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Russia's space agency is planning to send probes to visit Mars, Jupiter and Venus and also to put a man on the Moon, all by 2030.
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John F Kennedy once said, “We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” That mentality gave the US dominance in space for decades. The fight between the Moon and Mars for priority is a case defining Kennedy's vision.
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Private space rocket technology company Space Exploration Technologies has expressed support and enthusiasm for President Obama's vision for space exploration.
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Iran has unveiled its new home made space program, much to the irritation of the US, which has described the development as “unfortunate”. With this ability comes a rocket which has a range of 1000 miles, adding some heat to the nuclear debate.
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China is getting its space science happening fast, by any standards. A recent list of projects sounds like most of the American lunar and related programs in a few years. The US space monopoly now faces determined competition.
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 The retirement of NASA's shuttle fleet and a number of recent failures in the Russian space program have focused attention on China's space program, which now has three manned flights under its belt.
 For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.
 Those who dream of becoming a space tourist may want to pay attention to a new program that would send a high-speed train into orbit at a fraction of the cost of travelling by rocket.
While sci-fi movie junkies are reeling over the recent NASA image in which a structure that resembles the monolith seen in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” protrudes off the surface of Mars, NASA announced today its search for alternative, cheaper ways to continue Mars...
Late January is always a dark time of year for NASA's astronaut program; the anniversaries of its three worst accidents all happen in the same week. The Apollo 1 astronauts died in a cockpit fire on Jan. 27, 1967. The space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff Jan. 28, 1986. And the space shuttle Columbia broke up on return to earth Feb. 1, 2003.
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