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- Space shuttle Endeavour's giant orange external tank begins final journey https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-02/space-shuttle-endeavours-giant-orange-external-tank-begins-final-journey 61 comments
- Astronauts Begin Spacewalk Outside Space Station http://www.space.com/17379-space-station-spacewalk-expedition-32-astronauts.html 3 comments space
- The era of American space exploration is just beginning. http://io9.com/5819449/the-era-of-american-space-exploration-is-just-beginning 3 comments space
- Elon Musk welcomes Space Force with 2 words on Twitter: 'Starfleet begins' https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-welcomes-space-force-on-twitter-with-2-words-2019-12 100 comments space
- Production of Space Jam 2 (2021) is set to begin today https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3554046/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv 44 comments nba
- Airbnb For Data, Filecoin, Begins Space Wars With Google Cloud http://airbnb-for-data.space/ 5 comments business
- Countdown to Europe's space mission to Mercury begins https://www.euronews.com/2018/10/19/countdown-to-europe-s-space-mission-to-mercury-begins 11 comments europe
- How soon will it be before humans begin mining space rocks? https://www.labroots.com/trending/space/7204/humankind-start-mining-asteroids-10-20-years 41 comments space
- Flashback 1963: The beginnings of India’s dazzling space programme https://scroll.in/article/829466/flashback-1963-the-beginnings-of-indias-dazzling-space-programme 3 comments india
- 40 years ago today, NASA received approval to begin the space shuttle program http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2145.html 6 comments space
- US Space Force begins its first mission... in the Middle East https://news.sky.com/story/us-space-force-begins-its-first-mission-in-the-middle-east-12077821 57 comments nottheonion
- Nasa begins testing enormous space telescope made of gold mirrors https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/04/nasa-testing-james-webb-space-telescope-gold 23 comments science
- Farming on the International Space Station will begin with a NASA mission this December http://www.healthline.com/health-news/tech-nasa-teaches-astronauts-to-farm-in-space-091513 34 comments science
- NASA begins fueling 1st Space Launch System megarocket core in 'green run' test. https://www.space.com/nasa-sls-megarocket-fueling-green-run-test 13 comments space
- Saudi Space Agency Begins To Take Shape, Reported $1 Billion Budget In First Year https://spacewatch.global/2019/04/saudi-space-agency-begins-to-take-shape-reported-1-billion-budget-in-first-year/ 15 comments worldnews
- Japanese Space Probe Hayabusa 2 Ready to Begin Exploring Asteroid Ryugu - Stardom http://www.stardomspace.com/japanese-space-probe-hayabusa-2-ready-to-begin-exploring-asteroid-ryugu/ 4 comments space
- A pair of astronauts have entered China's Tiangong 2 space station as they begin the country's longest manned space mission. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-37699910?ocid=socialflow_twitter 221 comments worldnews
- The era of commercial space laser communications is about to begin - "And unusually, the European Space Agency will beat NASA to the punch" http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/01/the-era-of-commercial-space-laser-communications-is-about-to-begin/ 37 comments europe
- Astronomy’s Most Dazzling Era Is About to Begin | The James Webb Space Telescope is now about 1 million miles from Earth, and almost ready to scan the cosmos. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/01/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-journey/621352/ 29 comments space
- [CapFriendly] Seattle’s significant cap space could be put to work in the coming days Here’s some of this years pending UFAs Free Agency begins on July 28th at noon ET https://twitter.com/capfriendly/status/1417901454568869888?s=21 79 comments hockey
- Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will soon begin selling tickets for rides on its space tourism rocket New Shepard https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-to-begin-selling-tickets-for-new-shepard.html 92 comments space
- Virgin Galactic shows off the world's first space tourist lounge - Commercial flights to orbit could begin launching from New Mexico within the coming year. https://www.cnet.com/news/virgin-galactic-shows-off-the-worlds-first-space-tourist-lounge/ 9 comments space
- Out of This World : UFOs: A former Soviet air force colonel preaches the gospel of extraterrestrial visitation, in which the friendly folk from outer space are waiting for us to get our act together -- Begin reading at 'But one dark night, says Popovich, "two giant hands grabbed hold of my daughter' https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-11-20-vw-110-story.html 3 comments aliens
- NASA’s Osiris-Rex Arriving at Asteroid Bennu After a Two-Year Journey - The spacecraft will begin its close study of the primitive space rock, seeking clues to the early solar system. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/science/osiris-rex-bennu-asteroid-arrival.html 5 comments space
- Inside the epic debate on rethinking our 50-year-old Outer Space Treaty. This week, the UN begins a conference to start the long-overdue discussion on updating the 1967 Outer Space Treaty for a cosmos that has gotten a lot more complicated. https://www.fastcompany.com/90240304/inside-the-epic-debate-on-rethinking-our-50-year-old-outer-space-treaty 437 comments space
- The ISS is slated to become the coldest spot in space as NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) begins producing Bose-Einstein condensates, cooled to 10 millionth of one Kelvin above absolute zero, as part of microgravity experiments to study quantum mechanics and the fundamental nature of matter. https://newatlas.com/iss-absolute-zero-cal/55665/ 75 comments space
- President Trump directs Pentagon, Defense Department to 'immediately begin the process' of establishing 'space force' as sixth military branch https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/president-trump-directs-pentagon-defense-department-to-immediately-being-the-process-of-establishing-space-force-as-sixth-military-branch.html 7 comments space
- President Trump directs Defense Department to "immediately begin the process" of establishing "space force" as sixth military branch https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/president-trump-directs-pentagon-defense-department-to-immediately-being-the-process-of-establishing-space-force-as-sixth-military-branch.html 98 comments space
- President Trump directs Pentagon, Defense Department to 'immediately begin the process' of establishing 'space force' as sixth military branch https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/president-trump-directs-pentagon-defense-department-to-immediately-being-the-process-of-establishing-space-force-as-sixth-military-branch.html 148 comments worldnews
- Ancient Mexican structure is a ‘miniature model of the universe’, say archaeologists: Underwater shrine appears to represent the beginning of space and time in Mesoamerican mythology. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nahualac-mexican-universe-structure-model-mexico-city-volcano-a8142551.html 123 comments worldnews
- KSPtoMars begin streaming on Saturday! They're creating a realistic Mars mission in a moded version of Kerbal Space Program http://ksptomars.org/ 2 comments space
- Live stream of two Russian cosmonauts taking a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install some equipment. Scheduled to begin at 10:14am EDT. http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html 37 comments space
- Russia to begin building record-setting super-heavy space rocket http://rt.com/news/184560-russia-rocket-super-heavy/ 41 comments space
- SpaceX to begin negotiations for shuttle launch pad "NASA has selected SpaceX to take over a former space shuttle launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, the agency announced Friday." http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1312/13pad39a/#.uqufqsiww3u 4 comments space
- U.S. Air Force begins work on "Space Fence" to better detect and track space objects like debris and satellite parts http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/air-force-sets-first-post-ambitious-space-fence-project 5 comments space
- Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, and James Cameron will begin space mining operations by 2022 http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/24/2971142/planetary-resources-space-robotics-mining-exploration 7 comments space
- The first six flight ready James Webb Space Telescope's primary mirror segments are prepped to begin final cryogenic testing [pic] http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/614452main_flightmirrors2-orig.jpg 11 comments space
- 'Conservative' GOP Senator Upset About Decrease In NASA's Massive Budget - "The president’s proposed NASA budget begins the death march for the future of U.S. human space flight," Shelby said in a statement. http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/79019-shelby-obama-budget-a-death-march-for-nasa 8 comments politics
- The implications are staggering: it seems that physics can assemble the organic jigsaw all by itself, thank you very much, and has probably done so throughout space since the beginning of everything. http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/07/the-dna-code-new-research-show-life-hardwired-in-universe.html 287 comments science
- View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/index.html?go=2 8 comments reddit.com
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