When scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scheduled a conference called “Exoplanets in the Post-Kepler Era,” they figured that era would still be several years away
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ted with technological and scientific achievements, including the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in 1990 and the deployment of the Ulysses solar probe the same year. The fleet leader, Discovery also returned the space shuttle program to flight after the losses of Challenger and Columbia in 1986 and 2003, respectively.
Gone perhaps, but Kepler won't soon be forgotten | Atom & Cosmos | Science News - 0 views
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Jeff Bezos Plans to Recover Apollo 11 Rocket Engines From Ocean Floor | Wired Science |... - 0 views
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos announced plans to recover from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at least one of the F-1 engines that carried the Apollo 11 rocket into space
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If one engine is raised, he imagines the agency would make it available to the public at the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C
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Should he recover more than one, he has asked NASA to consider making the second one available at the Museum of Flight in Seattle
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Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has located the Apollo 11 F-1 rocket engines and plans to recover them
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using state-of-the-art deep sea sonar, the team has found the Apollo 11 engines lying 14,000 feet below the surface
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making plans to attempt to raise one or more of them from the ocean floor
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Scientists Discover That Mars is Full of Water | Surprising Science | Smithsonian Magazine - 0 views
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Now, according to an article published yesterday in the journal Geology, there is evidence that Mars is home to vast reservoirs of water in its interior as well.
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The amount of water in the meteorites suggested that the Martian mantle contains somewhere between 70 and 300 parts per million of water—an amount strikingly similar to Earth’s own mantle. Because both the samples contained roughly the same water content despite their different geological histories on Mars, the researchers believe that the planet incorporated this water long ago, during the early stages of its formation. The paper also provides us with an answer for how underground water may have made its way to the Martian surface: volcanic activity.
Chasing Atlantis: An Upcoming Film about the Shuttle's Legacy - 0 views
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Five Canadians made the trek to Florida to watch the final shuttle launch last year. They are wrapping up filming and interviews — which included astronauts and sci-fi stars — to discuss the legacy of the program.
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How did you get down there?
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drove the entire journey from Toronto to the Titusville/Cocoa Beach area
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Students: Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Needs a New Name! - 0 views
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NASA and the Planetary Society are giving students worldwide the opportunity to name an asteroid
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an upcoming NASA mission will return samples of this asteroid to Earth
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Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) will be heading to an asteroid, currently named (101955) 1999 RQ36
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First hints of gravitational waves in the Big Bang's afterglow - 0 views
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As the last untested prediction of Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, finding gravitational waves is a big deal.
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Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in the US have announced
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what they believe is the indirect detection of gravitational waves in the afterglow of the Big Bang.
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Global "Selfie" to Be Beamed to Outer Space - 0 views
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This summer, you will get that chance to send a message to other worlds.
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leaders of an initiative called New Horizons Message Initiative, announced
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at the Smithsonian Future Is Here Festival in Washington, D.C., that NASA has agreed to upload a digital crowd-sourced message to the New Horizons spacecraft
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