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Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening

Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 11

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.


Success in 'space elevator' competition (AP)

Success in 'space elevator' competition (Update 3)

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created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (34) | comments 53

(AP) -- A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the ...


Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed

Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 1

The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like ...


Spacesuits with artificial intelligence may look for life on Mars

Spacesuits with artificial intelligence may look for life on Mars

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created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts may in future be wearing spacesuits equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital eyes, turning them into what the researchers call cyborg astrobiologists.


A Mars Rover Named 'Curiosity'

A Mars Rover Named 'Curiosity'

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you found your grandmother's diary, tattered and dust covered, up in the attic, would you read it? Of course you would. Granny was a pistol! Brush off the dust, open up the little book, ...


2 parachutes malfunctioned in NASA test flight (AP)

2 parachutes malfunctioned in NASA test flight

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created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(AP) -- Two of three parachutes malfunctioned in the test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, causing major damage to the booster, NASA said Friday.


Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars (AP)

Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars

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created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 36

(AP) -- Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.


NASA's new moon rocket makes first test flight (AP)

NASA's Ares I-X moon rocket makes first test flight

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight.


Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds

Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.


Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented

Meteorite from Sept. 25 fireball event recovered and presented

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created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 2

When Tony Garchinski heard a loud crash just after 9 p.m. on Friday, September 25 he didn't think much of it. That is, until he awoke the next morning to find the windshield of his mom's Nissan Pathfinder ...


UNH space scientists help catch the interstellar wind

Scientists Explore Galactic Frontier, Release First-Ever All-Sky Map (w/ Video)

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (23) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky ...


How the Moon produces its own water

How the Moon produces its own water

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created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (14) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Moon is a big sponge that absorbs electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. These particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface, producing ...


BioModule Water Bears

Water Bears to Travel to Martian Moon, Test Theory of Transpermia

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (14) | comments 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny microscopic creatures commonly known as water bears (also called Tardigrades), along with a few other life forms, will be sent to the Martian moon Phobos to test whether organisms can ...


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Scientists work to free Mars rover Spirit

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past several weeks, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory finished experimentation on methods to get the rover Spirit unstuck from its location near a plateau called Home Plate.


Astronomers Detect Sodium Gas Ejected by Lunar Impact

Astronomers Detect Sodium Gas Ejected by Lunar Impact

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created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Boston University astronomers announced today observations of a cloud of sodium gas ejected from the Moon’s surface as a result of the NASA impact experiment that was part of its Lunar Reconnaissance ...