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  Rosetta Bound for Outer Solar System After Final Earth Swingby

  November 13, 2009 — This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA's comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to ... > full story
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  Nanotech in Space: New Experiment to Weather the Trials of Orbit

  November 12, 2009 — Novel nanomaterials are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis. The project seeks to test the performance of the new nanocomposites in orbit. The materials ... > full story
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  ESA Spacecraft May Help Unravel Cosmic Mystery

  November 12, 2009 — When Europe's comet chaser Rosetta swings by Earth on Nov. 13 for a critical gravity assist, tracking data will be collected to precisely measure the satellite's change in orbital energy. The results ... > full story
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  Butterfly Payload to Launch Nov. 16 on Space Shuttle

  November 10, 2009 — When NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launches for the International Space Station on Nov. 16 it will carry a butterfly experiment that will be monitored by thousands of K-12 students across the ... > full story
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  Volunteers Wanted for Simulated 520-Day Mars Mission

  October 29, 2009 — Starting in 2010, an international crew of six will simulate a 520-day round-trip to Mars, including a 30-day stay on the martian surface. In reality, they will live and work in a sealed facility in ... > full story
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  Exploring The Final Frontier: Disease Proposed As Major Barrier To Mars And Beyond

  October 29, 2009 — Scientists argue that human missions to Mars, as well as all other long-term space flights might be compromised by microbial hitchhikers, such as bacteria. That's because long-term space travel packs ... > full story
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  Soil Moisture And Ocean Salinity Satellite Ready For Launch

  October 29, 2009 — A new European Earth observation satellite will be launched in the early hours of Monday November 2 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The European Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean ... > full story
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  NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test

  October 28, 2009 — NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the ... > full story
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  Astronomers Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet

  October 21, 2009 — Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas planet, advancing astronomers toward the goal of being able to characterize ... > full story
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  Catching The Interstellar Wind: Spacecraft Finds Ribbon-Like Structure At Edge Of Heliosphere

  October 15, 2009 — NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft has made it possible for scientists to construct the first comprehensive sky map of our solar system and its location in the Milky Way ... > full story

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