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A satellite showing the North American sub continent on the 19th November as near record levels of snow fell across many parts of the United States - which is over 6 feet deep in many areas
Picture: Atlas Photo Archive/NASA


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A Russian Soyuz rocket booster is moved into position on the launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, Italian ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and US NASA astronaut Terry Virts, are set to take off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the International Space Station (ISS) on 23 November.
Picture: EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV



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kwaigonegin

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They'll be making the Michael Brown announcement today. Hopefully my city don't burn!
If it's anything like the LA Riots or the Watts Riots in the 60's it'll be bad!!

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Miragedriver

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A new mosaic made from images taken by Nasa's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990's has been unveiled showing the surface of Jupiter's icy moon, Europa. This newer version was created from images assembled into a realistic colour view of the surface that approximates how Europa would appear to the human eye.
Picture: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Reuters


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An artist's impression of a Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft approaching to dock with the International Space Station ISS in an Earth orbit. NASA in a media release on 01 December announced that they have approved the completion of Boeing's first milestone in the US company's path toward launching crews to the ISS from the United States under a groundbreaking Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract.
Picture: EPA/NASA



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Normally faint and elusive, the Jellyfish Nebula is caught in this alluring telescopic mosaic. The scene is anchored right and left by two bright stars, Mu and Eta Geminorum, at the foot of the celestial twin while the Jellyfish Nebula is the brighter arcing ridge of emission with dangling tentacles below and right of center. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is part of bubble-shaped supernova remnant IC 443, the expanding debris cloud from a massive star that exploded. Light from the explosion first reached planet Earth over 30,000 years ago. Like its cousin in astrophysical waters the Crab Nebula supernova remnant, the Jellyfish Nebula is known to harbor a neutron star, the remnant of the collapsed stellar core. An emission nebula cataloged as Sharpless 249 fills the field at the upper left. The Jellyfish Nebula is about 5,000 light-years away. At that distance, this narrowband composite image would be about 300 light-years across.


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The Delta IV rocket with the Orion spacecraft on board lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida
Picture: REUTERS/Steve Nesius


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A satellite image of Typhoon Hagupit as it approaches the Philippines. Villagers are fleeing coastal towns in the central Philippines as the advancing storm evokes memories of last year's deadly typhoon. Forecasters say Typhoon Hagupit may hit some of the same places devastated by Haiyan in 2013.
Picture: AP/Noaa



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A Delta IV heavy rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 7:05 a.m. EST carrying NASA's Orion spacecraft on an unpiloted flight test to Earth orbit. The two-orbit, four-and-a-half hour mission will evaluate the systems critical to crew safety, the launch abort system, the heat shield and the parachute system. The amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) will recover the Orion crew module after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean using a Navy welldeck recovery method.
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An MH60-S Sea Hawk helicopter assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 8 takes off from the amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23) as part of at-sea training. Anchorage is participating in the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) for the NASA Orion program. EFT-1 is the fifth at-sea testing of the Orion crew module using a Navy well deck recovery method.
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Ensign Allen Clark, information systems officer, stands watch as the conning officer aboard the San Antonio class amphibious transport dock ship USS Anchorage (LPD 23). Anchorage is conducting the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT-1) for the NASA Orion program. EFT-1 is the fifth at-sea testing for the Orion crew module using a Navy well deck recovery method.
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ORION RECOVERY - BULLSEYE
 
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TerraN_EmpirE

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Russia develops reusable space shuttle for space tourism

Non-political December 10, 17:26 UTC+3
“We plan to make first flights in 2020, first tests of a space system will be made in 2018,” Russian private company KosmoKurs head Pavel Pushkin said

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MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/. Russian private company KosmoKurs is developing a reusable space shuttle for orbital space tourist flights, company’s chief Pavel Pushkin told reporters.
“We plan to make first flights in 2020, first tests of a space system will be made in 2018,” he said.
A space ticket will cost from $200,000 to $250,000, Pushkin noted. The space tourism market is estimated at 14,000 requests in first the ten years, he said. American operators implementing similar projects have already booked more than 700 space tickets.
“We plan to take a quite large niche on this market,” the KosmoKurs chief noted. This Russian project has gained serious support by a domestic investor the name of which Pushkin did not disclose, only noting that he is “a very well-known Russian industrialist.”
Russian rocket and space industry is planned to produce this space shuttle. “We will talk to the united rocket and space corporation. If we find common language, we will manufacture produce jointly with them,” the KosmoKurs head said.

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The company also pins hopes on backing of Russian Federal Space Agency and its scientific institutes.
The company has already determined possible launch sites. A space flight will last 20 minutes. A landing is planned 20 kilometers away from the launch site.
Now KosmoKurs staff numbers eight, including chief specialists who had created reusable space shuttle Buran and rocket Angara, said the chief of the company which is a resident of Russian innovative centre Skolkovo located in the Moscow Region.
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Now THOSE are just WAY cool photos! Shades of Apollo activites when I was a teenager, but newer...bigger...and better!

The US is headed back to space folks....and we will make a manned landing on Mars one day. I hope I live to see that day!
 

aksha

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since i noticed this is world space thread
and since i didn't notice this being discussed here
a nation taking baby steps in space,pics from its mars mission
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this mars image is the best full disc image you can get anywhere
 
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