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• GOP Presidential Candidates: Where They Stand on Space
• Massive X-Flare Tops Sun's Active Week
• Sun Unleashes Strongest Flare Yet of 2012
• Boat Carrying Atlas Rocket Crashes Into Bridge
• Shooting Star Streaks Over Castle Ruins in Skywatcher Photo
• Retired Satellite's Fall From Space Will Exceed NASA Safety Rules
• Record-Setting Astronaut Retires from NASA
• Bus-Size Asteroid Buzzes Earth in Close Flyby
• Russia Evaluates Space Capsule Cracks Ahead of March Launch
• GOP Candidates Clash Over US Space Exploration Future

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NASA Watch

• Romney Dumps on Gingrich Space Vision
• Looking Back While Looking Forward
• Suomi's Stunning View From Space
• NASA's Day of Remembrance
• Santorum and Romney on Space in Florida
• Gingrich Talks About Space Policy in Florida (Update)
• Comcast Explains (and Complains About) NASA.gov Blackout
• Is Gingrich's Pro-Obama Space Policy Stance About to Flip Flop?

THE FLAME TRENCH

• Romney Picks Up Endorsement From Space Vets
• Cargo Ship With Rocket Parts Crashes In Kentucky
• From lunar colonies to NASA, space heats up GOP debate
• Kennedy remembers fallen astronauts
• Russian Freighter Rockets Toward Space Station
• Russian Cargo Ship Set For 6:06 PM Launch
• Three To Be Enshrined In Astronaut Hall Of Fame
• Gingrich to visit Space Coast for aerospace talk
• State-Of-The-Union Guest: Astronaut Mark Kelly
• Discovery eyes April 17 departure from KSC

Space Daily

• Rocket Man: Gingrich peddles space dreams in Florida
• Volunteers Sought for Simulated Mars Mission and Study of 'Menu Fatigue'
• First 'cloaking' of a 3D object announced
• Life beyond Earth? Underwater caves in Bahamas could give clues
• Classifying Solar Eruptions
• LED lights point shoppers in the right direction
• Shuttle Discovery to make one last flight
• The Lake Lander's New Home
• ESA Director General praises UK space innovation
• MT Aerospace wins contract for operation and maintenance of launch facilities' mechanical systems

The Write Stuff

• Red Huber signing shuttle calendars on Janaury 19
• NASA tries to settle fight over its artifacts
• NASA adds Orion test flight
• Commercial advocates call for more funding, less rules
• Free shuttle wallpaper download for November
• Exclusive shuttle calendar goes on sale
• Former NASA science chief Alan Stern to run UCF Space Institute
• Florida Cabinet members seeking greater Congressional support for Kennedy Space Center
• Awarding gold medals to astronauts is no small step for lawmakers
• Free shuttle wallpaper download for October

New Scientist - Space

• Astrophile: Picture yourself on a sandboard on Titan
• Fight over changing constants reaches stalemate
• Hyperactive sun clears space junk – for now
• First subliming planet foreshadows Mercury's fate
• Death-defying time crystal could outlast the universe
• Astrophile: How to spot a dark-matter galaxy
• Did the US accidentally zap Phobos-Grunt?
• Death by helium for cosmos-mapping Planck observatory

The Space Review

• Caution and optimism about the future of human spaceflight
• A vision for a new frontier purpose for American spaceflight
• The difficult road to the Moon
• Review: Saving Hubble
• Big science in an era of tight budgets
• US rebuffs current draft of EU Code of Conduct: is there something waiting in the wings?
• Postcards from the edge
• Review: Space Probes
• Exoplanet explorers
• A new paradigm for arbitrating disputes in outer space

Yahoo! News - SPACE

• Ship carrying rocket parts hits Ky. bridge (AP)
• Barge Carrying Atlas Rocket Crashes Into Bridge (SPACE.com)
• Barge Carrying Atlas Rockets Crashes Into Bridge (SPACE.com)
• Record-Setting Astronaut Retires from NASA (SPACE.com)
• Bus-Size Asteroid Buzzes Earth in Close Flyby (SPACE.com)
• Russia to delay space mission due to technical problems (Reuters)
• Russia Evaluates Space Capsule Cracks Ahead of March Launch (SPACE.com)
• GOP Candidates Clash Over US Space Exploration Future (SPACE.com)

Cosmic Log

• Sunspot unleashes a parting shot
• Foldable electric car debuts in Europe
• Take a shot at the science of hockey
• NASA mission piles on the planets
• Robotic rat with a monkey's smarts to the rescue?
• Planet looks back at northern lights
• Steve Jobs: Second greatest innovator of all time?
• Facebook's roots go way, way back

FLIGHT GLOBAL

• Space, time and Vega's heavy burden
• SpaceX delays Dragon launch to ISS
• High-power plasma thruster could replace chemical rockets for satellite and deep-space propulsion: Snecma
• Funding cuts put NASA commercial X-plane on hold
• Year ahead a time of technical, financial challenges for European Space Agency
• Xcor reveals Lynx test schedule
• Vega maiden launch could slip into February
• Key tests set to validate engine technology for single stage to orbit space plane

ESA - Top News

• Voyage to the most isolated base on Earth
• Watch ‘Sahara’s end’ on the Earth from Space programme
• First Vega rocket assembled on launch pad
• Robot competition in zero-gravity
• Opening of UK site producing the heart of Galileo
• Solar storm heading toward Earth
• The two faces of Titan's dunes
• Satellites detect abundance of fresh water in the Arctic

ESA - Human Spaceflight

• Voyage to the most isolated base on Earth
• Robot competition in zero-gravity
• Greenhouse in space results and conclusions
• European finalists selected in Space Lab student competition
• 'I'll go where your music takes me...'
• Dutch Prime Minister ‘phones’ André Kuipers in space
• Happy New Year from space!
• ESA astronaut André Kuipers arrives at the Space Station

ESA - Space Science

• The two faces of Titan's dunes
• A New View of an Icon
• Planck's HFI completes its survey of early Universe
• Young star rebels against its parent cloud
• The beginning of the end for comet Lovejoy
• Gaia spreads its wings
• Mountains and buried ice on Mars
• Cosmic particle accelerators get things going

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

• Former astronauts and administrator endorse Romney
• Florida space campaign odds and ends
• The great Florida space debate, part two
• Gingrich offers new goals but same philosophy in space speech
• Webcasts of Gingrich’s Space Coast events
• Key House Republican supports extension of CSLAA provision
• Romney and Gingrich offer contrasting space policy views in Florida debate
• Growing budget deficits may have scuttled an “inspiring” Obama space program

NASA - Twitter

• NASA: @solitaire13h No worries..it was a small asteroid (10 meters in size) http://t.co/W3gQTTks
• NASA: @evaisa75 It was a small asteroid (10 meters in size) at about 10:25 am EST:  http://t.co/W3gQTTks
• NASA: @J_P_Ortiz  We did indeed! No worries.. it was not directed toward Earth: http://t.co/DAiyZR12
• NASA: Read Dep Adm Garver's blog about her visit to Aurora Flight Sciences to learn about jobs of the future: http://t.co/9VSCSo5K
• NASA: RT @nasahqphoto: Deputy Garver visits Aurora Flight Sciences & highlights how we can help create the jobs of the future. http://t.co/Exp ...

Discovery News Space

• Psychics on the Moon and Incoming Sun Spit
• Hunting Pluto's Dangerous Rings
• Cold Plasma Layer Detected High Above Earth
• Bus-Size Asteroid Buzzes Earth in Close Flyby
• NASA Welcomes Our Surgical Robot Overlords
• The Google+ Space Hangout Strikes Back!
• 11 New Alien Solar Systems Crammed with Exoplanets
• Newt Skywalker: Less NASA, More Space

Science @ NASA

• Comet Corpses in the Solar Wind
• What Happened to all the Snow?
• Re-thinking an Alien World
• Some Comets like it Hot
• Kepler Discovers a Tiny Solar System
• Space Mountain Produces Terrestrial Meteorites
• Twin Gravity Spacecraft Set to Enter Lunar Orbit
• The Night After Christmas Sky Show

Houston Chronicle - Space