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...attention that the shuttle, the space station and other manned spacecraft get, the real foot soldiers of space exploration have always been the unmanned ships--and right now they're enjoying something of a golden age. The U.S. currently has no fewer than 11 interplanetary probes scattered about the solar system; five are orbiting, roving or approaching Mars alone, and the others are targeting Mercury, the sun, Saturn and numerous comets or asteroids. One probe is heading for a never before rendezvous with Pluto, a destination it won't reach until...
Controlled from 774 million miles away, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will swoop within 30 miles of the surface of one of Saturn's moons Wednesday, in an unprecedented flyby maneuver...
...discovery in 2005 happened during the third flyby of Cassini's original mission, a four-year exploration of Saturn, which concludes in June. Since then, scientists have been carefully planning the trajectory for additional maneuvers during an extended mission for the spacecraft, proposed to continue through June 2010. If all goes according to plan, Wednesday's will be the first of eight additional flybys...
...Janet and Michael Jackson—and T-Pain, ironically enough, is the new Tito. The “Lip Gloss” chanteuse and her crazy-legged counterparts find themselves in Mama’s latest video, “Shawty Get Loose,” on a spacecraft that’s strikingly similar to the one depicted in Janet and Michael’s 1995 “Scream.” While “Scream,” the most expensive music video ever produced, had a bit of a futuristic “Star...
...dollars, and carrying a gas-analysis unit bankrolled by Wellcome - disappeared without a trace into the Martian atmosphere. Four years later, scientists and funders alike are delighted, if a bit bewildered, to find that technology developed for Beagle 2 offers hope for a significant medical breakthrough, despite the spacecraft's untimely demise...