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• Rocket Launch Saturday Is One Giant Leap for Commercial Spaceflight
• BATTLESHIP Director Talks Adapting Board Game to Film
• Space Station's Robotic Cargo Ship Fleet (A Photo Guide)
• Safely See the Sun – Build a Shoebox Pinhole Camera | Video
• Now Boarding: The Top 10 Private Spaceships
• Monster Sunspot's Solar Flare Strong Enough to Confuse Satellites
• How to Safely Photograph the Sun (A Photo Guide)
• Moon Rocks Reveal Evidence of Ancient Asteroid Barrage
• 4,700 Potentially Dangerous Asteroids Lurk Near Earth, NASA Says
• Sunday Solar Eclipse: How to Safely Photograph the 'Ring of Fire'

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NASA Watch

• NASA Commercial Crew Telecon
• Sen. Grassley is Swinging at Shadows Again
• Does CASIS Know What It Is Doing?
• NASA Finds A New Way To Use Old Spacecraft
• NASA SMD Has Already Given Up On Mars
• Private Sector Thinking in a Government-Driven Market
• My God Its Full of Stars!
• International Space Apps Challenge: Success and Missed Opportunity

Spaceflight Now

• SpaceflightNow: Continuing to follow the launch sequence as planned, #Nimiq6 has one more rocket firing left before deploy tonight. http://t.co/gMIZ369X
• SpaceflightNow: Proton's lower 3 stages did their burns and Breeze M upper stage has fired to reach preliminary orbit with #Nimiq6 http://t.co/gMIZ369X
• SpaceflightNow: LIFTOFF of Proton and the #Nimiq6 spacecraft, broadcasting television directly to homes across Canada! http://t.co/gMIZ369X
• SpaceflightNow: T-minus 5 minutes and counting for the Proton rocket launch with #Nimiq6. Watch it live: http://t.co/gMIZ369X

Space Daily

• World expert outlines the future for air space travel
• Japan in first commercial satellite launch
• Space Station - Here We Come!
• NASA says competition is key to private space race
• Thuraya and GTNT Say in One Voice 'Hello Russia'
• DARPA's SeeMe Program Has Arrived
• Astronomers discovered ancient Egyptian observations of a variable star
• China's space women wait for blast-off
• The numbers add up in Arianespace's latest commercial launch success with Ariane 5
• Paralysed woman's thoughts control a DLR robot

The Write Stuff

• As SpaceX awaits launch of cargo capsule, crew capsule gets test sit
• NASA officially sets new launch date for SpaceX: Saturday May 19
• SpaceX seeking May 19 or May 22 launch for spacecraft to space station
• Sierra Nevada repeats its interest in bringing space business to Florida, this time seeking state aid
• Falcon 9 won’t launch on Monday
• Chilton, Chang Diaz, Precourt headed to Astronaut Hall of Fame
• “Oh God, no! Oh dear God, no!” – New Challenger video released
• PETA wants chimp ‘empathy’ museum at KSC
• Red Huber signing shuttle calendars on Janaury 19
• NASA tries to settle fight over its artifacts

New Scientist - Space

• Pulsar heavyweight champ challenges Einstein
• Dust rings not 'smoking gun' for planets after all
• Astrophile: Two craters that launched 1000 meteorites
• Ghostly glows mark violent deaths of stars
• Death Valley provides rover's-eye view of Mars geology
• Sun too sluggish to act as a cosmic Concorde
• Seeking neutrino clues to missing supernovae
• Private firm SpaceX gears up to spark next space age

The Space Review

• The big test: A test flight for SpaceX may also be a test for commercial crew
• Why ISS can advance Mars exploration
• The evolution of near Earth objects risk perception
• Review: The Quantum Universe
• The Triway into Space Declaration
• EnhancedView's cloudy future
• Space merchants and planetary mining
• Reviews: short space ebooks
• Planetary Resources believes asteroid mining has come of age
• A space joint stock company

Yahoo! News - SPACE

• NASA says competition is key to private space race
• Monster Sunspot's Solar Flare Strong Enough to Confuse Satellites
• Sunday Solar Eclipse: How to Safely Photograph the 'Ring of Fire'
• 4,700 Potentially Dangerous Asteroids Lurk Near Earth, NASA Says
• Moon Rocks Reveal Evidence of Ancient Asteroid Barrage
• When Aliens Attack: 'Battleship' Strategy with SETI Astronomer Seth Shostak
• Space Spiders and Wine: Weird Science Launching on Private Space Capsule
• Sunday's Solar Eclipse 'Ring of Fire': Where and How to See It

Cosmic Log

• Scientists read a galaxy's entrails
• On the road again
• Saturn's moons make waves in rings
• Astronaut shares groovy space trip
• African-American's roots revised
• Brain-teasers for blog birthday
• The verdict is in on that sea monster video: It's a jellyfish
• $1.5 million NASA rover contest set for robo-showdown in June

FLIGHT GLOBAL

• Three rockets launch six satellites
• Ariane launches two communications satellites
• USAF orders two rockets for 2014 launch
• Soyuz carries crew to International Space Station
• SpaceShipTwo to resume flight tests as early as June
• SpaceX and Bigelow to jointly market private space station flights
• Energomash developing ammonia-fueled engine
• ATK announces capsule for Liberty launch vehicle

ESA - Top News

• Watch online: 'Desert growth' on the Earth from Space programme
• Ariane 5’s second launch of 2012
• ‘The Rocket Man’ greets the ‘Rocket Men’
• Watch the replay: Earth from Space – special edition
• André Kuipers: world ambassador
• Amateur astronomers boost ESA’s asteroid hunt
• Farewell to the Sun
• Watch 'Hot spots' on the Earth from Space programme

ESA - Human Spaceflight

• André Kuipers: world ambassador
• Farewell to the Sun
• Wanted: doctors who are not afraid of the dark
• Keeping immune cells alive and kicking
• Terraforming a landscape for a robotic rover
• Follow online: International Space Station symposium in Berlin
• Shake it up!
• Watch replay: ESA astronaut André Kuipers working with students

ESA - Space Science

• Cygnus-X: the cool swan glowing in flight
• Europe delivers first JWST instrument
• Signs of ancient flowing water on Mars
• JUICE is Europe’s next large science mission
• ESA contracts Astrium UK to build Solar Orbiter
• First Mars Express gravity results plot volcanic history
• Cassini movie shows blazing trails in Saturn’s F-ring
• Far-off cousin of part-time African lake found on Titan

JPL Mars Exploration

• Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work
• 'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover
• Memorial Image Taken on Mars on September 11, 2011
• Tributes to Terrorism Victims are on Mars
• New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas
• NASA Mars Rover Arrives at New Site on Martian Surface
• NASA Mars Rover Approaches Long-Term Goal
• NASA's Spirit Rover Completes Mission on Mars

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 and White House at odds over code of conduct language in defense bill
• Obama’s Florida campaign wants Romney to take a stand on space
• An Iowa senator’s concerns about a California NASA center
• Nelson: early commercial crew downselect would be “silliness”
• More concerns about commercial crew and Congressional language
• Updated NASA budget summary
• House passes CJS appropriations bill
• Next steps in export control

NASA - Twitter

• NASA: RT @NASA_Wallops: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited Wallops today and viewed @OrbitalSciences Cygnus cargo module. http://t.co/9 ...
• NASA: MT @elonmusk: @SpaceX Just passed final launch review with @NASA. All systems go for liftoff on Sat morn.
• NASA: Get your #NASAAero and airplane fixes this weekend. We're at the Joint Service Andrews Air Show -- Hangar 2! http://t.co/TFIWFvzg
• NASA: NASA.  Lobster eyes. Transient X-Rays.  Learn more:  http://t.co/b8lqzlx6
• NASA: @Firestarthe yep, no administrative punishment here though  ;-)

Discovery News Space

• Mars Rover Opportunity is on the Move
• Superflares Found on Sun-like Stars
• Eclipse to Dazzle U.S. West Coast, China and Japan
• Revving Up the Antimatter Engine
• Might NASA be Forced to Kill the Commercial Space Race?
• Chinese Space Station Transits the Sun: Big Pic
• Psychedelic Star Trails and City Lights From Orbit: Big Pic
• Successful Soyuz Launch Sends Three to Space Station

Science @ NASA

• A New Count of Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
• Solar Eclipse this Weekend
• NASA Space Telescope Sees the Light … ien Super-Earth
• Perigee "Super Moon" On May 5-6
• Rubber Chicken Flies into Solar Radiation Storm
• The 3D Lyrid Meteor Shower
• April is the Cruelest Month
• Venus Invades the Pleiades

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