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For the Man who Has Everything
This year’s Neiman Marcus holiday catalogue offers gift seekers the perfect idea for the loved one who wants to get away from it all: a space trip that includes a spectacular view of Earth and a chance to experience weightlessness. For a mere $1.76 million you can charter a private space flight for six passengers…
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Mars Rover Opportunity Reaches Rim of Victoria Crater
It was never supposed to get this far, so this is a big deal. The rover beamed black-and-white images back to Earth showing the crater interior complete with hanging rocky cliffs and rippling sand dunes on its floor. Link
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Space Hotel Could Launch by 2010
If the planned Jan. 30 launch of Bigelow Aerospace’s Genesis 2 space module on a Russian Dnepr rocket is successful, Las Vegas entrepreneur Robert Bigelow plans to send a human-rated habitat into orbit in either the second half of 2009 or the first half of 2010.Link
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Alien “ID Chart” to Aid Search for Extraterrestrial Life
The search for planets with extraterrestrial life has gotten a new tool: an “ID chart” that scientists will use to compare alien worlds with Earth as it has appeared over the eons. As technology improves to the point where Earthlike planets can be detected, astronomers have created an historical model of the Earth throughout its…
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Study Urges U.S. Return to the Moon
NASA needs to get ready as soon as possible to return to the moon, if for no other reason than to understand how life evolved here on Earth, the National Research Council has urged. Link
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World’s First Female Space Tourist Blasts Off
A Russian-made Soyuz rocket left the Russian base in Kazakhstan Monday at 0408 GMT carrying a Soyuz TMA-9 capsule and its three passengers: Iranian-born US citizen and millionaire tourist Anousheh Ansari, NASA’s Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin.Link