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November 19, 2014

The Long, Strange Trip To Asteroid Bennu
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 19, 2014
Born from the rubble of a violent collision, hurled through space for millions of years and dismembered by the gravity of planets, asteroid Bennu had a tough life in a rough neighborhood: the early solar system. "Bennu's Journey," a new animation created at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, shows what's known and what remains mysterious about the life of Bennu and the origin of the solar system. "We are going to Bennu because we want to know what it has witnessed over the ... read more

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China expects to introduce space law around 2020 China will always abide by international space law and is making great efforts to introduce its own laws in 2020, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) said on Monday. Xu Dazhe, direc ... more		Pluto's Exotic Chemistry My connection to Pluto and Charon is quite different from that of other scientists who write for the New Horizons website. Certainly I'm excited about the chance to visit and study objects in the ou ... more		NASA Skunkworks Team Set to Deliver 6U CubeSat A NASA "skunkworks" team gave itself just one year to develop, test and integrate a newfangled CubeSat that could reliably and easily accommodate agency-class science investigations and technology d ... more
				Launched Russian satellites to reach 150 by 2025 Russia will increase the number of its orbital satellites to 150 by 2025, head of Russia's United Rocket Space Corporation (URSC) said Monday. "According to the federal space program's new project, ... more		Rosetta: What happens next? A University of Leicester planetary scientist has hailed the European Space Agency's mission to land a probe on a fast-moving comet as a success despite issues with the landing. Professor Stan ... more

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Holiday Season Makes Most of NASA Aeronautics Gifts Temperatures are dropping, the leaves are falling, and the countdown is on to the busiest time of year for air travel around the nation. The industry association Airlines for America predicts 24.6 m ... more		Interaction of Solar Wind and Earth Atmosphere Studied Northern Norway in December? It may not be your ideal spot to visit, but for NASA sounding rocket teams and university scientists, this is the ideal place to conduct experiments to increase the unde ... more		Russia says neutralised 20 drones, 2 missiles Russian missile barrage on Ukraine city kills 18 Solomons' PM contender vows to abolish China security pact		NASA Awards NASA Balloon Operations Contract NASA has awarded the NASA Balloon Operations Contract to Orbital Sciences Corporation of Greenbelt, Maryland for engineering and operations services to support the NASA Balloon Program. This c ... more
				U.K. group to crowd-source funding for moon mission A group in the United Kingdom aims to launch a lunar probe and study the moon using money raised on crowd-funding website Kickstarter. ... more		Philae lander detects organic molecules on comet's surface A German-built instrument installed on the Philae lander was able to sniff and detect organic compounds in the comet's atmosphere shortly after the spacecraft touched down. The compounds were likely kicked up into the air along with dust particles as Philae bounced its way to an abrupt but historic stop on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ... more

Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

China's Xi commits to greater Antarctic ties with Australia China's President Xi Jinping committed to greater Antarctic cooperation with Australia Tuesday, while fulfilling a long-held dream to visit the nation's smallest state in a trip which included a close encounter with a Tasmanian devil. ... more		Small volcanic eruptions could be slowing global warming Small volcanic eruptions might eject more of an atmosphere-cooling gas into Earth's upper atmosphere than previously thought, potentially contributing to the recent slowdown in global warming, accor ... more		Indonesia evacuating thousands after volcano erupts, causes tsunami threat Vote counting starts in Solomon Islands as China, US trade barbs 'Human-induced' climate change behind deadly Sahel heatwave: study		Fossils cast doubt on climate-change projections on habitats Leave it to long-dead short-tailed shrew and flying squirrels to outfox climate-modelers trying to predict future habitats. Evidence from the fossil record shows that gluttonous insect-eating shrew ... more
Jurassic climate was far more complex than previously known The climate 150 million years ago of a large swath of the western United States was more complex than previously known, according to new research from Southern Methodist University, Dallas. It's bee ... more		Climate capers of the past 600,000 years If you want to see into the future, you have to understand the past. An international consortium of researchers under the auspices of the University of Bonn has drilled deposits on the bed of Lake V ... more		Climate change not to blame for Bronze Age collapse Scientists will have to find alternative explanations for a huge population collapse in Europe at the end of the Bronze Age as researchers prove definitively that climate change - commonly assumed t ... more		Comet probe 'sniffed' organic molecules: early data Mankind's first-ever probe of a comet found traces of organic molecules and a surface much harder than imagined, scientists said Tuesday of initial sample data from robot lab Philae. ... more

	Lockheed Martin Begins Final Assembly Of Next Mars Lander Lockheed Martin has started the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase for NASA's InSight Mars lander spacecraft. The InSight mission will record the first-ever measurements of the interi ... more		Elon Musk thinks robots could turn on us in the next five years One couldn't be blamed for thinking Elon Musk knows something important that the public doesn't, since he's been sounding the alarm on dangerous robots recently, and now he's presented a timeline. ... more

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Next NASA Mars Mission Reaches Milestone

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STScI Appointment Moves "Wide View" Space Telescope Planning Ahead

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Warmth and flowing water on early Mars were episodic

Study Investigates How Men and Women Adapt Differently to Spaceflight

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