Jun 22 2011
European ‘Space Truck’ Burns Up Over Pacific Ocean
ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Johannes Kepler was destroyed during reentry after a successful resupply mission to the space station.
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Apr 28 2011
Andromeda’s Jewel in ‘Invisible’ Light
The European Space Agency has released a new animation compiling microwave, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, and x-ray observations of our nearest big galaxy, Andromeda.
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Apr 12 2011
‘First Orbit’ Reveals What Yuri Saw
On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth. In a spectacular video recreating this historic event, we can now see, for the first time, what Gagarin saw.
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Apr 11 2011
Tech Spinoffs from Space Programs
Ceramic teeth braces, artificial hearts, airbags, insulin pumps and Olympics-caliber swimsuits got their start in aerospace laboratories.
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Mar 09 2011
Oldest Galaxy Cluster Looks Like Modern-Day Kin
For a very old galaxy cluster, this one looks surprisingly familiar.
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Feb 14 2011
Mars 500 Crew Simulates Space Walk
The volunteers are part of a 520-day experiment to test the readiness of humans for an extended mission to the Red Planet.
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Feb 09 2011
A Rocket Called ‘Liberty’ Rises From Ares’ Ashes
Through a US-Europe rocket manufacturer partnership, could a launch vehicle with a strong likeness to the Ares I soon be carrying astronauts to the space station?
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Jan 25 2011
Uranus Pathfinder: Mission to the Mysterious Ice Giant
The only spacecraft to have visited Uranus was Voyager 2 in 1986. Now a team of scientists from Europe and the U.S. are planning a return mission to this bizarre planet.
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Jan 13 2011
Planck Stares Through Our Dusty Milky Way
In an effort to study the ubiquitous cosmic microwave background, the European Planck space telescope needs to understand the dusty pollution in our own back yard.
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Sep 23 2010
Asteroid Mission Modeled with LEGOs
The European Space Agency creates a LEGO set modeled on their asteroid-landing mission.
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