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Safety Regulations In The Space Industry

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Since the mid-2000s, the space industry has changed its focus from moving large payloads into space to what appears to be an interest in space tourism. This will necessitate changes in safety regulations as more untrained personnel come into contact with dangerous areas of the space program. As NASA engages...

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he will be first Iranian in space

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday he will be the first human sent into space by Iran’s space program. Iran successfully launched a monkey...

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Iranian space official: Photo shows wrong monkey

One of two official packages of photos of Iran’s famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and...

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South Korea launches first civilian rocket amid tensions with North

South Korea launched its first space rocket carrying a science satellite on Wednesday. It was South Korea’s third attempt to launch a civilian...

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NASA Telescope Observes How Sun Stores and Releases Energy

A NASA suborbital telescope has given scientists the first clear evidence of energy transfer from the sun’s magnetic field to the solar atmosphere...

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Martian Crater Once May Have Held Groundwater-Fed Lake

A NASA spacecraft is providing new evidence of a wet underground environment on Mars that adds to an increasingly complex picture of the Red Planet’s...

On Dec. 21 at 2:29 a.m. EST, the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured this infrared image of the massive low pressure area that caused a major snowstorm in the Midwest and beyond. The darkest blue and purple (-63.6 Fahrenheit/-53.5 Celsius) areas indicate the highest clouds and coldest cloud top temperatures, where precipitation is heaviest. Credit: NASA JPL, Ed Olsen

NASA Infrared Satellites Measure Major Storm

On Dec. 21 at 2:29 a.m. EST, the AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite captured this infrared image of the massive low pressure area that...

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Curiosity Yellowknife Bay Photos

  PASADENA, Calif. — The NASA Mars rover Curiosity this week is driving within a shallow depression called “Yellowknife Bay,” providing...

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AX-3 Space Suit Photographs

  Hubert Vykukal demonstrates mobility of the Hardsuit AX-3 Space Suit design in 1977.   Photos: http://ails.arc.nasa.gov/ ...

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