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Asteroid 2005 YU55: An Expert’s Explanation
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory released this video today featuring more information about the much-discussed 2005 YU55, a 400-meter-wide asteroid that…
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NASA Robot seeks Goldmine of Science and Sun at Martian Hill along vast Crater
[/caption] NASA’s intrepid robogirl Opportunity is now swiftly scouting out locations at a Martian hill along gigantic Endeavour crater that…
Asteroid 2005 YU55 Gets Closer to Earth; “No Chance of an Impact”
[/caption] Yes, it's coming. Yes, it's big. Yes, it will be even closer than the Moon. And yes... we're completely…
A Night Flight Over the Mideast
The cities of the Middle East and southern Asia shine bright in the night beneath the International Space Station as…
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Phobos and Jupiter Conjunction in 3 D and Amazing Animation – Blastoff to Martian Moon near
http://youtu.be/u60IkqWF5D4 Video Caption: Phobos and Jupiter in Conjunction - taken from Mars orbit ! A movie of the 1 June…
Senate Approves Bill Funding JWST
This afternoon the U.S. Senate approved H.R. 2112, a FY 2012 bill from Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski that would fund…
Shenzhou-8 rolled out for Blastoff to China’s 1st Space Station on November 1
[/caption] China’s Shenzhou-8 capsule and the Long March booster rocket have been rolled out to the Gobi desert launch pad…
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Closing the Clamshell on a Martian Curiosity
[/caption] Curiosity’s clamshell has been closed. And it won’t open up again until a few minutes after she blasts off…
Success ! Launch Video of Crucial Russian Rocket to ISS puts Human Flights back on Track
http://youtu.be/cJcMvUNIAhc Video caption: Liftoff of unmanned Russian Progress craft atop Soyuz booster on Oct. 30, 2011 from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Credit:…
Apollo Astronaut Returns “Stolen” Camera
[/caption] In a follow-up to a recent Universe Today article, Apollo astronaut and sixth-man-on-the-moon Ed Mitchell has agreed to return…