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Space Travel and Exploration

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New York Times

At the Bigelow Aerospace factory here, the full-size space station mockups sitting on the warehouse floor look somewhat like puffy white watermelons. The interiors offer a hint of what spacious living in space might look like.

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NPR

We're seeing the most detailed images of the moon's surface ever captured from afar — thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The space probe carries a super-powerful camera, which photographs every bit of the moon's surface for scientists to

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boston.com/bigpicture/

Over the past months, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has made several close flybys of Saturn's moons, caught the Sun's reflection glinting off a lake on Titan, and has brought us even more tantalizing images of ongoing cryovolcanism on Enceladus.

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Financial Times

A solar sail works by capturing the gentle but constant force exerted by photons from the sun bouncing off its surface. While acceleration is slow, it is not restricted to the amount of fuel a spacecraft carries and could eventually result in much hi

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Space.com

Twenty years after its April 24, 1990 launch, the Hubble Space Telescope is an icon in space. Here are some of the most amazing views from the prolific space telescope. Hubble’s new Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) starts things off in this image of the pl

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Space

A new 'phase' of water that is electrically charged has been discovered in space for the first time. Unlike the three more familiar phases of water – namely solid ice, liquid water and gaseous steam – this newfound 'phase' doesn't occur naturally on

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As we continue to progress towards the first Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral, certification of the flight termination system (FTS) and subsequent range availability remain the primary schedule drivers. All FTS components must be qualified specifi

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Reason.tv

His Zero Gravity Corporation lets the public experience weightlessness during parabolic flight, and his company Space Adventures has taken four tourists to the International Space Station. But space entrepreneur Peter Diamandis may be best known a

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Space

Exploring the craters at the moon's poles may be more challenging than previously thought. New NASA calculations now show that solar wind streaming over the rough lunar surface may electrically charge polar craters on the moon.

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Space

Many scientists now believe life may have found a way to take hold on Titan. Water may all be frozen solid, but methane and ethane are liquids. Instruments have revealed an astonishing world with a complete liquid cycle, much like the hydrologic cycl

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