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How soon before another Canadian follows Hadfield into space?
… by what the U.S. says, and a little while ago it was ... the moon," Orsinski says. "Then Obama came in and it was asteroids and now there seems to be actually quite a lot of emphasis being placed on not necessarily landing back on the surface of …
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How soon before another Canadian follows Hadfield into space?
… by what the U.S. says, and a little while ago it was ... the moon," Orsinski says. "Then Obama came in and it was asteroids and now there seems to be actually quite a lot of emphasis being placed on not necessarily landing back on the surface of …
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World's oldest flowing water found deep in Timmins mine
… lighter xenon, but it is thought to have been destroyed by the high levels of ultraviolet radiation and the bombardment of asteroids on the surface of the Earth during the planet's first few hundred million years. Geological evidence from air trapped in …
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Water on moon likely came from Earth, study suggests
… hydrogen ratio in the bubbles matched the ratio found in carbonaceous chondrites, very ancient meteorites from the asteroid belt near Jupiter. According to Saal, as much as 98 per cent of the water on Earth also comes from carbonaceous chondrites …
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Asteroid awaiting NASA visit gets new name from boy, 9
… sample of gravel from the asteroid 's surface, and leave ..... five known near-Earth asteroids more than 200 metres ..... hypothesize that this type of asteroid may have brought some ..... history, NASA says. The asteroid , discovered in 1999 ..... because it is one of the asteroids most likely to hit the …
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Private Antares rocket launches successfully into orbit
… program in 2011. The space agency turned to private companies for the job, saying it would focus on getting manned flights to asteroids and to Mars. SpaceX was awarded a $1.6 billion contract by NASA in 2006 to make a dozen missions to restock the space …
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Crowdsourcing the space program
… kilometres away from the Earth. While there are plans to return to the moon, (been there, done that), a mission to capture an asteroid and hopes to reach Mars by the end of the century, these are all extremely expensive projects that are being planned in the …
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Canadians take on NASA design challenge for space exploration
… by NASA, such as:Developing an app that enables citizen astronomers to register near-Earth objects such as comets and asteroids ;Creating an app that offers an interactive tour of the Moon;Designing a deployable greenhouse for space missions to the …
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Mega-planet's ingredients point to solar system like ours
… nearby gases around them, forming planetary atmospheres. Konopacky said there had already been some evidence of an asteroid belt between HR 8799 and its inner-most giant planet, as well as an Oort cloud beyond the most distant giant planet …
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Orbital traffic cop
… to look for things that are close by. And if we look at what is gonna do in space. You said it's going to be tracking asteroids that joined the earth as we travel around the sun is going to be looking at those that are between us in the sun and see if …
is gonna do in space. You said it's going to be tracking asteroids that joined the earth as we travel around the sun is going to be looking at those that are between us in