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Mon 02/08	Achenblog President Obama has decided to kill NASA's Constellation program, which would have sent astronauts back to the moon. Here are a few lessons from Constellation, adapted from The Post's Achenblog.
Mon 02/08	Greetings, Earthlings NASA.gov NASA started streaming live video from the international space station on Feb. 1, offering the Earth-bound glimpses into the daily life of an astronaut. (Go to http://www.nasa.gov/station and click on the "Live Space Station Video" link.) You may see one or more of the five astronauts fl...
Mon 02/08	Enceladus water story reinforced The Cassini probe returns yet more data to back up the idea of a sub-surface sea on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
Mon 02/08	Space shuttle Endeavour blasts off after one-day delay The fifth-to-last mission of the space shuttle program got under way early Monday, as the shuttle Endeavour rocketed up from NASA&os;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to begin a 13-day mission to the International Space Station . The orbiter launched at 4:14 A.M. (Eastern Standard Time), after a launch opportunity Sunday morning was scrapped due to cloud cover. [More]
Mon 02/08	Shuttle makes final night flight The US space agency (Nasa) has launched its shuttle Endeavour on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
Sun 02/07	Launch of NASA's shuttle Endeavour sparks early Monday sunrise The shuttle began a 13-day flight to the International Space Station and the final year of shuttle operations.
Fri 02/05	Dynamic Pluto revealed in images Images from the Hubble Space Telescope reveal that the icy dwarf planet Pluto undergoes dramatic seasonal changes.
Thu 02/04	Pluto turning brighter and redder, pictures show WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pluto is turning brighter and redder as its 248-year-long rotation around the sun changes its seasons, NASA reported on Thursday.
Thu 02/04	Why NASA picked stormy Florida Weather thwarts shuttle launches. But important factors favor this state.
Wed 02/03	Pluto's white, dark-orange, and charcoal-black terrain captured by the Hubble Space Telescope Pluto has become significantly redder, while its illuminated northern hemisphere is getting brighter.
Wed 02/03	Exoplanet gas spotted from Earth Astronomers have used a new ground-based technique to study the atmospheres of planets outside our Solar System.
Wed 02/03	Saturn mission 'extended again' The US space agency (Nasa) has extended the Cassini-Huygens mission to explore Saturn once again.
Wed 02/03	NASA's seven new space pioneers are companies A half century ago the Mercury Seven embodied America's space future. Now it's the merchant seven: space companies for hire.
Tue 02/02	Craters young and old in Mars' Sirenum Fossae region The Red Planet's Sirenum Fossae region extends for more than 1,550 miles (2,500 kilometers) to the southwest of the Tharsis volcanic region, which contains Olympus Mons, the highest volcano in our solar system.
Tue 02/02	Glimpse the bright asteroid Vesta in February In mid-February, asteroid 4 Vesta will brighten to magnitude 6.1, making it barely visible to a sharp eye under a dark sky. Astronomy magazine has all the tools you need to get the most of this great observing opportunity.
Tue 02/02	The stars behind the curtain NGC 3603 is a starburst region â a cosmic factory where stars form frantically from the nebula's extended clouds of gas and dust.
Tue 02/02	Smashed asteroids may be related to dinosaur killer CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronomers have found a comet-like object they believe was created by the collision of two asteroids, possible siblings of the rogue rock blamed for killing the dinosaurs millions of years ago.
Tue 02/02	NASA picks 5 firms for commercial spaceflight plan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. space agency on Tuesday awarded $50 million in grants to five private firms in a first step to implement President Barack Obama's vision of turning over space transportation to the commercial sector.
Tue 02/02	President Obama kills NASA's moon mission plans President Obama is redirecting America's space program, killing NASA's $100 billion plans to return astronauts to the moon and using much of that money for new rocket technology research.
Mon 02/01	Suspected asteroid collision leaves trailing debris New Hubble images show a complex X-pattern of debris near the nucleus of a comet-like object.
Mon 02/01	NASA to launch Sun-studying satellite With its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), NASA will probe the Sun in greater detail than ever before and, with luck, begin to answer some of its biggest mysteries.
Mon 02/01	NASA selects commercial firms to develop human spaceflight technology The president's goal is to eventually make commercially provided services the primary mode of travel for astronauts.
Mon 02/01	Obama Scrubs NASA's Manned Moon Missions Although NASA will get a budget increase for 2011, plans to return humans to the moon by 2020 would be officially scrapped, because the program is "over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation," according to the White House.
Fri 01/29	Year's Biggest Full Moon, Mars Create Sky Show Mars will cozy up to the biggest, brightest full moon of 2010 Friday night, creating a celestial spectacle that "will jump out at you for sure," one astronomer says.
Wed 01/27	Mars Rover to Roam No More -- It's Official After more than six years touring the red planet, the Mars rover Spirit is no longer on a roll, NASA mission managers announced. But if the rover survives the oncoming winter, there's plenty of science that can be done.
Wed 01/13	Mars makes best appearance in two years this weekend The Red Planet returns! Mars puts on its best show in 2 years during late January, when it glows like a beacon all night long. Astronomy magazine has all the tools you need to get the most of this great observing opportunity.
Sun 06/14	Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO): NASA's mission to map the lunar surface Keep up with Astronomy magazine's coverage of this important mission. Here you'll find the latest headlines and blogs about the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS).

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