<rss version="0.91"><channel><title>Sex In Space Inevitable, Say Scientists : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/</link><description></description><language>en-us</language><item><title>Sex In Space Inevitable, Say Scientists : RSS 0.91</title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/</link><description></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex In Space Inevitable, Say Scientists]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/67973/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>For all we know, sex in space has already taken place. But NASA officials aren't talking about that much.]]></description></item><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;margin-bottom:-20px'><SCRIPT src="/ads/adsense.js" type=text/javascript></SCRIPT>
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<item><title><![CDATA[The 60's - The beginning of mankind's journeys into space]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/19006/1/</link><description><![CDATA[On April 12, 1961, the Soviets launched a 27-year-old fighter pilot named Yuri Gagarin on the world's first piloted space mission.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space telescope unveils hidden cosmic giant]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/44294/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA finds tiny hole in Atlantis caused by space debris]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/2324/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[First unchanging 'soliton' wave found in space]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/54785/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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 &quot;soliton&quot; 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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geomorphology From Space]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/34446/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Space Telescope Gives Scientists Depth Perception]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/22460/1/</link><description><![CDATA[By taking advantage of the unique position of NASA's Spitzer's Space Telescope millions of miles from Earth, and a depth-perceiving trick called parallax, they were able to pin down the most probable location of one such object.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nasa loses spider on International Space Station]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/82374/1/</link><description><![CDATA[One of two spiders sent to the orbiting laboratory aboard the space shuttle Endeavour last week was added to the lost property list after the crew checked its tank and found it empty.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japanese astronaut to throw boomerang in space]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/48218/1/</link><description><![CDATA[A Japanese astronaut plans to throw a boomerang inside a space station to test whether it can fly in zero gravity.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[OSU students build and launch a radiation sensor into space]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/72017/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that, carried by a helium-filled balloon, reached 104,000 feet in altitude. The detector recorded radiation levels at the varying altitudes -- information that will be used by NASA to develop instrumentation for space flight.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA goofs on space shuttle banner]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/27542/1/</link><description><![CDATA[NASA moved space shuttle Endeavour a step closer to liftoff without an essential part: the &quot;u.&quot;]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan Hopes To Build A Space Elevator]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/77183/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The concept of a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Elevator" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">space elevator</a> has long been a dream for scientists and has here to date been a staple for science fiction authors. Japan hopes to change that and make the dream a reality.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bugs in Space: Can They Survive? ]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/43851/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Future of Space Exploration]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36315/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Oct 4th will be <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Sputnik's</a>  50th  anniversary. Although it had its scary connotations, the dawn of the Space Age was also a hopeful event. Visionaries celebrated humanity&#8217;s long-awaited climb out of its cradle, and pragmatists soon savored the benefits of communications and weather satellites.<br/>   The evolution of the space program continues to be dramatic. In a decade or so, it will be hardly recognizable.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Space Thing Looks Like a Moth]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/46817/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[US adopts tough new space policy]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/politics/l/3670/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The US has adopted a tough new policy aimed at protecting its interests in space and denying &quot;adversaries&quot; access there for hostile purposes.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space cockroach now a granny]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/61998/1/</link><description><![CDATA[Russian space scientists have announced a new breakthrough in a long pedigree of firsts: the birth of 30 grandchildren of a &quot;space cockroach&quot; who spent 12 days in orbit.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Museum in Space?]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/5241/1/</link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Space Elevator and the Controversial &#8216;Wobble&#8217; Problem]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/technology/l/65113/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The idea behind a space elevator is simple. Deploy a cable stretching from the ground near Earth&#8217;s equator far enough into space, and centrifugal forces due to Earth&#8217;s spin will keep the cable taut.<br/><br/>*fixed]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Starts 2007 Competition to Build Space Elevator]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/38587/1/</link><description><![CDATA[The Spaceward Foundation launched a 2007 Beam Power Challenge competition where the teams could compete to build a Space Elevator.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[NASA Kepler Mission Offers Opportunity to Send Names Into Space]]></title><link>http://www.plime.com/science/l/60935/1/</link><description><![CDATA[How cool would it be to have your name on board the spacecraft that discovers the first known Earth-like planet beyond our solar system? Well, here's your chance. NASA today announced an opportunity for anyone to submit their name to be included on a DVD and rocketed into space as part of NASA's Kepler Mission, scheduled to launch in February 2009 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.]]></description></item></channel></rss>