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British astronaut says space travel vital to survival of human race
A British astronaut preparing to go into space next year says space travel and learning to work and live in space is vital to the survival of humanity. ... more
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James Webb Space Telescope Passes a Mission Milestone
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has passed its first significant mission milestone for 2014 - a Spacecraft Critical Design Review (SCDR) that examined the telescope's power, communications and po ... more
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Extra Time for Tiangong
China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is alive and well in orbit. For most spacecraft, that's a nominal state. But for this mission, it's strange. Tiangong 1 was launched in September 2011 with an adv ... more
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Milky Way shaken... and stirred
A team of scientists headed by Ivan Minchev from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has found a way to reconstruct the evolutionary history of our galaxy, the Milky Way, to a new l ... more
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