Gallery: SpaceShuttleTwo Revealed
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Billionaire Richard Branson takes the wraps off his new suborbital civilian spaceship. Say that three times fast.
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The surface of one of the brightest stars in the night sky is imaged by scientists.
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By Martin Merzer McClatchy Newspapers  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Illuminated by 40 pure-white Xenon spotlights and the golden glare of five powerful rocket engines, shuttle Discovery and its seven astronauts thundered from the launch pad and into space Saturday night.
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A space capsule set to plunge into Earth&#39;s atmosphere with a piece of the Sun this Wednesday has spawned additional projects ranging from spacecraft design to the detection of dangerous asteroids.
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Russian space officials on Tuesday unveiled a full-scale high-fidelity mockup of the spacecraft they hope will replace the veteran Soyuz space capsule.
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NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer has discovered three dozen galaxies emitting ultraviolet light at levels that indicate stars still are forming and supernovas still are exploding.
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Also: Congress OKs private spaceflight bill. [News.com Extra]
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This image released Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2004, by NASA shows six of the three-dozen &quot;ultraviolet luminous galaxies&quot; spotted in our corner of the universe by NASA&#39;s Galaxy Evolution Explorer.
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An asteroid with a wild orbit is about to zoom by our planet. Plus: Solving the mystery of the Pioneer anomaly could take decades.... A biologist finds a chunk of space shuttle Columbia. By Amit Asaravala.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Ira Flatow tells Alex how to catch a rare sight in the sky just before Christmas dawn -- no, not Santa, but the International Space Station.
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A NASA-led team is studying the construction of a railway in space for a pair of telescopes that will provide views of planet, star, and galaxy formation in unprecedented detail. The proposed Space Infrared Interferometric Telescope (SPIRIT) mission will also examine the atmospheric chemistry of giant planets around other stars.
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NASA's images from the Apollo moon landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle missions will be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a partnership between the space agency and the nonprofit Internet Archive.
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Photoshop Showcase will host photos, videos and flash galleries.
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HOUSTON, Sept. 13 -- Two astronauts spent more than six hours in space Tuesday attaching large new girders to the international space station -- the first major addition to the half-finished station in almost four years.
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According to MSNBC, Russian space officials have unveiled a full-scale high-fidelity mockup of the Kliper (for &quot;clipper ship&quot;) vehicle.
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Industrial groups in Europe are about to look in detail at ideas for a new launch system to put humans in space.
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James Webb's eye is lookin' good After a rather difficult week, some good news for NASA: its engineers have just finished making the mirror that will be the eye of its next space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). All that remains is for it to be ground and polished.â¦