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China sends its first woman astronaut into spaceBeijing (AFP) June 16, 2012 China on Saturday launched its most ambitious space mission to date, sending its first female astronaut to the final frontier and bidding to achieve the country's first manual space docking. Shenzhou-9 - China's fourth manned space mission - launched at 6:37 pm (1037 GMT) from the remote Gobi desert in the nation's northwest, state television pictures showed. The crew was headed by Jing Haipeng, a veteran astronaut who had gone to space twice already. Liu Wang, who has been in the space progra ... read more |
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 Liu Yang: China's first female astronaut As a child, Liu Yang once wanted to be a bus conductor and later had her sights set on becoming a lawyer, but decades later she has travelled into space as China's first ever female astronaut. ... more | .. |
  Secret U.S. space plane prepares to land A U.S. Air Force space plane in orbit for more than a year will come back to Earth this weekend, say officials who remained mum on the mission's purpose. ... more | .. |
  Russian to fund personal robots quest A Russian entrepreneur says he hopes to speed up a robotics revolution by creating a $25 million investment fund in New York focused on personal robots. ... more | .. |
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  Data From Voyager 1 Points To Interstellar Future Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has mark ... more | .. |
  Opportunity Faces Slow Going Due To Communication Issues Opportunity has been investigating light-toned veins around the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Recently, things became complicated, first by Mars Odyssey orbiter going ... more | .. |
 Test of Spare Wheel Puts Odyssey on Path to Recovery In a step toward returning NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to full service, mission controllers have tested a spare reaction wheel on the spacecraft for potential use with two other reaction wheels in a ... more | .. |
 Time Shifts for Tiangong Three astronauts will soon board China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory after the Shenzhou 9 spacecraft docks with it. The first Chinese crew to fly in space in roughly four years includes China's firs ... more |
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  WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out from the center. It lives in a fairly calm, suburb-l ... more | .. |
  Study Jointly Led by UCSB Researcher Finds New Evidence Supporting Theory of Extraterrestrial Impact An 18-member international team of researchers that includes James Kennett, professor of earth science at UC Santa Barbara, has discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in ... more | .. |
 Major Liu Yang - a Chinese heroine in waiting? For the last five days Major Liu Yang, a 33 year old Air Force pilot, has been living with five colleagues, and a team of doctors and technical specialists, in a quarantine facility at the Jiuquan S ... more | .. |
  NASA Administrator Bolden Views Historic SpaceX Dragon Capsule NASA Administrator Charles Bolden joined SpaceX CEO and Chief Designer Elon Musk at the SpaceX Rocket Development Facility in McGregor, Texas, Wednesday to see the first commercial space capsule to ... more |
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  NASA's Fermi Detects the Highest-Energy Light From a Solar Flare During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's new role ... more | .. |
 Neighbor galaxies may have brushed closely Two of our Milky Way's neighbor galaxies may have had a close encounter billions of years ago, recent studies with the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) indicate. The new obse ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Map 40 Million Stars Astronomers will soon have access to a new map of the sky that accurately measures the brightness and position of over 40 million stars. This map is a result of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey, ... more | .. |
 Spotting Ultrafine Loops in the Sun's Corona A key to understanding the dynamics of the sun and what causes the great solar explosions there relies on deciphering how material, heat and energy swirl across the sun's surface and rise into the u ... more |
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Helium Found in Earth's Core Suggests New Insights into Planetary Formation
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 Watching asteroids and comets to avoid impact Dangers posed by asteroids are among the issues discussed during the third international meeting of the top-level representatives in charge security currently underway in Saint-Petersburg. The repor ... more | .. |
 Astronomers pinpoint elusive galaxy after decade-long hunt An international team of astronomers led by Fabian Walter of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has managed for the first time to determine the distance of the galaxy HDF850.1, well-known among ... more | .. |
 Magnetic fields slow down stars Scientists have proved the existence of a magnetic effect that could explain why solar-like stars spin very slowly at the end of their lifetime. Researchers from the Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysi ... more | .. |
  'Unusually large' asteroid to race by Earth A newly discovered asteroid the size of a city block will zoom past Earth but poses no risk of a collision, astronomers said on Thursday. ... more |
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 China to send its first woman into space on Saturday China said Friday a female astronaut will be among the three-person team on board the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft when it launches on Saturday ahead of the country's first manned space docking. ... more | .. |
  Extremely little telescope discovers pair of odd planets Even small telescopes can make big discoveries. Though the KELT North telescope in southern Arizona carries a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, it's just revealed the existence o ... more | .. |
  No evidence for 'knots' in space Theories of the primordial Universe predict the existence of knots in the fabric of space - known as cosmic textures - which could be identified by looking at light from the cosmic microwave backgro ... more | .. |
 Alien Earths Could Form Earlier than Expected Building a terrestrial planet requires raw materials that weren't available in the early history of the universe. The Big Bang filled space with hydrogen and helium. Chemical elements like silicon a ... more |
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 NuSTAR opens out of this world view thanks to Lab technology For astrophysicist Bill Craig and his team, NASA's NuSTAR will open up a whole new world. In fact, NuSTAR will allow them to observe a new class of objects in space, called extreme objects, which ha ... more | .. |
 Orbital Launches Company-Built NuSTAR Satellite Aboard Pegasus Rocket for NASA Orbital Sciences reports that its Pegasus rocket has successfully launched the company-built Nuclear Spectroscopic Array Telescope (NuSTAR) satellite for the National Aeronautics and Space Administr ... more | .. |
 Planets can form around different types of stars It had previously been thought that planets were more likely to form around a star if the star had a high content of heavier elements. But new research from the University of Copenhagen, among other ... more | .. |
Media Tonedown for Tiangong Sydney, Australia (SPX) Jun 14, 2012 The launch of the first crew to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is a major step forward for China's astronaut program. It's attracted the attention of the w ... more |
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  X-ray telescope to focus on hottest regions of black holes, supernovas NASA is scheduled to launch an orbiting X-ray satellite on Wednesday, June 13, that will open a new window on the universe, allowing scientists to probe the roiling edges of black holes, the turbule ... more | .. |
 Tiangong's Big Tasks The flight of the first crew to China's Tiangong 1 space laboratory is another step in China's most ambitious human spaceflight project to date. While much of the mission has yet to be completed, Ti ... more | .. |
 Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to Form The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon. However, new ground-based observations, combined with da ... more | .. |
 With some help from Stanford and SLAC, an orbiting telescope sees the universe's X-rays NASA's newest telescope headed for orbit Wednesday, developed with help from researchers from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford's main campus. Its rocket ignited in the night skies s ... more |
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