: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating new Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Spacecraft assembled for first private shot to ISS 18:19 28 February 2012 Picture of the Day Space Maggie McKee , space news editor Image : SpaceX A private spaceship is one step closer to launching to the International Space Station . SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule and Falcon 9 rocket have been assembled in Florida , SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday . The two will probably launch in late April on an uncrewed
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: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating new Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY Asteroid dust brought to Earth reveals space smashes 20:00 27 February 2012 Picture of the Day Space Maggie McKee , space news editor Image : Okayama University JAXA It's like a cosmic version of Russian nesting dolls Tiny dust grains collected from the surface of the asteroid Itokawa harbour even smaller particles and craters of their own the scars of high-speed collisions with nanometre-sized . impactors In 2010,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PALO ALTO, California (February 27, 2012) The man who manages the nation’s first commercial spaceport called on state lawmakers Monday to help him keep the emerging commercial space industry in California. Stuart Witt, CEO of the East Kern Airport District, which manages the Mojave Air and Space Port, said immediate action is [...]
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: Log in Email Password Remember me Your login is case sensitive I have forgotten my password Register now Activate my subscription Institutional login Athens login close My New Scientist Home News In-Depth Articles Blogs Opinion TV Galleries Topic Guides Last Word Subscribe Dating new Look for Science Jobs SPACE TECH ENVIRONMENT HEALTH LIFE PHYSICS MATH SCIENCE IN SOCIETY When the US came level in the space race 18:09 20 February 2012 Picture of the Day Space Caroline Morley , online picture researcher Image : NASA John Glenn was not the first person to orbit the Earth or even the first US citizen in space . But his orbital flight on 20 February 1962 meant the US had caught up with the Soviet Union in the space . race He can be seen here climbing into his spacecraft Friendship 7 before
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