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Russia Leads Way in Space Tourism With Paid Trips Into Orbit
nytimes.com — The Russian space program has found ways to make space pay and has shown that it is leading the way toward the commercialization of space travel.More… (Space)
reddrgn287Google Earth/Sky Sattelite Anomalies view!
McNashSoyuz With Richard Garriott Successfully Launched
opencomputing.dk — Toren Altair writes “Soyuz TMA-13 with ISS Expedition Crew 18 and Richard Garriott successfully launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 7:01 UT (3:01 EDT).More… (Space)
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Spinoff 2008 Highlights NASA Innovations In Everyday Life
space-travel.com — 50-year timeline of NASA-derived technologies featuring 50 new examples of how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday lifeMore… (Space)
IDSN tracks Japanese lunar mission
hindu.com — The impressive communications infrastructure called the Indian Deep Space Network (IDSN), set up by the Indian Space Research Organisation to transmit and receive signals from Chandrayaan 1, successfully tracked last week the Japanese lunar mission SELENE (Koguya), launched in 2007 and now orbiting the moon.More… (Space)
blobranaSaturn's rings may be remains of ancient moon
space.newscientist.com — Early in its history, Saturn's fast spin meant it could harbour a moon for longer than the other planets - and then came the late bombardment. . .More… (Space)
Telescope Tech Will Speed Search for Extraterrestrial Life
blog.wired.com — The hunt for extraterrestrial life is getting a major boost from revolutionary new technology that will give some of the world's largest telescopes the capability to detect Earth-size planets outside of our solar system, a feat not equaled even by the Hubble Space Telescope.More… (Space)
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We Saw This Asteroid Coming from a Mile Away
io9.com — With all the hullabaloo about giant asteroids that could destroy us, we tend to forget the little guy. Luckily, NASA's Catalina Sky Survey has it covered. Last Monday, CSS astronomers caught sight of an incoming object zooming toward the Earth, and by the time of the asteroid's impact on Tuesday, NASA engineers had mapped out its trajectory almost More… (Space)
SirPopperStar Wars Madness Gone Too Far (PIC)
sharetoad.com — Come on Lucas: We all know you're sucking every last dollar out of the Star Wars-license, but this is taking it too far...More… (Space)
Spectacular Video of Jules Verne Apocalyptical Re-Entry
gizmodo.com — Here's the video of the fiery re-entry of the Jules Verne Autonomous Transport Vehicle, the huge European Space Agency spacecraft that carried almost five tonnes of food, air, water and fuel on board the International Space Station. It was taken in high definition from a NASA's DC-8 at 37,000 feet, 90 miles north of the entry path.More… (Space)
Adam420Real-time world sunlight/cloud cover map - amazing!
opentopia.com — See where it's day and where it's night, along with the cloud cover, at this great site.More… (Space)
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schad500[轉]楊利偉：在太空曾聽到令人恐懼的神秘聲音 - 超自然科學小百科 Encycloped
uzmart.com — 記得在神六上天的日子裡，央視邀請楊利偉作節目，主持人曾問楊利偉，你在太空上真的從沒有害怕過嗎?這個時候的楊利偉說了一句話，讓電視機前的許多人記憶猶新，他說:有，當我在太空中聽到一些從未聽過的聲音的時候……那些聲音是什麼?遺憾的是，當時神五沒有加裝錄音存儲設備，無法及時記錄當時感受，回到地面後，也無法再現那些神秘的聲音。 那麼，現已發射的神舟七號會不會也出現類似的狀況?答案當然是否定的。2005年，根據楊利偉提出的情況與需求，神舟六號第一次裝載了錄音存儲裝置，希望通過記錄下那些神秘的聲音，來拉近地球與太空的距離。 2008年，神舟七號也將攜帶一套全新的錄音存儲裝置上天。在與地球截然不同的太空環境中，這套錄音存儲裝置如何保障完成任務，會有什麼特點和不同之處呢? More… (Space)
ZmartSupply1024New angles on Mercury
sciencenews.org — New information about mercury revealed by flyby.More… (Space)
Size comparison
sciencenews.org — Relative size of Pluto and other planets.More… (Space)
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