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• Apollo 11 Flight Log, July 24, 1969: Return to Earth
• Astrophotographer Catches Star Cluster, Moon & Venus in One Amazing Photo
• Apollo 11's Vintage Tech: The Most Amazing Moon Landing Innovations
• The Emirates Paves Way for a Middle East Space Program with Its Mission to Mars (Op-Ed)
• Robotic Russian Cargo Ship Launches on Express Trip to Space Station
• Is Voyager 1 Really in Interstellar Space? New Test Could Prove It for Good
• Astronaut Spots Explosions over Israel and Gaza from Space (Photos)
• Hubble Space Telescope Webcast Thursday: How to Watch Live
• Gaza Explosions and Flying Rockets Seen From Space | Video
• 45 Years After Moon Landing, NASA is MIA (Op-Ed)

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NASA Watch

• Commercial Mars Telecom?
• GAO Report on SLS Issued
• Is Voyager 1 in Interstellar Space?
• Landsat Greatest Hits Video
• SMD Planetary Science Review Due For Release Soon
• OIG Dings NASA on IT Security - Again
• SpaceX F9 ORBCOMM 1st Stage "Soft" Landing Video
• Budget Stalled, Again

Spaceflight Now

Space Daily

• Federal auditors say NASA doesn't have funds for big rocket
• Are we alone? Alien pollution might reveal the answer
• Russian Spacecraft To Host Experiments After ISS Supply Run
• Russian cargo craft docks with ISS, science satellite fails
• Voyager Spacecraft Might Not Have Reached Interstellar Space
• 'Doomsday sputnik': Russia said to launch new missile-attack warning satellite
• Wake up, robot
• SpaceX Soft Lands Falcon 9 Rocket First Stage
• Seeing Earth As An Exoplanet: What Signs Of Life Are Visible?
• China's biggest moon challenge: returning to earth

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

• 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
• Spaceport UK: Locations for launch sites unveiled
• Spaceport UK: Government plan to launch spaceplanes

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

• Is Voyager 1 Really in Interstellar Space? New Test Could Prove It for Good
• Home, Sweet, Moon Cave: Astronauts Could Live in 'Lunar Pits' (Video)
• New Space Race? US Eyes Asteroids as Other Nations Shoot for the Moon
• NASA puts out call for satellite communication services – on Mars
• Robotic Russian Cargo Ship Launches on Express Trip to Space Station
• Audit: NASA doesn't have the money for big rockets
• Young Star Cluster Shines in Stunning Telescope Views (Video, Photo)
• Apollo 11 Astronauts Meet Obama at White House

Cosmic Log

• Will Arizona's Botched Two-Hour Execution Spur Change?
• Wreckage Found After Jet Carrying 116 People Disappears
• Even Royals Do It: Queen Photobombs Athletes
• Hot-Car Mom Recalls Her 'Moment of Desperation'
• Israeli Shell Hits U.N. School, Killing At Least 15
• Not Again: Jet Carrying 116 Vanishes Over West Africa
• Seniors Re-Create Classic Scenes for Awesome Calendar
• Science of Fasting: How Does Ramadan Affect the Body?

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

• Earth from Space
• ATV-5: loaded and locked
• Galileo’s ‘midwives’ stand ready for launch
• Call Alex: live SocialSpace with Alexander Gerst in orbit
• Au!
• Wake up, robot
• Once upon a time...
• Messy peaks of Zucchius

ESA - Human Spaceflight

• 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
• Blue Dot update

ESA - Space Science

• The halo of a galaxy
• Messy peaks of Zucchius
• 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

• 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
• House members press NASA for information on “epidemic of anomalies” with SpaceX missions

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Discovery News Space

• Is Space Like Under Water (for Astronauts)?
• Astronaut Sees 'Explosions and Rockets' Over Gaza and Israel
• Transiting Alien World with Longest Year Discovered
• Why Has the Sun Gone So Quiet?
• 'Transformer' Pulsar is More Than Meets the Eye
• Apollo 11 Touches Down in the Oval Office: Big Pic
• Return to Earth: Rarely Seen Photos Inside Apollo 11
• Our Galaxy's Black Hole Does NOT Have the 'Munchies'

Science @ NASA

• 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
• Fruit Flies on the International Space Station
• Saturn's moon Titan has a very salty ocean
• NASA Launches New Carbon Observatory
• NASA to Launch Carbon Observatory

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