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- Stephen Hawking to go weightless in April
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Let's hope he survives it: "British physicist Stephen Hawking, who is world-famous for his intellectual prowess as well as his physical frailty, has made a firm date with weightlessness on April 26, aboard a jet flying out of NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida."
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- Space Junk: Orbiting Debris, Once a Nuisance, Is Now a Threat
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  Early this year, after a half-century of growth, the federal list of detectable objects (four inches wide or larger) reached 10,000, including dead satellites, spent rocket stages, a camera, a hand tool and junkyards of whirling debris left over from chance explosions and destructive tests.
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- Astronaut sets spacewalk record for women - Space News
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  Williams broke the previous women’s spacewalking record of more than 21 hours when she and Michael Lopez-Alegria completed the second of what could be a precedent-setting three spacewalks in nine days. The new record of 22 hours and 27 minutes includes her two most recent walks, as well as a spacewalk in December.
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- Cosmic Log : Blue Origin revealed
  Posted by Jeff from cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
  Pretty cool video on MSNBC of the Blue Origin test flight - it goes up and down without crashing.
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- Comet dust yields surprises about universe
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Among them is the discovery of organic molecules, very similar to the amino acids that are the building blocks of proteins. The compounds contain a biologically useful form of nitrogen, which would have been important to early microbes.
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- Shuttle Discovery Launches on Mission to International Space Station
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  With a blinding streak of yellow flame that left a mark on the retina and a lump in the throat, the shuttle and its crew of seven astronauts lifted off in the program’s first nightime launching in more than four years.
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- NASA Plans Permanent Base on the Moon
  Posted by chuckt from New York Times
  Interesting question here: “The fear is that the Moon, which is now viewed as a means to get beyond the Moon, will become its own destination, for hundreds of years. The easy way to go to the Moon is the hard way to go to Mars." So says Howard McCurdy, a NASA expert at American University.
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acommontater comments on:
U.S. to rely on Russia for manned spaceflight - International Herald Tribune

McCain denounced Russia as a KGB run state and has called to oust Russia from the G8. How will this partnership be affected if he gets voted in?

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5:26 am 10/07/08
Jeff comments on:
Liquid Lakes On Saturn's Moon Confirmed

Now we just have to send up a spacecraft, suck up all those chemicals and lightly accelerate it back to earth – without blowing anything up.

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11:12 am 7/31/08
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Pentagon to shoot down broken spy satellite

It probably sounded static-y because of all the debris in space from their exploded satellite.

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11:50 am 2/15/08
aknight comments on:
Pentagon to shoot down broken spy satellite

I wonder what the phone call to the Chinese gov’t sounded like on this…

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6:33 pm 2/14/08
Damianmann comments on:
Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet
Exactly. We never liked Pluto anyway
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7:18 am 8/25/06
Billbar comments on:
Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet
Good riddance!
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6:16 am 8/25/06
Damianmann comments on:
Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet
I've decided to continue calling it a planet.
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5:13 am 8/25/06

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