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3-2-1 ... and Liftoff: Manned Space Flights Mark 50th Anniversary

"Three ... 2 ... 1 ...ignition ... and liftoff." With those famous words first heard in Russian and then English, rocket engines burst into life, sending manned vehicles through the extreme "g" forces of vertical acceleration into Earth orbit and into the history books. On this date 20 years apart, two milestones were...

Military Expert: The World Could Never Survive a Real 'Battle: Los Angeles'

A giant spaceship from another world arrives during the day and positions itself above the White House in Washington, while more ships do the same over other major cities around the world. Then, without warning, all hell breaks loose, and the ships begin using devastating weapons and power to destroy everything around...

We Might Be Martians: The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes

Planning on looking at your family tree? If you go back far enough in time, you might discover relatives who used to live on Mars. While that notion may seem a little far-fetched at first, don't laugh. According to MIT News, many scientists consider that life on Earth may be descended from organisms that arrived here from...

NASA Plans 2025 Manned Mission to Asteroid

It's a little soon for astronauts to suit up, but NASA is planning to send a manned mission to an asteroid in 2025. In keeping with President Barack Obama's 2010 vision, the space agency has shifted its sights from returning to the moon and, instead, is aiming for a smaller -- and possibly more dangerous -- rock in space,...

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Supermoon!

Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... supermoon! That's what you'll see when you gaze into the heavens on March 19. It'll sort of be hard to miss. On that night, the full moon will be at lunar perigee, the nearest approach in its orbit around Earth. But in this case, it will be at its closest proximity...

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05/30/12 Dragon Reentry: SpaceX Capsule To Return To Earth Today Source: The Huffington Post After a more than a week in orbit, the private space capsule Dragon is preparing to return to Earth from the International Space Station and cap off its historic mission with a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
05/22/12 WIN: 'Iron Sky' On DVD Source: The Huffington Post In the final moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon.
05/18/12 Nasa Photos Of The Week: Psychedelic Space, Sun Spots,... Source: The Huffington Post Edge-on View of Near-Earth Asteroids New results from NASA's NEOWISE survey find that more potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are closely aligned with the plane of our solar system than previous models suggested.
05/11/12 Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: When Inappropriately... Source: Comedy 23/6 - Huffington Post When I was about four years old and dinosaurs were my favorite thing in the world, I desperately wanted to change my name to Pachycephalosaurus Hartley.
05/11/12 Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D.: A Bold New Chance for Mars... Source: The Huffington Post - Technology Budgetary pressures on science including planetary exploration are enormous.