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  • October 2007

    • 50 Highs and Lows Since Sputnik

      Time  |  Oct 4, 07 3:08 PM CDT

      50 Highs and Lows Since Sputnik

      (Newser) - Since Sputnik’s launch, space exploration has gone through some dizzying highs and tragic lows. Time recounts the top moments, replete with triumphs like John Glenn’s first earth orbit, tragic lows like the death of the Apollo 1 crew, and the many missteps in between – like the Soviets launching a dog in the Sputnik 2, only to have it die from exposure. More »

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      list  • NASA  • space exploration  • Sputnik

  • September 2007

    • Hidden Galaxies Come to Light

      Space.com  |  Sep 24, 07 12:15 PM CDT

      Hidden Galaxies Come to Light

      (Newser) - Astronomers have added 14 “invisible galaxies” to their map of the heavens, thanks to an imaginative breakthrough and a massive telescope. Researchers realized that some galaxies might be hidden by the bright lights of quasars behind them, so they scanned quasar data for “dips” where those lights might be passing through galaxies, Space.com reports. More »

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      space  • astronomy  • space exploration  • deep space  • quasars  • galaxies

    • Mars Rover Steps Into Crater

      Wired  |  Sep 13, 07 6:00 PM CDT

      Mars Rover Steps Into Crater

      (Newser) - The dust has finally settled on Mars, and NASA's Mars rover Opportunity took its first steps Tuesday 13 feet into the half-mile-wide Victoria Crater—and then backed out after slipping beyond acceptable levels. With Opportunity's six wheels perched over the lip of the crater, researchers paused the operation in order to analyze data collected in the foray, Wired reports. More »

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      NASA  • space  • Mars  • space exploration  • rover  • Opportunity

    • Russia Shoots For the Moon

      ABC News  |  Sep 3, 07 12:10 PM CDT

      Russia Shoots For the Moon

      (Newser) - Russia has announced a plan to put a man (or woman) on the moon by 2025, reports ABC. The cash-strapped Russian space agency also plans a permanent moon base and a Mars mission. "The Russians have some big ideas, but their space program is coming up slowly from being in a position (of) bankruptcy," says one former astronaut. More »

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      Russia  • NASA  • space  • Mars  • space exploration  • moon  • Russian Space Agency

  • August 2007

    • NASA Eyes Endeavor Damage

      Associated Press  |  Aug 11, 07 4:01 PM CDT

      NASA Eyes Endeavor Damage

      (Newser) - Endeavour's astronauts finished their first spacewalk today by installing a 2-ton beam on the back of the international space station, the AP reports. Meanwhile NASA engineers inspected troubling images of a gash in shuttle Endeavour’s heat shield caused, they believe, by an ice chunk that flew off the fuel tank.  More »

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      NASA  • International Space Station  • space  • astronauts  • space shuttle  • space exploration  • spacewalk  • Endeavour  • space travel  • heat shield

    • US Teacher Headed for Space

      Reuters  |  Aug 6, 07 8:02 AM CDT

      US Teacher Headed for Space

      (Newser) - NASA is sending another schoolteacher into space, 21 years after the Challenger disaster killed educator Christa McAuliffe. Barbara Morgan, a former Idaho schoolteacher and now a fully trained astronaut, will spend most of the trip transferring cargo to the International Space Station and about six hours on educational pursuits. When she returns, she'll develop a curriculum based on her experience. More »

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      NASA  • International Space Station  • space  • space shuttle  • space exploration  • Barbara Morgan  • Christa McAuliffe

    • Robot Geologist Heads to Mars

      Associated Press  |  Aug 4, 07 7:05 AM CDT

      Robot Geologist Heads to Mars

      (Newser) - An unmanned rocket carrying a robotic excavation machine is on its way to Mars following a successful launch from Cape Canaveral this morning. The AP reports that the Phoenix Mars Lander should arrive on Mars in May, 2008, when it will collect and analyze soil and ice in search of organic compounds on the red planet. More »

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      NASA  • space  • Mars  • space exploration  • Phoenix Mars Lander  • robot

  • June 2007

    • Europe Seeks Mars Test Volunteers

      BBC  |  Jun 20, 07 5:31 PM CDT

      Europe Seeks Mars Test Volunteers

      (Newser) - The European Space Agency is recruiting 12 volunteers to spend 17 months living and working in a series of interconnected modules that simulate an inter-planetary mission to Mars. The 'spaceship' is 19,250 cubic feet and is located at the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow. More »

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      Russia  • space  • astronauts  • Mars  • space exploration  • European Space Agency

    • Scientists Find Cold Dwarf Star

      BBC  |  Jun 5, 07 8:51 AM CDT

      Scientists Find Cold Dwarf Star

      (Newser) - Scientists are over the moon with the discovery of a cold brown dwarf in the Cetus constellation. The star-like body, spotted by a British team using the UKIRT telescope in Hawaii, is the coldest of its kind ever seen, the BBC reports, tipping thermometers at just 800 degrees F, a tenth the temperature of the sun. More »

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      space  • space exploration  • discovery  • planet  • star  • telescope  • dwarf

  • May 2007

    • China Helps Nigeria Into Space

      New York Times  |  May 24, 07 7:10 AM CDT

      China Helps Nigeria Into Space

      (Newser) - China is launching its own space program, after years of getting a cold shoulder from NASA. Beijing is developing satellite technology for developing nations—the same nations it's looking to for resources to fuel its runaway economic growth, the New York Times notes. Last week saw the launch of a communications satellite for Nigeria, with another planned for Venezuela. More »

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      China  • NASA  • space exploration  • Nigeria  • satellite  • aerospace

    • NASA Reveals Superpowered Telescope

      BBC  |  May 11, 07 4:38 PM CDT

      NASA Reveals Superpowered Telescope

      (Newser) - NASA has uncovered a prototype for a new telescope that will outmagnify the dominant Hubble. The James Webb Space Telescope will cost $4.5 billion and float nearly a million miles from Earth when it launches in six years; its supercharged hexagonal mirror will transmit images of the farthest and oldest corners of the universe. More »

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      NASA  • space  • space exploration  • Hubble  • James Webb  • telescope

    • Astronaut Wally Schirra Dies at 84

      Associated Press  |  May 3, 07 2:14 PM CDT

      Astronaut Wally Schirra Dies at 84

      (Newser) - Astronaut Wally Schirra, a reporter once said, geared up for space flight with "the ease of preparing for a family picnic." The third American to orbit the earth and the fifth ever to fly into space, Shirra died today. He was 84. More »

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      NASA  • obituary  • death  • astronauts  • space exploration  • Apollo

    • Final Frontier Tests Terra Firma Ethics

      CNN  |  May 1, 07 7:49 PM CDT

      Final Frontier Tests Terra Firma Ethics

      (Newser) - As NASA plans a three-year manned mission to Mars during the next three decades, Oregon Trail ethics are being updated. What do you do with bodies of pioneers who don't make it? A new document on crew health from the space agency deals with death and interment where no man has gone before. More »

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      NASA  • space  • astronauts  • ethics  • Mars  • safety  • space exploration  • cosmonaut

  • April 2007
  • March 2007

    • NASA Shutters Ideas Factory

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 22, 07 8:47 AM CDT

      NASA Shutters Ideas Factory

      (Newser) - In a cost-cutting move, NASA is shutting down its futuristic think tank, source of way-ahead-of-the-curve ideas, many of them worthy of a Star Trek script. Closing the Institute for Advanced Concepts will save $4 million out of NASA’s $16 billion dollar budget. But former NASA scientist Keith Cowing describes the decision as “just plan stupid.. explorers without the right tools die.” More »

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      NASA  • technology  • science  • space  • genetics  • space exploration  • planet  • deep space  • think tank

    • NASA Discovers Seas On Saturn's Moon

      Space.com  |  Mar 14, 07 9:18 PM CDT