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    A close look at the Orion nebula

    Since the European space telescope Herschel has confirmed the presence of the bricks of life within this nebula, we would like to take you on a tour around this nursery of stars and worlds.

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    STS-130: a conservatory for the ISS

    With the flight of the space shuttle Endeavour, the International Space Station has gained a new module and a completely unobstructed view of the Earth.

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    Turbulent Sun

    Although our star is relatively small in size, it nevertheless remains very active and the energy that it gives off makes life on Earth possible.

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    Nocturnal space shuttles

    Endeavour’s recent STS-130 mission lift-off on 8 February 2010 marked the last night time blast-off scheduled for a space shuttle. Take a look with us back over an era that is coming to an end.

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    Mission posters

    One of NASA’s traditions is for its crews to pose for brilliantly designed, sometimes humorous posters.

 

Features

  • Avatar’s Venture Star

    The spaceship from James Cameron’s film is far less fanciful than it appears and even plausibly deals with several problems posed by interstellar travel.

  • The Constellation story

    Return to the Moon to take up where, way too soon, Apollo had stopped. Such was the ambition of the Constellation programme on the point of becoming a page in NASA’s history before it has even achieved its objective.

  • Merry Christmas... in orbit!

    Whether you believe it or not, Father Christmas does not forget astronauts despite the obvious lack of a chimney...