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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 15 May 2008
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 Giving themselves a decade to put it together, Roskosmos – the Russian Space Agency – and the ESA are partnering to create a new type of manned spacecraft. According to Roskosmos, the craft could carry up to six astronauts and would launch from a new space facility currently under construction in Siberia. Russian engineers will be responsible for building the crew capsule, while the ESA will construct and supply the disposable launch and support systems.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 15 May 2008
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 Among more than 1000 documents from the late 1970’s and early 80’s are some interesting bits. Responding to a number of freedom of information requests about the British government’s UFO reports, the National Archives of the United Kingdom are opening up their files to the public. The first of several batches to be released over the next few years offers explanations for most all UFO reports, but there are still a few that remain unexplained. That said, there Ministry of Defense has not found any evidence of alien activity or alien spacecraft – just things that couldn’t be explained.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 15 May 2008
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 Microsoft Research has officially launch a new piece of software: WorldWide Telescope. The free software allows users with internet access to explore the universe from their computer via a new comprehensive digital archive of imagery from the world’s best telescopes. Users can zoom and pan around at virtual warp speed to get an up-close look at some of our universe’s most interesting features.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 15 May 2008
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 While the Vatican now recognizes that the Earth in fact is not the center of the universe and has posthumously pardoned our dear friend Galileo Galilei, the head of the Catholic Church is not yet ready to admit that there are aliens. Nevertheless, in an interview with The Vatican’s semi-official L’Osservator Romano newspaper, the church’s chief astronomer Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes said that the notion of extraterrestrial beings “doesn’t contradict our faith.”
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 08 May 2008
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 Both a former US Senator and a legendary astronaut, when John Glenn speaks about NASA, people have a tendency to listen. Glenn not only was the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth, but also is the oldest astronaut, having rode the space shuttle into orbit in 1998 - at age of 77. Glenn was present at the unveiling of the restored HD NASA footage earlier this week, where he called on a NASA funding boost to extend shuttle flights and continue work on the International Space Station.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 08 May 2008
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 A few years ago, the Discovery Channel dived into NASA’s archives and pulled out the original film footage from the earliest NASA missions. They took the master reals and rescanned them in high definition in preparation for the upcoming series When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions. NASA, owning the footage, decided to make the new HD library available to the public, releasing more than 100 hours of restored film.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 08 May 2008
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 Mounted onto a massive orange external fuel tank and two large solid-fuel rocket boosters, the space shuttle Discovery this week crawled to the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A. The shuttle is scheduled to launch May 31st on a construction mission to the International Space Station. Commanded by veteran NASA astronaut Mark Kelly, Discovery will be carrying the remaining third portion of JAXA’s Kibo Laboratory on a two-week mission.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 01 May 2008
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 There’s an organization called GovernmentAttic.org that makes it its business to file Freedom of Information Act requests to see what it can get from the United States federal government’s files. Their site is filled with loads of obscure data that is available to the public, but the government doesn’t publish unless you ask about it. Most FOIA requests are for things that the government was secretive about in the past, but GovernmentAttic recently filed a request that was an odd one: the contents of the International Space Station’s media library. As you can imagine, a space station is going to have loads of science fiction, and there’s plenty, from Star Wars to the Matrix to Lost. But there’s something missing: Star Trek.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 01 May 2008
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 NASA saw this one coming, the Space Shuttle Atlantis’ mission to the Hubble Space Telescope haw been delayed by at least a month. As we reported a month ago, the delays getting two external fuel tanks ready for the Hubble mission for late August have added up to the point where NASA won’t be able to catch up in time. So much so that the launch has been pushed back four to five weeks.
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 01 May 2008
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 In 1964, Frank Sinatra and Count Basie released the hit song “Fly Me to the Moon,” and five years later the song itself went to the moon with the crew of Apollo 10. Now you can fly yourself to the moon, or at least your name. As was done with the Phoenix mission currently en route to Mars, as well as the Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity, NASA has opened up the upcoming Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to name submissions.
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