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...Clearly there are ways to get into space that don't require NASA astronauts and NASA hardware," says Banke. "Now it's time to turn over low-earth orbit to the commercial guys...
Flotsam and jetsam in Earth orbit, most of it the residue from old satellite explosions, is so profuse that former astronaut John Glenn, on observing the sun glinting off the pieces, once likened it to flying through a cloud of lightning bugs. But given NASA's heightened safety awareness since the 2003 loss of Space Shuttle Columbia, one piece of debris - caught on video and measuring just 2 inches by 5 inches - was enough to cause another high-profile hitch in a series of operational setbacks for Space Shuttle Atlantis...
...these findings are “sending theoretical astrophysicists back to the drawing board.” Via a remote link, the team is continuing to observe the star’s wobble using the Center for Astronomy observatory in Arizona to understand HAT-P-1’s orbit better. “The orbit may be slightly elliptical...that’s important,” Noyes said. “If it’s elliptical, then you can get tides on the planet induced by its star—that could cause some heating that could...
...shuttle?s own liquid-fuel engines - far and away the best part of the old shuttle technology and the part most worth saving. Unlike Apollo, it will be stuffed with 21st century electronics and computers, and it will be cleverly reconfigurable, able to carry six astronauts into Earth orbit and four to the moon or Mars...
There's sound scientific reason to return the solar system to what it was before Pluto the poseur was discovered in 1930. True planets form in roughly the equatorial plane of the sun, occupying specific, permanent orbits. That's not Pluto. It is a tiny joyrider from the rubble stream surrounding the solar system that broke free and orbits the sun in a tilted, elongated orbit...