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I am here again in Titusville after a semi arduous but necessary and money saving bus trip Excited and ready for fun 8230 of course

Photo from NASA Tweetup at Twitter Also Emily C launches tomorrow morning On a bus To Florida 8217 s Space Coast See you there Emily

What I 8217 ll be doing in a couple of days Stanley Kubrick edition nbsp Hey space peeps How y 8217 all doing I am

nbsp nbsp Juno is a solar powered space probe unlike its Pioneer and Voyager ancestors which were powered by radioisotope thermoelectric generators RTGs Scaled

A clearly thrilled Frank Borman sends his salutations from space during his Gemini 7 hostage situation mission 1965 NASA photo On a serious note I

Not Mission Juno 8217 s probe but an artist 8217 s rendering of when Voyager 2 went all Charlie Sheen during its Jupiter flyby Depiction

Australia National University 8217 s Plasma Research Laboratory has received a grant to help build its Helicon Double Layer Thruster HDLT If successful the driver

NASA 8217 s Gravity Probe B GP B mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein 8217 s general theory of relativity which

Falcon 9 Lunar Mission Image Credit Astrobotic Technology Astrobotic Technology Inc a spinoff from Carnegie Mellon University announced the signing of a contract with SpaceX

Previously we looked at the Europeans Space Agency ESA and their ATV program which is preparing to send their resupply spacecraft Johannes Kepler to the

Image from JPL NASA 8211 Voyager 2 8217 s first closeup of Jupiter 1979 1 NASA has launched an application for Android powered cell phones

The most recent issue of Science News 18 December 2010 has the following notes from 17 December 1960 HEAVY SHIELD UNNECESSARY Heavy shielding as protection

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People residing and working in space space settlements or on long duration space flights will need to produce infrastructures and food to maintain healthy lifestyles

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