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  NASA's Android smartphone satellites return blurry images from space

  By Carl Franzen on May 3, 2013 06:10 pm + 37 comments

  NASA has taken many images of the Earth from space, but none quite like this. The blurry images Continue reading…

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  NASA said to request $100 million for plan to capture near-Earth asteroid

  By Dante D'Orazio on March 29, 2013 06:04 pm + 45 comments

  NASA is taking a plan to send an unmanned spacecraft to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit Continue reading…

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  SpaceX overcomes Dragon glitch, but docking delayed until Sunday

  By Carl Franzen on March 1, 2013 05:42 pm + 12 comments

  SpaceX's Dragon is still on track to link up with the space station despite suffering a glitch after Continue reading…

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  North Korean satellite likely dead and out of control, New York Times reports

  By Adi Robertson on December 17, 2012 02:11 pm + 28 comments

  A satellite launched by North Korea last week is likely dead in space, The New York Times reports. Continue reading…

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  North Korea successfully launches satellite into orbit

  By Sam Byford on December 11, 2012 08:31 pm + 135 comments

  The secretive state of North Korea has made its second attempt to fire a rocket into space this Continue reading…

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  SpaceX rocket carries the ashes of Scotty from 'Star Trek' and 307 others into space

  By Vlad Savov on May 22, 2012 08:14 am + 10 comments

  James Doohan, the actor who famously portrayed Montgomery Scott, the chief engineer on the original S Continue reading…

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  NASA's Project Gemini remembered in photos fifty years after its inauguration

  By Nathan Ingraham on April 5, 2012 12:23 pm + 8 comments

  NASA's Project Gemini, the precursor to the Apollo missions that brought man to the moon, began 50 Continue reading…

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  MicroThrust propulsion system could help small satellites reach the Moon and beyond

  By Andrew Webster on March 30, 2012 09:31 am + 7 comments

  Small satellites are relatively cheap to send into space, but since they get stuck in orbit they Continue reading…

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  China reveals its space program plans

  By Jamie Keene on December 30, 2011 07:39 am + 39 comments

  It's been a big year for China's space program, as it became only the third nation to dock in space Continue reading…