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  • NASA spacecraft zooms above surface of Mercury (Reuters) -

    This image of Mercury was taken by the MESSENGER spacecraft on October 5, 2008 as it approached the planet nearest the sun for the second time this year. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A car-sized NASA spacecraft zoomed above the surface of Mercury on Monday, viewing rocky terrain never before seen up close on our solar system's sun-baked innermost planet, scientists said.


  • NASA Primes Spacecraft to Probe Solar System's Fringe (SPACE.com) - SPACE.com - NASA is gearing up to launch a new spacecraft to probe the fringe of the solar system this month where material from the sun hits the cold expanse of space.
  • Huge Planet Defies Explanation (SPACE.com) - SPACE.com - Astronomers have sighted a very dense planet-sized object that orbits its parent star in just four days and six hours.
  • Spacecraft Zooms by Mercury for Second Time (SPACE.com) -

    An image of the planet Mercury, made during the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is seen in this image released by NASA July 3, 2008. The image shows that volcanoes were involved in plains formation and suggest that its magnetic field is actively produced in the planet's core. (NASA/JHUAP/Arizona State University/Handout/Reuters)SPACE.com - A NASA probe made its second Mercury flyby early Monday as closes in on the closest planet to the sun.


  • Galaxy Diversity Reveals Clues to Cosmic Evolution (SPACE.com) - SPACE.com - Astronomers peering out into our cosmic backyard have long understood that the Milky Way's galactic neighbors only seem similar on the surface. Now a detailed survey from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the diversity of those galaxies as they evolve over time.
  • Astronaut's diary goes on display in Jerusalem (AP) -

    Yigal Zalmona, a curator at the Israel Museum, displays pages from the diary of Ilan Ramon, an Israeli astronaut who died in the fatal mission of space shuttle Columbia, in Jerusalem, Sunday, Sept. 28, 2008. Pages from the Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display starting Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008 in Jerusalem. The diary belonged to Ramon, Israel's first astronaut and one of seven crew members killed when Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry into the atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Rachael Strecher)AP - Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem.


  • International Space Station changes orbit awaiting tourist: report (AFP) -

    The International Space Station as seen from the US space shuttle Discovery in June 2008. The orbital path of the International Space Station was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world's sixth space tourist in eight days time, Interfax reported citing Russian space programme officials.(AFP/NASA/File)AFP - The orbital path of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world's sixth space tourist in eight days time, Interfax reported citing Russian space programme officials.


  • Comet Capture Capsule Goes On Display (SPACE.com) - SPACE.com - A NASA capsule that collected the first samples from a comet has become part of a collection itself.
  • NASA Moves Up November Shuttle Launch (SPACE.com) - SPACE.com - The space shuttle Endeavour is set to blast off two days early next month while engineers on Earth continue to study a Hubble Space Telescope glitch that added months of delay to a separate orbiter flight, NASA officials announced Friday.
  • Radiation shut down EU test satellite for two weeks: ESA (AFP) -

    A rocket carrying a Galileo (GIOVE-B) satellite of the European Space Agency is installed on a launch pad at Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome in April 2008. A second test satellite for Galileo, Europe's rival to the US Global Positioning System (GPS), closed itself down for more than two weeks last month because of space radiation, concurring sources said Thursday.(AFP/File)AFP - A second test satellite for Galileo, Europe's rival to the US Global Positioning System (GPS), closed itself down for more than two weeks last month because of space radiation, concurring sources said Thursday.


  • Second delay for European science satellite launch (AFP) -

    This hand out picture shows a Russian rocket carrying a European spacecraft as it blasts off in 2005 from the Russian space agency near Plesetsk. The launch of a satellite to monitor Earth's gravitational field, which had been postponed from September 10 to October 5, has been delayed for a second time, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.(AFP/ESA/File)AFP - The launch of a satellite to monitor Earth's gravitational field, which had been postponed from September 10 to October 5, has been delayed for a second time, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.


  • NASA spacecraft to soar over Mercury (AFP) -

    A file NASA image that the MESSENGER spacecraft took of Mercury's full crescent in January. The US space probe will fly over Mercury next week to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, NASA announced.(AFP/NASA/File)AFP - A US space probe will fly over Mercury next week to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, NASA announced on Wednesday.


  • NASA at 50: The Shuttle, Space Station and Beyond (SPACE.com) - SPACE.com - One vehicle's operative life is coming to a close, while the other's is still in its formative stages. Their legacies will be inexorably linked: Without the space shuttle, delivery and assembly of the International Space Station's (ISS) key components would have been difficult at best, and probably could not have happened.
  • Two Companions Found Near Dog-bone Asteroid (SPACE.com) - SPACE.com - A team of astronomers led by F. Marchis, PI, at the SETI Institute and at UC-Berkeley, and P. Descamps from Paris Observatory announced recently the discovery of two moons around an intriguing asteroid. The main-belt asteroid 216 Kleopatra has two companions.
  • Spacecraft Set to Swing by Mercury (SPACE.com) -

    An image of the planet Mercury, made during the January 2008 flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft is seen in this image released by NASA July 3, 2008. The image shows that volcanoes were involved in plains formation and suggest that its magnetic field is actively produced in the planet's core. (NASA/JHUAP/ Arizona State University/Handout/Reuters)SPACE.com - A space probe is headed for a second swing past Mercury to pick up a gravitational boost and eventually become the first spacecraft to orbit the closest planet to our sun.


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