Asteroid Mining4

New Company to Mine Asteroids

By Merryl Azriel on April 23, 2012

Rendering of the JAXA probe Hayabusa hovering over Itokawa. Hayabusa is the only spacecraft to have landed on an asteroid (Credits:... Read more →

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Meteorite Explodes Over Western United States

By Merryl Azriel on April 23, 2012

At 8 AM local time on  April 22, a sonic boom resounded across large sections of California and Nevada, prompting calls to emergency centers... Read more →

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Earth Observations From Space Station

By Staff Writers on April 20, 2012

NASA Public Affairs Officer Amiko Kauderer interviews Cynthia Evans, Space Station Associate Progam Scientist for Earth Observations, as NASA... Read more →

The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster1

How We Nearly Lost Discovery: Returning to Flight After Columbia

By Staff Writers on April 20, 2012

Shuttle Discovery flying on top of a Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (Credits: NASA). Now that Discovery is safely delivered to the... Read more →

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Investigation on Envisat Continues

By Staff Writers on April 20, 2012

Source: ESA. On 15 April, the French space agency CNES rotated the Pleiades Earth observation satellite to capture this image of Envisat. At a... Read more →

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NanoRacks Announces External Platform Program

By Ines Hernandez on April 20, 2012

The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS) and NanoRacks LLC are developing the External Platform Program (EPP), a new... Read more →