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Watch Live: SpaceX’s Rendezvous With the Space Station

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Tune in May 24 at 11 p.m. PDT (7 a.m. GMT) to see a live feed of SpaceX taking its next historic step: a rendezvous with the International Space Station.
In recent days, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule has perfor...
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How Curiosity Will Scoop Its Way Around the Red Planet [Video]


Once NASA's Curiosity rover safely touches down inside the Gale crater in August (*crosses fingers*), the real challenge begins. The 2,000-pound, 10-foot long rover will begin searching for traces of a wet Martian past. But first, research...
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NASA's Environment Simulation Lab Recreates Space on Earth [Monster Machines]





During the Apollo years, NASA basically made up spaceflight as it went along. Nobody was really sure what would happen to spacecraft and astronauts in the cold embrace of space. So, before exposing these m...
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Watch Live: SpaceX’s Dragon Performs Space Station Flyby

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Tune in at 11:30 p.m. PDT (7:30 a.m. GMT) to see a live feed of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule in low Earth orbit approaching the International Space Station. The event is a crucial second step as SpaceX works to become the first ...
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Our Sun Like You Have Never Seen It Before [Video]





NASA just sent me this beautiful video of the Sun. "There's no science behind it," says Scott Wiessinger, Helio and Astrophysics Video Producer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, "but it's very pretty...
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Adventures of Apollo Astronauts Now Tracked in 3-D

Researchers have used new lunar satellite images to pinpoint exactly where the Apollo 17 astronauts took their iconic photographs of the moon’s surface. That data has in turn allowed planetary scientists to build the most precise 3-D maps yet of th...
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How We Measure the Universe Without Intergalactic Rulers [Video]





Scientists tell us that our universe is trillions of miles wide, but how exactly do they come to that measurement without an equally long tape measure? As this beautifully animated video explains, by usin...
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SpaceX FInally Takes Off [SpaceX]





First it was on, then it was off. Then on, then off. Then it had a little wobble. Now, SpaceX has finally launched, making its NASA's first successful involvement with the world of private space flight. ...
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This Mind Blowing Image of the Eclipse Can't Possibly Be Real [Image Cache]





I refuse to believe this image of the eclipse is real, as much as I wish it were. Not that it couldn't be real. It can. I've seen plenty of photos of eclipses taken from space, but this one is just too awe...
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Time-Lapse Video of Incredible Annular Solar Eclipse
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
Did you see the eclipse yesterday? In case of poor geographic location or general Sunday laziness, here’s a time-lapse video showing the celestial event in its full glory.
Created by amateur astrophotographer Cory Poole, a mat...
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Watch Tonight's Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse Right Here [Eclipse]





Tonight, China and the Western United States will be able to see an annular eclipse, the first of its kind since 1994. An annular eclipse is when the moon lines up between Earth and the Sun to create what ...
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Watch Live: Annular Solar Eclipse Creates Ring of Fire

An annular solar eclipse will be visible May 20 from eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and much of the North American West Coast.
A total solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, casting a shadow that blocks out the sun’s l...
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Watch the SpaceX Falcon 9 Undergo Performance Anxiety With the Whole World Watching [Video]





They say the first time never lasts as long as you'd want. Yesterday's failed SpaceX Falcon 9 launch is no exception. Watch the rocket tremble with anticipation and light its load, only to have its perfor...
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Engine Problems Delay Falcon 9's Historic Launch [SpaceX]





Before it could slip the surly bonds of earth and dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings, SpaceX's Falcon 9's early morning launch was unfortunately scrapped by Nasa today due to higher than normal pre...
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ULTRA-MAN



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Space Double Feature Weekend: SpaceX Launch and Solar Eclipse

If you’re a space enthusiast, this weekend is going to be a doozy.
In the wee hours of Saturday May 19, the private spaceflight company SpaceX is planning to launch their Dragon capsule from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The launch window is for 1:55 am PDT...
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Could a 21st Century USS Enterprise Really Fly?
A model of the USS Enterprise. Image: Louie Kenny/Flickr
Only an imagination made of stone could fail to stir at the thought of a real-world USS Enterprise blasting away from Earth within 20 years, reaching Mars in three months and restoring a sense of ep...
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Spaceflight Experts Weigh in on Upcoming SpaceX Launch
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After months of anticipation and a series of delays, SpaceX is once again ready to fly.
In the early hours of May 19, the private spaceflight company’s Dragon capsule is scheduled to lift off from the launch pad and, four da...
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Q&A: Commercial Spaceflight Federation President on Historic SpaceX Launch

This is part of a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. You can read previous interviews here.
We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space.
On May 19, if all goes well, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will lif...
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Q&A: Former SpaceX Executive on Historic Launch

This is part of a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. You can read previous interviews here.
We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space.
On May 19, if all goes well, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will lif...
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Nasa Wants To Snatch Asteroids With a Spiderman-Inspired Spiny Claw [Video]





Marvel's web-slinger is able to scale tall buildings thanks to a set of spiny hairs on his fingers. And NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory thinks the same approach could make it easy for spacecraft to latch...
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Please Buy This Space Shuttle Food Truck and Name It the Crepe Canaveral [Desired]





Seriously, you purchase this converted DC-3 from eBay for $150,000, slap on some new lettering, maybe put a speaker on the roof that makes shuttle sounds when you leave a red light, and sell deliciously-fi...
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Q&A: Space Historian on Historic SpaceX Launch

This is part of a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. You can read previous interviews here.
We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space.
On May 19, if all goes well, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will lif...
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NASA Shot the MESSENGER—Into Orbit, Around the Iron Planet [Monster Machines]





And you thought hitting a thermal exhaust port was tough? Try shooting a 1,000-pound satellite 4.9 billion miles across the solar system into orbit around a planet less than half the size of Earth, and jus...
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What's the Mailing Address of the International Space Station? [Space]





One day, when the price is low enough, we would be able to send actual letters and packages to space. But what would a mail address look like? Example: what's the street and zip code of the Internation Spa...
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Startup Company Raffles a Ticket to Space

A new startup company’s $10 space posters come with a chance to win a ride on a suborbital space vehicle.
Called ”I Dream of Space,” the company is selling 25,000 posters at $10 apiece, the proceeds of which should cover a $200,000 ride...
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NASA Astronauts Are Training for Missions to Asteroids [Space]





The Moon? Boring. Mars? Meh. The next giant leap for mankind won't come in the form of an interplanetary trip, but rather a quest to the pile of rocks which weren't quite good enough to become planets. Yup...
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Is This the Trippiest Image Ever Taken In Space? Most Probably [Space]





This image made at the International Space Station is not your usual ISS image. No firing auroras. No gleaming cities. No fuming catastrophes or crispy deserts or psychedelic rivers or turquoise seas. It l...
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A Water Droplet and a Space Station Are the Ultimate Way To Visualize Sound [Video]





You might think the trippy animated visualizations in your media player are the best way to see your music. But astronaut Don Pettit has found a better way—and all it requires is a small set of spea...
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NASA Captures the Sun's Most Striking Photo Yet [Astronomy]





You are looking at the Sun's Evil Eye. Or the Death Star ready to shoot its planet-destructing laser. Or Jean Grey turning into the Phoenix. Actually, I really don't care about what the hell is going on he...
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All Systems Go For First Private Spacecraft To Reach the Space Station [Space]





NASA and SpaceX have a date for the launch of the Dragon spacecraft that will reach the International Space Station: Saturday, May 19, from 4:55 AM ET/1:55 AM ET. It will be a historic moment. Here's what ...
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This Is the Definitive Photograph of Planet Earth [Video]





Unlike NASA's Blue Marble—which is a composite made from many different photographs—this is a portrait of Earth taken in one single shot. It's the highest resolution image of our home planet, 1...
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We May Absorb 60 Dark Matter Particles an Hour [Space]





WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) are a theoretical class of matter that are suspected of being the elusive "dark matter" that presumably constitutes 80 percent of the Universe. A new study by U...
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Black Holes Can't Hide from NuSTAR's X-Ray Eyes [Monster Machines]





Sure, space-based X-Ray telescopes have been in service since the Einstein Observatory launched back way back in 1978. But the NuSTAR Project is different: It promises to illuminate at the heavens above as...
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This Tin Foil Can Hold the Universe's Largest Burrito [Space]





You are looking at the largest piece of tin foil in the planet, one of the James Webb Space Telescope's sunshield membranes. There will be five of these membranes, which will keep its core at 50 Kelvin (-3...
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Q&A: NASA Engineer on Historic SpaceX Launch

This is the fifth in a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. You can read previous interviews here.
We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space.
In the near future, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will liftoff...
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Seeing a Deflated Supermoon Shrinks My Brain [Image Cache]





That round mirror in the sky we call the moon got super-sized this past weekend but that doesn't mean the supermoon looked bigger from everywhere! Because on the ISS, the supermoon looked more like a squis...
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THE CISPA SPACE-EYE



THE CISPA SPACE-EYE
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Our View of Earth From Space Is in Danger
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Q&A: DIY Spacecraft Builder on Historic SpaceX Launch

This is the fourth in a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. You can read the first, second and third parts.
We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space.
In the near future, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 roc...
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Solar System’s Death Glimpsed in White Dwarf Stars

Four dead planetary systems, each lit by the burned-out core of a star that once resembled the sun, provide a harrowing forecast for Earth’s eventual demise.
Astronomers used the space-based Hubble telescope to probe the chemical signatures of dust...
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Q&A: Space Policy Analyst on Historic SpaceX Flight

This is the second in a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. You can read the first part and then the second.
We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space.
In the near future, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 ro...
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Treasure Hunters Flock to California Searching For Pieces of Six-Billion-Year-Old Meteor [Space]





A stay-at-home mom was out walking her dog recently when she stumbled upon a weird, 17-gram rock. It turned out to be 4 to 6 billion years old. And from space. And it's worth $20,000. Is El Dorado County d...
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Inside NASA’s Space Apps Challenge [video]
Over 2,000 people from 24 cities world-wide took part in NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge, producing over 200 solutions using NASA data sets, over two days at the end of April.
The ‘codeathon’ brought event together citizens who...
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This Is the First Private Spaceship That Will Dock to the International Space Station [Space]





You are looking at the first private spaceship that will dock with the International Space Station: a SpaceX Dragon on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. It's the beginning of the future of manned space travel, peo...
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SpaceX Forced to Delay Launch to Space Station [Space]





SpaceX has once again been forced to delay the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft. The latest launch date was scheduled for Monday, May 7 from Cape Canaveral in Florida and a new date hasn...
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A Black Hole Devouring a Star Is One Hell of an Amazing View [Astronomy]





Look at this star turned into a fire dragon by a single point of nothingness with the mass of three million suns—its body twisted and deformed as a black beast 2.7 billion light-years away devours it...
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Q&A: Explorer and Robotics Engineer on Historic SpaceX Flight

This is the second in a series of Wired Q&As with spaceflight experts leading up to SpaceX’s launch. Read the first installment.
We may be at the dawn of a new, private era in space.
In the near future, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will liftoff the...
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Distant Exploding Nova Recorded by Space Satellite

By George Dvorsky, io9
Now this is something you don’t see every day: actual video footage of a binary star system exploding into space.
This isn’t to be confused with a supernova, which is a star that has collapsed in on itself causing it to...
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Open Space: Wired’s New Portal to the Commercial Space Race

The future of space travel, exploration and exploitation looks very different from the past. The new space race has a far more diverse list of entrants, with the number of new commercial companies swamping government agencies like NASA and giants like Lo...
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