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• Space Farms Could Mine Minerals From Moon Dirt
• Huge Star Burns Fast and Furious in Photo
• Alien Planets Gather Close Around Dying Star
• Massive Black Hole Bends Light to Magnify Distant Galaxy
• New Space Telescope Mirrors Get Frosty Treatment
• Commercial Spaceflight Supports Rally to Stall Vote on NASA Bill
• Check It Out: Planetary Triangle Forming in the Evening Sky
• Mars Rover Opportunity Finally Sees Martian Dust Devil
• New Report Urges U.S. Space Launch Policy Overhaul
• Giant Sand Dunes on Titan Shaped by Backward Winds

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Yahoo! News - SPACE

• Mars Rover Opportunity Finally Sees Martian Dust Devil (SPACE.com)
• Chinese Space Junk Won't Endanger Space Station Crew (SPACE.com)
• Chinese Space Junk May Threaten Space Station Crew (SPACE.com)
• Debate Heats Up Over Meteor's Role in Ice Age (SPACE.com)
• Shuttle contractor laying off 1,400 workers (AP)
• How Astronomy Lit Up the Solar System (SPACE.com)
• More Than 1,300 Space Shuttle Workers Get Layoff Notices (SPACE.com)
• Massive Black Hole Bends Light to Magnify Distant Galaxy (SPACE.com)

The Write Stuff

• Cabana: Challenges facing KSC not for the “faint-hearted”
• NASA did not illegally try to kill Constellation, watchdog finds
• Space Florida signs deal with UK on commercial space
• NASA compromise takes small step forward
• NASA compromise holds — for now
• House bucks Senate compromise on NASA
• Obama to meet with John Glenn today
• Space Coast leaders attack Nelson NASA bill
• NASA legit in firing moon program manager, report says
• White House backs away from NASA chief

Space Daily

• Brilliant Star In A Colourful Neighbourhood
• GOES-13 Satellite Sees Severe Storms Strike US East Coast
• Astronomer: Manned missions less likely
• James Webb Space Telescope Completes Cryogenic Mirror Test
• Space walk successful despite lost parts
• Panel considers cost of space tourism
• Sea Launch Signs Agreement With EchoStar
• Hypatia - 4th Century Woman Astronomer
• Huge satellite to become 'space junk'
• Planets In Unusually Intimate Dance Around Dying Star

THE FLAME TRENCH

• Columbia investigators: Obama space plan would be safe
• Why you should be mad about Charlie's Bolden's Al-Jazeera interview
• Former KSC exec to lead NASA's Glenn center
• Former Melbourne High teacher to live on space station
• FAA approves SLC-46 for launches
• Nelson: compromise NASA authorization bill will pass next week
• Culbertson to speak at Space Club
• Discovery crew at KSC for training

New Scientist - Space

• Satellite quantum-communication circles closer
• Spinning black holes could expose exotic particles
• Shields up! Force fields could protect Mars missions
• Time to go atomic on space station
• Smart glass helps pioneering solar sail to steer
• Every black hole may hold a hidden universe
• Speeding star traced back to Milky Way's heart
• Astronaut for hire: Space tourism will help science

The Space Review

• Recasting the debate about commercial crew
• A new debate, part 2
• The man who painted my future
• Review: The Edge of Physics
• Critical partnerships for the future of human space exploration
• The real message of a controversial statement
• Should we care about other planets?
• Review: Carnarvon and Apollo
• The gap in NewSpace business plans
• Weather and launch failures

NASA Watch

• Cabana: "I see a great future for KSC"
• Showdown Ahead For H.R. 5781?
• SpaceX Organizes NO on H.R. 5781 Effort
• Video: Using Cellphones as Payloads
• Video: Think Big Picture - For Just a Moment
• Video: SpaceUp DC
• Kepler Mess: We Could Certainly Use Carl Sagan Right Now
• Desert RATS 2010 Preparations Underway

Cosmic Log

• Showdown over space policy
• $1.4 million for oil cleanup ideas
• Is NASA being set up for the failure option?
• Tales for summer science odysseys
• Wonder and whimsy on the Web
• Bright stars burn out fast
• It's OK for planets to be peculiar
• Ancient legal code uncovered

FLIGHT GLOBAL

• Italy has sights - and budget - set firmly on the cosmos
• FARNBOROUGH: Mars missions boost chopper safety
• FARNBOROUGH: Boeing, Bigelow to build space station by 2015
• This Week briefing
• FARNBOROUGH: Italian space agency set to escape budget cuts unscathed
• India launches 5 satellites
• PICTURES & VIDEO: Flightglobal launches Farnborough 2010 show page
• Flightglobal and FLIR Systems team up to stream live video of Farnborough International Airshow 2010

ESA - Top News

• EC Vice-President Tajani visits ESA's Centre for Earth Observation
• Space Day at Farnborough air show
• Director General interviewed at Farnborough
• Scientists receive first CryoSat-2 data
• First day of Farnborough air show
• Earth from Space: Bloom-filled Baltic
• Cluster's decade of discovery
• Call for Media: ESA at Farnborough air show, 19–25 July

ESA - Human Spaceflight

• ‘Smooth routine’ and interplanetary birthday party
• Challenging Einstein on the ISS: ACES takes a step ahead
• Mars500 video diary 4 - it's housecleaning day!
• ESA at Farnborough air show, 19–25 July
• Survival training for astronauts
• HSF Teachers Summer Workshop at ESTEC’s Erasmus centre
• Mars500 video diary 3 - a dirty job but someone's gotta do it!
• International Space Exploration Coordination Group

ESA - Space Science

• Cluster's decade of discovery
• Rosetta triumphs at asteroid Lutetia
• Planck unveils the Universe – now and then
• Call for Media: Rosetta flyby of asteroid Lutetia on 10 July
• Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars
• Wet era on early Mars was global
• Was Venus once a habitable planet?
• Hubble captures bubbles and baby stars

JPL Mars Exploration

• NASA Rover Finds Clue to Mars' Past and Environment for Life
• NASA's Mars Rovers Set Surface Longevity Record
• Mars Rover Sees Distant Crater Rims on Horizon
• Spirit May Have Begun Months-Long Hibernation
• Space Operations Award Going to Mars Rover Team
• Opportunity Surpasses 20 Kilometers of Total Driving
• Mars Rover Examines Odd Material at Small, Young Crater
• NASA Mars Rover Getting Smarter as it Gets Older

Open NASA

• Faith and Personal Responsibility
• The New Moon– absolutely still in the picture
• The Senate NASA compromise may be our best chance
• Exploring Mars from Home
• The time has come: leaving the Shuttle Program
• Reactions to the new National Space Policy
• Welcome Home, Expedition 22!
• Musings, Dreams, Struggle, Hope, Possability

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

• More speak out about NASA authorization bill
• SpaceX, suborbital advocates fight NASA authorization bill
• House to take up authorization bill this week after all
• House approves Constellation language, but does it still matter?
• Wolf makes few predictions about the NASA appropriations process
• Commercial space advocates regroup
• House committee approves authorization bill with some changes
• Senate committee makes quick work of NASA appropriations bill

NASA - Twitter

• NASA: @futureshock2525 Cassini radar sees dunes on Saturn's moon Titan (upper photo) that are sculpted like Earth's Namibian dunes (lower photo).
• NASA: Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit: http://bit.ly/9D5tOh via
• NASA: Oh @wilw, we share the same birthday. 52 yrs ago today, signing of National Aeronautics & Space Act created NASA.
• NASA: Hey @wilw, hope you have a terrific birthday. By the way, what would the correct star date be and how many times have you been asked that?
• NASA: Check out five photos from today's NASA Tweetup with @Astro_TJ http://flic.kr/p/8nSfx7 /via @nasahqphoto

Discovery News Space

• Next Space Telescope Undergoes Brutal Cold Test
• Stealth Funding for NASA's Constellation
• DIY Kit Puts Satellites Into Orbit for $8,000
• The 'Haystack' Gets Smaller in Hunt for Higgs Particle
• For Space Shuttle Workers, The End Is Here
• Very Early Warning: 1-in-1,000 Chance of Asteroid Impact in 2182
• Food for Mars: A Daunting Challenge
• Solar Probes Dispatched to Moon

Science @ NASA

• Spacequakes Rumble Near Earth
• Space Weather Turns into an International Problem
• A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere
• Rosetta Discovers Haunting Beauty in Deep Space
• Down the Lunar Rabbit-hole
• South Pacific Eclipse
• Students Record Spellbinding Video … ating Spacecraft
• Big Lunar Eclipse

Houston Chronicle - Space

• Just-found star is hundreds of times as big as the sun