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Private Space Taxis Race to the Launch Pad Wall Street Journal By ANDY PASZTOR Private spacecraft will begin docking with the International Space Station before the end of the year, months sooner than planned, after NASA gave the green light for the first cargo delivery by such a capsule. ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal

China poised to launch its first space lab sooner than expected msnbc.com China is developing its first full-fledged space station, called Tiangong (Heavenly Palace). Early tests of China's skills at rendezvous and docking, shown in this artist's illustration, are set to begin in 2011 By Leonard David Space Insider columnist ... See all stories on this topic » msnbc.com

NASA plans mission to visit asteroid CBS News It may not rank as thrilling as putting an astronaut on the moon but it's still a heady proposition: NASA intends to send a space probe to a distant asteroid that will be able to scoop up a dirt sample without landing and then return to Earth. ... See all stories on this topic »

Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space Space Daily by Staff Writers NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted the signature of flat carbon flakes, called graphene, in space. If confirmed, this would be the first-ever cosmic detection of the material - which is arranged like chicken wire in flat sheets ... See all stories on this topic » Space Daily

Astronaut Looks Down On A Shooting Star Irish Weather Online By Mark Dunphy - Wed Aug 17, 1:46 am A stunning image of a shooting star from the Perseids Meteor Shower streaking through Earth's atmosphere has been posted on Twitter by a US Astronaut on board the International Space Station (ISS). ... See all stories on this topic » Irish Weather Online

Tea Party's Final Frontier: Save Space Programs NewsMax.com Perhaps sending the tea party movement into outer space might sound like a skit by Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart. But the Tea Party in Space is a real grass-roots organization with a very serious objective: Restoring US leadership in space exploration ... See all stories on this topic »

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