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Solar flare races towards Earth, expected to cause disruptions to Earth's magnetic field
The largest solar flare in years is hurdling towards Earth at 4 million mph and is expected to hit early Thursday morning.
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Will the solar storm disrupt power grids? (+video)
The sun has hurled a cloud of charged particles in our direction, potentially disrupting satellites and inducing current in our power grids.
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Is it really easy to hack NASA computers?
A NASA official recently stated that a stolen laptop contained algorithms used to control the International Space Station. This incident is one of many breaches of NASA's security that have occurred over the past two years.
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Dream job? Live in a capsule in Hawaii eating astronaut food.
Has it always been your dream to live like an astronaut without actually going into space? Now is your chance. Scientists at Cornell and the University of Hawaii are looking for participants for a study on nutrition in space.
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Space pioneer John Glenn honored 50 years after historic flight
Hundreds of NASA workers jammed a space center auditorium to mark the 50th anniversary of John Glenn's historic flight, to see and hear the first American to circle the Earth.
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Swiss scientists to build 'janitor satellite' to mop up space junk
A team of scientists in Lausanne, Switzerland, have announced a plan to build a satellite that would clear Earth's orbit of space debris.
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Is NASA giving up on Mars? (+video)
NASA's 2013 budget includes deep cuts to its planetary science mission, particularly its efforts to send spacecraft to Mars. Instead, the space agency will focus on human spaceflight and infrared astronomy. Is NASA now heading down the wrong path?
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Obama's NASA budget favors a space telescope over Mars exploration
The proposed 2013 federal budget shifts funding away from missions to Mars and emphasizes manned spaceflight and astronomy.
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NASA calls for new spaceships to taxi astronauts to space station
NASA is looking for two private firms to design and build 'space taxis' to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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NASA moon waypoint could be first deep-space human outpost
According to a Feb. 3 memo from William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations, a team is being formed to develop a cohesive plan for exploring a spot in space known as the Earth-moon libration point 2.
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NASA goes commercial in its quest for extra space taxis
NASA seeks alternative ways to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Recent problems with Russia's Soyuz vehicles has shown a need for more space taxis.
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Janice Voss, shuttle astronaut, remembered for NASA contributions
Janice Voss began her NASA career while still a student at Purdue University. Janice Voss was one of six women to fly at least five times on the space shuttle.
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Could Russia leave US astronauts stranded in space?
A leaky Soyuz descent capsule means that astronauts aboard the International Space Station will have to wait another six weeks before returning home. And private resupply missions are not ready for prime time.
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NASA: Record number of astronaut applicants, but no spaceships
The space agency received more than 6,300 applications between Nov. 15 and Jan. 27 during the search for new astronauts – making it second-highest turnout ever and double the normal response, NASA officials said.
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Air leak on Russian craft postpones return of space station crew
An air leak discovered on the descent module of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft will likely mean that the next launch to the International Space Station will be delayed by 30 to 45 days, reports Russian media.
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Canadian teenagers launch Lego man to the stars (+video)
A duo of 17-year-olds from Toronto attached a Lego man to a weather balloon, along with several cameras and a GPS tracker, and launched it into the Earth's upper atmosphere.
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Newt Gingrich: Space visionary and future Geek-in-Chief?
Newt Gingrich proposed a US moon base and $1.8 billion in prize money for space innovations. Gingrich spoke Wednesday at Cocoa, Fla., near the Kennedy Space Center.
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Space station dwellers safe from massive radiation storm
NASA scientists also routinely monitor space weather conditions in order to protect astronauts and hardware in orbit from harmful radiation, and today's solar storm is no exception, agency officials said.
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First-ever private rocket launch to ISS postponed
The unmanned Dragon space capsule, built by SpaceX was scheduled to launch toward the space station on Feb. 7, but the company has decided to postpone the flight to accommodate more engineering tests.
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Space station moves to avoid space junk in orbit
The International Space Station had to make a slight adjustment Friday to dodge a piece of a satellite, caused by an orbital collision over two years ago.
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Russian space probe may crash into Indian Ocean
If Phobos-Grunt comes down at the in the predicted window it will fall over a stretch of empty ocean west of the Indonesian island of Java, according to a re-entry projection map Roscosmos published with the update.
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Global News Blog Russia hints foreign sabotage may be behind space program troubles
The head of Russia's space agency said it is 'suspicious' that most of the program's accidents occur in places that Russian radars can't reach.
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Space station crosses in front of moon in amazing photograph
In one series of photos, NASA photographer Lauren Harnett captured images of the moon at the exact moment that the space station passed across its face in what scientists call a 'transit.'
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Malfunctioning Russian probe spotted hurtling through space backward (+video)
Veteran satellite watcher Thierry Legault filmed the wayward Russian Phobos-Grunt probe, which was intended to collect soil samples from a Martian moon but is instead heading toward a destructive plunge back to earth.
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Nearly 15 tons of failed Russian Mars probe could slam into Earth Jan. 15
The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft was stranded in Earth orbit shortly after its Nov. 8 launch, and it's been circling lower and lower ever since.
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