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SpaceX capsule has 'new car' smell, astronauts sayWashington (AFP) May 26, 2012 SpaceX's Dragon cargo vessel smells like a new car, said astronauts at the International Space Station after opening the hatches Saturday following the spacecraft's landmark mission to the orbiting lab. The California-based SpaceX on Friday became the first commercial outfit to send its own unmanned cargo capsule to the ISS, heralding the start of a new era for private spaceflight after the end of the 30-year US shuttle program. The Dragon capsule delivered about a half ton of supplies and scien ... read more |
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  Tiangong 1 Ready To Meet Shenzhou 9 After Shenzhou 8 departed in November 2011, controllers raised the orbit of Tiangong 1 to preserve it from potential re-entry brought about by the air drag that causes all low orbits to decay. ... more | .. |
  Dragon on board The first Dragon commercial space ferry has berthed at the International Space Station. ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers and his crewmates welcomed the new cargo ship and will start unloading the supplie ... more | .. |
  The Rocket Shot Heard Around the World Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 3:44 am on Tuesday May 22, 9 engines strapped to the SpaceX Falcon rocket, brilliantly ripped through the dark skies over Kennedy Space Center. This weeks's launch ... more | .. |
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  Waking Up with the Sun's Rays After moving from her winter perch, Opportunity drove to an undisturbed dusty patch to investigate the chemical origin of the ubiquitous Martian dust. On Sol 2957 (May 19, 2012), the rover use ... more | .. |
  New Moon for India India's lunar exploration program seems to be on hold for the moment. The ambitious plan to land a rover on the Moon in a joint mission with Russia, followed in the future by a sample-return mission ... more | .. |
 SpaceX's Dragon makes historic space station dock SpaceX on Friday became the first commercial outfit to send its own cargo capsule to the International Space Station, heralding the start of a new era for private spaceflight. ... more | .. |
  Astronomers seize last chance in lifetime for Venus Transit Astronomers are gearing for one the rarest events in the Solar System: an alignment of Earth, Venus and the Sun that will not be seen for another 105 years. ... more |
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  Battle over SKA super-telescope leads to split site A long-running joust to host a radio telescope that would give mankind its farthest peek into the Universe ended on Friday with a Solomon-like judgement to split the site between Australia and South Africa. ... more | .. |
 Did Ancient Mars Have a Runaway Greenhouse? Cosmic impacts that once bombed Mars might have sent temperatures skyrocketing upward on the Red Planet in ancient times, enough to set warming of the surface on a runaway course, researchers say. A ... more | .. |
  NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away. The celestial equivalent of "guess your weig ... more | .. |
 NASA Funded Research Shows Existence of Reduced Carbon on Mars NASA-funded research on Mars meteorites that landed on Earth shows strong evidence that very large molecules containing carbon, which is a key ingredient for the building blocks of life, can origina ... more |
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 Asteroid Nudged by Sunlight: Most Precise Measurement of Yarkovsky Effect Scientists on NASA's asteroid sample return mission, Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), have measured the orbit of their destination ... more | .. |
  AeroVironment Introduces Digital Wasp AE Small Unmanned Aircraft System AeroVironment has introduced the Wasp small unmanned aircraft system and announced that it has been accepted by the U.S. Air Force for inclusion in its Battlefield Air Targeting Micro Air Vehicle (B ... more | .. |
 A new imaging system produces 3D models of monuments using unmanned aircraft University of Granada researchers have developed a 3D imaging system that scans 3D models of historical buildings using data obtained from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-an aircraft without a huma ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Delivers Core Structure for Fourth SBIRS Satellite Lockheed Martin has received the core structure for the U.S. Air Force's fourth Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous satellite (GEO-4). The structure was delivered to Lockheed Martin's ... more |
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UN rights chief alarmed by 'fundamental shift' in US direction
China says to impose fresh tariffs on US agricultural imports
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 Boeing Completes Software PDR Of New Crew Ship Boeing has completed the software Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for its Commercial Crew Development (CCDev-2) initiative on May 18. CCDev-2 is part of NASA's Space Act Agreement. Software co ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Drives to Dusty Patch of Soil The rover drove on Sols 2949, 2951, 2953 and 2955 (May 10, 12, 14 and 17, 2012), totaling just over 46 feet (13.9 meters). The rover is positioning to reach a pristine patch of dust on the surface. ... more | .. |
  NASA Offers Guidelines To Protect Historic Sites On The Moon NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing ... more | .. |
 Tiny Planet-Finding Mirrors Borrow from Webb Telescope Playbook NASA's next flagship mission - the James Webb Space Telescope - will carry the largest primary mirror ever deployed. This segmented behemoth will unfold to 21.3 feet in diameter once the observatory ... more |
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 NASA Showered with Bold New Concepts for Mars Exploration NASA's call to scientists and engineers to help plan a new strategy to explore Mars has resulted in a flurry of unique and bold ideas, almost doubling the number of expected submissions. "This ... more | .. |
 Get ready for the transit of Venus! Scientists and amateur astronomers around the world are preparing to observe the rare occurrence of Venus crossing the face of the Sun on 5-6 June, an event that will not be seen again for over a hu ... more | .. |
 Neil Armstrong gives rare interview - to accountant The famously private Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has been coaxed into giving a rare interview - with an Australian accountant. ... more | .. |
  Colliding galaxy cluster unravelled An international team of astronomers has used the International LOFAR Telescope from ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, to study the formation of the galaxy cluster Abell 2256. A ... more |
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  DeLorme inReach Two-Way Satellite Communicator Now Connects With iPhone, iPad and iPod touch DeLorme has announced that its award-winning inReach is now compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. This innovation makes it possible for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch to access an array of two-w ... more | .. |
  Spirent Launches New Entry-Level Multi-GNSS Simulator Spirent Communications has announced the launch of its new GSS6300M Multi-GNSS simulator designed for integration, verification and production testing where a quick and accurate functional test is n ... more | .. |
 Observatory needs repair after winter disaster Repairs will begin on the DU-operated Meyer-Womble Observatory on Mount Evans this summer after it was severely damaged by high winds during the winter. A current bid to replace the dome sets the re ... more | .. |
  DLR presents innovations in robotics at AUTOMATICA 2012 The Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC) at the German Aerospace Center is exhibiting at AUTOMATICA, the leading international exhibition for automation and mechatronics, which is being held in Mu ... more |
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 Sri Lanka plans to launch its first satellite in 2015 Sri Lanka is set to launch its first satellite by 2015 following an agreement with a Chinese company, officials said on Thursday. SupremeSAT, a local company said it has reached an agreement with th ... more | .. |
  The Older We Get, The Less We Know Cosmologically The universe is a marvelously complex place, filled with galaxies and larger-scale structures that have evolved over its 13.7-billion-year history. Those began as small perturbations of matter that ... more | .. |
 The 2012 Transit of Venus On June 5th, 2012, Venus will pass across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again. Transits of Venus are very rare, coming in pairs separated by mor ... more | .. |
 SpaceX Dragon Transports Student Experiments to Space Station The SpaceX Dragon capsule, which on Tuesday became the first commercially developed and built spacecraft to launch to the International Space Station, is carrying among its cargo a suite of 15 scien ... more |
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