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September 29, 2005
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said on Tuesday that he believes the whole shuttle and space station projects have been a mistake. He said that since the 70's and the retirement of the Apollo missions that NASA has not chosen the ...
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May 25, 2005
This is pretty cool news. Magnetic readings aboard Voyager I show a change which indicates that the spacecraft has left the influence of the sun, a fluctuating boundary called the Termination Shock, and entered into a region called the Heliosheath. ...
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April 11, 2005
Cool! Hopefully they'll discover something that simply can't be ignored by the general public. Like a partially buried monolith or somethin'. NASA JPL NASA has approved up to 18 more months of operations for Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars ...
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Japan has released an ambitious 20 year plan for its space program. It includes robotic and nanotech visits to the moon culminating in a moon landing by 2025. MSNBC Japan's space agency mapped out a new, ambitious plan for ...
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January 24, 2005
While it's exciting to see China going into space I still have reservations about them. They seem to have moved more towards capitalism, but there's still the issue of Taiwan and China saying they will crush them recently that gives ...
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January 17, 2005
Stitched and colored image of Titan during descent as put together by Christian Waldvogel (via anthony.liekens.net where there are more images) Composite of a 360-degrees view during descent, using 11 of the raw images. the raw images were corrected ...
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January 14, 2005
The joint Cassini-Huygens has launched the probe Huygens to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan. Cassini continues to orbit relaying information being sent from the probe on the surface back to Earth. It's really quite incredible when you think ...
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December 28, 2004
The first shots have been made in the privatization of space tourism and they have been fired by the dynamic duo of Burt Rutan and Richard Branson. Burt Rutan is recently well known for being the designer of the ...
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December 10, 2004
Seems with the Shuttle grounded and poor planning the crew on the International Space Station needs to cut down on eating and hope that a supply ship arrives on time two weeks from now. If there is any trouble with ...
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December 01, 2004
Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation have released a full-scale mockup of an untested design it wants to replace the reliable Soyuz craft it has used for decades with. The only hitch is they have no money. I personally ...
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October 04, 2004
Gordon Cooper, one of the original 7 Mercury astronauts, passed away today, he was 77. "As one of the original seven Mercury astronauts, Gordon Cooper was one of the faces of America's fledgling space program," said NASA Administrator Sean ...
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