Video updates reporting progress made on NASA’s newest family of exploration vehicles — the Ares I crew launch vehicle and Ares V heavy cargo launch vehicle — are now featured on iTunes. The Ares Projects quarterly progress reports offer viewers a rare glimpse at the on-going development work of the next-generation launch vehicles that will [...]

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NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer mission, or IBEX, successfully launched from the Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean at 1:47 p.m. EDT, Sunday. IBEX will be the first spacecraft to image and map dynamic interactions taking place in the outer solar system. Tags: NASA

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Khrunichev and International Launch Services announce an anomaly during today’s Proton mission with the AMC-14 satellite. The Proton Breeze M rocket lifted off at 5:18 a.m. today local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, carrying the AMC-14 satellite for SES AMERICOM and its customer, EchoStar Corporation. Preliminary flight information indicates that the anomaly occurred during the [...]

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According to NASA, the Asteroid 2007 TU24 will closely approach the Earth to within 1.4 lunar distances (334,000 miles or 537521 kilometers) on 2008 Jan. 29 08:33 UT. Asteroid 2007 TU24 has between 150 and 600 meters in diameter will be observable in dark and clear skies with amateur telescopes of 3 inch apertures or [...]

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Eight-year-old boys dream of being superheroes — flying high above the clouds with nothing to limit themselves but their imaginations. For young adventurer Danner Cronise, Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G), the first and only FAA-approved provider of commercial weightless flights, turned this dream into reality and enabled Danner to fly like Superman and enjoy 10-times more [...]

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More than 250 scientists and engineers across Europe are involved in the Venus Express mission, supported by their institutes and national space agencies. The mission also sees the contribution of scientists from Russia and Japan, as well as from NASA, which sponsors 15 American Venus Express scientists and provides support to the radio science investigation [...]

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Scientists are on the trail of Iapetus’ mysterious dark side, which seems to be home to a bizarre ‘runaway’ process that is transporting vaporised water ice from the dark areas to the white areas of the Saturnian moon. Link to ESA article No tag for this post.

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Astronomers are promising a spectacular meteor shower tonight (most visible from 11pm on Sunday to 2am on Monday). Link No tag for this post.

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Is not a sci-fi movie. It will be real in near future! “Galactic Suite”, the first hotel planned in space, expects to open for business in 2012 and would allow guests to travel around the world in 80 minutes.” Till you go to booking tickets to next flight to Galactic Suite I should tell you [...]

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