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As the Asteroid Turns: Hubble Spies Vesta October 21, 2010 Hubble Space Telescope reveals that the asteroid Vesta rotates once every 5.34 hours.

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SpaceShipTwo Makes First Solo Test Flight October 12, 2010 Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo made its first solo glide test after being dropped from its carrier plane

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New Crew for Space Station October 07, 2010 Meet the latest people from Earth headed for the International Space Station

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New "Planet Goldilocks" Could be Habitable ... October 07, 2010 a rocky world 3 times more massive than Earth may have a zone that’s just right for life

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Skywatching for October 2010 October 06, 2010 Find out what’s hot in the night sky for amateur astronomers in October 2010.

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Asteroid and Comet Census from WISE October 06, 2010 See how NASA’s WISE space telescope conducts an asteroid census of our solar system.

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Comet Hartley 2 Encounters The Moon October 01, 2010 Comet Hartley 2’s path on the sky makes it appear especially close to the Moon on October 28th 2010.

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Commercial Space Advocates Speak Out For Obama ... September 28, 2010 Commercial space leaders promote private industry. Opinions do not represent those of SPACE.com.

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Saturn’s Aurora - The Movie September 22, 2010 Observations by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show a stunning aurora light show on Saturn.

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Journey to the Moon: Designing a Lunar Lander ... September 22, 2010 This animation illustrates the different steps for the ESA lunar lander’s journey to the moon, from the launch up to th

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Hurricane Igor Seen From Space Station September 15, 2010 Video cameras on the International Space Station have beamed unique views of Hurricane Igor from space.

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Fireballs Light up Jupiter September 10, 2010 Amateur astronomers along with professional astronomers have spotted two fireballs lighting up Jupiter’s atmosphere, ma

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Microwave Beams Boost Small Japanese Rocket September 10, 2010 Steady pulses of microwave beams launched a small rocket 3.9 feet (1.2 meters) into the air during a 2009 experiment by

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NASA’s Recipe: Fake Space Vomit August 24, 2010 NASA scientists cook up fake space vomit in one of many tests to try out a new trash bag destined for space.

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SpaceX’s Dragon Spacecraft Passes Big Drop Test August 21, 2010 Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully droped its Dragon spacecraft from 14,000 feet in a high-altitude d

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First Balloon Satellite: Echo 1 August 19, 2010 Launched on August 12th, 1960, this mylar-skinned balloon inflated to a diameter of 30.5 meters (100 ft.)

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Feeling a Virgin Galactic Launch - Clara Pulls ... August 16, 2010 Clara Moskowitz of SPACE.com experiences the G-forces of Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo in NASTAR's centrifuge simulator.

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Spacewalk Practice for Big Space Station Repair August 07, 2010 Astronauts practice a tricky space station repair in NASA?s huge Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory.

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Dancing Rover: NASA’s Moon & Mars ATHLETE ... August 07, 2010 NASA’s All-Terrain, Hex-Limbed, Extra-Terrestrial Explorer limbers up and busts a move.

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Colliding Galaxies Trigger Star Formation August 06, 2010 A new image of two colliding galaxies – the Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth – are sh