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Remember gazing up at the moon and wondering what it’s made of? Some pretty smart people are doing the same thing today. And it’s not childlike curiosity that’s motivating them: It’s money.
Interest in materials known as rare earth elements surged when China temporarily blocked exports in 2010. Manufacturers started looking everywhere for new supplies of gadolinium and terbium and other elements used in televisions, hybrid car batteries and many other products. The search took them to such places as California, the Pacific ocean floor and the moon. The moon’s stock is up even among politicians, as Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney recently sparred over whether it makes sense to invest in lunar mining.
Via Stratocumulus, Allen Taylor
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New Space
Video from the space station captures the now-famous grasp (RT @leeroop: Did you miss this morning's grapple of the Dragon by the space station? Two spacecraft, one public and one private, linked in orbit today when SpaceX's Dragon was attached to the International Space Station . At the end of its mission, Canadarm2 will undock and release Dragon for its return to Earth, where it will then be retrieved and reused. (Credit: CSA) Via Stratocumulus, Allen Taylor 
A message from SpaceX [corrected version]: SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Completes Key Tests In Quest to Visit Space Station Most Difficult Challenges Still Ahead Hawthorne, CA – Today, Space Exploration Technologies’ (SpaceX) Dragon spacecraft... 
NASA TV Schedule for Friday and Saturday 
Chuck Lauer talks with MM about the business plan for Rocketplane Global, International spaceport development, and servicing European and Asian markets.
A message from NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center: 
FACT SHEET: President Obamas Accomplishments for NASA and Floridas Space Coast "On the heels of the first successful launch of a private spacecraft to the International Space Station ushering in a new era of space exploration, Obama for... 
Astronomy Science News. Just another WordPress site. Home · Sample Page · Home > Uncategorized > SpaceX Dragon transports student experiments to International Space Station ... SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral. Credit: NASA SpaceX s history-making mission to the International Space Station is on hold, following a valve malfunction Saturday morning that caused a last-minute launch abort. Given how heated a topic like export control reform can be, yesterday was almost an anticlimax. 
New results from NASA's NEOWISE survey find that more potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are closely aligned with the plane of our solar system than previous models suggested. 
... Why Exploring Space Still Matters – a recent Tyson interview on National Public Radio – by going to: http://www.npr.org/2012/02/27/147351252/space-chronicles-why-exploring-space-still-matters. By Leonard David ... |
SKA dishes by night. Credit: SPDO/TDP/DRAO/Swinburne Astronomy Productions.In an anticipated great compromise, South Africa and Australia will share their sites for the Square Kilometre Array telescope, the world’s largest and most sensitive radio... 
Will Mitt Romney Fire Space Advisor Michael Griffin For Proposing Permanent Moon Base?, BarackObama.com 
Dragon Solar Panels Visible 
Shop Mechanic Ray Fitting plumbs the Lynx LOX pump for a test. 
A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race. Some people try to make the most of their spare time by exercising, volunteering or simply recharging their batteries. Others like to use that time to build robots that can be blasted to the moon and then set free to roam the lunar landscape. 
Here are a couple of additional images of the small launch vehicle (SLV) concept recently unveiled by Boeing. The company outlined the scheme as a possible means of cutting the cost of launching small sats as well as increasing launch responsiveness.
There wasn’t room in this week’s story to include more detailed graphics of the individual stages – so here they are together with a diagram of a typical mission profile. Via Stratocumulus 
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The real-life astronomer who inspired the alien-hunting character in “Contact” is retiring from her research post — but she isn't giving up on the SETI quest. 
Preliminary results are showing SpaceX’s Falcon 9 enjoyed a nominal ride uphill – with no issues – prior to deploying the Dragon spacecraft on orbit. 
A team of SpaceX engineers diligently assess the cause of the May 19 launch abort for the Falcon 9 rocket poised at Pad 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Repairs to a malfunctioning rocket engine are now underway. 
London, UK (SPX) May 18, 2012
On a PBS NewsHour broadcast, Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on the upcoming SpaceX flight. |
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