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BepiColombo – Mission to Mercury
Caption: BepiColombo’s components separating at Mercury. Image Credit: Astrium BepiColombo, due to launch in 2015, will be only the third…
Awesome Map of Space Agencies Around the World
When you think of space agencies around the world, what comes to mind? Probably NASA, ESA, ISRO and JAXA are…
Hayabusa 2 Mission Approved by Japanese Government
[/caption] In 2010, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa completed an exciting although nail-biting mission to the asteroid Itokawa, successfully returning samples…
Best-Ever Topographic Map of Earth from NASA and Japan
[/caption]NASA and Japan recently announced a new and improved digital topographic map of Earth, which was produced with detailed measurements…
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Book Review: The Space Shuttle: Celebrating Thirty Years of NASA’s First Space Plane
[/caption] The space shuttle program is over. The orbiters are being decommissioned, stripped of the components that allowed them to…
NASA Facing Astronaut Deficit
[/caption]This past December the White House directed the National Academies to review how many astronauts that NASA actually needed to…
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Book Review: A Dictionary of the Space Age
[/caption] Writing a dictionary is not the same as writing a novel. While it might seem difficult to mess up…
MAXI Peers Into Black Hole Binaries
[/caption] The Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image, or MAXI for short, spends its time aboard the ISS conducting a full…
Japan’s Trash-laden HTV-2 Undocks from ISS
[/caption] Japan's HTV-2 Kounotori resupply ship undocked from the International Space Station at 15.45 GMT on March 28, and will…
Perseus Cluster Thicker Around the Middle Than Thought
[/caption] The Japanese Suzaku X-ray telescope has just taken a close look at the Perseus galaxy cluster, and revealed it's…