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June 2007
- Atlantis Detours, Lands in Calif.
  
  Associated Press | Jun 22, 07 7:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Atlantis space shuttle landed in California this afternoon, touching down at Edwards Air Force Base after weather forced a 1-day delay and a detour from Florida. The craft's signature twin sonic booms reverberated from San Diego to Los Angeles before the shuttle glided to a stop in the Mojave Desert, returning from its 2-week mission with seven astronauts aboard. More »
- Europe Seeks Mars Test Volunteers
  
  BBC | Jun 20, 07 5:31 PM CDT
  
  (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 »
- Atlantis Heads Home
  
  Space.com | Jun 19, 07 7:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Space shuttle Atlantis undocked from the International Space Station today and set out on the final leg of its 13-day mission. The seven astronauts' final preparations for landing included making sure the craft's heat shield was ready to re-enter the atmosphere before landing Thursday—or later if the weather doesn't cooperate—at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. More »
- Space Station Computers Fail, Air Supply Threatened
  
  Associated Press | Jun 14, 07 7:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Russian computers that control the international space station's air supply, water and orientation are down, the AP reports. The unprecedented failure could lengthen the current shuttle mission, or, at worst, force the crew to come home early, but there is no immediate danger. "We have plenty of resources, so we have plenty of time to sort this out," says a NASA manager. More »
- Shuttle Docks at Space Station
  
  Associated Press | Jun 11, 07 5:31 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Atlantis docked with the international space station today, bringing with it a segment to be added to the station and the newest member of its crew. The arrival was marred by concern about a piece of thermal blanket on the shuttle that peeled back during launch; ground control is trying to decide if it needs to be repaired before the Atlantis returns. More »
- Most Massive Star Ever Weighs In
  
  Space.com | Jun 8, 07 6:43 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The most massive star yet discovered has been "weighed," astronomers say, and it tips the scales at a whopping 114 times the mass of the sun. The enormous star forms the bigger half of a rapidly orbiting binary system and it far outstrips both its companion star and the previous record holder—which weigh in at 84 and 83 solar masses, respectively. More »
- Scientists Find Cold Dwarf Star
  
  BBC | Jun 5, 07 8:51 AM CDT
  
  (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 »
May 2007
- Crop of New Planets Means Better Chance of Life
  
  Reuters | May 29, 07 7:07 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Astronomers who've spotted 28 new planets in the past year are gaining confidence that other solar systems may be able to support life like ours. One researcher estimated that there are probably "tens of billions" of planets with habitable conditions, most important of which is hospitality to water. More »
- China Helps Nigeria Into Space
  
  New York Times | May 24, 07 7:10 AM CDT
  
  (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 »
- NASA Reveals Superpowered Telescope
  
  BBC | May 11, 07 4:38 PM CDT
  
  (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 »
- King of Supernovas Sheds Light on Early Stars
  
  Space.com | May 8, 07 8:19 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Researchers are reporting the biggest stellar explosion ever recorded—a discovery which could shed light on how the universe was shaped. The star, 150 times more massive than the sun, went out with a bang 100 times more powerful than typical supernovas. Astronomers think the first stars after the Big Bang, which were also gargantuan, met similar fates. More »
- Astronaut Wally Schirra Dies at 84
  
  Associated Press | May 3, 07 2:14 PM CDT
  
  (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 »
- Final Frontier Tests Terra Firma Ethics
  
  CNN | May 1, 07 7:49 PM CDT
  
  (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 »
April 2007
- Stephen Hawking Test-Drives Zero Gravity
  
  BBC | Apr 27, 07 12:32 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Paralyzed super-physicist Stephen Hawking completed a zero-gravity flight off the Florida coast yesterday—floating weightless and free of his wheelchair for 25-second busts. "It was amazing," Hawking said after the flight. "Space, here I come!" The American firm normally charges $3,750 for the experience, but waived the fee for the Hawking. More »
- Earth-Like Planet Could Sustain Life
  
  Space.com | Apr 25, 07 7:29 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Astronomers have discovered a planet that can sustain liquid water, the prerequisite for life as we understand it. Named Gliese 581 C, the new planet orbits a red dwarf star in what's called the "Goldilocks zone"—not so close that water melts, and not so far that it freezes. More »
- Ready for take off? Commercialising space
  
  Economist | Apr 21, 07
  
  ...The doors of space are now about to be thrown open to the ordinary punter. That, in any case, was the starry-eyed argument made by a throng of aerospace entrepreneurs who gathered this week in New York at a space-investment summit.
March 2007
- Celestial sightseeing
  
  BusinessWeek | Mar 26, 07
  
  During a total solar eclipse the sky turns dark blue and sunlight casts ripples on the ground as if it were the bottom of a swimming pool. Birds return to their roosts even though it's daytime, and the horizon flames orange-red. "It's so powerful, people start gasping and crying," says Jeffery Keffer, a lawyer from Arlington, Mass., who has traveled to the South Pole, Panama, Egypt, and South Africa to see the moon temporarily obliterate the view of the sun.
- NASA Shutters Ideas Factory
  
  Guardian (UK) | Mar 22, 07 8:47 AM CDT
  
  (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 »
- NASA Discovers Seas On Saturn's Moon
  
  Space.com | Mar 14, 07 9:18 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - NASA's radar detected evidence of huge seas—one of them larger than any of the Great Lakes—on the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. Although the spacecraft, Cassini, cannot confirm that the dark images are liquid until passing over the area again as scheduled in May, scientists believe they are bodies of liquid ethane or methane gas. More »
- NASA Dumps Deranged Astronaut
  
  Washington Post | Mar 8, 07 1:16 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Love-lorn Lisa Nowak made history again Wednesday, when she became the first astronaut ever to get a pink slip from NASA. The space agency remanded her to the U.S. Navy, for whom she was officially on assignment at NASA. More »

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Atlantis Detours, Lands in Calif.

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Atlantis Heads Home

Space Station Computers Fail, Air Supply Threatened

Shuttle Docks at Space Station

Most Massive Star Ever Weighs In

Scientists Find Cold Dwarf Star

Crop of New Planets Means Better Chance of Life

China Helps Nigeria Into Space

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