Space waste: Handling garbage when your dumpster is 100 million miles away? November 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In space, no one takes out the trash. Garbage can pile up, spoil and become a health hazard for astronauts in the cramped living quarters of a space station. | |
 SETI Astronomer Envisions Technology Capable of Receiving ET Signals by 2032 November 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- SETI, (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Senior Astronomer Seth Shostak and host of the weekly radio show "Are We Alone," predicted during a recent conference in San Francisco that ... | |
 Comet particles provide glimpse of solar system's birth spasms November 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Scientists are tracking the violent convulsions in the giant cloud of gas and dust that gave birth to the solar system 4.5 billion years ago via a few tiny particles from comet Wild 2. | |
 Indian probe lands on moon (Update) November 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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An Indian probe landed on the moon on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation announced, in a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme. | |
International Space Station turns 10 November 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
The International Space Station, one of the most ambitious space projects ever and a key launching board for exploration of the solar system, including Mars and beyond, turns 10 years old Thursday. | |
 Astronauts step outside space station for lube job November 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Two astronauts stepped outside the international space station Tuesday for an unprecedented clean and lube job on a gummed-up joint. | |
 NASA Restores Historic Lunar Orbiter Image November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA released a newly restored 42-year-old image of Earth on Thursday. The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft took the iconic photograph of Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966. Using refurbished ... | |
 Transforming Urine into Water: Astronauts to Install New Space Station Water System November 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Two hundred and fifty miles above the Earth puts you a long way from the nearest kitchen tap. And at $10,000 a pint, the cost of shipping fresh water aboard the space shuttle is, well, astronomical. | |
 Spacewalkers suit up for in-orbit cleaning job November 18, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Two astronauts face a tedious cleaning and lube job Tuesday, the first of a series of spacewalks to resurrect a massive joint that turns one of the international space station's power-generating solar-panel ... | |
 Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars October 28, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars. This discovery suggests that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a ... | |
US space-funeral company plans to launch lunar cemetery November 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A US funeral business that specializes in launching cremated human remains into Earth's orbit has begun taking reservations for landing small capsules of ashes on the moon, announced the company's founder. | |
 Astronauts face hardest spacewalk to finish repair November 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Astronauts up on the international space station faced the longest and hardest spacewalk of their mission Saturday, a seven-hour-plus excursion to wrap up repair work on a gummed-up joint. | |
Pressure mounts to keep shuttle flying November 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Endeavour sits on launch pad 39-A ready to launch to the international space station Friday, leaving only nine more scheduled flights before NASA mothballs the shuttle fleet to make way for a new generation of moon rockets. | |
 Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive from NASA's Spirit Rover November 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of "She's talking!" among the ... | |
 The Sun Shows Signs of Life November 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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After two-plus years of few sunspots, even fewer solar flares, and a generally eerie calm, the sun is finally showing signs of life. "I think solar minimum is behind us," says sunspot forecaster David Hathaway ... | |
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