Spacecraft Falling! Get Set to Duck?
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A U.S. spy satellite is expected to crash back to Earth as early as next month. Another thing to worry about? Not quite
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By MATTHEW FORDAHL    SAN JOSE, Calif.  -- A $239 million satellite toppled to a factory floor last year because nobody bothered to check that it was secure before moving it, according to a NASA investigation board's report on the mishap...
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What would happen if an astronaut came unglued in space and, say, destroyed the ship's oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard?
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A piece of the Sun is set to fall to Earth and be captured by Hollywood stunt pilots in a tricky mid-air manoeuvre, NASA announced on Thursday.
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NASA&#39;s high hopes for a clean reading of the Sun&#39;s atomic signature seemed dead Wednesday after the 450-pound Genesis spacecraft came tumbling down in Utah, where it landed with a terrible thud.
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A design flaw in the reentry system of NASA&#39;s Genesis space probe has been pinned as the most likely cause behind the spacecraft&#39;s wild plunge into the Utah desert last month, investigators said Thursday.
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Thrill seekers are plunking down six figures to ride rockets that haven't even been built yet, and a new airline called Virgin Galactic promises to be up and soaring in the next three years. Still, the budding space tourism industry faces a myriad of safety concerns &#151; in the sky and on the ground &#151; that must be resolved before any paying passenger takes off.
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The Pentagon is considering whether to shoot down a failed spy satellite that could come crashing back to Earth by March, senior U.S. military officials said today. "There aren't a whole lot of other options," an official said. But these officials would not elaborate on how they would hit the satellite.
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Next Fourth of July, NASA will slam a heavy probe the size of a garbage can    into a comet, purposely carving a football-field sized crater for inspection.    As for&nbsp;what exactly&nbsp;will happen,&nbsp;however, nobody really knows.
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Also: Earth storms lead to space storms. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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DUGWAY PROVING GROUNDS, Utah -- NASA&#39;s Genesis return capsule crashed into the desert Wednesday morning due to an apparent malfunction in its parachutes.
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An unidentified object orbiting below and at the same speed as Atlantis may have been shaken loose from the space shuttle, leading NASA officials to scramble to find out whether the vehicle remains safe to make the descent back to Earth.
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Boethin goes awol NASA has cancelled a scheduled liaison between its Deep Impact spacecraft and Comet 85P/Boethin because the latter has disappeared without trace, New Scientist reports.â¦
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They were the first to leave the mothership. Now Howard Stern is joining their orbit. What's life like for shock jocks in the zero-gravity atmosphere of satellite radio?
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NASA has been screening astronauts for  decades and isn't supposed to let loose screws through. Is it not as good as we thought? Or are astronauts more fragile than they seem?
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Nasa's Deep Impact mission, which will crash a projectile into Comet Tempel 1, is ready for lift-off.
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Fasten your seat belts, folks; it's going to be a bumpy fall.