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• SpaceX’s F9R Reusable Rocket Launches on 1st Test Flight | Video
• Red Tape Hinders Study of Asteroid Impacts on Earth
• SpaceX Dragon Makes Easter Delivery at International Space Station
• Best Space Photos of the Week - April 19, 2014
• Best Night Sky Photos of the Week: April 19, 2014
• 'Cosmos' App Puts the Universe in Your Smartphone
• SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Chasing Space Station for Easter Morning Rendezvous
• SpaceX Claims Milestone With Bold Reusable Rocket Test
• SpaceX's Dragon 'Chases' the Space Station: See It This Weekend
• SpaceX Launches Cargo Mission to Space Station, Reusable Rocket Test | Video

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NASA Watch

• Another Dragon Visits ISS
• John Houbolt
• Looking for Original ISEE-3 Telemetry Tapes, Documents
• Risk and Exploration
• LADEE Makes A New Lunar Crater
• Big Kepler News Today: Earth Sized Planet - Possibly With Liquid Water
• NASA Advisory Council Meeting Today
• NAC Has 6 New Members for Bolden Not To Listen To

Spaceflight Now

Space Daily

• SpaceX supply capsule berths at ISS
• Odd Tilts Could Make More Worlds Habitable
• B3: the vitamin from outer space
• Go Big or Go Home - Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Doing Both, and More
• Meteorites Yield Clues to Red Planet's Early Atmosphere
• Astronauts Prep for Spacewalk as Mission Managers Evaluate Busy Schedule
• Scientists Capture Ultrafast Snapshots of Light-Driven Superconductivity
• Searching for dark energy with neutrons
• NASA Mars Orbiter Spies Rover Near Martian Butte
• A study in scarlet

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

• Red lettuce and dinosaur germs head to space station
• The LADEE killers: NASA has crashed probe into moon
• Space shuttle carrier plane heads out on Texas convoy
• Smallest life-friendly exoplanet may be lit by auroras
• Swirling red nebula is part of angry chicken in the sky
• Star dust casts doubt on recent big bang wave result
• SpaceX to test landing legs for future reusable rocket
• 'Big Bird' space neutrino has highest energy yet seen

The Space Review

• Commercial crew, Crimea, and Congress
• Special Operations takes the fight to the high ground
• Robust and reusable?
• Creating "believable" aliens: an interview with James L. Cambias
• Review: Orbit of Discovery
• What's in a code? Putting space development first
• Symbolism and substance in US-Russian space relations
• Competing forums: an asteroid or the Moon?
• Dennis Tito's "Spaceship to Everywhere" may be a dead-end for NASA
• Europa on the cheap

Yahoo! News - SPACE

• Cousin of Earth: Planet Kepler-186f May Be Habitable for Life (Op-Ed)
• SpaceX Dragon Makes Easter Delivery at International Space Station
• NASA: Engineer vital to moon landing success dies
• NASA: Engineer vital to 1969 moon landing dies
• 'Cosmos' App Puts the Universe in Your Smartphone
• SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Chasing Space Station for Easter Morning Rendezvous
• 5 Things to Know About Alien Planet Kepler-186f, 'Earth's Cousin'
• Easter Skies Feature Big Dipper and Southern Cross

Cosmic Log

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

• Week in Images
• Turn your satnav ideas into business
• Sentinel-1 first images
• First radar vision for Copernicus
• Concordia calling
• 3D printing, in depth
• Social Luca
• From red Mars to green Earth

ESA - Human Spaceflight

• Enter the Node
• Social Luca
• ATV-5 set to test new rendezvous sensors
• Blue Dot training
• ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly to the International Space Station in 2016
• Astronaut Tim seeks mission name
• Earth from Space
• Ask astronaut Alexander anything

ESA - Space Science

• A tadpole's tale
• Beauty from chaos
• Icy moon Enceladus has underground sea
• ESA and CERN sign cooperation agreement
• Mars yard ready for Red Planet rover
• Rosetta sets sights on destination comet
• Herschel completes largest survey of cosmic dust in local Universe
• Venus glory

JPL Mars Exploration

• 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
• Mars Rover Opportunity Heads Uphill
• Mars Rover Opportunity Working at Edge of 'Solander'
• Overhead View of Mars Rover 10 Years After Launch

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

• Bolden and Holdren reaffirm support for asteroid mission as the next step to Mars
• Intel community willing to allow higher resolution commercial imagery
• GAO report offers good news, but also warnings, about performance of NASA programs
• Senate committee approves commercial launch license/permit bill
• The substance, or lack thereof, of NASA’s ban on Russian cooperation
• Subcommittee quickly approves amended NASA authorization bill
• New NASA authorization bill makes only minor changes to last year’s version
• Bolden and House appropriators spar on various issues

NASA - Twitter

Discovery News Space

• DNews: Can We Grow Plants on Mars?
• SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Defies Bleak Weather and Flies
• Kamikaze LADEE Moon Mission Ends With a Splat
• Bathing in the Sunset of an 'Earth-Like' Alien World
• Hubble Cuts a Core Sample Out of the Cosmos
• Earth-Likenesses: Have We Discovered Earth 2.0?
• Most 'Earth-Like' Alien World Discovered
• Chew On This: Best Picture Yet of Gum 41

Science @ NASA

• Earth-Size Planet Found In The … ne' of Another Star
• Unexpected Teleconnections in Noctilucent Clouds
• Possible New Moon Forming Around Saturn
• NASA to Conduct Unprecedented Twin Experiment
• Deep Ocean Detected Inside Saturn's Moon
• Arctic Melt Season Lengthens
• The Opposition of Mars
• A Tetrad of Lunar Eclipses

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