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Gingrich says space exploration in US tradition

Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich says critics of his call to ramp up U.S. space exploration don't understand the power of science, technology and entrepreneurship to change the future.

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Gingrich vows to establish a colony on the moon

Newt Gingrich is promising to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2020 if he's elected president.

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China reveals its space plans up to 2016

China plans to launch space labs and manned ships and prepare to build space stations over the next five years, according to a plan released Thursday that shows the country's space program is gathering momentum.

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Japan launches its 2nd spy satellite this year

Japan successfully put a spy satellite into orbit on Monday and expects to complete its network of intelligence-gathering satellites with another launch next year.

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NASA books 1st flight from New Mexico spaceport

NASA has booked a charter suborbital flight from Virgin Galactic's spaceport operations in southern New Mexico.

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Building Our Space Infrastructure

Building Our Space Infrastructure A Project to Change the World   The construction of the Interstate Highway System, spanning from 1956 to 1974 and costing $114 billion dollars (1) (or $522 billion in 2011 dollars) was initially hatched as a national defense project.  T …

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Future NASA rocket to be most powerful ever built

To soar far away from Earth and even on to Mars, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid-fuel rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four decades ago.

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Soyuz lands safely in Kazakhstan, rattles nerves

A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three returning astronauts from the International Space Station touched down safely Friday in the central steppes of Kazakhstan, but not without rattling nerves after a breakdown in communications.

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Jeff Bezos' spaceship fails during test flight

An unmanned spacecraft bankrolled by Amazon.com Inc. CEO Jeff Bezos failed during a recent test flight.

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Space junk littering orbit; might need cleaning up

Space junk has made such a mess of Earth's orbit that experts say we may need to finally think about cleaning it up.

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