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'Space Tourists' highlighted in Sundance filmPark City, Utah (AFP) Jan 24, 2010 The elite band of super-rich tourists willing to pay millions of dollars to voyage into outer space are spotlighted in a documentary vying for honors at the Sundance Film Festival. Swiss director Christian Frei's latest film, "Space Tourists," explores the phenomenon of wealthy individuals who have capitalized on the fading glory of the former Soviet Union's space program to fulfill the journey of a lifetime. Frei says he was drawn to the subject after reading a newspaper article about a Japanes ... read more |
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Concordia CallingParis, France (ESA) Jan 26, 2010 Altitude 3200 m, air pressure 645 hPa, minimum temperature -85 degrees C, completely flat landscape, almost total isolation and virtually inaccessible from February to November. Welcome to the science paradise, Concordia research station on the Antarctic highland. The door is open for research groups from all over Europe. The high and dry ice plateau around Concordia, considered to be one of the most hostile places on Earth, is a great place for scientific research. Studies in glaciology, atmosphe ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 26, 2010NASA is inviting eligible education institutions, museums and other organizations to examine and request space program artifacts online. The items represent significant human space flight technologies, processes and accomplishments from NASA's past and present space exploration programs. NASA partnered with the General Services Administration to provide a first-of-its-kind, Web-based, elec ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 26, 2010Hills with a wrinkly radial pattern stand out in a new radar image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 28, 2009. The grooved mounds in the picture, which are located in a northern hemisphere region known as Belet, are about 80 kilometers (50 miles) wide and about 60 meters (200 feet) high. The shapes of these landscape features have not been seen on Titan before, though the ... more 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 26, 2010At NASA Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A, workers closed space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay doors for flight during the weekend. Pad maintenance and checks will be conducted until launch day, which is targeted for Feb. 7 at 4:39 a.m. EST. The six STS-130 mission astronauts will review flight data and practice in-flight maintenance procedures today at NASA's Johnson Space Cent ... more |
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Law of probabilities backs hopes for E.T., conference hearsLondon (AFP) Jan 25, 2010 The law of probabilities backs theories that we are not alone in the Universe, although an encounter with an advanced civilisation may shock our species, scientists at a conference said here on Monday. "There is no firm evidence that life exists elsewhere, but there is a very firm probability (for it)," said Baruch Blumberg, an astrobiologist at the Fox Chance Cancer Center in Philadelphia. "My clear prediction is that living generations have an excellent chance of seeing extra-terrestrial life ... read more |
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