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Russia to Send Manned Mission to Moon by 2030Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2012 Russia is planning to send a manned mission to the moon by 2030, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on its website on Friday. According to the Russian space strategy published on the Roscosmos website, Moscow has set several waypoints for its space exploration activities: 2015, 2020, 2030 and the period after 2030. Roscosmos will resume lunar exploration by 2015 using an unmanned space ship. Russia is also planning to send a manned mission to the moon by 2030, the space agency said. I ... read more |
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 NASA Contract to Astrobotic Technology Investigates Prospecting for Lunar Resources Astrobotic Technology Inc. has announced a NASA contract to determine whether its polar rover can deploy an ice-prospecting payload to the Moon. The ice could yield water, oxygen, methane and rocket ... more | .. |
 European Google Lunar X Prize Teams Call For Science Payloads The race for the $30 million Google Lunar X PRIZE is creating science opportunities for European lunar researchers. Four teams competing for the competition presented their plans at the European Lun ... more | .. |
 India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 to wait India's second Moon mission Chandrayaan-2, slated for 2014, will have to wait till the country's space agency flies two of its heavy rocket - Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) - success ... more | .. |
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  Expectation of extraterrestrial life built more on optimism than evidence Recent discoveries of planets similar to Earth in size and proximity to the planets' respective suns have sparked scientific and public excitement about the possibility of also finding Earth-like li ... more | .. |
  UK company to build Sun orbiter: ESA The European Space Agency said Friday it had awarded a 300-million-euro ($400 million) contract to a British technology firm to build a satellite to examine the Sun from closer up than any before it. ... more | .. |
 Moon Express Delivers Lunar Mission Design Report for mining the Moon for precious resources Moon Express has announced that it has successfully delivered a mission design package to NASA under its Innovative Lunar Demonstration Data (ILDD) Program, providing NASA continuing data on the dev ... more | .. |
 Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school stud ... more |
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  Do Milky Way's Companions Spell Trouble for Dark Matter? Astronomers from the University of Bonn in Germany have discovered a vast structure of satellite galaxies and clusters of stars surrounding our galaxy, stretching out across a million light-years. T ... more | .. |
  NASA Research Estimates How Long Titan's Chemical Factory Has Been in Business Saturn's giant moon Titan hides within a thick, smoggy atmosphere that's well-known to scientists as one of the most complex chemical environments in the solar system. It's a productive "factory" cr ... more | .. |
  Pieces of meteorite found in California A NASA astronomer says he found fragments of the meteor that exploded in a giant fireball over California Sunday morning. ... more | .. |
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 Cassini Finds Saturn Moon has Planet-Like Qualities Data from NASA's Cassini mission reveal Saturn's moon Phoebe has more planet-like qualities than previously thought. Scientists had their first close-up look at Phoebe when Cassini began exploring t ... more | .. |
 SwRI Scientists Assess Age Of Titan's Organic Atmosphere Shrouded in a thick, complex, organic haze, Saturn's giant moon Titan is proving to be one of the most scientifically interesting destinations in the solar system. Titan's atmosphere, which is mostl ... more | .. |
  Dawn Reveals Secrets of Giant Asteroid Vesta Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure. The f ... more | .. |
 Did Exploding Stars Help Life On Earth To Thrive? Research by a Danish physicist suggests that the explosion of massive stars - supernovae - near the Solar System has strongly influenced the development of life. Prof. Henrik Svensmark of the Techni ... more |
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Ancient zircon data reveals tectonic origin of Earth's first continental crust
Autonomous sub explores unexplored trench depths to reveal critical mineral clues
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 First fertile, then futile: ammonites or the boon and bane of many offspring Ammonites changed their reproductive strategy from initially few and large offspring to numerous and small hatchlings. Thanks to their many offspring, they survived three mass extinctions, a researc ... more | .. |
 Fireball Over California/Nevada: How Big Was It? A bright ball of light traveling east to west was seen over the skies of central/northern California Sunday morning, April 22. The former space rock-turned-flaming-meteor entered Earth's atmosphere ... more | .. |
 NASA's Spitzer Finds Galaxy With Split Personality While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that the Sombrero galaxy is both. The galaxy, w ... more | .. |
 US firm plans to mine asteroids A startup backed by top Google executives and film director James Cameron on Tuesday unveiled a plan to mine asteroids for precious minerals and water. ... more |
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 Russian RESONANCE and Interheliozond projects: linking Sun and Earth Not nearly as spectacular as astrophysical or planetary missions, magnetospheric studies are nevertheless closer to the Earthling's wellbeing, since plasma environment in the immediate vicinity of t ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Detect Coolest Radio Star Astronomers using the world's largest radio telescope, at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, have discovered flaring radio emission from an ultra-cool star, not much warmer than the planet Jupiter, shattering th ... more | .. |
 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Brings 'Earthrise' to Everyone Imagine yourself in orbit, your spacecraft flying backward with its small window facing down toward the surface of the moon. You peer out, scouring the ash-colored contours of the cratered landscape ... more |
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 Quantum physics mimics spooky action into the past Physicists of the group of Prof. Anton Zeilinger at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), the University of Vienna, and the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technolo ... more | .. |
 Cassini Sees Objects Blazing Trails in Saturn Ring Scientists working with images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft have discovered strange half-mile-sized (kilometer-sized) objects punching through parts of Saturn's F ring, leaving glittering trails b ... more | .. |
 Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays Probably Do Not From Gamma-Ray Bursts The IceCube neutrino telescope encompasses a cubic kilometer of clear Antarctic ice under the South Pole, a volume seeded with an array of 5,160 sensitive digital optical modules (DOMs) that precise ... more |
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 Hinode and SOHO paint an asymmetrical picture of the sun Approximately every 11 years the magnetic field on the sun reverses completely - the north magnetic pole switches to south, and vice versa. It's as if a bar magnet slowly lost its magnetic field and ... more | .. |
 Boom heard over Northern California: report A loud boom similar to the sound of an explosion was heard over much of northern California early Sunday apparently as a result of an ongoing meteor shower, The Los Angeles Times reported. ... more | .. |
 IceCube Neutrino Observatory explores origin of cosmic rays Although cosmic rays were discovered 100 years ago, their origin remains one of the most enduring mysteries in physics. Now, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a massive detector in Antarctica, is ho ... more |
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