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NASA swaps out astronauts for first manned flight on Boeing’s new ship
bgr.com - Mike Wehner
Last year was a huge year for private spaceflight, with a steady stream of very successful launches and huge progress being made on more ambitious …
Science
Trump offered NASA an unlimited budget if it sent humans to Mars
futurism.com - Jon Christian
Unlimited Budget A few months after taking office, U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly asked the acting NASA administrator whether the space agency …
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Black Holes
Sharper images of a supermassive black hole reveals new secrets
newatlas.com - Michael Irving
Studying black holes is a tricky business, but not always because they're so dim – to the contrary, in some cases it's hard to see through the bright …
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Boeing
NASA Pulls Astronaut Eric Boe From First Boeing Starliner Crewed Flight, Mike Fincke Will Fly Instead
Gizmodo - Tom McKay
NASA has pulled astronaut Eric Boe, who was scheduled as a crew member for the first manned test flight of Boeing’s Boeing CST-100 Starliner crew …
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Technology
SpaceX’s new test rocket topples over thanks to strong Texas winds
The Verge - Loren Grush
Starships were meant to fly — not fall A prototype of SpaceX’s next big rocket fell over and sustained damage in south Texas, thanks to high winds in the area. Images from SpaceX’s facility in Boca Chica,
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House Spending Bill Fires Warning Shot at James Webb Space Telescope
space.com - Jeff Foust, SpaceNews Writer
WASHINGTON — A new appropriations bill the House plans to vote on next week would provide $21.5 billion for NASA in 2019 but warns that any further …
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Jeff Bezos
Blue Origin Just Landed Its First Rocket of 2019 Ahead of Manned Flight
Inverse - Mike Brown
Blue Origin successfully completed its first launch of the year on Wednesday, as its New Shepard rocket launched up 66 miles before the crew capsule …
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Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos' New Shepard rocket system flies for 10th time
BBC News - By Jonathan Amos
US billionaire Jeff Bezos has put up his New Shepard space vehicle from Texas again, carrying a suite of Nasa experiments to an altitude of 107km. The booster and capsule system separated as planned on
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Planet crash that made moon left key elements for life on Earth, scientists say
The Guardian - Ian Sample Science editor
The cosmic collision that made the moon left a host of elements behind on Earth that were crucial for life to emerge, US scientists have claimed. The impact 4.4bn years ago is thought to have occurred
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SpaceX's giant rocket ship was blown over and damaged by powerful winds in Texas — and Elon Musk says repairs will take
Business Insider - Dave Mosher
The top section of SpaceX's shiny prototype of its giant Starship rocket fell over on Wednesday morning because of powerful winds. "I just heard," Elon Musk, the company's founder, tweeted, confirming
Fortune
European Space Agency
Mining on the Moon: Europe Plans to Drill for Oxygen and Water by 2025
Fortune - David Meyer
The European Space Agency hopes to be mining the moon for water and oxygen in six years’ time. The agency took a big step toward this ambition by …
Northern Lights
Northern lights: Where is the best place to watch the aurora borealis tonight - CBS News
cbsnews.com - By Christopher Brito
Northern lights to shine over parts of the U.S., Canada tonight / CBS News Days after a super blood wolf moon lit up the night sky, skygazers in parts …
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Arianespace
Europe's Arianespace takes on SpaceX by cutting Ariane 5 rocket launch price
Reuters UK - by Jamie Freed
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Europe’s Arianespace is discounting the price of satellite launches with its Ariane 5 rockets as it competes against U.S. rival SpaceX for customers before the release of the cheaper
CNET
H.P. Lovecraft
Nicolas Cage to star in film based on H.P. Lovecraft's Color Out Of Space
CNET - by Erin Carson
The movie will be directed by Richard Stanley.
SpaceX
SpaceX's Starship toppled, severely damaged during overnight storm
spaceflightinsider.com - Patrick Attwell
SpaceX’s Starship toppled, severely damaged during overnight storm Image tweeted by SpaceX’s Elon Musk of components that will be used to prepare the …
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Hubble Space Telescope
These are the first massive black holes from the early universe
CNN - By Ashley Strickland, CNN
(CNN) — More than 13 billion years after they formed, distant massive black holes from the early universe are revealing themselves. The light that was released to create them is now reaching our telescopes.
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Meteorites
Earth Swallowed Another Planet and (Maybe) That's Why Life Exists
Live Science
The ancient collision that formed the moon may also have brought with it all the ingredients needed for life, a new study finds. Over 4.4 billion …
Meteorites
August 17, 1996 - A Meteorite From Mars
nasa.gov - Robert Nemiroff & Jerry Bonnell
August 17, 1996 A Meteorite From Mars Credit: JSC, NASA Explanation: The famous Martian meteorite pictured above houses microscopic structures …
Space Station
Hundreds of impacts crater ESA’s Columbus science laboratory
esa.int - esa
ESA Columbus module On 6 September 2018, the 17-metre arm attached to humankind’s most distant outpost began to move. Its instructions were to survey …
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Space Travel
X-33 Metallic Heat Shield Ready for Flight: Testing for Next-Generation Spacecraft Done at Langley
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European Space Agency
One idea for space waste? Turn it into artificial shooting stars
Fast Company - By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan
The European Space Agency and the Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde have a novel idea for our off-world garbage dump: Recycle it into atmospheric fireworks. It might seem strange that Daan Roosegaarde, an
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European Space Agency
Copernicus budget gets budget boost from European Commission
spacenews.com - Megan Gannon
BERLIN — The European Commission allocated another 96 million euros ($109 million) for the European Space Agency to spend on the Copernicus …
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Scientists Want Your Photo of the Meteor That Hit the Super Blood Wolf Moon
Inverse - Emma Betuel
"With luck, I can have a research-quality impact site estimate by this weekend." People from Morocco to Pennsylvania watched the Super Blood Wolf Moon …
Aerospace Industry
Is the space industry moving beyond SpaceX?
thehill.com - Bryan Preston, opinion contributor
Elon Musk is considered by many to be the godfather of private-sector spaceflight, and for a good reason. In January 2015, he revolutionized the …
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Birth of massive black holes in the early universe revealed
phys.org - Georgia Institute of Technology
The light released from around the first massive black holes in the universe is so intense that it is able to reach telescopes across the entire …
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European Space Agency
Continuing work with the European Space Agency
DW News - Javier Arguedas
Dr. Alice Bunn, the International Director at the UK Space Agency says that Britain will continue to work closely with the European Space Agency.
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Very Large Telescope
A Fleeting Moment in Time
eso.org - information@eso.org
The faint, ephemeral glow emanating from the planetary nebula ESO 577-24 persists for only a short time — around 10,000 years, a blink of an eye in …
Moon Landing
NASA Opens The Door To Commercial Moon Landing, Including Two Colorado Companies
cpr.org - By Nell London Jan 22, 2019
Two Colorado companies are getting into the delivery business. Not the two-day delivery kind, more like the 238,900-mile outer space kind. NASA is …
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Lunar building block
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This 1.5 tonne block was 3D printed from simulated lunar dust, to demonstrate the feasibility of constructing a Moon base using local materials. The …
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See what astronomers are calling "the last breath of a dying star"
futurism.com - Kristin Houser
Out With a Bang A new image shows a star, roughly 1,400 light years from Earth, preparing to die — and the moment is sad and beautiful. On Tuesday, the …