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Magazine articles on space and astronomy.
Current Space & Astronomy Articles
Popular Mechanics
July 2, 2009
Andrew Moseman
The Truth About Water on Mars: 5 New Findings Phoenix reveals much about water, but there's a lot left to learn -- especially about the big question: the possibility of life in Mars. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
Courtney E. Howard
Honeywell Engineers Design COTS Hardware Into Orion Advanced Avionics Ray Crum, technical director of the NASA Orion space program at Honeywell Aerospace, discusses integrating commercial electronics into the Orion spacecraft crew exploration vehicle. mark for My Articles similar articles
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2009
EaglePicher Supplies Nickel Hydrogen Batteries to SICRAL 1B Italian Defense Communication Satellite Thales Alenia Space officials contracted EaglePicher to supply nickel hydrogen batteries for SICRAL 1B, a military communications satellite which was launched from a sea platform at an equatorial launch site in the Pacific Ocean. mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
July 2009
Ned Stafford
Hoisting the solar sail Flying through space by catching sunlight on ultra-thin sails could revolutionize space travel - and the idea could soon take off. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 25, 2009
Lisa Merolla
High-Tech Telescopes Yield New Galactic Photos: Gallery Space photos from advanced telescopes provide new views of the cosmos. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
August 2009
Aldrin & Noland
Buzz Aldrin to NASA: U.S. Space Policy Is on the Wrong Track This May, the Obama administration announced it would appoint an independent council of aerospace experts to review NASA's human spaceflight objectives. mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Ron Cowen
Galactic Black Holes May Be More Massive Than Thought Predictions and observations could resolve seeming mismatch between close and distant giants mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Ron Cowen
Astrometry Nabs An Exoplanet Long-proposed search method finally finds what it's been looking for mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Sid Perkins
Solar System's Future Could Be Bumpy Study calculates the odds that two planets collide or one crashes into sun in the next 5 billion years mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Ron Cowen
Betelgeuse Shrinks The red supergiant has lost 15 percent of its size mark for My Articles similar articles
Science News
July 4, 2009
Ron Cowen
Alien Visitor From Afar Nearby star may have an extragalactic lineage mark for My Articles similar articles
AskMen.com NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come. mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Kate Wong
Scientific American recommends 3 books about the moon Also: Becoming Human, and Amazing Animals mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 17, 2009
Joe P. Hasler
Do We Really Need Another Satellite Orbiting the Moon? It is a tale of two satellites, a shared destination, and two very different missions. mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
Harrison H. Schmitt
Space Geology: From the Moon to Mars The only scientist and field geologist ever to visit the moon offers some pointers to those who will one day visit Mars mark for My Articles similar articles
Scientific American
July 2009
John Rennie Recollects the Moon Landing Our editor in chief looks back on the Apollo 11 mission as well as his years with Scientific American mark for My Articles similar articles
Chemistry World
June 15, 2009
James Urquhart
Meteorite sheds light on birth of the solar system French and Italian scientists have analysed a meteorite and discovered that it contains a unique and primordial rock fragment mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
July 2009
Morgan Lord
NASA Builds World's Largest Space Parachute for Martian Landing When the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover lands on Mars in 2012, it will face a unique obstacle mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 8, 2009
Joe Pappalardo
Vaccines in Space: Taking Biotech to Microgravity Labs Astronauts pursued a commercial drug experiment aimed at finding a vaccine against a deadly staph infection besetting hospitals. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 4, 2009
Joe Pappalardo
Private Space to the Government: "Get Out of the Way!" As the private space industry comes of age, industry insiders say the U.S. government is stifling private money investment. Here, we report on the mood at the Space Business Forum in New York City. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 1, 2009
Erik Sofge
Footage in the Sky: The Truth Behind NASA's "UFO" Videos The scenario goes like this: Its 1996; you're an astronaut and you're looking at a UFO. This is quite possibly the biggest, most game-changing scientific discovery in the history of mankind. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
May 28, 2009
Apollo 11 Radio: Sound Bites From the Voice of America Sessions When Rhett Turner's voice broadcast went out from a Houston studio in July 1969, describing in clear, deliberate language the events of Apollo 11, it was heard over shortwave radio by people in dozens of countries around the world mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Elon Musk
Risky Business Why Mars is more important than cosmetics and why a failed launch is also a partial success mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Susan Hassler
Why Mars? Why Now? Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts took humanity's first baby step into the cosmos. It's time to take the next one mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Guterl & Heger
Mars Is Hard Fifty years ago, space experts thought we'd be there by now. Here's why we're not mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Monica Heger
What to Wear on Mars Those bulky Apollo-era space suits are so yesterday mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Anatoly Zak
A Russian Return to a Martian Moon Russia hopes to reignite its deep-space program with a mission to Phobos mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
David A. Wolf
The Kind Of People Who Will Go To Mars They won't lack fear -- they'll be able to operate well in the face of it mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Olivier L. de Weck
What To Pack For Mars A successful mission requires a well-planned supply strategy mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Sandra Upson
Rockets For The Red Planet Engineers rethink how to get to Mars and back mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Robert Zubrin
How to Go to Mars--Right Now! Human exploration of Mars doesn't need to wait for advanced rockets, giant spaceships, or lunar base stations mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
James Oberg
Could China Get to Mars First? Maybe -- if it adopts a less top-down approach mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Sweet
Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Prachi Patel
One Team's Plan to Win the Google Lunar X Prize For the Carnegie Mellon team vying for the Google Lunar X Prize, failure to launch -- and land -- is not an option mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
India Joins League of Lunar Nations Last November, India reached the moon, the fifth country to do so after the United States, Russia, Japan, and China. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Joshua J. Romero
Mars For The Rest Of Us Better cameras, greater bandwidth, and bigger displays put Mars within reach of armchair explorers and by maximizing what can be done from the ground NASA can make Mars exploration politically sustainable and financially worthwhile. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
David A. Mindell
The End Of The Cult Of The Astronaut How do you justify human spaceflight? mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
The Amazing Orbiting Garriotts In 1973, Owen Garriott made electrical engineering history as the first EE astronaut to travel into space, spending 60 days aboard Skylab, the U.S. -- run space station. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Burton H. Lee
The Investor's Guide to Space How to make profits that are out of this world mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Jamieson & Norberg
The Mars Challenge Human exploration of the red planet will inspire new generations of engineers mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
My 10 Favorite Mars Novels Renowned sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson reviews a century of Mars fiction mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Glenn Zorpette
Waiting for the Great Martian Movie We watch all the movies about Mars so you don't have to mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Esther Dyson, Space Tourist in Training When IEEE Spectrum caught up with Dyson a few months ago, however, she was wintering in Russia as she prepared for a possible visit to the International Space Station. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Sweet
Q&A With Jeremy Curtis UK space expert talks about cooperative, international efforts to explore space mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Sweet
Q&A With Sir Martin Sweeting Surrey Satellite's CEO talks about the future of space exploration mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
William Stone
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
Steven M. Cherry
Space Is Big Business Of the $257 billion spent on space last year, two-thirds came from the private sector mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009
His Space At just under 7 feet, James Oberg was too tall to be an astronaut, so he became an aerospace engineer and then a space reporter instead. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
June 2009
Landing on the Moon: Apollo 11, The Untold Story The ascent and descent team from Apollo 10 share their story as the Eagle prepares to undock from the moon. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
May 26, 2009
Joe P. Hasler
Is America's Space Administration Over-the-Hill? Next-Gen NASA Forty years ago most of NASA's employees were fresh out of college. Today, less than 20 percent are under the age of 40. As the baby boomers retire, who will get astronauts back to the lunar surface? mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
May 22, 2009
Sarah Douglas
NASA's Icy-Hot Rocket Engine Rocket engines don't get much cooler than this. mark for My Articles similar articles
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