Gamble of a lifetime for space odyssey to Titan
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In a few weeks, after a seven-year journey across the solar system, a robot spacecraft bristling with British instruments will plunge into the atmosphere of the mysterious, methane-shrouded world of Titan.
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After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, a Â£1.7bn US-European mission is preparing for the unknown. Cassini, a Nasa spacecraft the size of a truck, carrying Huygens, a European robot not much
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In the prelude to a plunge, NASA&#39;s Cassini will set Europe&#39;s Huygens probe free tonight. It&#39;s the start of a thrill ride that in three weeks will drop Huygens into the murky moon Titan.
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After separation, Huygens will head on a non-powered trajectory that will take it to Titan on January 15, where parachutes will slow its descent onto the moon&#39;s surface.
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There's a 1-in-300 chance that a recently discovered asteroid, believed to be about 1,300 feet long, could hit Earth in 2029, a NASA scientist said Thursday, but he added that the perceived risk probably will be eliminated once astronomers get more detail about its orbit.
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The European Space Agency prepares to send its Huygens probe hurtling through the smoggy atmosphere of Saturn's moon, Titan. What the probe will find on the other side is anybody's guess. By Amit Asaravala.
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One short flight for man, or the start of a long voyage for rich men. That&#39;s one way of looking at Monday&#39;s historic jaunt of the revolutionary spacecraft SpaceShipOne, which crossed the brink of space for the second time in six days.
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POWAY, Calif. - A man who gave up a free space ride because he couldn't afford the taxes on the contest prize may be going to the cosmos after all.
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NASA&#39;s plan to service the Hubble Space Telescope with a robotic device is more risky than a manned shuttle mission and would leave the orbiting observatory inoperative for a longer period
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Get ready for two of the strangest hours in the history of space exploration.  That's how long it will take the Huygens probe to parachute to the surface of Saturn's mysterious moon Titan.
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By Ja'Rena Lunsford, The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 13--Will Temple knew the call was a scam. On the other end was the voice of a Microsoft Corp. representative telling him he was the winner of a trip to space.
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Monash scientist Andrew Prentice ponders the probe that will land on the Saturnian moon Titan in January. Photo: Angela Wylie. NASA&#39;s mission to Saturn, Cassini, will pass a crucial milestone
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Sandblaster effect The Cassini spacecraft could be at risk of damage when it makes its next closest approach to the moon Enceladus.â¦
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By Mike Swain EXPERTS have called for a pounds 150 million &quot;Armageddon-style&quot; space mission to deflect an asteroid which may be heading for Earth. Astronomers believe the asteroid Apophis has a one in 45,000 chance of hitting the planet on April 13, 2036.
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A nifty moon colony sounds so very exotic. But the dreamy mission comes at a terrible price: slashing funding for Earth science. In Beyond the Beyond.
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A man who gave up a free space ride because he couldn't afford the taxes on the contest prize may be going to the cosmos after all.
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THE European space probe Huygens is headed for a historic up-close encounter with Titan, one of Saturn&#39;s moons and the only body in the solar system with an atmosphere resembling Earth&#39;s.