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• In communicating science, Europe envies the U.S

  - 2008-08-16

  On July 21, at the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, members of the European astronomy community participated in a discussion about why their space program has failed to engage public interest in a manner comparable to programs in the United States. Organized by Dirk Lorenzen, a physicist turned journalist...

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• More countries joining international space race

  - 2008-02-07

  The United States is the only nation to fly its flag on the moon -- a symbol of the country's dominance of space exploration. Even four decades after it won the race to the moon, the United States shares the ability to blast humans into orbit...

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• Europe takes stake in successor to Hubble telescope

  - 2007-06-18

  LE BOURGET, France AFP — The European Space Agency ESA will take a 15-percent stake in the James Webb Space Telescope JWST, the successor to the highly successful Hubble orbiting telescope, under an agreement signed here on Monday. ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and NASA Administrator Michael Griffin signed...

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• Cassini express pays a second visit to Saturn's mystery moon Titan

  - 2004-12-13

  Saturn's haze-shrouded moon Titan gets a second look today from the international Cassini Huygens spacecraft. Cassini's planned flyover altitude of 746 miles is the same as its flyby of Titan in October. "The big question is what changes we'll see since the first flyby," says mission scientist Linda Spilker...

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• Space agencies paint the planet red

  - 2004-01-20

  It's getting crowded up there. The European Space Agency's Mars Express -- with its instruments now fully calibrated and sending back never-before-seen images from a polar orbit -- has teamed up with NASA's Spirit in a growing international effort to plumb the mystery of Mars. "This is the...

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• Scientists take another shot at contacting Beagle 2 on Mars

  - 2004-01-07

  LONDON AFP ? Space scientists were hopeful that they would finally hear an electronic bark from the Beagle 2 probe, missing since it was supposed to have landed on Mars on Christmas Day. Repeated attempts to make contact with the pint-sized probe using NASA's Mars Odyssey craft orbiting the...

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• Third night of silence from Mars, Beagle 2 awaits mothership

  - 2003-12-27

  LONDON AFP ? Mars Express, the Beagle 2's mothership, was looking more and more like the final hope for scientists on Earth seeking to confirm the British-built space probe's safe arrival on the Red Planet. After three nights of fruitless sweeping for a radio signal, scientists in Britain remained...

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• NASA plots future explorers

  - 2002-06-01

  NewsNet AEROSPACE NASA is looking at four advanced space research missions for consideration as Explorer missions that would be launched later this decade. In addition, the agency will fund a mission of opportunity in a European Space Agency ESA observatory to be flown on...

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• ESA plans probe for U.S. Titan mission - European Space Agency

  - 1988-12-03

  ESA plans probe for U.S. Titan mission A proposed NASA mission that would orbit Saturn and send a probe to the surface of its big, possibly ocean-covered moon Titan got a boost from the European Space Agency ESA last week. Called Cassini, the mission has yet to...

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