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Gamers help discover two new planets

XD45 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:42:27 +0000

Using the game Planet Hunters, gamers have discovered two new planets in the Cygnus constellation.

In what is starting to look like the beginnings of a trend, casual gamers have helped scientists make significant discoveries through a specially designed game for the second time this month.

Space flight without government spending from Europe

Rauterkus — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:21:13 +0000

"We aim to show the world that human space flight can be different from the usual expensive and government controlled project," the Copenhagen Suborbitals website states. "We are working fulltime to develop a series of suborbital space vehicles — designed to pave the way for manned space flight on a micro size spacecraft."

Scientists support Mars colonization, propose a private sector program

loungedaddy — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:47:14 +0000

Some scientists support colonizing Mars, but have zero faith in that government science bureaucracy called NASA. They have begun vocalizing support of opening travel to (and colonization of) Mars for the private sector.

Real-time Satellites in Google Earth

tuzzz — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:13:01 +0000

Real-time Satellites in Google Earth. There are 2271 Sattelites in orbit around the earth.

Danish Volunteers Build Manned Spacecraft - No Government Involvment

XD45 — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:09:28 +0000

A team of Danish volunteers has built a rocket capable of carrying a human into space, and will be launching it in a week’s time. The project, which has been funded entirely by donations and sponsorship, is led by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen.

Company Preparing First Private Space Station

Deslock Darkstar — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:16:20 +0000

From The New York Times: "In New Space Race, Enter the Entrepreneurs": Four years from now, the company plans for real modules to be launched and assembled into the solar system’s first private space station. "Every astronaut we have come in here just says, ‘Wow,’ ” said Robert T. Bigelow, the company founder. “They can’t believe the size of this thing.”

Briton's $800 High-Altitude Camera Outclasses NASA

celestrion — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:11:48 +0000

Robert Harrison, 38, used a collection of cheap parts costing £500 to create a balloon-mounted camera that can travel up to 21.7 miles (35km) above the surface of the Earth. The result is a series of pictures taken from a height that only a rocket or weather balloon can reach. The resulting photographs, which he published online, were so impressive that Nasa has been in touch.