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A Close-up View of the Solar Eclipse

By Staff Writers on May 22, 2012

The annular eclipse that was enjoyed across southeast Asia and the western United States on May 20 was captured in close-up by the JAXA-led Hinode... Read more →

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Non-Newtonian Fluids in Space

By Staff Writers on May 21, 2012

In early May, astronaut Don Pettit shared an experiment he made aboard the International Space Station that revealed the effect of sound wave... Read more →

News

Faulty Valve Blamed for Dragon Abort

By Merryl Azriel on May 21, 2012

A faulty valve in engine 5 has been blamed for an above normal combustion chamber pressure that resulted in a last second automated abort of a... Read more →

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The X-37B Space Plane: Where is it now?

By Merryl Azriel on May 21, 2012

The OTV-1 in front of half of the Atlas V fairing awaiting encapsulation in 2010 (Credits: US Air Force). The X-37B space plane has intrigued the... Read more →

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The Waiting Goes On: Dragon Launch Aborted in the Last Second

By Tereza Pultarova on May 19, 2012

It seems that the stars are not in favor of a private spacecraft reaching the International Space Station, at least not at the beginning of next... Read more →

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NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

By Staff Writers on May 18, 2012

This diagram illustrates the differences between orbits of a typical near-Earth asteroid (blue) and a potentially hazardous asteroid, or PHA... Read more →