Tag: space exploration
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NASA Finds More Earth-like Planets Outside Solar System
from japantimes.com: More planets that are near twins to Earth have been found outside our solar system – tantalizing worlds that could host extraterrestrial life. Astronomers announced Tuesday that, depending on definitions, they have confirmed three or four more planets that are about the same size as Earth and are in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold “Goldilocks…
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Red Planet Shows Signs of Life
from Press TV: NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back scientific data suggesting new evidence of water on Mars. The rover released pictures indicating that the Gale Crater on Mars used to be a huge lake of water far back in history. With the new evidence of water, the Red Planet must have been suitable for…
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Bad weather delays Japan asteroid probe lift off
from phys.org: Bad weather will delay the launch of a Japanese space probe on a six-year mission to mine a distant asteroid, just weeks after a European spacecraft’s historic landing on a comet captivated the world. Hayabusa2 had been set to blast off aboard Japan’s main H-IIA rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan…
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NASA to Send Robotic Doctor to Space
from RT.com: NASA is developing a humanoid robot to perform medical procedures, including surgery, at the International Space Station and even en route to Mars. The robot, which is named ‘Robonaut 2,’ is now undergoing further development and tests at Houston Methodist Research Institute. Dr. Zsolt Garami, an instructor at the institute, told Computerworld that…
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Over 1,000 chosen for one-way #Mars reality-TV mission
from channelnewsasia.com: More than 1,000 candidates — from 200,000 hopefuls — have been chosen to train for a private Mars colonisation mission to be partly funded by a reality-TV show following their training and subsequent steps, organisers said Thursday. They are to be whittled down to just 24, who will be sent over six launches…
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China Launches First Moon Mission
from cnn.com: China launched ts first lunar probe early Monday, which, if all goes well, will make it only the third nation — after the United States and the Soviet Union — to soft-land on the moon. The launch of the unmanned probe took place at 1:30 a.m. Monday (12:30 p.m. ET Sunday), state-run Xinhua…
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India launches its first mission to Mars
from redicecreations.com: India will aim today to become the first Asian nation to launch a space probe to the planet Mars. (Update: The rocket carrying the probe successfully lifted-off at 09.08 UT). The cut-price mission is due to blast off carrying an unmanned craft to orbit the Red Planet, studying its geology, climate, atmosphere and…
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55 Years of Space Exploration, 1957 – 2012
A fast history of space exploration provided by You Tube video “55 Years of Space Exploration, 1957 – 2012,” gets packed into little over five minutes! Don’t you wish all your history classes were as quick? Thanks goes to Universe Today and Northwestern University Space Technology and Rocketry Society.
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life in the outer solar system
Europa seems high on a short list of worlds to explore. The Jovian moon has a global-wide ocean underneath a surface of solid ice, the prospect of finding life seems promising. Mark Elowitz’s Europa Exobiology page provides excellent pictures and even suggests an explanation for the reddish spots, which may be warmer ice rising near…
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clyde lewis: nazi lunatic outposts
Ground Zero Live’s Clyde Lewis returns to KXL reinvigorated with fresh material from last weekend’s Conspiracy Con. In a new article, “Nazi Lunatic Outposts,” Lewis asks, “what if…there is more up there in space?” A brief list of lunar anomalies include the blue gem of Aristarchus crater and 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 photograph of six…
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space x ‘falcon heavy’ to lift off in 2013
Are launch costs too high and weighing down your bottom line? Elon Musk, Space X founder, pitches his Falcon Heavy booster as right for the job to lift your prospects! In a Discovery News article, Musk says, “…we can realistically start to contemplate missions like a Mars sample return, which requires a tremendous amount of…