Today's heroes of space research are on earth
Independent Online - South Africa - Its success might seem to be a footnote in space history, a second-place finish to the Soviet Union's Sputnik. After all, wasn't it Sputnik, launched four ... http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=118&art_id=vn20080210091606339C314773

Stanford forum to debate US goals in space
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA - Space scientists and engineers with misgivings about the current pace and funding for NASA's efforts to send astronauts back to the moon and eventually on ... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/10/BA5RUU91V.DTL

Name the New Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Slashdot - USA - Have a chance to suggest a new name for the cutting edge Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope, otherwise known as GLAST, before it launches in mid-2008 ... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/10/014211

Astronaut's illness delays space lab's installation
Houston Chronicle - United States - After the shuttle Atlantis delivered a European science module to the international space station Saturday, NASA delayed plans to install ... http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/nation/5527004.html

Space shuttle Atlantis docks and delivers
CTV.ca - Canada - Space shuttle Atlantis has delivered a US$2 billion European research lab to the international space station. Atlantis docked with the space station ... http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080209/shuttle_atlantis_080209/20080209?hub=CTVNewsAt11

Probe searches for new Earths
By Paul Sutherland - Principal investigator Drake Deming of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Centre, in Maryland, said: "We're on the hunt for planets down to the size of Earth, orbiting some of our closest neighbouring stars." A European satellite called Corot, ... http://news.skymania.com/2008/02/probe-searches-for-new-earths.html
Skymania News - http://news.skymania.com/

Space Boomerang - will it return?
By grant
Astronaut Takao Doi, 53, is set to travel on a US shuttle in March to the International Space Station, where he will be in charge of
construction of a Japanese scientific testing room. It is believed gravity is needed for a boomerang to ... http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/?p=232
The Guild of Scientific Troubadours - http://guildofscientifictroubadours.com

Shuttle docks with space station, brings lab
Space shuttle Atlantis docked with the international space station Saturday, delivering Europe's $2 billion research lab after years of
delay. With commander Stephen Frick at the helm, Atlantis slowly and carefully pulled up to the ... http://www.hackinthebox.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=25768
Hack In The Box - http://www.hackinthebox.org/

First Draft of Space Access '08 Speakers
By Ray(Ray) - Confirmed SA'08 presentations so far: Armadillo Aerospace, FAA AST, Flometrics, Frontier Astronautics, Masten Space, Jim Muncy/PoliSpace, Misuzu Onuki, Rocketplane LLC, Space Propellant Depots Panel with Jon Goff, Dallas Bienhoff, ... http://spaceprizes.blogspot.com/2008/02/first-draft-of-space-access-08-speakers.html
Space Prizes - http://spaceprizes.blogspot.com/

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