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Russian Supply Ship Docks With Space Station |
| The Russian space resupply vessel Progress docked Saturday with the orbiting International Space Station (ISS), bringing fresh food, water, fuel and family letters to the two crew members, ITAR-TASS news agency said - SpaceDaily |
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Canadian Ansari X Prize Entrant Takes The Plunge In Test |
| A Canadian team of rocketeers has moved one step closer to launching its own manned spacecraft with the successful parachute drop test of a crew capsule today - Space.com |
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Private Rocket Explodes During First Test |
| A rocket belonging to a U.S. team contending for the Ansari X-prize for the first private space travel exploded shortly after launch on its first test flight - SpaceDaily |
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Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Destroyed |
| Another X Prize contender's rocket crashed over the weekend. Armadillo Aerospace's lead engineer and funder John Carmack reported that their prototype rocket ran out of fuel on a test flight and crashed shortly after takeoff - Universe Today |
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Giant Vortices Found Near Earth By Cluster Satellites |
| ESA's quartet of space-weather watchers, Cluster, has discovered vortices of ejected solar material high above the Earth - Spaceflight Now |
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Star Clusters Could Be Galaxy Remnants |
| A team from Harvard and the Carnegie Institute of Washington observed 14 globular clusters in a distant galaxy, and realized that they're so large, they nearly overlap the size
of small galaxies, and have many similar characteristics - Universe Today |
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Comets, Asteroids And Planets Around A Nearby Star |
| A nearby star thought to harbor comets and asteroids now appears to be home to planets, too - Space.com |
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Genesis Spacecraft Adjusts Course For Earth |
| NASA's Genesis spacecraft successfully adjusted its course this week as it heads back toward Earth with a sample of solar wind particles, the space agency said - CNN.com |
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Japanese Solar Sail Launched |
| The Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science has succeeded in launching and deploying the first ever solar sail into space - Universe Today |
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Hubble Peers At Celestial Bubble |
| The Hubble Space Telescope has peered inside a bubble of interstellar gas and dust that is being inflated by a hurricane of particles emitted from a young star - BBC NEWS |
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