Category: Space-Earth

‘Top Chef’s’ Short Ribs Get NASA Twist for Spaceflight (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – Angelo Sosa’s short ribs are destined for the International Space Station.

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‘Top Chef’s’ Short Ribs Get NASA Twist for Spaceflight
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Chinese Satellites Bump During Secret Maneuvers (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – A Chinese satellite may have intentionally nudged another spacecraft during secretive space maneuvers in near-Earth orbit, according to analysts.

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Chinese Satellites Bump During Secret Maneuvers
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Some Ancient Galaxies Had Wild Youth (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – Ancient galaxies may be cosmic senior citizens today, but some have a wild streak in their past, one packed with frenetic star birth, astronomers say.

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Some Ancient Galaxies Had Wild Youth
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Labor Day Weekend for Astronauts: Space Toilet Cleaning and Exercise (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – Astronauts aboard the International Space Station won’t be throwing any burgers on the grill this Labor Day weekend, but at least they’ll get the U.S. holiday off — after they clean the space toilet.

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NASA Aims to Plunge Car-Sized Probe Into the Sun (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – NASA is developing an ambitious new mission to plunge a car-sized probe directly into the sun’s atmosphere, boldly going where no spacecraft has gone before.

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Asteroid Diversity: Mixed Bag of Space Rocks Found Near Earth (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – A new survey of asteroids near Earth by a NASA space telescope has found a much wider variety of the space rocks than previously thought, with some shiny and bright while others are dark and dull.

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Asteroid Diversity: Mixed Bag of Space Rocks Found Near Earth
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Space Luminaries Petition Against House Version of NASA Bill (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – NASA needs more funding for commercial spaceflight, technology development and robotic missions. So said a group of Nobel laureates, former astronauts and former space agency officials in a recent letter to Congress.

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Canadian to command space station in 2013 (AFP)

AFP – Astronaut Chris Hadfield in 2013 will become the first Canadian to command the International Space Station (ISS), the Canadian Space Agency announced Thursday.

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Canadian to command space station in 2013
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Hubble Telescope Engineer Pulls Double Duty As Real-Life Knight (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com – A long-time NASA engineer working on the Hubble Space Telescope  is now a full-fledged knight in the Netherlands due to his work to help keep the renowned 20-year-old space observatory in working order.

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In a first, NASA drone to overfly hurricane threatening US (AFP)

AFP – A pilotless NASA aircraft is set to overfly Hurricane Earl on Thursday, in a scientific first to gather data about the potentially-deadly storm front bearing down on the US east coast.

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