Space

Space Shuttle Endeavour

Bob Edwards | Posted 11.21.2008 | Living

Read More: XM Satellite, Sirius Satellite, Space Shuttle Launch, Public Radio, Nasa Turns 50, Space, Living News
Bob Edwards

As NASA lit that candle and sent Endeavour into space, I got the rush of a lifetime! More brave human beings were putting their lives on the line so that we will all know a little more about the universe.

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Alien Planets Found: Planets Outside Our Solar System Photographed For The First Time

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 11.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Photos, Alien Planets, Nasa, Space Exploration, Space, Science, Home News

WASHINGTON — Earth seems to have its first fuzzy photos of alien planets outside our solar system, images captured by two teams of astronomers. ...

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A Call For Attention

Suzanne Taylor | Posted 10.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Aliens, Interplanetary Communication, Living, Extraterrestrials, Crop Circles, Space, Living News
Suzanne Taylor

We love our science fiction, but we titter when we talk about UFOs. What never gets discussed is how valuable it would be if extraterrestrials turned out to be the real deal.

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Flight School: Day 0

Esther Dyson | Posted 10.18.2008 | Living

Read More: Russia, Space, Swimming, Star City, Astronauts, Training, Living News
Esther Dyson

So, here I am at Star City near Moscow, getting a medical check-up in order to go into training as a backup astronaut.

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Space "Smells Like Steak And Metal," Astronauts Say

Times Online | Posted 10.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Space Travel, Nasa, Perfume, Space, Smell, Astronauts, Meat, Metal, Home News

Outer space smells like hot metal, fried steak and the welding of a motorbike, scientists suggest. A chemist is recreating the smell to help Nasa to t...

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National Humiliation Reaches Peak Under Bush

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 10.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Biological Diversity, Barack Obama, Climate Change, Space, Georgia, Bush, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

How do you vote for leaders who ignored climate change, mocked any concern for the loss of habitat and biological diversity, and dismantled the wall separating church and state?

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U.S. Space Policy = Waste As Much Money As Possible

Ronald Mirman | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Nasa, John McCain, Barack Obama, Weather Forecasts, Space, 2008 Campaign, Space Flight, Gps, Space Policy, Election 2008, Pilot, Robotic Spacecraft, Home News
Ronald Mirman

Both Barack Obama and John McCain have spoken on space policy, and both are wrong. McCain is clearly more interested (he was a pilot and Republicans t...

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Lost in McSpace

Adam Blickstein | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, John McCain, Nasa, China, Space, Politics News
Adam Blickstein

McCain's sanguine view of space is contradicted by a reckless and misguided worldview which would put NASA in peril.

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NASA's Five-Year Hiatus Will See The US Rely On The Russian Space Program

NY Times | JOHN SCHWARTZ | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Nasa, US Russia Relations, Space, Russian Space Program, Russia Georgia War, Politics News

STAR CITY, Russia -- This place was once no place, a secret military base northeast of Moscow that did not show up on maps. The Soviet Union trained i...

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China Space Mission Article Hits Web Before Launch

Posted 09.25.2008 | Media

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NASA: Computer Virus On The International Space Station

BBC | Posted 08.27.2008 | Home

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A computer virus is alive and well on the International Space Station (ISS). Nasa has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected...

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Virgin Galactic Mothership Unveiled by Branson (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

Posted 07.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Virgin Galactic, Space, Richard Branson, Space Tourism, Technology, Business News

Scroll down for photos and video. From the AP: MOJAVE, Calif. - Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program. ...

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Ice on Mars: Good for the Jews?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 06.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Mars Spacecraft, Phoenix Lander, Jews, Judaism, Space, Science, Mars, Phoenix Lander Mars, Living News
Marty Kaplan

If scientists believe that invisible dark matter and unobservable dark energy make up the vast majority of the universe, then why should mystical accounts of an unseeable cosmos be any more inconceivable?

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NASA's New Spacesuit Design For Missions To The Moon

Huffington Post | Posted 06.17.2008 | Home

Read More: New Space Suit, New Space Suit Design, Nasa, Spacesuit, Space, Science, New Spacesuit Design, Nasa New Spacesuit, Home News

NASA is redesigning the spacesuit for the first time since the late 1970s. The new design will replace the older, bulkier suit with a sleeker version...

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Human triumph on Mars

Phil Plait | Posted 05.26.2008 | Living

Read More: Nasa, Mars, Astronomy, Phoenix, Space, Living News
Phil Plait

This is what we humans can do when we try. When we persist and learn from our mistakes, we can literally touch other worlds.

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Branson On Stalking Sartre, Joining The Mile High Club, And Marrying A Google Guy

Details | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Richard Branson, Space, Virgin Mobile, Billionaires, Larry Page, Virgin Atlantic, Jean-Paul Sartre, Google, Business News

In this month's issue of Details magazine, Richard Branson, billionaire and renegade mogul, sounds off on a number of different issues. On his early...

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Do Humans Deserve to Find Life on Other Planets?

Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 03.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Baiji Dolphin, Earth, Astronomy, Life on Other Planets, Tibet, Space, Humans and Primates, Living News
Glenn Hurowitz

I find the idea of life on other planets enormously uplifting: life is a miracle. But the idea of our civilization finding life on other planets fills me with apprehension.

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Defense Department Study: 'Drilling Up' Into Space For Energy

AP | CHARLES J. HANLEY | Posted 12.23.2007 | Business

Read More: Space Energy, Space Power, Drilling Up Into Space, Defense Department, Space, Business News

While great nations fretted over coal, oil and global warming, one of the smallest at the U.N. climate conference was looking toward the heavens for i...

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The Great Big Engine That Didn't

Gerald Bracey | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Sputnik, Outer Space, Russia Sputnik, Space, Sputnik Anniversary, Politics News
Gerald Bracey

How could a technologically backward country like Russia beat the acknowledged world leader into space? They beat us into space because they had better schools.

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Google Lunar XPrize Takes Off

Esther Wojcicki | Posted 09.13.2007 | Business

Read More: Moon, Mars, Lunar, Space, Google, Nasa, Space Exploration, Xprize, Space Education, Business News
Esther Wojcicki

Over three decades after humanity last put a representative on the Moon, a new era in space exploration begins today in Los Angeles as the Google Lunar XPrize launches.

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Spaceport America: Virgin Galactic Unveils Plans For Tourist Spaceport In New Mexico

Business Week | Dianna Dilworth | Posted 09.06.2007 | Home

Read More: Space, Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic, Virgin, Space Travel, Space Tourism, Space Shuttle, Home News

As NASA prepares to retire the space shuttle by the end of the decade, just in time for completion of the International Space Station, the tourism ind...

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