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August 09, 2011
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Toys for Tiangong
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Aug 09, 2011
Wanna buy a spaceship? No, you can't have the real thing. But you can buy a model at a reasonable price. That's been the driving force behind a strongly entrenched space modeling industry for decades. How many thousands of scale-model American space shuttles have been sold for every real one that was produced? What about the Apollo lunar module? China also produces models of its own space hardware. The nation has a well-established modeling industry that pumps out plastic kits of tanks, ship ... read more

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MOON DAILY

LADEE Completes Mission Critical Design Review
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) has passed its most significant mission milestone to date, the Mission Critical Design Review, or MCDR. This means the LADEE observatory ... more
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MOON DAILY

"Big Splat" May Explain The Moon's Mountainous Far Side
The mountainous region on the far side of the Moon, known as the lunar farside highlands, may be the solid remains of a collision with a smaller companion moon, according to a new study by planetary ... more
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Moon's mountains made by slo-mo crash: study
The Moon's highlands, long a mystery, may have been thrown up billions of years ago by a slow-motion collision with a smaller companion moon knocked off its orbit, says a study released Wednesday. ... more
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SHUTTLE NEWS

Atlantis Final Mission Included Successful Kennedy-Developed Plant Experiment
Atlantis carried many science and research experiments in its middeck during NASA's last shuttle flight, STS-135, in July. Among these was a plant experiment developed at Kennedy Space Center's Spac ... more
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STATION NEWS

New uses for Space Station
For more than a decade, the International Space Station has been a busy orbiting research lab. But it could soon take on a new role as a testbed for ambitious missions deeper into space. Futur ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Herschel confirms Enceladus as primary water supply for Saturn atmosphere
Observing Saturn, Herschel has detected evidence of water molecules in a huge torus surrounding the planet and centred on the orbit of its small moon, Enceladus. The water plumes on Enceladus, which ... more
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STATION NEWS

NASA and International Partners Discuss New Uses for Space Station
The Multilateral Coordination Board (MCB) for the International Space Station partner agencies met Tuesday, July 26, to discuss how to use the space station as a test bed for technologies that will ... more
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US says new nuclear deal should include China, accuses Beijing of secret tests
Nuclear powers scramble for high ground after arms treaty expires
Iran FM says agreed with US to hold next round of talks 'soon'
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SATURN DAILY

Enceladus rains water onto Saturn
ESA's Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves a 14-year mystery by identifying the so ... more
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MOON DAILY

Unique volcanic complex discovered on Lunar far side
Analysis of new images of a curious "hot spot" on the far side of the Moon reveal it to be a small volcanic province created by the upwelling of silicic magma. The unusual location of the province a ... more
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MOON DAILY

Moon Express Announces Dr. Alan Stern as Chief Scientist
Moon Express, a Google Lunar X PRIZE contender, has revealed that internationally recognized planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern will be the Chief Scientist and Mission Architect for the company. ... more
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MOON DAILY

Northrop Grumman Honored by IEEE for Development of Lunar Module
On the 42nd anniversary of Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong's first steps on the moon's surface, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professi ... more
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OUTER PLANETS

NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite - temporarily designated P4 - was uncovered in a Hubble survey sear ... more
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MOON DAILY

Two NASA Probes Tackle New Mission: Studying The Moon
Two small NASA probes that had been used to study space weather now are orbiting the moon to study its interior and surface composition. The spacecraft, called Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence ... more
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MOON DAILY

Twin Artemis Probes To Study Moon In 3D
On Sunday, July 17, the Moon will acquire its second new companion in less than a month. That's when the second of two probes built by the University of California, Berkeley, and part of NASA's five ... more
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MOON DAILY

Marshall Center's Bassler Leads NASA Robotic Lander Work
Growing up on a working farm in rural Breese, Ill., NASA engineer Julie Bassler constantly found her attention drawn away from the tranquility of farm life by the thunder of jets from nearby Scott A ... more
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MOON DAILY

NASA puts space probe into lunar orbit
NASA says the first of two spacecraft that will study the moon is safely in its lunar orbit after successful maneuvers guided by flight engineers in California. ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Spend your summer in space...at the Science Museum
This summer, make space at the Science Museum your holiday destination of choice. From 23 July - 31 August, pick up a passport as you enter the museum and follow the new space trail - embarking on a ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Tasting the Ocean Spray of Enceladus
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more
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MOON DAILY

ARTEMIS Spacecraft Prepare for Lunar Orbit
They've almost arrived. It took one and a half years, over 90 orbit maneuvers, and - wonderfully - many gravitational boosts and only the barest bit of fuel to move two spacecraft from their orbit a ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Captures Ocean-Like Spray at Saturn Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has discovered the best evidence yet for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft's direct anal ... more
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Cassini samples the icy spray of Enceladus' water plumes
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn's moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest evidence yet fo ... more
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MOON DAILY

LRO Showing Us the Moon as Never Before
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has forever changed our view of the moon, literally bringing it into sharper focus and showing us the whole globe in unprecedented detail. This rich n ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Captures Ice Queen Helene
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has successfully completed its second-closest encounter with Saturn's icy moon Helene, beaming down raw images of the small moon. At closest approach, on June 18, Cassini f ... more
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MARSDAILY

Phobos slips past Jupiter
Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into a movi ... more
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MOON DAILY

CMU and Astrobotic Technology Complete Structural Assembly of Lunar Lander
Astrobotic Technology Inc. and Carnegie Mellon University researchers have completed structural assembly of the lunar landing craft that will deliver the Red Rover robot to the moon in 2014. The hal ... more
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ECLIPSES

LRO to take extreme close-up of eclipse
Orbiting about 31 miles above the lunar surface, NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft will get a "front-row seat" to the total lunar eclipse on June 15, says Noah Petro, Associate Pr ... more
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MOON DAILY

Blood Red Moon Predicted
Get set for an amazing adventure. The eclipse will be visible over more than half the globe, throughout most of South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, the Indian subcontinent and Australia. ... more
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DRAGON SPACE

China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 goes to outer space
China's second moon orbiter Chang'e-2 on Thursday set off from its moon orbit for outer space about 1.5 million km away from the earth, Chinese scientists said Thursday. The orbiter left its moon or ... more
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