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Latest Space News 2010-02-25  *Delivered Daily!     Echoes of Apollo

First Images From ESA’s Water Mission

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Paris, France (ESA) Feb 24, 2010 – In less than four months since launch, the first calibrated images are being delivered by ESA’s SMOS mission. These images of ‘brightness temperature’ translate into …

Temperature Trackers Watch Our Watery World
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How can NASA better engage the public and inspire kids?
Discussion Point: Well known space commentator Miles O’Brien asked a question that got a lot of discussion going. I asked the same question to a mixed group on our facebook page and the NASA group on Linkedin.com Feel free to add your comments at the end [...]

Latest Space News 2010-02-24  *Delivered Daily!

India Plans To Send Two Astronauts Into Space

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Bangalore, India (PTI) Feb 23, 2010 – The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) plans to send two astronauts to space within six to seven years, ISRO chairman K Radhakrishnan said.

A Stellar, Metal-Free Way To Make Carbon Nanotubes

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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 23, 2010 [...]

Latest Space News 2010-02-23  *Delivered Daily!

Endeavour beats the weather and lands on schedule
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The shuttle Endeavour dropped through a partly cloudy sky and glided to a ghostly night landing at the Kennedy Space Center Sunday, leaving the International Space Station behind with a new life support module and observation deck.

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Latest Space News 2010-02-22  *Delivered Daily!

Eutelsat swaps rockets for satellite launch this summer
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Eutelsat is switching a communications satellite launch this summer from a Chinese booster to the Ariane 5 rocket, citing international trade regulations and consequences from an earthquake in Italy last year.

Thar She Blows: Saturn Moon Looks Like Moby Dick
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Prometheus, Saturn’s moon, appears [...]

Latest Space News 2010-02-21  *Delivered Daily!     Echoes of Apollo

Aussie Meteorite May Hold Key To Life On Earth
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Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 18, 2010 – New analysis of the famous Murchison meteorite that crash-landed in Australia over 40 years ago has turned up a surprise for astronomers. The space rock, which is over [...]

Latest Space News 2010-02-19  *Delivered Daily!

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Houston TX (SPX) Feb 17, 2010 – The crew of space shuttle Endeavour awoke at 4:15 p.m. EST to the song Window on the World by Jimmy Buffett, played for Mission Specialist Kathryn Hire.

Concrete Phase Of Runway Begins At Spaceport America
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Upham NM (SPX) Feb 17, 2010 – The first [...]

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Scientists set new temperature record
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The hottest temperature ever in the lab has been created – four trillion degrees Celsius – hot enough to break matter down into the kind of soup that existed microseconds after the birth of the universe.

Putin Says [...]

Latest Space News 2010-02-16  *Delivered Daily!     Echoes of Apollo
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Legislators Allege NASA, Obama In Violation Of Law
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This just in from the office of U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge: Administration Plan to Terminate Constellation Contract Without Congressional Approval in Violation of Law

US Laser Raygun Plane Shoots Down Ballistic Missile
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Latest Space News 2010-02-15  *Delivered Daily!     Echoes of Apollo
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Astronauts install space station observation deck
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Cape Canaveral, Florida (AFP) Feb 12, 2010 – Two NASA astronauts completed the first spacewalk Friday of a mission to install a seven-windowed observation dome aboard the International Space Station.

Russia launches US satellite: report
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Moscow (AFP) Feb [...]