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We learned a lot about Earth and space in this last year. James Williams counts down his favorite space-related moments of 2008. video.aol.com

In this preview from the new six part series When We Left Earth, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Gene Cernan discuss their experiences while ... www.truveo.com

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In this preview from the new six part series When We Left Earth, astronaut Ed White trains to be the first American to leave the capsule and walk ... www.truveo.com

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In this preview from the new six part series When We Left Earth, Gemini VI blasts into the darkness of space, and nearly catches up with Gemini 7 ... www.truveo.com

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On its eight-year data gathering mission, Dawn will be the first space probe to visit and orbit two solar system bodies other than Earth www.truveo.com

On its eight-year data gathering mission, Dawn will be the first space probe to visit and orbit two solar system bodies other than Earth video.aol.com

In this preview from the new six part series When We Left Earth, astronauts aboard the Apollo discuss seeing the Earth rise above the moon's ... www.veoh.com

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By rss@youtube.com (ApoloTR) Interactive maps that detail carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are now available on the popular Google Earth platform. The maps, funded by NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy through the joint North American Carbon Program, can display fossil fuel emissions by the h...

KOL Expeditions: The third segment of the NASA Earth Crew Mission, 'Living in Space,' shows what astronauts are up to when they're at the ... video.aol.com

By rss@youtube.com (ciccionamente90) When We Left Earth - The NASA Missions Landing Eagle - Discovery Channel feat. Alex Gaudino & Jason Rooney - I Love Rock n' Roll Benny Benassi & David Bowie - I'm a DJ The Apollo program was a human spaceflight program undertaken by NASA during the years 19611975 with the goal of condu...

By rss@youtube.com (AtlantisSaturn) Part 6: Episode 2 of the "From the Earth to the Moon" miniseries. It concentrates attention on the Apollo 1 fire and subsequent investigation. The episode focuses on several key individuals, including Harrison Storms of North American Aviation, Joseph Shea of NASA, and Frank Borman of th...

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Earth science research and educational programs are in Copenhagen, Denmark, for this week's U.N. climate change conference.

NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger to Earth. The sky-mapping WISE, or Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, is scheduled to launch no earlier...

LOS ANGELES -- NASA's latest space telescope will scan the sky in search of never-before-seen asteroids, comets, stars and galaxies, with one of its main tasks to catalog objects posing a danger to Earth.

And in the course of my research, scientist after scientist in the "Earth Science" field, as NASA was then calling it, told of feeling like a political ... UNC professor to oversee NASA-funded projects for teachersNorthern Colorado Business Report

will take its Earth science research and educational programs before a world-wide audience Dec. 7-18 during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.

By Nicholos Wethington This hearing comes on the tails of the Augustine Commission final report, which examined the future of spaceflight in the U.S. and laid out a "flexible path" plan that includes utilizing private, commercial firms for human transport into Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and the International Space...

Sydney Morning Herald The e-mails don't negate or even deal with data from both NOAA and NASA, which keep independent climate records and show dramatic warming, Lubchenco told ... Climategate' e-mails heat up debate but don't prove that Earth isn't warmingKansas City Star

Television will air the events surrounding the landing of three International Space Station crew members who will return to Earth Dec. 1.

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By sharon_gaudin@computerworld.com (Sharon Gaudin) Riding a robotic arm 210 miles above the Earth, NASA astronauts successfully completed their first spacewalk of the 11-day mission that launched earlier this week.

quest for space, telescopes brought back from the Hubble, the suit worn by space tourist Dennis Tito and other items from NASA's space exploration history. NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to SmithsonianPR Newswire (press release)

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Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis last May.

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By geeknews Just a small sliver of Earth Outbound! More Hardware on way to ISS. Digg Podcast Directory RIP. Making Vista work Better! AT&T comes out swinging! Netflix needs to hear from us! Google Buys Gizmo5. Verizon to do RIAA Evil doings! NASA Rover to try and get dug out of mars sand box!

By Nancy Atkinson NASA is now joining in to combat the 2012 nonsense. Don Yeomans, manager of NASA's Near Earth Object office has produced a video and written an article, providing the scientific realities surrounding the celestial happenings of 2012. Yeomans has done a wonderful job explaining everythi...

By Nancy Atkinson A glitch in the Kepler spacecraft's electronics means the space telescope will not have the ability to spot an Earth-sized planet until 2011, according to principal investigator William Borucki. Noisy amplifiers are creating noise that compromises Kepler's view, and the team will ha...

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Flying a spacecraft on a planet with little or no atmosphere presents a definite technical challenge. Wings and propellers are useless, so NASA is practicing the art of flying by thruster on a prototype lander to touch down on an air-less moon.

By Nancy Atkinson The Augustine Commission released their final report today, and while they didn't offer specific recommendations for NASA's human space flight program, they laid out five possible options, highlighting a flexible plan that allows for several destinations out of low Earth orbit. The...

By Nancy Atkinson Nine science instruments on board the LCROSS spacecraft captured the entire crash sequence of the Centaur impactor before the spacecraft itself impacted the surface of the moon. But any evidence of the plume was hidden by the rim of a giant impact basin, a 3 kilometer-high (2-mile) mount...

A small asteroid will buzz the Earth late Friday EDT (early Saturday GMT), flying just inside the orbit of the moon. It should pass safely by our home planet, according to a crack team of NASA space rock trackers.

A NASA probe exploring the outer edges of the solar system has helped scientists create the first map of this little-understood region of space 10 billion miles (16 billion kilometers) from Earth.

NASA on Wednesday sharply downgraded the threat that a massive asteroid could slam into Earth in 2036.

By Nancy Atkinson NASA scientists have recalculated the path of the large asteroid Apophis, significantly downgrading the odds of it hitting Earth. Using new information, the refined path indicates a 1 in 250,000 chance of impact in 2036, reduced from the 1 in 45,000 odds calculated earlier. The asteroid...

By Carmela “In 1973, the first Russian cosmonaut on the Moon is unable to make his way back and is declared missing in Space. However, through ghostly radio messages, he claims to have come back to Earth and found it empty, not a living soul. His unreal presence and voice will little by little destroy the...

By Zach Behrens On Sunday, the Advanced Land Imager on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite caught this false-color image of the fire area by using "shortwave infrared light to increase the contrast between burned and unburned land." Other Satellite Images of Recent Fires

By Jonny Lieberman Back here on Earth, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists have been working with a replica of Spirit in a sand box, trying to duplicate its sticky predicament and devise a solution. They did this four years ago when Opportunity became mired in a sand dune named Purgatory, then - as no...

By Hadley Leggett It’s the first time an amino acid has been found inside a comet, and NASA scientists say the discovery supports the theory that some of the ingredients necessary for life originated in space and traveled to Earth by comet or meteorite.

By MarcBoucher Editor's note: Earth observation by satellites provide critical data on the health of our planet. This new report about ocean health plant indicates surprising changes are happening and it's too early to raise the alarm but there is evidence for some concern. Unfortunately it's taken a w...

By MarcBoucher And we're soon going to have a new NASA Administrator. I can't disclose it to you, because I've got to have hoopla on the announcement back here on Earth. But I can assure you that it's a high priority of mine to restore that sense of wonder that space can provide and to make sure that we've got a st...

By Alexis Madrigal NASA’s Carbon Satellite Fails, See Video of LaunchEurope’s Sexy New Gravity SatelliteGoogle’s Super Satellite Captures First ImageThe Spy Satellite that Fell to Earth (or Will Fall to Earth Soon CO2 Monitoring Satellite, Virgin Galactic Team UpSpace Symposium: Boeing’s Serious a...

By MarcBoucher The Planetary Society gives the Administration's proposed NASA budget a thumbs up for its increased funding for space and Earth science, more Earth observation satellites, firm support for robotic exploration of the solar system and the development of the new Ares/Orion launch vehi...

By Brandon Keim Without stricter workouts, the bodies of long-distance space travelers will be ravaged by the time they return to Earth, or reach another planet. A NASA-funded study of astronauts freshly returned from six-month stays aboard the International Space Station found that...

 Canada The geological samples those astronauts brought back to Earth have taught us that parts of the geological make-up of the moon are very similar to parts of the Earth. Before lift-off, some of those same NASA astronauts visited Sudbury to learn how to ...

Building upon years of research into the behavior and structure of stars, Basu is studying what she terms the “ancillary science” of the properties of the host stars that provide light and heat to the planets Kepler is attempting to locate. ... THE SEARCH FOR EARTH 2 Excalibur Online

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By Clara Moskowitz Predicting solar weather is also important for the future of manned spaceflight. If astronauts are exposed to the intense radiation from solar storms while traveling beyond the protective magnetic field of the Earth, they could suffer serious harm. Even astronauts close to home who ven...

By Clara Moskowitz Predicting solar weather is also important for the future of manned spaceflight. If astronauts are exposed to the intense radiation from solar storms while traveling beyond the protective magnetic field of the Earth, they could suffer serious harm. Even astronauts close to home who ven...

By deborahbyrd@earthsky.org (EarthSky Communications, Inc.) NASA astronomer Drake Deming talks about using brightness detectors similar to those on digital cameras to help in the hunt for Earth-like planets around other stars.

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 OH - Nov 5, 2008 The endlessly fascinating Discovery Channel miniseries on the NASA missions, When We Left Earth, chronicles the last 50 or so years of the program, ...

By Dusty Somers The U.S. space program carries with it a kind of built-in nostalgia. NASA is still faithfully trucking along, but with seemingly fewer and fewer trips into space, the golden days seem firmly rooted in the past. It’s been decades since the space program has inspired the kind of awe that swept th...

Created in association with NASA to commemorate the agency's fiftieth anniversary in 2008, When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions is a Discovery Channel documentary miniseries that documents NASA's achievements over the past 50 years, ...

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By Ross A. Lincoln There are also near constant hi-larious rapid fire zingers, genuinely clever science jokes, several wonderful insults aimed squarely at American culture in the post 911 era, and most importantly, a surprisingly touching coming of age story.

By Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides India's orbiter will have the company of lunar satellites from Japan and China, and will be joined by the United States' Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in early 2009. See Also: Japan Captures HDTV of Full Earth "Rise" from Lunar OrbitFirst Moon Picture Back from China's Chang'e ProbeA Use...

By Kenneth Brown More than fifty years ago, stabilized nations around the world emerged from the hopelessness of the Great Depression and turned their gaze to the stars. For the first time in human history, mankind not...

I may have missed the whole space race of the 1960's, but I have always been fascinated by it. NASA's space program, flights to the moon and anything involving astronauts continue to hold my interest long into adulthood. If there's a shuttle flight, I'm watching it, and if there's news regar...

By Betsy Mason Asteroids of this size are estimated to strike Earth once every 500,000 years on average and could be capable of causing a global catastrophe if they hit Earth. In 2008, NASA’s Near Earth Object Program spotted a total of 11,323 objects of all sizes.

It's beautiful science." Patrick Hogan, Program Manager at NASA Learning Technologies, describes World Wind, NASA's incredible free open source application that provides access to terabytes of imagery collected by NASA's satellites. It lets you experience Earth terrain in visuall...

By Howard Dratch Quietly in the background of our already nervous world, scientists have been making plans for how to prevent a catastrophe whether or not Bruce Willis is available. NASA recently presented its report to Congress. More recently Rusty (Russell) Schweickart, lashed out at NASA for a recent...

By Tim Gebhart At the same time, Into That Silent Sea may also remind us of the limits of our steps into space over the years. The goal and accomplishment of the missions explored in the work was putting man into orbit around the Earth and returning him successfully. Yet today manned spaceflight remains lim...

A technology breakthrough on a key NASA planet-finding project will enable scientists to detect the dim dust disks around stars, where Earth-like planets might be forming.

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) How many times have I been to space? Well, I lost count at, oh, none. So I, and nearly every other human being on Earth can't compare with Story Musgrave, a legendary NASA astronaut who flew on the space shuttle six times, including leading the team that fixed the Hubble Space Telescope's vis...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) Asteroids have been roughing up the Earth since it formed 4.6 billion years ago. Hundreds of thousands of potentially devastating asteroids are still out there, and whizzing past our planet all the time. Eventually, inevitably, one is going to score a direct hit and cause catastrophic dam...

By info@universetoday.com (Fraser Cain) Imagine a solar powered sail that could propel a space craft through the vacuum of space like a wind that drives a sail here on Earth. The energy of photons steaming from the Sun alone would provide the thrust. NASA and other space agencies are taking the idea seriously and are working on vario...