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This Week in Space with Miles O'Brien highlights: Space hits the red carpet: IMAX: Hubble 3D debuts at the Air and Space Museum, a Falcon 9 "hot fire" disappoints, the shuttle program manager says "no problem" for shuttle to keep flying, and safely — it's only a question of money — and Obama gets ready to speak up for his controversial new plan for NASA…and braces for what promises to be a firestorm of protest at planned April 15 conference on the future of America's space program.

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Florida's Space Coast braces for layoffs, Buzz Aldrin muses on the next steps for NASA and his upcoming stint on "Dancing with the Stars," plus other headlines from This Week In Space.

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On this edition of "This Week in Space" – the NASA Administrator hits some Congressional turbulence over NASA's new budget, shuttles Endeavour and Discovery are on the move, new pics of ice geysers on one of Saturn's moons, Orbital Sciences says its safety first for its new commercial spaceship, astro-immigrants are spotted in the Milky Way, and Miles O'Brien testifies to the Senate on NASA's future.

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This week Miles O'Brien and team discuss the views from the new Cupola on the ISS, the new images from the WISE mission, and more. And is the new NASA budget and direction proposed by Obama the worst presidential decision since Nixon – or masterstroke? Watch & decide.

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Miles O'Brien and the TWIS team cover the news from this past week, including the shuttle launch and the ongoing debate about NASA's proposed 2011 budget.

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This Week in Space, January 15, 2010 from Spaceflight Now on Vimeo.

Miles O'Brien and the This Week in Space team have produced a new edition of their video space news cast. Included in the cast: the space nation awaits direction from President Obama, Endeavour gets ready to deliver a room with a view, how an abandoned McDonalds is being used to restore closeups of the Moon, a space telescope finds new planets, plus an interview with Hubble-Hugger-In-Chief John Grunsfeld.

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Deep field image by Hubble

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Multiverses show notes and transcript.

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You know how a police siren changes sound when it passes by you? That's the doppler effect. It works for sound waves and it works for light waves. Astronomers use the doppler effect to study the motion of objects across the Universe, from nearby extrasolar planets to the expansion of distant galaxies.

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With a combination of alien invasion and British invasion, a new video series provides an amusing way to learn about different aspects of astronomy and space. "Teapots from Space" was created by UK astronomers Edward Gomez, Jon Yardley and Olivia Gomez, and these vodcasts convey lots of science in a short and entertaining package.

"The aim of the series to make astronomy a bit more light hearted but still give a good representation of the science," said Edward Gomez, from Cardiff University. "I took a lot of inspiration from Douglas Adams when I wrote the episodes, and so the Teapots are like a cross between a sci-fi B-movie and Douglas Adams' 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'"
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This Week In Space from Spaceflight Now on Vimeo.

The same team that recently has been providing innovative live online coverage of space shuttle launches is now "airing" a weekly space news round-up show. "This Week in Space" is hosted by former CNN anchor and space correspondent Miles O'Brien. It also features veteran journalist David Waters, and is brought to you via Spaceflightnow.com.

I had the chance to chat with Miles briefly a while ago, and asked him if this was the type of space coverage he had always wanted to do. He said, "Yes, definitely! I am enjoying this immensely." His enthusiasm is obvious in this new online show.
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You might know the name "Hubble" because of the Hubble Space Telescope. But this phenomenal observatory was named after one of the most influential astronomers in modern history. Hubble discovered that galaxies are speeding away from us in all directions, leading to our current understanding of an expanding Universe. Let's learn about the man behind the telescope.

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Edwin Hubble show notes and transcript.

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Launching a rocket into space requires a big effort on the ground. Space agencies have built up huge infrastructures to store, prepare and launch rockets. Let's take a look at what's involved on the ground at a place like Cape Canaveral. What happens before, during and after a launch.

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Every now and then, the Moon destroys the Sun. Okay, not destroys, covers. Well, not really covers, but from here on Earth, sitting inside the shadow of the Moon, that's what it sure looks like. These events are called eclipses, or more precisely, transits and occultations. They occur whenever one object passes in front of another from a 3rd perspective. They're beautiful and exciting, and deliver a tremendous amount of science as well.

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Astronomers have been searching for the mysterious Planet X for hundreds of years. It was the search for a theoretical planet beyond Uranus that turned up Neptune, and then again for Pluto. And even now there are some astronomers who think there's a more distant planet out there. Oh, and there are a bunch of pseudoscience cranks trying to freak people out about the end of the world. Don't worry, we'll make time for them too, but first let's start with some real science.

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Imagine an object with the mass of the Sun, crushed down to the size of Manhattan. Now set that object spinning hundreds of times a second, blasting out powerful beams of radiation like a lighthouse. That's a pulsar, one of the most exotic objects in the Universe.

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