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• Space Shuttle Endeavour Soars in Predawn Launch
• Nimble Space Companies: Fixed-Price vs. Cost-Plus
• NASA Chief Takes Blame for Budget Backlash
• Go Cosmic Sightseeing with Orion, the Hunter
• On LiveScience: Snowpocalypse Seen from Space
• Astronauts Skip Super Bowl for Space Shuttle Launch
• Last Ever Night Shuttle Launch Visible From Eastern United States
• Shuttle Launch Lights the Night for Last Time
• New Sunspots Could Produce Space Storms
• Today's Spiral Galaxies Were Once the Ugly Ducklings

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Yahoo! News - SPACE

• Ex-Boeing engineer gets 15 years in spy case (Reuters)
• Space Shuttle Endeavour Soars in Predawn Launch (SPACE.com)
• Astronauts Skip Super Bowl for Space Shuttle Launch (SPACE.com)
• US shuttle delivers panoramic dome to space lab (AFP)
• Shuttle Launch Lights the Night for Last Time (SPACE.com)
• Space shuttle blasts off on last night flight (AP)
• 5 men, 1 woman aboard shuttle Endeavour (AP)
• US shuttle Endeavour reaches orbit (AFP)

The Write Stuff

• Video: Space shuttle Endeavour blasts off
• Endeavour STS-130 launch photos
• Foam loss reported, not expected to be an issue for orbiter
• Endeavour blasts off
• Weather at abort landing sites could be an issue
• No technical issues, weather green
• Weather currently ‘go’
• Clock enters final planned hold, weather still ‘red’
• Clock resumes
• Clock holding at T minus 20 minutes

Space Daily

• US shuttle Endeavour blasts off for space station
• US shuttle Endeavor ready for second lift-off attempt
• Poor weather delays launch of US shuttle Endeavour
• Soyuz 100 Times More Reliable Than Shuttle
• Quasar Pair Captured In Galaxy Collision
• Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission
• Progress Docks With ISS
• First Journey For Alphabus
• Renewable Oil Companies
• US book publishers smiling again as Kindle rivals emerge

THE FLAME TRENCH

• Endeavour Heat-Shield Inspection On Tap
• Endeavour lights up Space Coast en route to ISS
• Space Shuttle Endeavour countdown updates
• Is this the end of the NASA's human space program or the beginning?
• After scrub, Endeavour plans early Monday launch
• NASA Preps Endeavour For Propellant-Loading
• Shuttle Unveiling, Bolden News Briefing On Tap
• Endeavour "Go" for Early Sunday Blastoff

New Scientist - Space

• Helium clue found in echo of the big bang
• Found: Hawking's initials written into the universe
• Smart dust could give early warning of space storms
• Messy galactic mergers lead to delicate spiral shapes
• Hubble images site of possible asteroid collision
• Dying stars eat comets for their last supper
• Briefing: What NASA's proposed changes really mean
• Cassini probe to get first look at new season on Saturn

The Space Review

• The real question
• Ares evolution
• If Constellation dies
• The EMP threat: fact, fiction, and response (part 2)
• How to build a Shuttle-derived heavy-lift program
• Review: "Space Tourists" provides a rare glimpse of Kazakhstan
• Death from the skies? Ho-hum.
• The EMP threat: fact, fiction, and response (part 1)
• Review: One Small Step
• The future of science and human spaceflight

NASA Watch

• One Last Night Departure
• Non-televised Press Briefing with Bolden
• Making NASA "Open"
• Ground Control To Major Toms
• Endeavour Is In Orbit
• Video: STS-130 Night Launch
• Bolden Meets The Press
• China's Lunar Ambitions

Cosmic Log

• Super science for Super Bowl
• Boosters flare in space debate
• Buying into predictions
• Pluto maps raise new questions
• 10 history-makers in science
• Wonder and whimsy on the Web
• Dodging the arrow of time?
• Private spaceflight goes public

FLIGHT GLOBAL

• PICTURE: Turkey's Borajet rolls out first ATR 72
• Kingfisher hires consulting firm for financial advice
• Brussels Airport posts 14.2% fall in earnings
• Boeing declares 747-8F ready for maiden flight
• Beijing airport raises 4.9bn yuan from corporate bonds

ESA - Top News

• Node-3 and Cupola: European technology to complete the ISS
• ESA Bulletin 141 (February 2010)
• First journey for Alphabus
• Craters young and old in Sirenum Fossae
• World Wetlands Day focuses on climate change
• Live long and prosper, Xanthoria elegans
• Glacier-melting debate highlights importance of satellites
• Auspicious orbit marks run-up to Phobos flyby

ESA - Human Spaceflight

• Node-3 and Cupola: European technology to complete the ISS
• Stay tuned for stunning hi-def 3D videos from ISS
• Live long and prosper, Xanthoria elegans
• Close and personal with the Space Station
• Feeding our future – nutrition on Earth and in space
• Concordia calling
• Spacecraft dockings improve car assembly
• Good vibrations

ESA - Space Science

• Where did today’s spiral galaxies come from?
• Craters young and old in Sirenum Fossae
• Auspicious orbit marks run-up to Phobos flyby
• Technology-testing Proba-2 opens new eye on the Sun
• ESA - Euronews Space MagazineXMM Newton: unveiling the Universe
• Herschel readies itself for the Orion Nebula
• Tooling up ExoMars
• Celebrating the fifth anniversary of Huygens’ Titan touchdown

JPL Mars Exploration

• Rover Gives NASA an 'Opportunity' to View Interior of Mars
• Spirit Switches to Backward Drives
• Just a Few More Approaches to Try for Extrication
• NASA's Mars Rover has Uncertain Future as Sixth Anniversary Nears
• Right-Front and Right-Rear Wheels Sit Out Latest Drive
• Right-Front Wheel Rotations
• Unexpected Wheel-Test Results
• Rear Wheel Trouble Continues

Open NASA

• Ideas on How to Open NASA? Spill!
• Social Media + Open Government
• The times they are a changing…
• Looking back…
• Moon and Mars Not Out
• Who Moved Our Cheese?
• The challenge and the opportunity
• NASA’s 2011 Budget

ASTRO LOG

• Endeavour’s Launch Sparks Early Morning Sunrise
• Endeavour Launch Rescheduled for Monday, Feb. 8
• VIDEO: NASA Admin Charlie Bolden Meets With Reporters
• NASA Admin Charles Bolden Outlines Obama’s 2011 NASA Budget Request
• Day of Remembrance: Honoring NASA’s Fallen Heroes
• Moon Rock Gains Traveling Companion for Historic Return to Space
• Happy New Year
• Obama set to launch vision for NASA
• Endeavour Ready for Holidays
• BREAKING NEWS: Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget

The New Space Race

• NASA's space change: Renting the Right Stuff
• First U.S. commercial spaceport is taking shape
• It’s ‘Truth or Dare’ time for rocketeers
• Cosmic Log: What’s next for X?
• Students reveal swanky space hotel concept
• Cosmic Log: Scientists go suborbital
• Soviet-era spaceships to do commercial flights
• Arab investment boosts spaceship venture

Space Politics

• “Snowmageddon” cancels advocacy event
• Briefly noted (Snowmageddon edition)
• Nays (and a cautionary yea) in Congress about NASA’s new direction
• Today’s NASA “Key Issues and Challenges” hearing
• Nelson vs. Orszag on NASA
• Big changes in NPOESS
• A spectrum of opinions
• NASA budget documents posted

NASA - Twitter

• NASA: Miss the launch of space shuttle Endeavour #sts130? Launch replay available here: http://go.usa.gov/lRa (via @comtnclimr)
• NASA: Following a successful launch, we've added @Astro_Nicholas to the @NASA/astronauts-in-space-now list during the #STS130 mission
• NASA: [News] Launch of NASA's Shuttle Endeavour Sparks Early Monday Sunrise: Space shuttle Endeavour lit up the predawn ... http://bit.ly/9GoL2L
• NASA: Shuttle Endeavour launched as planned at 4:14:08 a.m. EST. Main engine cutoff is expected to occur at 4:22:31 a.m.
• NASA: T-9 minutes and counting. Launch targeted for 4:14:08 a.m. EST.

Discovery News Space

• Spaced-Out Super Bowl Ads 2010
• February Nor'easter Images From Space: BIG PICS
• Final Nighttime Shuttle Launch Takes Flight : Big Pic
• Mystery "X" Stands For "X-traterrestrial" to Some Believers
• Space Shuttle Launch Delayed by Clouds
• Space Station Realities Ground Moon Mission
• Great (and Not So Great) Spaced Out Super Bowl Ads
• Space: Robonaut 2: Your Future Coworker?

Science @ NASA

• Solar Dynamics Observatory: The 'Variable Sun' Mission
• Hubble Sees Suspected Asteroid Collision
• Firefly Mission to Study Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
• Close Encounter with Mars
• Spirit is Now a Stationary Science Platform

Houston Chronicle - Space

• Chinese spy gets 15 years for hurting space shuttle program
• Analysis: NASA must take next giant step
• Space shuttle orbits after program's last night launch
• Weather iffy, but shuttle will try again on launch Monday
• Chief holds on to hope NASA will fly beyond Earth's orbit
• As shuttle retirement nears, Endeavour set for Sunday launch
• Frustrated NASA clears Endeavour for Sunday launch
• It came from outer space. Now meteor is hot property