U.S. President Barack Obama’s proposed 2011 NASA budget scraps the agency’s moon mission effort to make way for a 21st century space program.
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Weekly Book Buzz: The Latest Anita Blake Novel
Leading new releases this week is ?Flirt? the latest Anita Blake novel from Laurell K. Hamilton. While I?ve not been a big fan of the series in general, Hamilton has to be given credit for being the modern Godmother of urban fantasy…
Private-Enterprise Astronauts
Mike Massimino, an astronaut I’ve known for several years, was in New York yesterday — and had more questions for me about NASA’s future than I did for him. “I’m trying to ignore all that,” he said. “But it’s hard……. Barack Obama – NASA – Outsourcing – Business – United States
Star Trek Online: Patch Notes Released
Star Trek Online’s latest pre-release patch went live and it’s huge! In addition to some major bug fixes and tweaks, Leonard “Spock” Nimoy will be greeting players upon entering new sector blocks with an audio journal. Details after the jump! Comment | View Article
Sea Shepherd’s stern ‘warrior’ defies Japanese whalers
Friday, 10.30pm, 61 degrees South 120 West. Captain Paul Watson is on the bridge of the Steve Irwin , steaming due west at 17 knots in heavy seas past the ice floes of Wilkes Land in northern Antarctica.
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Escape Pods: Rescue and Survival in Space
If you love science fiction, there’s a good chance you love escape pods. Just try and tell a space opera without one. But what about the real-life space escape and rescue vehicles? Let’s abandon ship together, shall we?
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NASA Plans Backup Astronaut Escape System
With NASA retiring the shuttle fleet in 2010, next generation spaceships are being developed with a renewed focus on safety.
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The 9 Top Spaceflight Stories of 2009
The Top 9 Spaceflight Stories in 2009. 5 shuttle missions, a space program in transition and space tourism strides are just some of the top spaceflight stories of the year.
Born in beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula
(PhysOrg.com) — A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever dedicated to the topic of star and planet formation. Also known as proplyds, or protoplanetary discs, these modest blobs surrounding baby stars are shedding light on the mechanism behind planet formation …