Space cockroach now a granny Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Russian space scientists have announced a new breakthrough in a long pedigree of firsts: the birth of 30 grandchildren of a "space cockroach" who spent 12 days in orbit.
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The 60's - The beginning of mankind's journeys into space Posted: 1 year ago by suebe
On April 12, 1961, the Soviets launched a 27-year-old fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin on the world's first piloted space mission.
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NASA finds tiny hole in Atlantis caused by space debris Posted: 2 years ago by Fanatic
NASA discovered that space shuttle Atlantis has been holed by a tiny piece of space debris. The 1/10-inch hole represents the second largest debris damage event ever identified. Fortunately, it missed everything that was important to the mission. Space debris is an increasingly challenging problem.
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Sex In Space Inevitable, Say Scientists Posted: 2 months ago by Jetka
Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner.
The Japanese firm First Advantage and the U.S.-based private spaceflight firm Rocketplane Global, Inc., announced last week they will host weddings in space for about $2.3 million (240 million yen) apiece.
For all we know, sex in space has already taken place. But NASA officials aren't talking about that much.
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Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers from SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research have discovered a new cluster of galaxies, hidden behind a previously identified cluster of galaxies. The recently exposed cosmic giant is apparently just as bright as the first group, but is six times further away. The astronomers made the discovery as part of an international team using the space telescope XMM-Newton.
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Space Elevator and the Controversial ‘Wobble’ Problem Posted: 3 months ago by jLoSsDh
The idea behind a space elevator is simple. Deploy a cable stretching from the ground near Earth’s equator far enough into space, and centrifugal forces due to Earth’s spin will keep the cable taut.
*fixed
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Geomorphology From Space Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Geomorphology from Space is an out of print 1986 NASA publication edited by Nicholas M. Short, Sr. and Robert W. Blair, Jr. designed for use by the remote sensing science and educational communities to study landforms and landscapes. It has a gallery of space images consisting of 237 plates, each showing a different geographic region where a particular landform theme is exemplified.
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Bugs in Space: Can They Survive? Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Catching a free ride to Mars takes more than sticking out a thumb, but some hardy Earth bacteria could survive as hitchhikers clinging to the outside of spacecraft, studies have shown. Now a set of experiments going up with space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station will test how exposure to the harshness of space might change bacteria during a simulated Mars mission.
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The Future of Space Exploration Posted: 11 months ago by 2manyusernames
Oct 4th will be Sputnik's 50th anniversary. Although it had its scary connotations, the dawn of the Space Age was also a hopeful event. Visionaries celebrated humanity’s long-awaited climb out of its cradle, and pragmatists soon savored the benefits of communications and weather satellites.
The evolution of the space program continues to be dramatic. In a decade or so, it will be hardly recognizable.
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Big Space Thing Looks Like a Moth Posted: 8 months ago by AutumnLotus
A moth-like structure with a 22-billion-mile wingspan is hovering out in space. This giant is actually a massive cloud of dust surrounding a nearby, young star imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope that has shown astronomers that these dust disks can take on unexpectedly unusual shapes.
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US adopts tough new space policy Posted: 2 years ago by robfouryqr
The US has adopted a tough new policy aimed at protecting its interests in space and denying "adversaries" access there for hostile purposes.
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First unchanging 'soliton' wave found in space Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
An unusual electrical disturbance has been spotted in space, travelling unchanged through the ionised gas surrounding Earth. A European space mission called Cluster detected a "soliton" wave, a phenomenon similar to the self-contained solitons that can travel along optical fibres and channels of water on Earth. This is the first known soliton in space.
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How long could you survive in the vacuum of space? Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
No spaceship. No space suit. Just you versus the cold, empty vacuum of space. Find out about how long you could survive.
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Space telescope makes startling discovery Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided evidence representing a major upset for conventional theories that propose a single period for star birth. The European Space Agency said the telescope, observing globular cluster NGC 2808, has shown three separate generations of stars formed early in the cluster's life.
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Space Magnetism May Hold Secret to Fusion Power Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
New discoveries about magnetic field lines and the first-ever direct observation of their reconnection in space are offering hope that scientists will learn how to unlock fusion power as an energy source in the future.
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Space Ghost Posted: 1 year ago by 86Apex
Man how I miss this show. Anyone want to start a petition to bring it back? It worked for Family Guy. ;)
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"Houston, We Have A Problem" Again - Gunman and Hostage Dead at Johnson Space Center Posted: 1 year ago by indierockcafe
Gunman kills one male hostage and then himself. Police say the gunman had a hand gun.
5:25pm EST
Isn't NASA a secured facility? Apparently not.
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Museum in Space? Posted: 2 years ago by sparky
A blog post suggests that Hubble could be kept in a high-orbit 'museum' rather than being made to crash into the Earth's atmosphere.
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Killer Electrons In Space Are Now Less Mysterious Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A rare, timely conjunction of ground-based instrumentation and a dozen satellites has helped scientists better understand how electrons in space can turn into ‘killers’. ESA’s Cluster constellation has contributed crucially to the finding.
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10 Things You Didn't Know About Space Exploration Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
The Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik I in 1957 is credited with launching the U.S. space program. In the past 20 years, the space shuttle has launched 3 million pounds of cargo, transported more than 600 passengers and pilots, cumulatively spent more than three years in flight, and logged more than 366 million miles. Here are some other interesting facts about the U.S. space program.
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Crater From 1908 Russian Space Impact Found, Team Says Posted: 10 months ago by AutumnLotus
Almost a century after a mysterious explosion in Russia flattened a huge swath of Siberian forest, scientists have found what they believe is a crater made by the cosmic object that made the blast.
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