ISS astronauts control robot on Earth via "interplanetary internet"
• http://www.gizmag.com, By David SzondyThe internet has changed a great deal of modern society, and now it promises to change space exploration as well.
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Space Travel and Exploration
New Google Mars Images Are Even Sharper Than Google's View Of Our Own Planet
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina SpectorGoogle Mars is a spin-off of Google Earth that shows interactive maps of the Red Planet's surface.
Almost Being There: Why the Future of Space Exploration Is Not What You Think
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannMocup is a tiny, adorable remote-controlled robot built from a Lego Mindstorms set with an off-the-shelf Beagleboard computer for a brain and a webcam for an eye.
Vintage PopSci: Carl Sagan Advocates For Life On Mars
• http://www.popsci.com, By Krislyn PlacideIn 1972, the astronomer was discovering properties of Mars we never thought possible.
NASA Expected To Unveil New Manned Moon Mission
• http://www.businessinsider.com, Dina SpectorPresident Barack Obama is still in power, which is good news for NASA, whose budget, strategy and missions may have been revised under defeated Republication presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
3D-Printed Rockets Help Propel NASA’s Space Launch System
• http://www.wired.com, By Philippa WarrParts for the rocket engines of NASA’s Space Launch System will be created using a method of 3D-printing known as selective laser melting.
Super-Earth in 6-Planet System May Have Oceans, Life
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannA newly discovered exoplanet joins the small but growing list of worlds other than our own that may host life.
Super-Earth in 6-Planet System May Have Oceans, Life
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannA newly discovered exoplanet joins the small but growing list of worlds other than our own that may host life.
Gallery: Experts' Favorite Space Photos
• http://www.space.com,SPACE.com asked scientists, photographers, authors and space leaders for their favorite space photos.
SpaceX's Manned Dragon Space Capsule Explained (Infographic)
• http://www.space.com, by Karl TateSpaceX's manned Dragon space capsule is a private spacecraft designed to carry seven astronauts on missions to and from low-Earth orbit.
Rare images reveal incredible story behind America’s early space race
• http://www.rawstory.com, By Robin StummerThey are images from the golden age of space exploration: thousands of rare photographs recording the early days of manned flight into space.
High-Res Curiosity Rover Self-Portrait Is Mind-Blowing
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannThe image was taken by Curiosity’s MAHLI hand-held camera, which sits on the end of the rover’s extendable arm. MAHLI snapped 55 pictures from different locations.
Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars
• http://www.wired.com, By Chris AndersonWhen a man tells you about the time he planned to put a vegetable garden on Mars, you worry about his mental state. But if that same man has since launched multiple rockets that are actually capable of reaching Mars—sending them into orbit, Bond-styl
Curiosity Rover Takes Best Self-Portrait Ever
• Wired.comNASA’s Curiosity rover has been sitting tight on the Martian sand doing a few sciences for nearly a month now. But it recently took some time out for a vanity shot, producing this adorable self-portrait .
Most Spectacular Shots From 50 Years of Robotic Solar System Exploration
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannSome people complain that the age of exploration is over.
Wired Science Space Photo of the Day
• http://www.wired.comSpace Photo of the Day
Now Boarding: The Top 10 Private Spaceships
• http://www.space.com, by Mike WallNASA retired its iconic space shuttle fleet in 2011, leaving the United States without a homegrown way to get its astronauts and cargo to space. But that should change soon.
Meet Lynx: XCOR Aerospace's Winged Space Plane (Gallery)
• http://www.space.cOM, StaffThe Lynx Suborbital Vehicle
See Inside the Private Lynx Space Plane (Photos)
• http://www.space.com, by Clara MoskowitzThe builders of a new private space plane designed to launch a pilot and passenger on suborbital spaceflights offered a glimpse inside the novel rocket ship last week during an annual gathering of commercial spaceflight companies and experts.
‘Space hotel a reality within 10 years’
• http://rt.comSpace tourism and precious metal mines on asteroids are not as far off as you might think
The Scale of the Universe - Interactive
• http://apod.nasa.gov, Cary & Michael HuangWhat does the universe look like on small scales? On large scales?
The Deep-Space Suit
• http://www.popsci.com, By Eric SofgeAstronauts can only travel so far in existing space suits. What will it take to see the universe?
Watch Live as Two Comets Fly Past Each Other in Space
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannLike celestial drifters passing in the night, two comets will zoom by one another during a live show from the Slooh space camera, starting at 2 p.m. Pacific/5 p.m. Eastern.
9-Billion-Pixel Photo of Milky Way’s Center Is Full of Stars
• http://www.wired.com, By Adam MannContaining more than 84 million stars, this nine-gigapixel shot of the Milky Way’s central bulge will help astronomers unravel the complex history of star formation in our home galaxy.
Branson: Virgin space project keeps being delayed
• APBritish billionaire Richard Branson says his space tourism project keeps being pushed back and isn't sure of an exact date for the first launch. He says it will be at least another 12 or 18 months before the Virgin Galactic venture can offer paid spa
Sun unleashes intense X-class flare; active sunspot region rotating towards Earth
• Washington PostThe sun belted out the most powerful type of solar flare Monday night, known as an X-class flare (the weaker flare classes are M-class, medium-sized, and C-class, small-sized). It was the latest in a flurry of 4 flares hurled out by the sun
Private Space Taxi Builders On Track to Launch Astronauts Soon
• http://www.space.com, by Clara MoskowitzRepresentatives from the three different companies chosen by NASA to develop private space taxis to carry astronauts to orbit say their vehicles are making substantial progress toward launching people into orbit within the next few years.
Proposed Colorado Spaceport Could Be Suborbital Spaceflight Hub
• http://www.space.com,The proposed Spaceport Colorado is moving closer to reality, with its supporters seeing it as an ideal hub to support high-speed suborbital flights with intercontinental range.
Jeff Bezos' Secretive Spaceship Project Tests Rocket Escape System
• http://www.space.com,The private spaceflight firm owned by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos launched a suborbital crew capsule on Friday (Oct. 20), a major rocket escape system test that brings the secretive company a huge step closer to carrying astronauts.
Photos: Glimpses of Secretive Blue Origin's Private Spaceships
• http://www.space.comBlue Origin’s pusher escape system rockets the Crew Capsule away from the launch pad, demonstrating a key safety system for both suborbital and orbital flights.
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