Colony Worlds (Orbital Nexus)

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By Alan Boyle, nbcnews.com

A video from the South­west Research Insti­tute explains the objec­tives for the Curios­i­ty rover's Radi­a­tion Assess­ment Detec­tor.

Even before its land­ing, NASA's Mars Sci­ence Lab­o­ra­to­ry has sent back its first sci­en­tif­ic results —…

Radiation is the problem!

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Habitable worlds around a White Dwarf star is an interesting concept. It would probably be safer than a red dwarf, but I wonder if the light would be too dim for any plants attempting to survive on the surface? (via Habitable Worlds around White Dwarf Stars?)

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ArduSat Reaches Funding Goal, Prepares to Launch Satellite July 2013 Kate Freeman, mashable.com

A team of devel­op­ers based in San Jose wants to let the aver­age per­son put their ideas in space via an open-source satel­lite. And the pub­lic appar­ent­ly loved that con­cept.

The ArduSat project called for funds on Kick­starter and reached…

Sweet!

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Source: Kennedy Space Center, spaceref.com

CAPE CANAVER­AL, Fla. -- NASA's Kennedy Space Cen­ter in Flori­da has announced a new part­ner­ship with Cella Ener­gy Inc. that could result in vehi­cles being pow­ered by hydro­gen, which is clean­er and pro­duces no green­house gases.

This ne…

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moontoday.net

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Tues­day, July 10, 2012 Source:

The Cana­di­an Space Agency and NASA Test Lunar Tech­nolo­gies

At the invi­ta­tion of NASA, the Cana­di­an Space Agency (CSA) begins a joint nine-day fiel…

Good to see NASA and Canada working together. :-)

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saturndaily.com

It's been near­ly two years since NASA's Cassi­ni space­craft has had views like those it is now enjoy­ing of Sat­urn's glo­ri­ous rings. These views are pos­si­ble again because Cassi­ni has changed the angle at which it orbits Sat­urn and now…

I wish I could see Saturn in person. I will however settle for the next best thing.

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spacemart.com

Dutch Space Tourism com­pa­ny, Space Expe­di­tion Cor­po­ra­tion (SXC) and world-renowned finan­cial mar­kets trad­er Anton Kreil are about to make a giant finan­cial leap and go one step beyond. In an inter­view in the lat­est edi­tion of the…

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spacemart.com

Next year's Hol­ly­wood film Grav­i­ty fea­tures George Clooney strand­ed in orbit by cas­cad­ing space junk. The threat is gen­uine, with debris lev­els ris­ing steadi­ly. ESA's new Clean Space ini­tia­tive is devel­op­ing meth­ods of pre­serv­in…

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phys.org

As our clos­est neigh­bor in space, a time-capsule of plan­e­tary evo­lu­tion and the only world out­side of Earth that humans have stepped foot on, the Moon is an obvi­ous and ever-present loca­tion for future explo­ration by humans. The research…

I highly doubt that the moon itself is toxic. Mars might be a different story however.

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phys.org

(Phys.org) -- Astro­nauts return to Earth weak­ened and unsteady after weight­less­ness and radi­a­tion in space take their toll on the human body. New research now shows that the hum­ble nema­tode worm adapts much bet­ter to space­flight.

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Clark S. Lindsey, hobbyspace.com

SpaceX Grasshopper VTVL prototype update

Stephen Clark has a report on and pho­tos of the SpaceX ver­ti­cal take­off and land­ing Grasshop­per pro­to­type, which will begin tests soon. Low alti­tude flights ini­tial­ly. They hope to reach…

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space.com

by SPACE.com Staff

Date: 11 July 2012 Time: 10:56 AM ET

Should Pluto be clas­si­fied as a dwarf plan­et or a full-fledged world?

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Like Earth Pluto has its own spherical moon and potentially an atmosphere as well. It's a planet in my book.

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What Should Pluto's New Moon Be Named? | Dwarf Planet Pluto space.com

New anno­tat­ed image show­ing Pluto and moons, includ­ing the newly dis­cov­ered P4, released July 20, 2011. CRED­IT: NASA, ESA, and M. Showal­ter (SETI insti­tute)

Plan­e­tary sci­en­tists have spot­ted a fifth moon orbit­ing the dwarf…

My suggestion? Tesla. Google the name to learn more about him.

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XCOR plans Texas R&D center for space plane project msn.com

California rocket venture expanding to Lone Star State; spaceport in the works?

XCOR Aero­space, a com­pa­ny that's design­ing a sub­or­bital space plane for pas­sen­ger trips to the edge of space, will open a new test facil­i­ty in Texas,…

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Got $10,000? Send your DNA off to the moon msn.com

Google Lunar X Prize team promises to fly you aloft for Kickstarter donation

Lunar fans stuck on Earth no longer have to set­tle for lis­ten­ing to Frank Sina­tra sing "Fly Me to the Moon" for the umpteenth time — a Google Lunar X Prize team has…

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Strange vortex discovered on Saturn moon Titan msn.com

NASA probe's photo hints that winter coming to huge body's southern reaches

A NASA space­craft has spied a vor­tex swirling in the atmos­phere high above the south pole of the Sat­urn moon Titan, hint­ing that win­ter may be com­ing to the huge…

Weird weather upon Saturn's moon Titan.