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[Dark Knight]

Since some of us are interested in this kind of thing and since the Hubble just captured a great shot of the Crab Nebula, I decided to start a topic on this. Post your pictures, thoughts etc. here.

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[Kimi]

I don't know much about spce really, but I've always wanted to learn. One thing I do know it that nebuli (or is it just nebulas) look cool.

[Tomato Assasin]

That is pretty awesome. I wonder if anything within that beast is habitable anymore. And i wonder if it still produces as much heat? Quite an interesting subject!

[jojo983]

In the UK this week a program called Space Cadets starts. Its basically supposed to be the biggest practical joke on tv ever. Channel 4 (the channel that is showing this) is going to have a group of people who are going to think that they are going to Russia to go through astronaut training and then going to be launched into space. However they are going to be really flown around England in a plane for a couple of hours and think that they are flying to Russia but then they are going to land back in England and then then put in a hanger where the whole space thing happens. Its going to be interesting to see if the producers pull this off. The people will be paid everyday they think that they are in space.

[Barmy Army]

Yeah, I read about the Space Cadets progamme and I may have even posted about it in the say what thread. I thought the concept was a bit much. I'm not a fan of reality tv and wasn't impressed with this idea.

[Hkyfan565]

you euro's and your reality tv

[Barmy Army]

Radar sees ice deep below Mars

Mars Express has become the first spacecraft to detect reserves of water ice deep beneath the surface of the Red Planet, experts have announced.

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[Barmy Army]

Europe's space goals laid bare

Ministers from 17 European countries meet in Berlin on Monday to discuss the future of Europe's space programme.

They will decide whether to give the go-ahead to a series of space missions proposed for the next decade.

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[Hkyfan565]

NASA ftw

[PortBeach13]

NASA ftw

[Hkyfan565]

FTW=ForTheWin
NASA=United States space program

[PortBeach13]

I know what Nasa meant, I just didn't happen to know what ftw stood for.

[Barmy Army]

Don't worry DF, you weren't the only one that wasn't aware what ftw meant.

[Hkyfan565]

lol, i didnt mean to offend just covering my bases in case you didnt know what NASA meant. I know we have some Eastern European users, they wouldnt really have any reason to know what NASA was.....I guess i should have noticed that your from Conneticut

[Barmy Army]

UK signs up to Euro Mars mission

The UK is to play a key role in Europe's next mission to Mars.

The government is to invest 108m euros (£73.2m) to give Britain a major share in building the robotic probe.

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[Barmy Army]

Nasa probes shuttle 'oxygen leak'

The US space agency is investigating the possibility of a highly flammable gaseous oxygen leak during the launch of space shuttle Discovery in July.

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[Barmy Army]

Stardust capsule set for return

A capsule containing a teaspoonful of dust snatched from around a comet is set to parachute to Earth on Sunday.

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[Barmy Army]

Pluto mission ready for lift-off

The US space agency is getting ready to launch a piano-sized spacecraft to Pluto, the last unexplored planet in the Solar System.

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Click here for a Mission guide: New Horizons

[DropThePuck]

Pluto mission ready for lift-off

Bummers! Mother Nature decided to play her hand and trump Father Time. Launch is scrubbed until tomorrow due to excessive ground winds at the close of the launch window. Tune in tomorrow 1:16 to 3:15 p.m. EST for the next attempt.

[Veca]

I just hope I'm still kicking when the probe reaches Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. It's stuff we only guess at right now, to get some real answers would be a real thrill....

[DropThePuck]

Yet another delay. Today launch was scrubbed due to an electrical power outage at mission control headquarters in Maryland. Tune in tomorrow between 1:08 p.m. and 3:07 p.m. EST for the next attempt.

[Veca]

Yet another delay.  Today launch was scrubbed due to an electrical power outage at mission control headquarters in Maryland.  Tune in tomorrow between 1:08 p.m. and 3:07 p.m. EST for the next attempt.

Sooooo....looks like they are waiting for me to kick the bucket before they will even let the stupid thing leave earth!

[Dark Knight]

Yet another delay.  Today launch was scrubbed due to an electrical power outage at mission control headquarters in Maryland.  Tune in tomorrow between 1:08 p.m. and 3:07 p.m. EST for the next attempt.

Sooooo....looks like they are waiting for me to kick the bucket before they will even let the stupid thing leave earth!

I thought you already knew everything spins around you

[DropThePuck]

"We got the launch off at two o'clock Eastern Time and at 2:50, from Canberra in Australia, we received the first signals from the New Horizons spacecraft and the telemetry all indicates that every system is 'go,'" said project manager Glen Fountain. "All the systems on the spacecraft are what we call in the business, they're green. They're in good shape."
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Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Tombaugh, who died in 1997 at age 90. His 93-year-old wife, Patricia, attended today's launching, along with her daughter and son in law. Asked Sunday what her husband would say about the current debate over whether Pluto is a bona fide planet, Patricia Tombaugh said, 'you know what he'd say in frustration? 'It's there. So we're going there to see what's there.'"

Today, Stern announced that a portion of Tombaugh's ashes was on board the New Horizons spacecraft.

"My husband would be 100 on Jan. 4. So it's a nice time to have it go there," said Patricia. "He would be so happy and so interested in all this, you know, because it was his thing."

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[Veca]

Yet another delay.  Today launch was scrubbed due to an electrical power outage at mission control headquarters in Maryland.  Tune in tomorrow between 1:08 p.m. and 3:07 p.m. EST for the next attempt.

Sooooo....looks like they are waiting for me to kick the bucket before they will even let the stupid thing leave earth!

I thought you already knew everything spins around you

Well, this just proves it you none believer......