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Earlier Space stories

NASA projects IBEX heavenwards

Spacecraft prepares to sniff interstellar boundary

20 Oct 10:45

Hubble in double trouble

In safe mode as NASA probes two systems 'anomalies'

20 Oct 10:10

Brit chemist conjures smell of outer space

Fried steak and hot metal

17 Oct 11:18

NASA spots 'gamma ray-only' pulsar

No radio broadcasts from neutron star

17 Oct 10:06

NASA's nuclear Mars tank is go

Podule for hover-rocket 'sky crane' lander shipped

17 Oct 09:13

Hubble's 486 back-up springs into life

Updated Successful boot after extended slumber

16 Oct 06:29

NASA goes for Hubble back-up boot-up

'Wakey wakey, Side B Control Unit'

15 Oct 11:00

Space tourist docks with ISS

$17m, 10-day jaunt for Richard Garriott

14 Oct 11:10

US satellite returns first hi-res snap

GeoEye-1 pics destined for Google Earth

9 Oct 10:12

Messenger delivers more Mercury postcards

Second fly-past runs on rails

8 Oct 11:28

Indian Moon mission is go for 22 October

Hi-tech survey gig for Chandrayaan-1

7 Oct 12:53

NASA's IBEX to sniff interstellar boundary

Looking beyond the termination shock

7 Oct 10:07

New NASA nuclear Mars rover hits budget, time problems

Laser rock-crushing droid tank attack for '11?

7 Oct 09:32

Phoenix Lander listens to Mars murmurings

Crackly space earful imminent

3 Oct 10:51

Messenger closes on Mercury for second fly-by

Cameras at the ready...

2 Oct 14:46

Phoenix sees snow above Mars, but it's not sticking

Boffins dreaming of white Xmas at Martian North Pole

30 Sep 11:04

Hubble transmissions cease as computer fails

Backup a bit dusty

30 Sep 10:05

Virgin Galactic spaceliner-piggyback craft delayed

Branson's economy-class rocketships not quite ready

29 Sep 11:14

Elon Musk's Falcon 1 launches successfully

Fourth time's the charm

29 Sep 08:56

UN urged to prep for non-fiction Deep Impact

One day, the asteroids will come

25 Sep 21:08

Atlantis launch knocked back four days

Hurricane Ike provokes Hubble mission delay

25 Sep 14:06

China's Shenzhou VII is go

Third manned mission blasts off

25 Sep 13:41

Obama weighs into Shuttle-v-Soyuz ISS brouhaha

'Pay extra for more shuttle flights or go with Russia'

25 Sep 10:16

Mars Lander shows rock who's boss

For it's work all day for the sugar in your tay

24 Sep 22:16

Sun's solar wind hits 50-year low

'Our protective shields are failing, captain'

24 Sep 14:26

NASA, USAF in $30m hypersonic boffinry push

Hot new technology

23 Sep 11:37

Mars rover sets sights on distant crater

Opportunity off for 7-mile, possibly final, jaunt

23 Sep 11:16

NASA: Soyuz 'ballistic' re-entries are fixed

Let us use Russians instead of Shuttle, pleads Griffin

23 Sep 10:15

Say hi to Haumea - our fifth dwarf planet

'Bizarre' trans-Neptunian object honours Hawaiian goddess

18 Sep 15:25

China to combine four ships to form space station

Manga mechanisms made real

18 Sep 09:13

NASA to sniff Martian atmosphere

MAVEN mission go for 2013

16 Sep 09:01

Chinese manned spaceshot set for 25 September

Third mission to include spacewalk

16 Sep 07:12

NASA preps Atlantis for Hubble mission

Endeavour also readied for possible rescue dash

12 Sep 12:01

NASA mulls nuclear Moon reactor

Fission of the future

11 Sep 21:06

'Water bears' survive in outer space

Look ma, no space suit

10 Sep 23:02

Prototype orbital seaplane in Texan blimp-base blast

Nautical X Prize also-ran suffers further setback

8 Sep 13:21

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