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- Stephen Hawking in space
  Posted by Jeff from cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com
  British billionaire Richard Branson says he's sending over a medical officer to talk with physicist Stephen Hawking about getting him into space. That's how the founder of Virgin Galactic responded to Hawking's comment that "maybe Richard Branson will help" him achieve his long-held goal of reaching the final frontier, even though he's a quadripleg
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- First rocket launched from spacesport owned by Amazon.com founder
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  The FAA wouldn't say how high the first rocket flew, but the environmental study says the initial launches will reach less than 2,000 feet. Over the next three years, the company plans a succession of more ambitious launches, lasting up to 10 minutes and eventually reaching the target altitude of 325,000 feet or higher.
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- Martian gullies could be scientific gold mines - Space.com
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  One of the more perplexing finds on Mars are features that look like the product of groundwater seeping to the surface. These gullies could be formed by flowing water — perhaps fed by a groundwater supply. Deposits of soil and rocks transported by these flows have been found, too.
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- Alternative-energy elevators shoot for the stars
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Directed toward the craft from the ground was an array of 135 mirrors to concentrate the blinding New Mexico sunlight to an intensity equal to 300 suns. The beam shined on the climber's high-efficiency solar cells. With a muffled whirring, it rose 35 feet.
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- NASA Mars rover reaches "Victoria Crater"
  Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing
  The Mars rover named Opportunity reached a long-anticipated destination today: the rim of "Victoria Crater," on the Meridiani Planum region of the red planet, on the rover's 951st Martian day, or sol (Sept. 26, 2006). After the drive, the rover's navigation camera took the three exposures combined into this view of the crater's interior. This crater has been the mission's long-term destination for the past 21 Earth months.
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- Mars: Opportunity rover closing in on 'Victoria Crater'
  Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing
  I didn't know this bugger was still exploring. How cool!
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- Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet
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  Somehow the picture of Earth in scale with Jupiter and Saturn and our proximity to the sun makes me feel quite insignificant.
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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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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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Billbar comments on:
Scientists decide Pluto's no longer a planet
Good riddance!
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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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