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1. New Episode of This Week In Space With Miles O'Brien

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   This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien highlights: Space hits the red carpet: IMAX: Hubble 3D debuts at the Air and Space Museum, a Falcon 9 "hot fire" disappoints, the shuttle program ... Sunday, 14 March 2010

2. A Deep Sky Celebration…

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   ... side of the Hubble Space Telescope. This northern California resident embarked on his celestial imaging journey almost a decade ago and his work graces everything from magazines to NASA's "Astronomy ... Saturday, 13 March 2010

3. Successful Engine Test Firing for SpaceX Inaugural Falcon 9

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   ... SpaceX SpaceX announced that today’s (Mar 13) test firing of all 9 Merlin first stage engines was successful at Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral. This is a major milestone towards the planned inaugural first ... Saturday, 13 March 2010

4. Where In The Universe #95

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   Ready for another Where In The Universe Challenge? Here's #95! Take a look and see if you can name where in the Universe this image is from. Give yourself extra points if you can name the spacecraft ... Friday, 12 March 2010

5. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 12-14, 2010

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... night race to see how many Messier objects you can capture! If you need a bit of assistance, be sure to visit the Guide To Space section of Universe Today where you'll find plenty of information ... Friday, 12 March 2010

6. Bursting at the Seams

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   ... icy particles, water vapor and organic compounds. This mosaic was created from two high-resolution images that were captured by the narrow-angle camera when NASA's Cassini spacecraft flew past Enceladus ... Thursday, 11 March 2010

7. NASA manager says Shuttle Extension Possible; Key Issue Is Money not Safety

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   ... is available to fly Americans into space and the ISS ? Credit: Ken Kremer NASA Shuttle program manager John Shannon said on Tuesday (Mar 9) that the Space Shuttle Program can indeed be safely extended ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

8. Heads of Agency International Space Station

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   The heads of the International Space Station (ISS) agencies from Canada, Europe, Japan, Russia and the United States met in Tokyo, Japan, on March 11, 2010, to review ISS cooperation. From the left are ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

9. Mysterious Cosmic Dark Flow Tracked Deeper Into Universe

   Category: Space News Section/Space News Category

   ... led by Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., tracks this collective motion - dubbed the "dark flow" - to twice the distance originally reported. ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

10. SpaceX Static Fire Update

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    Hawthorne CA (SPX) Mar 11, 2010 - SpaceX has performed our first Static Fire for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. We counted down to an T-2 seconds and aborted on Spin Start. Given that this was our first ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

11. China chooses first women astronauts

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    Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2010 - China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

12. Snapshot of the International Space Station

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    On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometers, or 122 miles, and at a relative speed ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

13. NASA offers communication simulation

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    Washington (UPI) Mar 9, 2009 - NASA says it is now offering the public an interactive computer program that allows virtual explorers to experience many space-related simulations. ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

14. American Aerospace Accepting Research Reservations On Last Shuttle Mission

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    Radnor PA (SPX) Mar 10, 2010 - American Aerospace Advisors has announced that it is accepting commercial reservations for research on STS-133 (ULF-5), the last scheduled Space Shuttle mission, which ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

15. NASA Launches Interactive Simulation Of Satellite Communications

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    Moffett Field CA (SPX) Mar 10, 2010 - NASA has unveiled an interactive computer simulation that allows virtual explorers of all ages to dock the space shuttle at the International Space Station, experience ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

16. Historic Deep Space Network Antenna Starts Major Surgery

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    Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2010 - Like a hard-driving athlete whose joints need help, the giant "Mars antenna" at NASA's Deep Space Network site in Goldstone, Calif. has begun major, delicate surgery ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

17. China's Fourth Space Center To Be Completed By 2015

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    Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 10, 2010 - China's fourth space center, Wenchang, will be put into service between 2014 and 2015, not in 2013 as it was previously announced, the CCTV channel reported ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

18. Space shuttle can fly beyond 2010, if money is there: NASA

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    Washington (AFP) March 9, 2010 - The US space shuttle fleet can continue flying beyond NASA's September 30 deadline if the money is made available to keep it going, a US space agency official told reporters ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

19. SpaceX Falcon 9 Test Fire Ends with Abort

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    Screenshot of the Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday. Credit: Spaceflightnow.com No official word from SpaceX yet, but it appears the 3.5 second test-fire on Tuesday of the Falcon 9 rocket aborted immediately ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

20. Carnival of Space #144, Oscar Edition

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    This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Ian O'Neill over at Discovery News/Space, (and formerly of Universe Today!) who has given the Carnival the "Red Carpet" treatment. Click ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010