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Another Space Debris Shower Expected in October, More Likely to Hit Populated Areas

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

International Business Times - By Anne Witter - Sep. 26 (News Report) - NASA's UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) has, as predicted, scattered into pieces and fallen somewhere unknown on Earth over the weekend, but the episode of space junk shower is not yet over.

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Space Shuttle Discovery Makes Final Flight Today

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

City Paper - By Laura Dattaro - Feb. 25 (News) - This is big: NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery is launching today at 4:50 p.m. EST for its 39th and final flight, a trek to the International Space Station, which it has visited 35 times.

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NASA Finds New Life

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Gizmodo - By Jesus Diaz - Dec. 02 (Breaking News) - Hours before their special news conference today, the cat is out of the bag: NASA has discovered a completely new life form that doesn't share the biological building blocks of anything currently living in planet Earth. This changes everything.

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INDIAN GOVERNMENT SAYS NO TO GLOBAL NETWORK SPACE CONFAB

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Space4Peace.com - By Bruce Gagnon - Aug. 02 (News Report) - the U.S. has for several years been pushing India to develop a Space Command and to become a junior partner in the Pentagon's growing Star Wars program. Just a month ago we published our Space Alert! newsletter which had an article by Global Network board member Matt Hoey. The article was called "India Developing Space Weapons" and the opening paragraph read: Indian military officials have set a target date to deploy an ambitious anti-satellite (ASAT) system

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Plasma rocket may shorten space voyages › News in Science (ABC Science)

Tue, 04 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Australian Broadcasting - May. 04 (News) -

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X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

globalsecurity.org - Apr. 26 (News Report) - The 45th Space Wing successfully launched a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle from Space Launch Complex 41 at 7:52 p.m. (EDT) Thursday 22 April 2010. The Atlas V rocket carried the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), making its first space flight. As the first U.S. unmanned reentering space vehicle, the first of its kind, it has been remarkably easy to work with," said Lt. Col. Erik Bowman, 45th Launch Support Squadron Commander.

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Schwartz: Space, cyberspace missions at risk

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

airforcetimes.com - By Bruce Rolfsen - Feb. 21 (News Report) - ORLANDO, Fla. — When Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz took the stage here in front of most of the service’s four-star generals, he did not mention fighters, special operations or mobility. He focused on space and cyberspace — silent

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It's Time To Get Serious About Colonizing Space

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

io9.com - By Annalee Newitz - Feb. 01 (News Analysis) - Today the Obama Administration unveiled its new budget for NASA, which included a shocker: Plans to return to the Moon have been scrapped. So why are we optimistic? Because Obama's budget rewards science, and lays groundwork for human space colonies.

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Only nukes can stop planetsmash asteroids, say US boffins •

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Register - By Lewis Page - Jan. 25 (News Report) - Top American boffins have warned that the US government's efforts to prevent global apocalypse caused by meteor strike are inadequate. The scientists add that nuclear weapons are the only practical means of defence against large, planet-wrecker sized asteroids. In a new report, the US National Research Council says that so-called Near Earth Objects (NEOs) fall broadly speaking into three classes.

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Spectacular Mars images reveal evidence of ancient lakes

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

spacefellowship.com - Jan. 04 (News Report) - Spectacular satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, according to research published today in the journal Geology.

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Resurrecting the Orbiting Carbon Observatory

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By David Richardson - Dec. 08 (Special Report) - A Taurus launch vehicle rose from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base in late February, ferrying the Orbital Carbon Observatory into space. The rocket streaked toward an orbit 705 miles above the Earth; from there the OCO and its single scientific instrument were to deploy to look back at the planet's surface, producing complete carbon dioxide maps of Earth every 16 days for two years.

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Russian Aggression Carries High Cost For NASA

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Pajamas Media - By Rand Simberg - Aug. 18 (Special Report) - As Washington reassesses its overall relationship with Russia in the wake of the recent incursion into the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, our current space policy may be dramatically affected. Given how crucial the Russians are to supporting it, particularly after the planned Shuttle retirement in 2010, we may have to decide how much the International Space Station (ISS) is really worth to us.

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Aviation Week : SpaceX Claims Crew Transfer Ability By 2011

Sat, 17 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Aviation Week - By Jefferson Morris - May. 17 (News Report) - If NASA decides by this summer to proceed with the development of crew transfer capability under the agency's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk says his company could be ready to conduct crew flights to the space station by early 2011.

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AlterNet: ForeignPolicy: Real-Life Star Wars: The Militarization of Space

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:20:42 -0800

AlterNet - By Stan Cox - Nov. 15 (Special Report) - "Missile defense brings in the money but the real story is offensive, preemptive attack technologies for global strike. That's where the real action is." Gagnon agrees that current U.S. space policy remains entirely consistent with the aggressive stance taken in the Rumsfeld report, "although they have slacked off just a bit on their rhetoric." In September, The New York Times relayed a similar message from a former Pentagon official, who said that space weapons are "still definitely part of the program, but they don't emphasize it because the arms-control people come out of the woodwork."

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Satellites witness lowest Arctic ice coverage in history

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:31:10 -0700

ESA - Sep. 17 (News Report) - The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage - a long-sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable.

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