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• Giant Plasma Spirals Found on the Sun
• Scientists to Congress: We Have the Technology to Find Alien Life
• Space Station Astronauts Fire-Up Awesome 'Cubesat Cannon'
• Suiting Up for the AXE Apollo Space Academy (Photo)
• Sun's Super-Size Heat-Cells Surprise Scientists | Video
• New Sunspot Spits Geysers Of Fire | Video
• Second Light | Space Wallpaper
• Secretive US Space Plane Spotted Over Ontario (Twice) | Video
• Space History Photo: Impact Studies
• NASA's Ailing Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Moves Closer to New Mission

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NASA Watch

• Turning SLS and Orion into Entitlements
• Front Row Seat For A Cosmic Coincidence
• Bolden: No More Flagship Missions
• (Update) SMD Planetary Town Hall: Time For Planetary Scientists To Job Hunt
• Video: The World Outside My Window: Time Lapse of Earth from the ISS
• Ed Stone Got A Big Surprise on Colbert Report
• Hearing on Astrobiology
• NASA OIG Semiannual Report to Congress Released

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Space Daily

• 'Spooky action' builds a wormhole between 'entangled' particles
• Turkey keen on space cooperation with China
• Model Suggests Ocean Currents Shape Europa's Icy Shell in Ways Critical for Potential Habitats
• China's most moon-like place
• A Blast from Its Past Dates the Youngest Neutron-Star Binary
• NASA's Dawn Fills out its Ceres Dance Card
• Russia to launch 11 military satellites by 2015
• LADEE Instruments Healthy and Ready for Science
• Satellite Cooling System Breakthrough Developed by Lockheed Martin Space Systems
• Hubble Traces Subtle Signals of Water on Hazy Worlds

The Write Stuff

• Elon to Texas: ‘It is looking quite good’ for Texas launch site
• All looks good for SpaceX Dragon launch at 10:10 a.m.
• NASA fully restores communication with space station; contact was lost for much of the morning
• NASA loses contact with International Space Station — all’s well; Ford: “flying straight, everyone’s in good shape”
• Fly me to the moon? Can do, for $1.5B
• UCF, FIT, Sanford-Burnham projects headed to ISS
• NASA, SpaceX join to investigate launch glitch
• Next SpaceX launch set for Oct 7 – this one counts
• Sold American: Space auction aims to raise money for Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
• NASA probe problems could add suspense to Mars landing

New Scientist - Space

• Astrophile: Dancing black holes near their grand finale
• Alien-hunting equation revamped for mining asteroids
• The night: When lights go out, the sky comes alive
• China's Jade Rabbit blasts off for the moon
• Boxy CubeSats get a propulsion boost in new space race
• Astrophile: Europa's choppy ocean looks friendly to life
• Copycat Russian android prepares to do the spacewalk
• Crazy comet ISON returns bearing solar system secrets

The Space Review

• As China goes to the Moon, prize teams stay in the race
• Red Moon, Blue Moon
• Aligning forces to reawaken the American Dream
• Review: Two books on astrobiology
• Burning thunder
• Inspiration Mars: from nonprofit venture to space policy adventure
• "The Obligation" and the vision of space settlement
• Review: To Orbit and Back Again
• Life after COTS
• For NASA, the best of times and the worst of times

Yahoo! News - SPACE

• Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Nears One Year In Orbit
• Bizzare Saturn Vortex Swirls in Stunning New NASA Video
• Commercial Space Race Revolutionizing Business Off Planet Earth
• NASA's Ailing Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Moves Closer to New Mission
• 40 Years Ago: NASA's Pioneer 10 Snaps 1st Up-Close Look at Jupiter (Photo)
• How NASA's Voyager 1 Probe Recorded Sounds of Interstellar Space (Video)
• Universe's Biggest Explosions Shaped by Extreme Magnetic Fields
• How to See Venus and Moon in Daytime Sky Thursday

Cosmic Log

• Vatican sets up special committee on child sex abuse
• States losing billions in refusing to expand Medicaid, report finds
• Adidas unveils new World Cup ball, the Brazuca
• White House reverses story on Obama living with Kenyan uncle in the 1980s
• Toronto Mayor Rob Ford: Claim he tried to buy crack video 'an outright lie'
• Consumer safety panel shifts stance, calls for flame arresters on plastic gas cans
• Middle America assails Washington machine as indifferent and 'above us'
• Microsoft says government snooping as bad as 'malware and cyber attacks'

FLIGHT GLOBAL

• SpaceX Grasshopper moves to New Mexico
• Sierra Nevada passes second NASA commercial crew checkpoint
• IN FOCUS: SpaceShipTwo makes first powered flight
• Chinese Long March successfully puts communications satellite into orbit
• ATK reaches major milestone with SLS rocket boosters
• SpaceShipTwo ignites engine in-flight
• China and Russia successfully launch satellites
• Budget woes may mean schedule slips, employee furloughs for NASA

ESA - Top News

• Earth from Space
• Space in your heart
• Get netted
• Down to the nano-world
• Space mural
• Earth’s gravity scarred by earthquake
• ESA Bulletin
• When ice meets fire

ESA - Human Spaceflight

• Space mural
• Spacelab story
• Spacelab and 30 years of ESA astronauts
• Changing of the guard at Concordia
• Orion milestone set for May
• Defying gravity
• Happy birthday, Space Station
• Space Station scrapbook

ESA - Space Science

• Background briefing – Rosetta wake up and year ahead
• When ice meets fire
• A comet's tale
• ESA’s new vision to study the invisible Universe
• Guide to our Galaxy
• Black hole boasts heavyweight jets
• ExoMars lander module named Schiaparelli
• Gaia launch postponement update

JPL Mars Exploration

• Mars Rover Opportunity Heads Uphill
• Mars Rover Opportunity Working at Edge of 'Solander'
• Overhead View of Mars Rover 10 Years After Launch
• Mars Rover Opportunity Passes Half-Way Point to Next Destination
• Mars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers
• NASA to Host June 7 Mars Rover Opportunity Teleconference
• Mars Rover Opportunity Examines Clay Clues in Rock
• Opportunity Exits Standby, Back at Work

Open NASA

• It’s official: we’ve moved to open.nasa.gov
• Citizen Science
• The Next Rocket Scientist: YOU
• Rethinking Engineering Culture :: Data, Openness, Social
• Houston Hack-B-Q
• Space Technology Fellowships
• LAUNCH: NASA Advisory Council Education and Public Outreach Committee Presentation
• A Path Forward

ASTRO LOG

• VIDEO: Senator LeMieux “NASA Obligated to Continue Constellation”
• VIDEO: Huston Mayor Urges Obama to save Constellation
• MSNBC VIDEO – Bill Nelson: Obama Wants to go to Mars
• Senators Bennett and Hatch are teaming up with Congressman Bishop to save Constellation
• Bipartisan Legislation Introduced to Close the Space Gap, Keep America First in Space
• Aderholt “Extremely Pleased” That NASA May Be Reconsidering Ending Constellation
• SPACE ART: NASA “Plan B” Movie Poster
• Entire Florida Congressional Delegation Sends Bipartisan Letter to Obama Regarding NASA’s FY 2011 Budget
• VIDEO: NASA “Plan B”
• NASA “Plan B” Email

The New Space Race

• Tourism firm to offer space rides for $102,000
• SpaceShipTwo makes first test flight
• Virgin Galactic to fire up SpaceShipTwo in 2011
• Veil lifts slightly on Blue Origin rocket project
• 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?

Space Politics

• House bill would free up termination liability funds for NASA programs
• A House hearing on astrobiology seems alien to some
• House passes indemnification extension bill
• House to take up commercial launch indemnification regime extension bill Monday
• Congressman wants to know if NASA has too much infrastructure
• Senator asks for another study on use of Russian engines
• Bolden: need to end sequestration and prevent another shutdown
• Reaction to the new national space transportation policy: positive, but bland

NASA - Twitter

Discovery News Space

• Extreme Cosmic Explosions Supercharged by Magnetism
• Top 10 Space Robot 'Selfies': Photos
• Spooky Connection: Wormholes and the Quantum World
• Convection May Explain Europa's Weird Chaotic Terrain
• (Another) Giant Leap For SpaceX: Geostationary Orbit
• Signs of Water Found on 5 Alien Planets
• Merging Black Holes Trapped in Galactic Death Spiral
• How Can the Apollo Landing Sites be Preserved?

Science @ NASA

• What Happened to Comet ISON?
• Rock Comet Sprouts a Tail
• "Genius Materials" on the ISS
• Comet ISON vs. the Solar Storm
• Two Comets to Fly By Mercury
• Comet ISON: What's Next?
• Spectacular New View of Saturn and Earth
• What Happened to Mars? A Planetary Mystery

THE FLAME TRENCH

• Cygnus continues chase of ISS
• En route to ISS: Smooth sailing for Cygnus in orbit
• Satellite will link soldiers, top commanders
• Orbital Sciences' Cygnus freighter launches to ISS
• Atlas V roars to life with Air Force satellite onboard
• Orbital Sciences' Cygnus set for maiden voyage
• Atlas V set for launch amid wary weather forecast
• Florida delegation supports NASA on launch pad lease