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Rotating Space Elevator Propels its Own Load

As the scientists explain, RSE motion is nearly a geometrical superposition of two components: its geosynchronous rotation around Earth (which has a one-day period), and the internal rotation of the string system that goes on around the axis perpendic [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Human Space Flight Needn't Rely on NASA

A bigger danger is that NASA could become the only customer for the fledgling spaceflight companies, making them de facto arms of the government, with all the attendant problems, and keeping them at the mercy of changing political winds. That's one re [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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The NASA Puffin: a one man electric helicopter/plane

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A super-quiet, hover-capable aircraft design, NASA's experimental one-man Puffin could show just how much electric propulsion can transform our ideas of flight. It looks like nothing less than a flying suit or a jet pack with a cockpit. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Spacewalking Astronauts Seen With a Backyard Telescope

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In reviewing the photos he shot, he saw a few bright pixels appear precisely where the work was going on at exactly the moment it was being conducted. In other words, he was looking at an astronaut! [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Plan for Human Mission to Asteroid Gains Momentum

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Not only would the deep space sojourn shake out hardware, it would also build confidence in long-duration stints at the moon and Mars. At the same time, the trek would sharpen skills to deal with a future space rock found on a collision course with Ea [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Space Elevator contestant's entry climbs a tether nearly a km

The contest requires their machines to climb 2,953 feet (nearly 1 kilometer) up a cable slung beneath a helicopter hovering nearly a mile high. LaserMotive's vehicle zipped up to the top in just over four minutes and immediately repeated the feat,  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Space hotel says it's on schedule to open in 2012

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BARCELONA, Spain - A company behind plans to open the first hotel in space says it is on target to accept its first paying guests in 2012 despite critics questioning the investment and time frame for the multi-billion dollar project. The Barcelona- [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Most distant event ever detected in space- 13B light years away

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope have gained tantalizing insights into the nature of the most distant object ever observed in the Universe - a gigantic stellar explosion known as a Gamma Ray Bu [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Amelia Earhart's scarf flying to space

As a new major motion picture about famed female pilot Amelia Earhart prepares to launch onto movie theater screens this weekend, a scarf she wore is being readied for its own liftoff, flying on the space shuttle with the astronaut grandson of her per [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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It's Official: Water Found on the Moon

The new findings, detailed in the Sept. 25 issue of the journal Science, come in the wake of further evidence of lunar polar water ice by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and just weeks before the planned lunar impact of NASA's LCROSS satellite, wh [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Japan Wants to Power 300K Homes With Wireless Energy From Space

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Japan has serious plans to send a solar-panel-equipped satellite into space that could wirelessly beam a gigawatt-strong stream of power down to earth and power nearly 300,000 homes. The satellite will have a surface area of four square kilometers, [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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NASA can afford one,please pikk: A) moon landing B) space station

NASA's annual budget of about $18 billion will pay to keep astronauts flying -- albeit aboard Russian rockets -- to the space station through 2020, the panel said Wednesday. But that would leave no money for the moon, Mars or exploring other parts of  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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