Space OR Planetary Science - Google News for Friday 5 December 2014

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Orion spacecraft's flawless test flight puts Mars exploration one step
closer - The Guardian

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 12:29 PM PST
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...ce-exploration


The Guardian
Orion spacecrafts flawless test flight puts Mars exploration one step closer
The Guardian
All of Nasas future exploration plans are predicated on this system,� said
Ian Crawford, professor of planetary science at Birkbeck, University of
London. On Thursday night, engineers investigated a problem with the
rockets fuel tank valves, which ...
Nasas Orion deep space capsule launchesBBC News
Splashdown! Orion Spaceship Aces First Flight TestNBCNews.com
Science|First Flight Test Is Successful for NASAs Orion SpacecraftNew York
Times
Examiner.com -Local 10 -BBC News
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Comet dust found in Antarctica - Science Now

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 12:50 PM PST
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Comet dust found in Antarctica
Science Now
Until recently, the only way scientists could collect “chondritic porous
interplanetary dust particles,� or comet dust, without going to space has
been by flying research planes high in the stratosphere. Its painstaking
work: ... A closer analysis ...



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Orion spaceship launch at Nasa's Kennedy Space Cent as it happened -
Telegraph.co.uk

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 04:17 PM PST
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Telegraph.co.uk
Orion spaceship launch at Nasas Kennedy Space Cent as it happened
Telegraph.co.uk
Astronaut Rex Walheim, who was aboard the final shuttle flight in 2011,
said the Orion programme could one day ensure humans become “a
multi-planetary species.� “You have that excitement back here at the
Kennedy Space Center and its tinged with even ...
NASAs Orion Tests Future of Manned SpaceflightNational Geographic
Orion Mars ship: rogue boat and wind postpone space capsule launchThe
Independent
Nasas Orion Mars ship set for test flightBBC News
The Guardian -Live Science -NBCNews.com
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The New Horizons science mission to the Pluto-Charon system is about to
begin - The Planetary Society (blog)

Posted: 05 Dec 2014 03:34 PM PST
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The New Horizons science mission to the Pluto-Charon system is about to
begin
The Planetary Society (blog)
The Planetary Societys Mat Kaplan will be hosting a video event during the
wakeup, so you can watch with us as we wait for that all-important beep
that signals that New Horizons is ready to begin work. New Horizons flyby
of Pluto happens on July 14 ...



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Strange thrust: the unproven science that could propel our children into
space - Boing Boing

Posted: 24 Nov 2014 11:38 PM PST
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...ionless-s.html


Boing Boing
Strange thrust: the unproven science that could propel our children into
space
Boing Boing
For many decades, a fantasy among space enthusiasts has been to invent a
device that produces a net thrust in one direction, without any need for
reaction mass. Of course, a reactionless space drive of this type is
impossible. Or is it? By Charles Platt.