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• US Air Force Launches 3 'Space Neighborhood Watch' Satellites
• Saturn's Moon Titan Sheds Light on Hazy Alien Planets
• Hubble Space Telescope Exhibit Coming to NYC's Intrepid Museum
• NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Breaks Off-World Driving Record
• Opportunity Rover Breaks Off-World Driving Record | Video
• Russia Restores Contact with Gecko-Filled Space Capsule
• Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: How to Watch it Live Online
• World View to Loft Experiments on Balloon Test Flights This Year
• Heaviest Spacecraft Ever Launched By Europe - Final ATV Mission | Video
• Galaxy's Huge Black Hole Puts on Spectacular Fireworks Show (Video)

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NASA Watch

• NASA Lends Some Support to Whistleblowers
• "New" Space: For Middle Age Males Only? (Update)
• ISEE-3: Next Steps
• Webb Sunshield Works as Expected (In the Lab)
• Commercial Mars Telecom?
• GAO Report on SLS Issued
• Is Voyager 1 in Interstellar Space?
• Landsat Greatest Hits Video

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Space Daily

• The Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World's Size
• Australian researchers pioneer a Google street view of galaxies
• NEOWISE Spots a Comet That Looked Like an Asteroid
• Galileo's 'midwives' stand ready for launch
• Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012
• UAMS To Help Establish NSBRI Center for Space Radiation Research
• NASA's HS3 Mission Spotlight: The HIRAD Instrument
• Lives and Deaths of Sibling Stars
• NASA Explores Additional Undersea Missions With NEEMO Projects 18 and 19
• MIPT-based researcher models Titan's atmosphere

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

• Ancient Earth fossils could be found on the moon
• Icy moon explorer gets an Alaska road test
• Galaxy mapper's first discovery: surprise space debris
• White holes: Hunting the other side of a black hole
• Strange dark stuff is making the universe too bright
• Largest laser gives diamond a record-setting squeeze
• Epic map reveals Mars's geography in unrivalled detail
• Rosetta's target comet is a surprise double space rock

The Space Review

• The dog days of summer launch debates
• A generational opportunity for Europa
• Heavy glass: The KH-10 DORIAN reconnaissance system
• "A little bit of bedlam": An interview with Neil Armstrong
• New Fort Knox: A means to a solar-system-wide economy
• Review: No Requiem for the Space Age
• Spinning to Mars
• Getting to love logistics on the space station
• Kidnapping a Soviet space station
• Big Black Bird

Yahoo! News - SPACE

• NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Breaks Off-World Driving Record
• Russia Restores Contact with Gecko-Filled Space Capsule
• NASA rover breaks out-of-this-world distance record
• Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight: How to Watch it Live Online
• Summer Skywatching: See the Clouds of the Milky Way
• Don't Miss These Minor Meteor Showers This Summer
• Volunteers Emerge from Mock Mars Base in Hawaii
• Public Invited to See Shuttle 'Lift Off' at Space Center Houston

Cosmic Log

• How to Prevent Ebola From Spreading to the U.S.
• More Wild Weather: Two Tornadoes Touch Down in Denver
• Toby Keith Is Country Music's Highest-Paid Star
• Fouled Out: Donald Sterling Loses in Court, Clips Sale Moves On
• Elevator 'Surfer' Wedged 18 Floors Up Dies in Bronx
• 'A Huge Win': What Sterling Verdict Means for the NBA
• Texas Man Could Face Prison for Super Bowl Hoax
• Cover-up? Defense Says U.S. Hid Blackwater Evidence

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

• Venus Express: up above the clouds so high
• Last ATV launch – live
• Our flocculent neighbour
• Week In Images
• Timely arrival of Pharao space clock
• Closer and closer
• ATV-5: loaded and locked
• Galileo’s ‘midwives’ stand ready for launch

ESA - Human Spaceflight

• Last ATV launch – live
• ATV-5: loaded and locked
• Call Alex: live SocialSpace with Alexander Gerst in orbit
• Au!
• Our future
• ESA mission name for astronaut Tim Peake: Principia
• Best of Blue Dot
• Finding NEEMO

ESA - Space Science

• Our flocculent neighbour
• The halo of a galaxy
• Call for Media: Rosetta’s comet rendezvous
• Venus Express rises again
• CHEOPS on target
• Bizarre nearby blast mimics Universe’s most ancient stars
• Forces of martian nature
• Rosetta, are we there yet?

JPL Mars Exploration

• Aluminum-Bearing Site on Mars Draws NASA Visitor
• NASA Rover Opportunity's Selfie Shows Clean Machine
• Cleaner NASA Rover Sees Its Shadow in Martian Spring
• Mars Rover Heads Uphill After Solving 'Doughnut' Riddle
• NASA's Opportunity at 10: New Findings from Old Rover
• Free Mars Exploration Rover 10-Year Anniversary Event Tonight
• NASA, Smithsonian Host 10-Year Mars Rover Events
• Decade-Old Rover Adventure Continues on Mars and Earth

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

• Court presses SpaceX and Air Force to resolve case in mediation
• GAO report warns of cost and schedule risks to SLS
• White House and Congress mark the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11
• Planetary science review to be released soon
• No quick end for 2015 appropriations process
• Senators debate RD-180 replacement, EELV competition
• At Future Space, members of Congress discuss future of space legislation
• NASA, members of Congress make case for Europa mission

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Discovery News Space

• Delta Aquarid Meteor Shower to Peak Tonight
• Monster Hawaii Telescope Construction Begins
• Rosetta Gets Better Look at 'Rubber Duckie' Comet (Update)
• DNews: Is Salt the Key to Finding Life on Mars?
• Bunnies on the Moon? 7 Lunar Myths Apollo 11 Debunked
• Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World Achieved
• Mars Missions Preparing for Thrilling Comet Close Shave
• Chandra's X-Ray Supernova Remnant Stunners: Photos

Science @ NASA

• Perseid Meteors vs. the Supermoon
• Mars Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record
• New Views of the Rosetta Comet
• Mystery in the Perseus Cluster
• Near Miss: The Solar Superstorm of July 2012
• Rosetta Comet May Be a Contact Binary
• New Horizons Only One Year from Pluto
• Three Supermoons in a Row

THE FLAME TRENCH

• Mechanical problems plague China's Jade Rabbit moon lander
• Shiloh debate moves to Titusville tonight
• Shiloh's future draws spirited crowd
• Public invited to comment on proposed Shiloh launch complex
• Space Notebook: Pair headed for U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame
• Glitch scrubs Morpheus test flight