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Gagarin As A Symbol Of ModernizationMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 13, 2011 "Let's go!" With these words Yuri Gagarin blasted off on a flight that would shock the world. How could a country still emerging from the devastation wrought by WWII accomplish such an incredible feat of scientific, engineering and industrial progress? You would be hard-pressed to find a comparable achievement in human history. Gagarin realized one of humanity's oldest ambitions, and his flight on the Vostok rocket marked a unique technological breakthrough. It was the embodiment of the spirit of ... read more |
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  Lost Treasures Of The Soviet Space Era While Russians will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight on April 12 with impressive 50-salvo fireworks, Sotheby's in New York will be auctioning off the descent caps ... more | .. |
  Report Provides NASA With Direction For Next 10 Years Of Space Research During the past 60 years, humans have built rockets, walked on the moon and explored the outer reaches of space with probes and telescopes. During these trips in space, research has been conducted t ... more | .. |
  The MELFI Shuffle: Contingency Planning For Preserving Samples The International Space Station is a unique laboratory, due to its microgravity environment, but it still shares similarities with Earth-bound research facilities. Both perform experiments as part o ... more | .. |
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  Physicists Discover New Way To Visualize Warped Space And Time When black holes slam into each other, the surrounding space and time surge and undulate like a heaving sea during a storm. This warping of space and time is so complicated that physicists haven't b ... more | .. |
  Model Of Russian Piloted Spacecraft To Go On Show In August The head of the Russian spacecraft manufacturer RKK Energia promised on Thursday to demonstrate a mock-up of a new manned spaceship at the August 16-21 Maks-2011 air show to be held in Zhukovsky, ne ... more | .. |
  A New Way To Find Planets Astronomers have come up with a new way of identifying close, faint stars with NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite. The technique should help in the hunt for planets that lie beyond our solar ... more | .. |
  First Galaxies Were Born Much Earlier Than Expected Using the amplifying power of a cosmic gravitational lens, astronomers have discovered a distant galaxy whose stars were born unexpectedly early in cosmic history. This result sheds new light on the ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military | .. |
  Dark Skies For Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower In Early May Would you like to see a piece of Halley's comet? Now's your chance! Each spring as Earth passes through the debris trail from Halley's Comet (1P/Halley), the cosmic bits burn up in our atmosphere an ... more | .. |
 Scientists Find New Type of Mineral in Historic Meteorite NASA and co-researchers from the United States, South Korea and Japan have found a new mineral named "Wassonite" in one of the most historically significant meteorites recovered in Antarctica in Dec ... more | .. |
  Jeffrey Hoffman On The Space Shuttle At 30 Thirty years ago, on April 12, 1981, the U.S. Space Shuttle made its first voyage into space. Four years later, on the same date, rookie astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman made the first of his five flights ... more | .. |
  NASA's Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Arrives In Florida NASA's Juno spacecraft has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for a launch this summer. The spacecraft was shipped from Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, to the Astrotech payload pr ... more |
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 Meteorite Sprinkles On Fresh Baked Earth And Mars Bombardments of 'micro-meteorites' on Earth and Mars four billion years ago may have caused the planets' climates to cool dramatically, hampering their ability to support life, according to research ... more | .. |
 "I See Earth! It Is So Beautiful!" Today is the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneering flight into space. ESA is celebrating these five decades of human spaceflight with a collection of articles, videos and interviews. " ... more | .. |
  Israel's missile shield makes history The initial success of the Iron Dome anti-missile system built by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in shooting down Hamas rockets fired at southern Israeli cities is a potential gamechanger against the Palestinians and probably against Hezbollah in Lebanon as well. ... more | .. |
  Arctic Ozone Loss Recent observations from satellites and ground stations suggest that atmospheric ozone levels for March in the Arctic were approaching the lowest levels in the modern instrumental era. What those re ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
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  US Navy And Northrop Grumman Accomplish Goals For At-Sea Demonstration Of Maritime Laser The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman have successfully demonstrated high-energy, solid-state laser defenses at sea by completing a "counter-material" test of the Maritime Laser Demonstrator (MLD) agai ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Awarded $42 Million For Next-Generation Standard Missile-3 Interceptor Raytheon has been awarded $42 million for the initial concept development and program planning for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB, which is the Missile Defense Agency's next-generation Aegis missi ... more | .. |
  Wing Unveils New Mission, Vision Statements And Priorities The 50th Space Wing has a new mission. No not a new satellite this time, but a new mission statement along with a new vision statement. Col. Wayne Monteith, 50 SW commander, unveiled the new stateme ... more | .. |
 Newly Merged Black Hole Eagerly Shreds Stars A galaxy's core is a busy place, crowded with stars swarming around an enormous black hole. When galaxies collide, it gets even messier as the two black holes spiral toward each other, merging to ma ... more |
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  The Shape-Shifting Southern Vortex Of Venus New analysis of images taken by ESA's Venus Express orbiter has revealed surprising details about the remarkable, shape-shifting collar of clouds that swirls around the planet's South Pole. This fas ... more | .. |
 Galaxies formed sooner after Big Bang than thought Astronomers said on Tuesday they believed the first galaxies formed just 200 million years after the Big Bang, a finding that challenges assumptions of how the Universe grew from infancy into childhood. ... more | .. |
 50 years on, space 'still priority' for Russia: Medvedev Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin's historic flight, space travel is a priority for post-Soviet Russia and exploration of the cosmos remains in its infancy, President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Retiring space shuttles go to four US museums Thirty years after the first space flight of the US shuttle program, NASA announced Tuesday the three retiring orbiters will take up residence as museum pieces in Florida, Virginia and California. ... more |
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The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors
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Russia celebrates Gagarin's conquest of space Russia on Tuesday marked a half century since Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, the greatest victory of Soviet science which expanded human horizons and still remembered by Russians as their finest hour. ... more | .. |
  WISE Mission Spots 'Horseshoe' Asteroid An asteroid recently discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) may be a bit of an oddball. Most near-Earth asteroids - NEAs for short - have eccentric, or egg-shaped, orbits th ... more | .. |
  BRP To Contribute To Canadian Moon And Mars Exploration Programs BRP, in cooperation with the Centre de technologies avancees BRP-Universite de Sherbrooke (CTA), will develop the chassis and locomotion systems for a Lunar Exploration Light Rover and a Mars Explor ... more | .. |
 Naveen Jain Co-Founder And Chairman Of Moon Express Naveen Jain shared with colleagues at the annual Explorers Club Awards Dinner in New York that he is Co-Founder and Chairman of Moon Express, Inc., winner of a $10M NASA commercial lunar contract an ... more |
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  NASA's JWST Marks Milestone With Completion Of Huge Assembly Stand For Flight Optics A giant structural steel frame used to assemble the eye of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed by Northrop Grumman teammate ITT at a facility in Syracuse, N.Y. Northrop Grumman is l ... more | .. |
  Gerd Gruppe Takes Office As Director Of DLR Space Administration Gerd Gruppe took up his post as Director of Space Administration at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), joining DLR's Executive Board and filling a vacancy ... more | .. |
  China launches navigation satellite China on Sunday launched its eighth satellite orbiter as part of its navigation and positioning network, state media reported. ... more | .. |
  Several Drives This Week Put Opportunity Over 17-Mile Mark Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater with great dispatch, driving on four of the last six sols. On Sols 2554 and 2556 (April 1 and 3, 2011), the rover drove over 100 meters ... more |
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