Space Exploration

First music video recorded in space? Brought to you by our favourite tweeting astronaut

14 May 2013

Commander Chris Hadfield leaves the International Space Station after five months with a fitting tribute

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Hong Kong dentist helps Europe's search for life on Mars again

31 Mar 2013

New tools Dr Ng Tze-chuen has designed have been accepted and more are being considered for the ExoMars rover mission scheduled for 2018, a joint project of the European Space Agency and Russia's...

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35 years after launch, Voyager 1 still in earth's solar system

24 Mar 2013

The Voyager 1 probe was fired into space to observe the outer planets and the mysterious interstellar medium that lies beyond the solar system on September 5, 1977, as Elvis was topping the charts...

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Curiosity Mars rover collects historic first bedrock sample

10 Feb 2013

Using a drill at the end of its robotic arm, Curiosity bore a hole 6.4cm deep into the rock, generating powder for evaluation, Nasa said in a statement.

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2013 will be a bumper year for space science: European Space Agency

27 Jan 2013

European probes this year will return a treasure trove of data from explorations into the Big Bang, water on Mars and climate change, European Space Agency chief Jean-Jacques Dordain said.

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Nasa brings bounce to outer-space living

17 Jan 2013

Nasa is partnering with a commercial space company in a bid to replace the cumbersome “metal cans” that now serve as astronauts’ homes in space with inflatable bounce-house-like habitats that can...

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Curiosity discovers soil on Mars is like sand in Hawaii

In the first inventory of minerals on another planet, Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity found soil that bears a striking resemblance to weathered, volcanic sand in Hawaii, scientists said.

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SpaceX's Dragon capsule returns from historic ISS mission

An unmanned space freighter carrying a stash of precious medical samples from the International Space Station has parachuted into the Pacific Ocean, completing the first official shipment under a...

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Nasa looks at setting up space base gateway to Mars

Top Nasa officials have picked a leading candidate for the agency's next major mission: construction of an outpost that would send astronauts further from Earth than they have yet been.

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Hong Kong scientists may join space missions

Scientists from Hong Kong could be headed into space to join their compatriots aboard China's planned space station, it was revealed yesterday - as the country's first woman astronaut arrived in...

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Shenzhou IX back from orbital lab

Shenzhou IX's re-entry capsule undershot its touchdown target yesterday morning, landing in uneven terrain that the ground-rescue team took some time to reach, but the astronauts emerged healthy...

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Shenzhou makes textbook docking

China completed its first manual space docking yesterday, a landmark step in the country's programme to build a space station by 2020.

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