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NASA not ready for dangers of deep space, auditors say
American culture and cinema often glorifies space travel, from the heroic early adventurers of “The Right Stuff” to the more recent rescue of Matt Damon’s astronaut character from Mars in “The Martian.” But the reality is less glamorous, with journeys into deep space posing serious dangers to astronauts that include inadequate food, radiation exposure and heightened risks of developing cancer and other maladies. And NASA is not yet ready to handle those dangers...
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New Shepard: Bezos claims success on second spaceship flight
The Amazon.com entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has claimed success on the second flight of his New Shepard spaceship. Intended eventually to carry people just above the atmosphere, the re-usable vehicle launched from west Texas on Monday with no-one aboard. Both parts of New Shepard - the capsule and its propulsion unit - landed safely, Mr Bezos' company said. On the maiden outing in April, the propulsion module was lost on the way down because of a hydraulic failure.
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First Mirror Installed on NASA’s Webb Telescope, Final Assembly Phase Starts
After years of construction, the first of 18 primary flight mirrors has been installed onto NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, signifying the start of the final assembly phase for the mammoth observatory that will eventually become the most powerful telescope ever sent to space.
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Hawaiian court revokes permit for planned mega-telescope
Hawaii's supreme court has ruled that the construction permit for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on top of the mountain Mauna Kea is invalid. The 2 December decision is a major blow to the international consortium backing the US$1.5-billion telescope, and a win for the Native Hawaiians who have protested against its construction on what they regard as a sacred summit.
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6 Tools to Help you Spot a Satellite
Here's how to see satellites on your screen and in the sky.
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SpaceX May Try to Land a Rocket on Solid Ground This Month, Official Says
SpaceX may try to make history with its next launch later this month, returning its rocket to a landing pad rather than an ocean-based platform, a NASA official said on Tuesday. Carol Scott, who works technical integration for SpaceX within NASA's Commercial Crew Program, told reporters here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station today that SpaceX's first attempt at a land-based rocket landing may be coming sooner than the public expects.
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Saturn's Moon Titan Glows Gorgeous Green in New Photo
Saturn's largest moon Titan glows a gorgeous green through the haze in a new composite photo released by NASA. The infrared view was captured when the Cassini probe flew by the moon at a distance of 6,200 miles last month. The space probe has had closer encounters with Titan, but from this distance was able to get a wider view of the mysterious world, capturing surface features, including dunes and craters.
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Bull's-eye Moons
Like a cosmic bull's-eye, Enceladus and Tethys line up almost perfectly for Cassini's cameras.
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NASA's 3D-Printed Rocket Engine Roars Into Action
NASA's been working on 3D-printing new rocket engines for years. In that time, a whole bunch of different pieces have been tested successfully, but NASA's newest trial run has more of them working together than ever before. In a series of tests this past October, NASA's prototype engine with 75 percent 3D-printed parts underwent a whole series of fire tests and passed with flying colors. Here's she is blasting out some 20,000 pounds of thrust...
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How to Get a Good Night's Sleep in Space
The complex, relaxing and uncomfortable realities of catching some shuteye in zero gravity.
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SpaceX Successfully Lands Rocket After Launch of Satellites Into Orbit
People living along the central Atlantic coast of Florida have for decades enjoyed the spectacle of rockets headed for space. On Monday night, they were treated to a new sight that may become common: a rocket coming back down to a gentle landing. “It really felt like it was right on top of us,” Elon Musk, the chief executive of Space Exploration Technologies Corporation of Hawthorne, Calif., or SpaceX for short, said during a telephone news conference afterward.
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Congress Directs NASA to Build a Deep Space Habitat
In the latest round of budget negotiations, NASA got a pretty good windfall. But hiding in that $19.3 billion budget it is a $55 million directive: begin building a deep space habitat, and have it ready to go by 2018. In 180 days, NASA will have to report on any progress. It may be part of Congress pushing NASA to be more serious in its efforts toward a crewed Mars mission in the 2030s. That mission will require a lot of money and a lot of new technology...
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What You Need to Know About Comet Catalina
Here's how and when to witness this once-in-a-lifetime comet.
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Space exploration: European Space Agency to send humans to the moon by 2030
Nasa and the private space industry has its sights set on putting a human on Mars. Europe, however, has slightly more modest goals; it wants to put humans back on the moon and build a base. The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced its intentions to send astronauts to our nearest satellite by 2030. A video posted on the agency's website titled 'Destination Moon' sets out the plan that -- if all goes to plan -- will see European-developed robots sent to the surface first.
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These Are the Space Missions to Watch in 2016
A brief rundown of the biggest spaceflight milestones to keep an eye out for this year. By Mike Wall.
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Water Leak in Astronaut's Spacesuit Helmet Halts Spacewalk
For the second time in less than three years, a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station has been cut short because of a water leak in an astronaut's helmet. A spacewalk involving NASA astronaut Tim Kopra and British colleague Tim Peake was called off about 2 hours early today (Jan. 15) when Kopra noticed some water inside his helmet.
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5 Planets to Align in the Night Sky for the First Time in Over a Decade
Stargazers: Get ready for this rare celestial treat!
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Why Ghana Started a Space Program
Plantain sellers, fruit vendors and market stalls line the road as taxis and local tro tro buses dart through the busy high street. The lively centre of Koforidua, hemmed in by lush green mountains, appears to be the typical Ghanaian city. A short drive outside town, atop the roof of the All Nations University College (ANUC), history is in the making. Members of Ghana’s first university space science laboratory, joined by a NASA engineer, are busily installing meteorological instruments.
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Why Stars Seem Brighter this Time of Year
No matter where you are on Earth on December, January and February evenings, you're looking toward bright stars in our local spiral arm.
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Bezos' company re-flies, lands rocket
Bezos' company re-flies, lands rocket. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' space transportation company, Blue Origin, successfully launched and landed a suborbital rocket for a second time, a key step in its quest to develop reusable boosters, the company says. The New Shepard rocket and capsule, which is designed to carry six passengers, blasted off from a launch site in West Texas on Friday and landed itself minutes later back on the launch pad...
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