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Roland Piquepaille writes “An international team of scientists has found a strange ring around a dead star by using images taken by NASA’s Spitzer space telescope. This star, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as …

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• Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch
• NASA Selects Inexpensive Space Project Candidates
• Iowa State Establishes Asteroid Deflection Research Center

pumpkinpuss writes “Launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center suffered unusual damage during the shuttle Discovery’s blastoff Saturday. Pictures from a NASA source show buckled concrete and numerous concrete blocks or bricks, …

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• NASA Selects Inexpensive Space Project Candidates
• Iowa State Establishes Asteroid Deflection Research Center
• Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star

coondoggie brings us a Networkworld report detailing NASA’s selection of six mission proposals for further study by the Small Explorer (SMEX) Program. The goal of the program is to develop cheap, tightly focused science missions (PDF). …

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• Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch
• Iowa State Establishes Asteroid Deflection Research Center
• Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star

Asteroid deflection is one of those topics that draws an eclectic mix of serious NASA engineers, professors, and crazy people. To help sort through decades of scientific research and a century of science fiction, Iowa State university …

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• Shuttle Launch Pad Damaged During Discovery's Launch
• NASA Selects Inexpensive Space Project Candidates
• Ghostly Ring Found Circling Dead Star