day for the International Space Station So, Russia hasn't stopped operations on the International Space Station. Soyuz spacecraft will continue to carry cosmonauts and astronauts there, despite growing international tensions on Earth. We ... more

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Discovery of Earth's Northernmost Perennial Spring

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Messenger Spots Giant Space Weather Effects at Mercury

Hydrothermal Vents Could Explain Chemical Precursors to Life

Boeing reveals prototype spacecraft for human transport

Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket to undergo final testing

International Space Station to feature first coffee maker

NASA's abandoned ISEE-3 craft to return to Earth's orbit

Wealthy Chinese buy space flight tickets: report

Week Begins With Spacesuit Checks Before Thursday Spacewalk

Nasa readies satellite to measure atmospheric CO2

Cracks in Pluto's Moon Could Indicate it Once Had an Underground Ocean

Decontamination System to Up Research on Space Station

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