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• Photos: Paris Air & Space Show 2013 in Pictures
• See Saturn in Stunning HD in Live Webcast Tonight
• Women In Space: NASA's History-Making New Astronaut Class
• Mystery on Venus: 'Super-Hurricane' Force Winds Inexplicably Get Stronger
• NASA's Grand Challenge: Stop Asteroids from Destroying Earth
• Congress Considers Nixing NASA Asteroid Mission
• Targets Scarce for NASA's Asteroid-Capture Mission
• Saturn Forms Cosmic Triangle with Stars This Week
• Astronaut 'I Scream': New NASA Astronaut Candidates Excited to Be Chosen
• Project SOAR: Swiss Space Plane Gaining Steam | Video

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NASA Watch

• Draft Only: Highlights of the NASA Authorization Act of 2013
• NLRB CWA Media Call
• The NASA Asteroid Grand Challenge
• NASA's Asteroid Initiative Industry and Partner Day
• China's Space Program - Still Years behind U.S.?
• Women in Space (Part One)
• SpaceX IPO, Not so Fast
• Michoud Retooled for SLS

Spaceflight Now

Space Daily

• Plan for modified European rocket gets backing
• New Horizons Team Sticking to Original Flight Plan at Pluto
• Do parasites upset food web theory?
• NASA announces eight new astronauts, half are women
• NASA's 2013 HS3 Hurricane Mission to Delve into Saharan Dust
• Final curtain for Europe's deep-space telescope
• Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics
• Australian team maps Moon's hidden craters
• Peru launches first homemade rocket
• Europe's largest spaceship reaches its orbital port

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

• New NASA astronauts headed for destinations unknown
• New lease of life for hobbled planet-hunter Kepler
• Mars R Us: Six toys all space fans must have
• Mars fans vote to immortalise Curiosity rover in Lego
• Space vs time: One has to go – but which?
• Is Earth's orbit scarily close to Venus's sultry zone?
• Astrophile: The runt of the galactic litter
• Goodbye, Goldilocks? The untimely end of life on Earth

The Space Review

• NEAP: 15 years later
• Export control reform enters the home stretch
• ISRU rocket hopper: an idea whose time has come?
• The coming era of atomically precise manufacturing and its implications for space
• Suborbital research enters a time of transition
• "We don't take girls": Hillary Clinton and her NASA letter
• A values-based approach toward national space policy
• Review: Apollo: The Epic Journey to the Moon, 1963-1972
• Spinning for the prize
• Planetary Resources makes a giant leap in space crowdfunding

Yahoo! News - SPACE

• NASA wants backyard astronomers to help track asteroids
• See Saturn in Stunning HD in Live Webcast Tonight
• Astronaut 'I Scream': New NASA Astronaut Candidates Excited to Be Chosen
• Saturn Forms Cosmic Triangle with Stars This Week
• NASA's Grand Challenge: Stop Asteroids from Destroying Earth
• Earth Calling E.T.: New Project Begins Beaming Your Messages Into Deep Space
• Europe Says Farewell to Prolific Herschel Space Telescope
• NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women

Cosmic Log

• Space station crew opens Europe's Einstein cargo ship after fungus flap
• NASA wants you ... to join Grand Challenge to hunt down asteroids
• Laser scans flesh out the saga of Cambodia's 1,200-year-old lost city
• This is your brain on fatherhood: Dads experience hormonal changes too, research shows
• Asteroid 1998 QE2 gets a close look from the world's widest radio dish
• How duct tape patched up the world – and why we're still sticking with it
• From Superman saga to real-life science: It's not an impossible leap
• China's Shenzhou 10 spaceship brings crew to orbital lab for practice

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

• Talking Alphasat
• Amazing ATV
• The fast winds of Venus are getting faster
• DG Press event
• ExoMars 2016 set to complete construction
• ATV-4 in 3D
• Herschel ends operations as orbiting testbed
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ESA - Human Spaceflight

• Amazing ATV
• Valentina
• Europe’s largest spaceship reaches its orbital port
• ATV meets ISS
• ATV ready to nose up to Station
• ATV hip hop
• Seatbelts off
• Europe’s heaviest cargo ship launched to Space Station

ESA - Space Science

• The fast winds of Venus are getting faster
• ExoMars 2016 set to complete construction
• Titanic Sea
• Euclid to probe dark Universe with Astrium science module
• The floodwaters of Mars
• Ten years at Mars: new global views plot the Red Planet’s history
• Call for Media: Celebrating 10 years of Mars Express discoveries
• Rare merger reveals secrets of galaxy evolution

JPL Mars Exploration

• 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
• NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year
• NASA Opportunity Rover Finishes Walkabout on Mars Crater Rim
• NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery
• NASA Mars Exploration Rover Team to be Honored

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

• Tweaking the proposed export control reforms for hosted payloads and suborbital vehicles
• House hearing next week on new NASA authorization bill
• The National Academies wants you(r thoughts)
• NASA operating plan adjusts commercial crew, planetary science funding
• House Science Committee to take up education reorganization
• Asteroid mitigation, malaise, and property rights
• More asteroid outreach, digital and analog
• Draft export control lists released

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Discovery News Space

• NASA Stepping Up Hunt for Scary Asteroids
• Cool Flames: Playing With Balls of Space Fire
• Quirky Four-Quark Quantum Monster Discovered
• Pew! Pew! Curiosity Laser-Blasts Mars Rock
• Europe's Herschel Space Telescope Officially Dead
• Loch Ness Monster Spied... in Space!
• NASA Selects Mars Mission Astronaut Hopefuls
• Time to Plan for a Mission to Alpha Centauri

Science @ NASA

• Strange Flames on the ISS
• Dry Ice "Snowboards" on Mars
• Noctilucent Clouds Get an Early Start
• Asteroid Moon Movie
• Approaching Asteroid Has Its Own Moon
• Big Asteroid Flyby
• New Asteroid Families Discovered
• Big Weather on Hot Jupiters

THE FLAME TRENCH

• Couple among first to pay for flight into space with Virgin Galactic
• Hadfield, social media superstar of space, retires
• NASA inspector general questions payments to Orbital
• Storm-watching NOAA GOES satellite is OK, sent back to work
• Report questions NASA payments to ISS cargo hauler
• Jobs grant is extended
• Space firms gear up for Brevard operations
• Commercial space companies expect Brevard push