Chilean miners reenactment o_O

http://www.nma.tv/33 Chilean miners are trapped deep underground and it may take NASA up to four months to rescue them.

Spirits were raised this week when th...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILsOEFayuj4

Cosmic HitandRun Gives Galaxy Starry Tail

A galaxy tail that is speckled with bright knots of new stars is seen in a newly-released photo that was taken by one of NASA's orbiting space telescopes.

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http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/galaxy-collision-leaves-starry-tail-100623.html

Take A Walk On The Moon

Take your own journey over the lunar surface.

Moon Zoo - the latest project from the team that brought you Galaxy Zoo and Solar Stormwatch. Using the site, you'll see images from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter which show the lunar surface in unprecedented detail, and with a few clicks you can record what you find while exploring.

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http://www.moonzoo.org/live

APOD WISE Heart and Soul Nebulas in Infrared NASA [pic]

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, WISE Team
Explanation: Is the heart and soul of our Galaxy located in Cassiopeia? Possibly not, but that is where two bright emission nebulas nicknamed Heart and Soul can be found.

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100601.html

Star wars Fighting Obamas plan will waste time and money

The stalemate over the fate of the shuttle and other elements in the plan threatens to immobilize NASA, wasting time and money when both are in chronically short supply in the space program.

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http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-05-14/news/os-ed-obama-space-plan-051410-20100513_1_entire-constellation-program-space-plan-manned-space-exploration

The State of NASA Budgets Space Travel Infographic

The fight for government-funded manned space exploration isn't dead just yet.

But whatever the outcome, NASA funding continues to hover well below 1 percent of annual federal spending. This infographic provides historical context for the state of NASAs budgets.

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http://kiplinger.com/infographics/state_of_nasa_budgets_and_manned_space_travel/map.html

NASA Google data show North Korea Logging Protected Forest

Using NASA satellite data and Google Earth, a Purdue University researcher has reported finding evidence that North Korea has been logging in what is designated as a protected United Nations forest preserve.

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http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/research/2010/100517ShaoMapping.html

Virgin Galactic Falls Far Short of NASA [infographics]

Most of us would kill to hitch a ride on Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, but as this graphic will show you, compared to the ISS or the Space Shuttle, it flies relatively low�*just* 68 miles from the ground. [DVICE]

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http://gizmodo.com/5539269/virgin-galactic-falls-far-short-of-nasa?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: gizmodo/full (Gizmodo)

With Gravitys Help Cassini Puts On a Saturn Spectacular

Scientists have a plan to extend the life, on relatively little fuel, of NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now in its sixth year of studying Saturn.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/science/space/20cassini.html

With fat days over NASA must innovate

In a long-awaited speech Thursday in Florida, President Obama will boldly go where no president has gone before, laying out an entirely new vision for the U.S. space program.

The firestorm of controversy has already begun

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http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/04/15/kaku.space.obama/index.html

ATampT Gets NASA Network Contract

AT&T of Vienna, Va., has been awarded a contract to provide NASA's mission network around the world with necessary resources for projects and missions.

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http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2010/02/24/ATT-gets-NASA-network-contract/UPI-92351267017650/

NASA Launches Private Firms into Space Race

Astronauts may be hitching rides on commercial spaceships by 2014.

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http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-commercial-space-race.html

NASA to Study Seeds in Space to Understand Plant Growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists hope to better understand exactly how and why plants grow differently in space in an experiment named, Tropi.

Future astronauts may be able to grow plants as part of life support systems on long-duration space missions to the moon or Mars.

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http://www.physorg.com/news184840011.html

NASA 2009 tied for 2ndwarmest year 00s hottest decade too

The final numbers are in and, as expected, 2009 was a hot one, joining a handful of other years just behind 2005 at the top of the pack.

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http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/01/nasa-2009-tied-for-2nd-warmest-year-00s-hottest-decade-too.ars