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1. Did You Know: Russian Lunokhod Rovers Created Memorials on the Moon Honoring Women

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   Annotated graphic of Lunokhod 2's travels from Phil Stooke's International Atlas of Lunar Exploration. The saga of the Soviet Union's Lunokhod moon rovers keeps getting more interesting! If you ... Friday, 19 March 2010

2. Space Available On Lunar Expeditions

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   Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 16, 2010 - Astrobotic Technology will carry 240 lbs. (109 kg) to the Moon for researchers and marketers as part of its maiden expedition in 2012 to win the Google Lunar X Prize. ... Monday, 15 March 2010

3. 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

4. Obama to Unveil "Ambitous" Plan for NASA

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   President Obama will travel to Florida to unveil an "ambitious plan for NASA that sets the agency on a reinvigorated path of space exploration," according to a press release from the White ... Monday, 08 March 2010

5. Buzz Aldrin Says We Can Get to Mars by 2019

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   ... designed, called a unified space vision, contains ideas for the development of a deep-space craft that I call the Exploration Module, and development of a true heavy lift space booster evolved from the ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

6. LockMart Orion Team Fabricates World's Largest Heat Shield Structure

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   Denver CO (SPX) Mar 02, 2010 - The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the Orion crew exploration vehicle achieved a major technology milestone by completing fabrication of the world's largest heat shield ... Monday, 01 March 2010

7. KSC Workers Rally to Continue Constellation and Extend Shuttle

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   ... a "Save Our Space Exploration" jobs rally in Titusville, Florida on Saturday. Organized by union leaders, the event focused on preserving jobs at Kennedy Space Center, vital to the economy on ... Saturday, 27 February 2010

8. US lunar pull-out leaves China shooting for moon

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   Beijing (AFP) Feb 21, 2010 - China aims to land its first astronauts on the moon within a decade at the dawn of a new era of manned space exploration -- a race it now leads thanks to the US decision to ... Monday, 22 February 2010

9. Stardust-NExT Spacecraft Fires Engines To Delay Arrival At Comet

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   Denver CO (SPX) Feb 19, 2010 - NASA's Stardust-NExT (New Exploration of Tempel) spacecraft fired its engines for 22 minutes 53 seconds on Feb. 17 to purposely delay its arrival at comet Tempel 1 by 8 ... Friday, 19 February 2010

10. US committed to space: Obama tells astronauts

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    Washington (AFP) Feb 17, 2010 - US President Barack Obama told astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday that he was deeply committed to space exploration, after scrapping plans to ... Friday, 19 February 2010

11. Obama Talks With ISS/Shuttle Crews

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    Astronauts on the International Space Station took questions Wednesday from President Barack Obama and a group of children. The astronauts eloquently explained the the science and benefits of the ISS, ... Thursday, 18 February 2010

12. President Speaks to Crew on Space Station

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    “And so we just wanted to let you know that the amazing work that's being done on the International Space Station not only by our American astronauts but also our colleagues from Japan and Russia is just ... Tuesday, 16 February 2010

13. SDO Launch Scrub; Try Again Tomorrow

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    SDO on the launchpad. Credit: Nancy Atkinson Note: Nancy Atkinson is at Kennedy Space Center to cover SDO and the STS-130 shuttle mission Scrub! High winds kept the Solar Dynamics Observatory on ... Wednesday, 10 February 2010

14. Orion can Launch Safely in 2013 says Lockheed

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    President Obama has proposed to completely cancel NASA’s Project Constellation to send humans to the Moon, Mars and Beyond, thus calling into question whether US Leadership in Space will continue. Artists ... Saturday, 06 February 2010

15. Bolden: Heavy Lift Will Be International Effort and Not Until 2020-2030

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    NASA Adminstrator Charlie Bolden at Kennedy Space Center, Feb. 6, 2010. Image: Nancy Atkinson NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden spoke with reporters Saturday morning at Kennedy Space Center, and answered ... Saturday, 06 February 2010

16. Dragon Spacecraft Completes Cargo Loading Milestone

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    Hawthorne CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2010 - Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) recently conducted a three-day long demonstration of cargo loading and unloading procedures for its Dragon spacecraft, which ... Wednesday, 03 February 2010

17. Moon Exploration is Not Dead

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    Sydney, Australia (SPX) Feb 02, 2010 - It's clear by now that America's grand plans for returning astronauts to the Moon have been quashed, at least in the short term. The Constellation program, originally ... Monday, 01 February 2010

18. No Moon Missions, That's a Relief

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    ...  Post tags: human space exploration, Moon Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh  ... Monday, 01 February 2010

19. NASA Budget Details: Constellation Cancelled, But Where To Next?

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    We've lost the Moon. But have we gained the solar system while boosting commercial space ventures? "The President’s Budget cancels Constellation and replaces it with a bold new approach ... Monday, 01 February 2010

20. Can an Immobile Spirit Rover Survive the Martian Winter?

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    Mission managers for the Mars Exploration Rover program announced this week that the Spirit rover will likely never rove again on Mars. But that doesn't mean her life is over. However, with the ... Friday, 29 January 2010