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The NASA Moon TV Dish to be Welded in Place.
The Australian Dish that brought the world the first footsteps on the moon is to be stripped of all electronics and servos and welded in the Stow position by “cash strapped” NASA. They have really looked at where they could get the budget, but found only [...]

Fly into Space – The Ultimate Prize
This is an amazing chance to get into space without spending that US $20 million that’s been burning a hole in your back pocket!
The show was the brainchild of Katherine Bennell, Campbell Pegg and Rogan Shimmin, who are Australian and British postgraduate students within the space industry all are [...]

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2009-11-06
The latest stories on:

Ares flight and parachute failure
Apollo Conference
Cassini flyby of Enceladus
ESAs SMOS launch success
Mars gullies flow with Martian mud
Masten takes lead in the $2-million Northrop Grumman Lunar Landing Challenge
Mars rover Spirit is suffering a new bout of amnesia
Lava Tube found on the Moon
Muchmuch more

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2009-10-23

Sensing disasters from space
Prof. Eyal Ben-Dor’s “hyperspectral remote sensor” combines sophisticated sensors in orbit with sensors on the ground and in the air to give advance warnings about contamination, pollution and weather disasters.
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Air Force’s Secretive Space Plane Nears Maiden Voyage
You would think an unpiloted space plane, hurled from Florida atop [...]

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2009-10-05

A tipping point for commercial crew?
Orbital Sciences Corporation is considering a crewed version of its Cygnus spacecraft, making it one of several companies showing recent interest in commercial crew transportation systems.
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LCROSS Team Changes Target Crater for Impact
Based on new analysis of the latest lunar data, the science team for NASA’s Lunar Crater [...]

2009-09-27

Scientists Discover Surprise In Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
UCLA atmospheric scientists have discovered a previously unknown basic mode of energy transfer from the solar wind to the Earth’s magnetosphere. The research, federally …
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Quiet Sun Bombards Earth With Winds
Challenging conventional wisdom, new research finds that the number of sunspots provides an incomplete measure of changes [...]

2009-09-19

Scientists pick bullseye for lunar impact missionScientists now know the final destination for NASA’s water-seeking lunarimpact probe, an eternally-dark depression called Cabeus A near the moon’ssouth pole believed to harbor hidden ice.Go to News Story

New Transient Radiation Belt Discovered at SaturnFind out more about new transient radiation belt dicovered at SaturnGo to News Story

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