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Looks Like We’ll Be Needing Space Miners Soon
Nifty news about upcoming space exploration. Although NASA hasn’t made any official announcements, Senator Bill Nelson and an anonymous White House official have both made public America’s plans for...
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NASA Budget Has Plan for Asteroid Mission, Cuts to Education
Concept of Asteroid Capture in Progress. Credit: NASA/Advanced Concepts Laboratory On Wednesday, NASA unveiled the President’s FY2014 budget proposal for the nation’s space program. The $17.7 billion...
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Welcome to Countdown City — 77 Days Left for The Last Policeman
77 days. That’s all the Earth has left until the asteroid designated 2011GV1 hits the Indian Ocean and life as we know it ends. The world is in tatters. Those who haven’t checked out have few choices....
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Last Chance to Buy Time on a Space Telescope!
Graphic courtesy of Planetary Resources, Inc. For those of us that have dreamed of wielding cosmic power (basically everyone, right?) and doing good for the planet (again, mostly everyone?): our time...
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All About Hayabusa (The Spacecraft, Not The Halo Armor)
Hayabusa (image: nasa.gov public domain) I know my kids get tired of me tilting my head out from behind my laptop screen and proclaiming the next great achievement from the space realms: “Hey kids,...
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Review: The Last Survivors
My son is an avid reader and loves to recommend books for me. I have a love of young adult novels, so I’m usually happy to hear his recommendations and give them a try. Several months ago he insisted I...
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A New Dawn at Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft obtained this image of Vesta with its framing camera on July 9, 2011. It was taken from a distance of about 26,000 miles (41,000 kilometers) away from the protoplanet Vesta....
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The Last Policeman Serves and Protects Even at World’s End
If a world-ending asteroid were on a collision course with Earth, would you spend the last six months on the job? That’s the question asked by author Ben H. Winters in his novel, The Last Policeman....
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The Sky is Falling! Asteroids and Meteors on the Same Day!
Orbital trajectories and relative sizes of 2012 DA14 and the meteor that streaked across the Russian skies on Friday.Image compiled by Helene McLaughlin using images from Nasa.gov So maybe the sky...
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Senator: NASA to “Lasso” Asteroid, Bring it Closer
Image: Wikipedia Commons. Today Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL), the chairman of the Senate science and space subcommittee, announced that President Obama is planning to invest in an accelerated asteroid...
View ArticleWant Your Name on an Asteroid? Let Spacecraft OSIRIS-REx Take It There
About one month and a half ago, on December 9th, 2013, a countdown began. 999 days left before the launch of OSIRIS-REx, an asteroid sample return mission lead by professor Dante Lauretta at the...
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NASA Wants Your Artwork For Space
Art by EG Sinister Why settle for your local gallery when NASA is offering to include your artwork in an exhibition out of this world? NASA is looking for original artwork that captures the essence of...
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