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Breaking News Sat, 26 Jan 2013
In this image taken from video, NASA engineers test fire a key part of a rocket engine left over from the 1960s-era Apollo moon missions on Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, in Huntsville, Ala.
Apollo 11   Nasa   Photos   Space   Wikipedia: Apollo 11  
 Indian Express 
NASA testing vintage engine from Apollo 11 rocket
| A vintage rocket engine built to blast the first U.S. lunar mission into Earth's orbit more than 40 years ago is again rumbling across the Southern landscape. | The engine, known to NASA engineers a... (photo: AP / Jay Reeves)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left waves as North Korean military officers clap in a stadium in Pyongyang during a mass meeting called by the Central Committee of North Korea's ruling party on Saturday April 14, 2012.
North Korea   Nuclear   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: North Korea and weapons of mass destruction  
 The Guardian 
NKorea warns of nuke test, more rocket launches
| HYUNG-JIN KIM | Associated Press= SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's top governing body warned Thursday that the regime will conduct its third nuclear test in defiance of U.N. punishment, and... (photo: AP / Ng Han Guan)
The Earth casts its shadow across the moon's surface during a lunar eclipse in Rafah, in the southern of Gaza Strip on Dec. 10, 2011. This is the second total lunar eclipse of the year and the last until 2014. Photo by AHMED DEEB/ WN  Zeenews 
UFO spotted soaring above lunar surface
London: A YouTube user, who certainly seems to think it's a possibility that 2013 is the year we finally make contact with our brothers from beyond the stars, has uploaded a video showing footage of a... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
London   Photos   Space Programme   UFO   Wikipedia: Unidentified flying object   Youtube  
Asteroid(s) may have transported life to Earth  PhysOrg 
Asteroid deflection mission seeks smashing ideas
| ESA is appealing for research ideas to help guide the development of a US–European asteroid deflection mission now under study. | Concepts are being sought for both ground- and space-based investi... (photo: Creative Commons)
Photos   Science   Solar   Space   Wikipedia: Asteroid  
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Engineers work on a model of the Mars rover Curiosity at the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. Space
Curiosity Rover to Drill Mars Rock Once Soaked by Water
| This view shows the patch of veined, flat-lying rock selected as the first drilling site for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. Image released Jan. 15, 2013. | CREDIT: NASA/J... (photo: AP / Damian Dovarganes)
Curiosity Rover   NASA   Photos   Space Programme   Wikipedia: Curiosity rover  
Umeboshi The Los Angeles Times
Umeboshi, Japanese apricot, Chinese plum: Prized fruit by any name
| The Japanese apricot -- a plant native to China, actually -- is one of the longest lived of the flowering fruit trees. It's a symbol of resilience in the face of advers... (photo: GFDL)
China   Fruit   Japan   Photos   Wikipedia: Umeboshi  
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity used its Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the mission's 120th Martian day, or sol (Dec. 7, 2012), to record this view of a rock outcrop informally named "Shaler." BBC News
Volunteers wanted for Mars exploration
Members of the public are being asked to help identify dust features on the surface of Mars. | Volunteers can go to the Planetfour website to see millions of images taken... (photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
Mars exploration   Photos   Science   Space   Wikipedia: Curiosity rover  
This artist rendering released Monday Jan. 7,2013 by Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics shows the different types of planets in our Milky Way galaxy detected by NASAs Kepler spacecraft. Novosti
Our Galaxy May Host Billions of Earth-Size Planets – Study
| MOSCOW, January 8 (RIA Novosti) – At least 17 billion Earth-size planets may inhabit the Milky Way galaxy, SPACE.com reported citing a new study by US astronomers... (photo: AP / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Earth   Milky Way   Photos   Planets   Space Programme   Wikipedia: Galaxy  
 GSLV-F01 Blasting off from the Sathish Dawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, to place EDUSAT- India´s first full-fledged educational sattellite- in orbit on September 20, 2004 - india - hires - am1 The Hindu
India scales down Mars mission scaled down
India’s bid to explore Mars will be a scaled down affair with the space agency flying experimental payload of less than 15 kg as against 25kg planned originally. | ... (photo: PIB)
India   News   Photos   Space   Wikipedia: India  
A woman and her tin hut in the slum area of the city - India - poverty - urban poor The New York Times
India Aims to Keep Money for Poor Out of Others’ Pockets
NEW DELHI — India has more poor people than any nation on earth, but many of its antipoverty programs end up feeding the rich more than the needy. A new program hop... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
India   News   Photos   Society   Wikipedia: India  
 A Saturn V rocket streaks toward space on the night of December 17, 1972, carrying the Apollo 17 crew, the last astronauts to explore the Moon. Leaving the lunar surface, Commander Gene Cernan said "we leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall re The Times Of India
India set to launch Mars mission in November
KOLKATA: In a year when India should have actually fired a second rocket to the moon, after Chandrayaan-1, space scientists will instead send a mission to Mars in Novembe... (photo: NASA)
India   News   Photos   Space   Wikipedia: Chandrayaan-1  
Solar System Galaxies
- Auroras also occur outside our solar system: scientists
- Auroras shimmer outside our solar system too
- Auroras also occur outside our solar system
- Auroras also occur outside our solar system
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- JJ Abrams boldly goes to a galaxy far far away
- Samsung announces waterproof phone Galaxy Xcover 2
- Happy Galaxy stays firmly on a trajectory to stardom
- BJP's 'galaxy' - more liability than asset (Comm
Apple iPhone 4S - Smartphone
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Eclipse SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
- Eclipse Calculator: New eclipse-simulation app for your mobi
- Eclipse Chocolate moves to South Park
- Maya Predicted 1991 Solar Eclipse
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- 'Star Trek' Prototype Tractor Beam Developed By Scie
- World leaders prepare for discovery of extraterrestrial life
- Top Xbox Live, Arcade, Indie and Windows games of 2012
- What the devil? Scientists tap power of 'Lucifer'
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Universe Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids
- Revolution Hits the Universities
- 'Awful' offense leads to USD loss
- Frosh Johnson reaches double digits in Miami defeat
- Weary TCU will try to fight through fatigue against Baylor
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- Second company sets sights on mining asteroids (Video)
- Two Dazzling Comets Headed Our Way
- Asteroid Mining Becoming More Of A Reality
- Mining Asteroids Could Make 'Warp Drive' Possible
2000/05/07 NEAR´s first whole-Eros mosaic from orbit - This picture of Eros, the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, is a mosaic of four images obtained by NEAR on February 14, 2000, immediately after the spacecraft´s inser
Looking at the legal and policy issues surrounding the mining of asteroids
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