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  • With Russian Help Europe Prepares to Search for Life on Mars

    PARIS The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials said at the Paris Airshow this week. Until last year, the ExoMars program was a joint project between ESA and the U.S. space agency NASA. But NASA dropped out, citing budget problems. The Russian space ...

  • NASAs Cassini may reveal how Earth looks like from Saturn

    On July 19, 2013, NASA's Cassini spacecraft will be turned to image Saturn and its entire ring system during a total eclipse of the Sun, as it has done twice before during its previous 9 years in orbit. But this time, the images that will be collected have been specifically designed for something very special. They will capture, in natural color, a glimpse of our own planet next to Saturn and ...

  • NASAs IRIS The Latest Mission To The Sun | Video

    At the end of June 2013, NASA will launch its latest sun observing satellite, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph. IRIS will observe the interface region of the sun, the lowest level of our star's ...

  • Fungus Among Us Mold Concerns Delay Space Station Cargo Ships Opening

    The robotic European cargo ship Albert Einstein was opened Tuesday morning (June 18) at the International Space Station, a day late because of concerns that mold may have grown inside the vehicle, NASA officials said. The ...

  • Albert Einstein Photos from Space Europes ATV-4 Cargo Ship Images

    The European Space Agency's fourth and penultimate Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-4) was named for the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. The cargo craft launched on June 5, ...


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In Which We Serve [Blu-Ray]

In Which We Serve [Blu-Ray]

Built around a complex flashback structure partially inspired by Citizen Kane (1941), In Which We Serve is a particularly memorable World War II British propaganda film, having successfully outlived its initial propagandistic value and solidified into a timelessly ... ...

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  • Congress looks to kill NASAs plan to capture an asteroid

    House Republican leaders are shooting to get astronauts on the moon and Mars, but they're trying to nix the president's asteroid plans. In April, NASA announced that President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for NASA included funding to keep NASA on track to launch astronauts into space from U.S. soil by 2017. The budget also fully funds the building of a ...

  • FBI ends Michigan search for Hoffas remains

    View Photo Associated Press/Carlos Osorio - Investigators stand at the scene in Oakland Township, Mich., Wednesday, June 19, 2013 where officials attempt to restore the field to its natural condition after the FBI ...

  • Sao Paulo officials reverse subway bus fare hike

    main access road to the stadium where Brazil goes up against Mexico in the Confederations Cup soccer tournament. Beginning as protests against bus fare hikes, the demonstrations have quickly ballooned to include broad middle-class outrage over the failure of governments to provide basic services and ensure public safety. (AP Photo/Andre ...

  • Draft House bill threatens $1 billion in NASA funding cuts

    A draft NASA authorization bill floated by the House Science, Space and Technology Committee would eliminate funding for the Obama administration's proposed asteroid retrieval mission and cut overall agency spending by about $1 billion, lawmakers said ...

  • Wow Mars Rover Captures Stunning Billion-Pixel Photo of Red Planet

    '); This is a reduced version of a mosaic from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity containing 1.3 billion pixels in the full-resolution version. It shows Curiosity at the "Rocknest" site, where the rover scooped up samples of windblown dust and sand, and was released on June 19, 2013. Viewers can explore this image with pan and zoom controls at ...

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