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Elon Musk, CEO and Founder of Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, wants astronauts to travel to Mars within the next 10 to 20 years and desires mankind to become a multi-planet species. Is this adventurism realistic?
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New research is showing that new techniques for prolonged space flight are essential. Antibodies produced in space lack the quality of those produced on Earth's gravity and may expose space travellers to disease and other medical conditions.
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It's official. America has left the space race. Once Endeavour is cleared for launch and its mission completed NASA's shuttle program will be over.
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Science is getting as bad as Creationism in one way. It’s refusing to even consider its own principles. “Thou shalt have no other equation” could easily be applied to E=mc2, and whole new concepts are routinely relegated to heresy/science fiction.
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Somebody, finally, has come up with an idea to get rid of the millions of live bullets orbiting Earth. The fact that this idea has come from the Japanese, who have contributed far less space garbage than Russia and the United States, says volumes.
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Sir Richard Bransom, the founder of Virgin Group, says, ". . . the sky is no longer the limit . . ." as Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo successfully completed three milestone tasks Monday.
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The international team of six volunteers completed on Friday the first 100 days of a simulated flight to Mars to test the psychological demands, compatibility and tolerance of crew members during an interplanetary flight.
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British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is warning that if humans are unable to locate another suitable planet to inhabit, they will face extinction.
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Most people will never experience space travel but NASA is giving them the next best thing. The United States space agency has initiated a program called Space Face where it allows a photo of your face to be included on its two remaining space missions.
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Arthur C. Clarke wrote about traveling into space on an elevator. The book was published nearly 30 years ago and was titled "2001." Now, the race is on to build the "fictional" creation.
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Dan Simmons examines Sweden's prospects of being the European home to commercial space travel.
Long space flights may cause brain and eye abnormalities, doctors find.
A California-based private company hopes to usher in a new era in space travel with the successful launch of its rocket and unmanned capsule later this month.
 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.
 Russia's defence ministry says a failed probe designed to travel to a moon of Mars has crashed, showering debris over the southern Pacific.
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The long awaited second series of British hit drama Lip Service returned this spring on BBC3 after nearly two years....
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About Raynetta Stocks Raynetta Stocks was born in Washington D.C. in August 1981. She excelled early at reading and...
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Father Tony Kerin, episcopal vicar for justice and social service in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, has a message for...
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Susan Spence has always been intrigued with life in the west in the 1880s. She researched historical accounts and...
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