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The 50 Most Interesting Places on the Moon
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter scouts locations for future visits
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The Day Amelia Earhart Became Famous
Celebrating the first woman to fly across the Atlantic
Human spaceflight review gets underway
The most important review of NASA space policy since the Columbia accident investigation kicks off today with its first public hearing. Watch it live on NASA Television.
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The 500th person in space
Next month, when space shuttle Endeavour arrives in orbit to begin its 16-day space station construction mission (Note: The launch has been postponed to July 11), Chris Cassidy might feel more than the usual satisfaction. On his first shuttle flight, the former Navy SEAL, who wasn't even born when ...
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The second age of lunar exploration is about to begin
Despite what you've read, NASA doesn't really have a moon program. Not yet. But it will as of next Thursday. That's the day the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is scheduled to launch on a year-long (at least) mission to send back our best pictures of the moon since astronauts stopped visiting there a ...
Goodbye, Kaguya
At 2:25 this afternoon, Eastern time, Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter will smash into the moon, its maneuvering fuel nearly spent and its two-year mission ended. I'll miss it. Kaguya has been the most media-friendly of the new lunar missions launched to date, returning beautiful, elegant photos and mo...
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"Miracle on the Hudson" hearings this week
The National Transportation Safety Board is holding three days of public hearings this week on the ditching of US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson last January. The hearings will be webcast live here.
June 8, 1989: Bailout at Le Bourget
Even 20 years later, this is an amazing piece of footage: Russian test pilot Anatoly Kvochur bailing out of his MiG-29, just 300 feet off the ground, at the 1989 Paris Air Show. I actually saw this happen—or rather, I was standing talking to a friend when we saw a cloud of black smoke and people r...
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Now my beach trip looks lame
Am I the only one vacationing on the ground this year?This guy is traveling to the space station on what he calls a "Poetic Social Mission." He's the Canadian billionaire who started Cirque du Soleil.These two are getting married on one of Zero-G's weightless flights. Here's their website. They're ...
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Flight 447: Small airplane, big ocean
Now that searchers have found wreckage from Air France Flight 447, we can hope they’ll also locate the data recorders and solve the mystery of what happened, which could lead to safety improvements on future flights.But earlier this week, it appeared that just locating the downed airliner in thousa...
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Mash up your own NASA photos
Over at the Flickr photo sharing site, they've found a creative new use for all those zillions of photos NASA posts on the web for free.The NASA Remix Project invites people to grab their favorite images of planets, rockets, and astronauts, and turn them into something more artistic. Or fanciful. ...
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In Praise of Space Monkeys (and Tortoises)
Fifty years ago today, the monkeys Able and Baker were placed inside the nose cone of a missile and launched to an altitude of 360 miles.
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Putting the "I" in ISS
More than a decade after construction began, the International Space Station is about to get its first full-size crew.A Soyuz spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Kazakhstan tomorrow with three people onboard—Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, European astronaut Frank De Winne, and Canadian ast...
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One casualty of 45,000
A bit of Memorial Day perspective from Mark Wells, a historian at the U.S. Air Force Academy, from his excellent 1995 book Courage and Air Warfare: The Allied Aircrew Experience in the Second World War: However dramatic or tragic, statistics alone cannot possibly tell the whole story of the Allied ...
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Idolizing Hubble
We sure do love our celebrities, don't we? And I don't mean whatsisname, who won on American Idol last night. I'm talking about the newly upgraded Hubble Space Telescope, whose astronaut repairmen received a call from President Obama yesterday, and will deliver live testimony from space at a Congre...
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Watch the launch from Wallops tonight
A Minotaur rocket is launching from Wallops Island, Virginia tonight, with the Air Force Tacsat-3 spacecraft onboard, and I won't be there
What would you say to an alien?
In 1982, the year E.T. The Extraterrestrial ruled at the box office, another, less heralded movie about aliens came out—John Carpenter's The Thing
The Moonwalkers’ Doctor
When the first lunar landing expedition returned to Earth, Bill Carpentier got first crack at them.
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The Spitzer telescope's second life
It's a big week for space telescopes
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NASA needs direction? Call Norm Augustine!
Norman Augustine, that perennial blue-ribbon panelist, just accepted the easiest gig of his career—or the hardest
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