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Carbonaceous Chondrites Litter Ground After Meteorite Fireball

By Merryl Azriel on April 30, 2012

On the morning of April 22, a fireball the size of a minivan exploded over California and Nevada with the energy of 4 kilotons of TNT. In... Read more →

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Change of Command Ceremony on ISS

By Staff Writers on April 27, 2012

On April 25, shortly before the departure of Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers  Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, the ISS crew held a... Read more →

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ISS Crew Lands Safely

By Staff Writers on April 27, 2012

Source: NASA The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft carrying Expedition 30 Commander Dan Burbank and Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly... Read more →

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Approaching the Countdown for SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft

By Tereza Pultarova on April 27, 2012

SpaceX' unmanned Dragon capsule sitting atop the Falcon 9 rocket getting ready for a maiden launch on May 7 (Credits: NASA). If everything goes... Read more →

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Russian Academy of Sciences Finds Rogue Microbes on ISS

By Merryl Azriel on April 26, 2012

A study by the Russian Academy of Sciences has indicated that ISS currently has a population of 76 microorganisms, some of them hazardous. The... Read more →

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Asteroid Mining: To Infinity and Beyond, But What are the Legal Implications?

By Michael J. Listner on April 26, 2012

Newly formed Planetary Resources aims to establish commercial asteroid mining (Credits: Planetary Resoures). April 24, 2012 marked a milestone in... Read more →