Two students from Toronto have made a bit leap into the final frontier for Lego-kind, sending a Canadian-flag wielding Lego man into space with just a helium balloon and four cameras to record the whole event. Seventeen-year-olds Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad simply attached a helium balloon to four cameras and a Lego strip connected to a Lego man and his cool tiny Canada flag and let them fly. Once the whole rig descended back to Earth, the collection was made and the videos were viewed. When the videos were loaded and the photos they took were reviewed, the teens started screaming.
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Russian unmanned cargo ship on way to ISS
After all the drama with the Phobos-grunt failure for Russia, it has to be a bit nerve racking to the ISS astronauts that need food, water and parts when a Russian supply ship takes off. If the ship had failed, it would be longer before fresh supply is arrived. The good news is that the liftoff of the Progress 46 unmanned ship went off without a hitch this week and the supply vessel is on the way to the ISS.
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Kepler telescope finds 11 new planetary systems, one has five planets
The NASA team that operates the Kepler space telescope has used their all-seeing eye to find 11 new planetary systems. The new discovery brings the total number of planets that have been discovered by the Kepler team to 60. In all, there are 729 confirmed extra-solar planets. As always, the team uses regular changes in the light of the star to tell if planets are orbiting.
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US refuses to participate in Russian Phobos-grunt crash investigation
It seems some in Russia aren't ready to give up on the notion that the US had part in the failure of its Phobos-grunt probe. There have been some scientists in Russia that call the idea that a US radar station could have caused damage to the Phobos-grunt spacecraft unlikely. Despite Russia's own scientists doubting any US involvement, Russian space officials want to test the idea.
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I’ll build a Lunar Base if you vote for me says Newt Gingrich
Republican presidential candidate hopeful Newt Gingrich doesn't just have his head in the clouds, it's all the way to the moon: or, more accurately, a permanent moon base in less than eight years, if the American public see fit to put him in the White House. "By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American" Gringrich said in Florida this week, Talking Points reports, with a Mars mission to follow by the end of the next decade.
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Space shuttle Discovery set for final voyage to Smithsonian
It's more than a little sad to see the space shuttle fleet retired and Americans having to hitch a ride aboard Russian spacecraft to reach the ISS. The space shuttle Discovery landed after its final space mission in March of last year. We knew when the discovery touched down after that final mission that it was bound for the Smithsonian museum to join the massive aerospace collection the museum owns.
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NASA releases videos of Sun’s massive M8.7 solar flare
We've been following the terrifying sounding but mostly harmless solar flare as summoned up by the Sun's most recent solar storm as it hits the Earth in a dazzling display across the Northern half of the hemisphere. What NASA has posted in regards to the situation is not one, but two views of not the Earth, but the Sun as it flares up early this week. Photos of the aurora collection going on constantly for the past couple of days have been popping up across Flickr as well, a few choice slides provided for you here as well.
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Solar Flare from Sun hits Earth, aurora watchers alert
As predicted earlier this week by Space officials and reported right here on SlashGear yesterday, the Sun's newest solar storm has unleashed a lovely coronal mass ejection (CME) outward and towards the Earth, making impact throughout the day today. As was also expected, there appears to be no danger in the radiation storm, believe it or not, despite its terrifying name. What we are looking out for, instead, is a collection of auroras in the night sky - if it's dark out where you live, look up!
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Venera 13 probe pics from 1982 show life on Venus claims Russian scientist
Back in 1982, the Russians landed a probe on the surface of Venus that was called Venera 13. A Russian scientist named Leonid Ksanfomalti has analyzed the photos. The 79-year-old scientist looked at the photos that were taken by the probe, one of which is below, and has determined for himself that the somewhat moon shaped object in the right side of the image is an insect-like creature.
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US denies any link to failed Russian Phobos-grunt probe
Russia continues to look for what caused the failure of its Phobos-grunt probe. The failed propulsion system ultimately led to the massive spacecraft falling back into the atmosphere and burning up. Russia is so far looking in the wrong place according to some of its own scientists. Russian officials have been hinting that the US radar station in Alaska may have had something to do with the failure of the probe.
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Sun’s newest Radiation Storm hits Earth tomorrow
There's not really anything to fear from the solar eruptions that are now taking place off the surface of our closest star otherwise known as The Sun, but a radiation storm literally hurling itself at the earth and millions of miles per hour does sound sinister, doesn't it? It'll be January 24th, tomorrow, when we find out the full effects of the largest radiation storm since 2005. The effects are coming from what NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught in their sights at 0359 GMT January 23: an extreme ultraviolet flash from a huge eruption on the sun.
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Star Wars Uncut Directors Cut fan-stitched masterpiece now online in its entirety
It's been nearly 3 years in development and thousands of hours of blood, sweat, and fun had in the process, and it's finally here: the complete re-make of Star Wars: A New Hope constructed entirely of fan-made 15 second clips. This project was originally called Star Wars Uncut, and this final product is of course called Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut, and stitches together the entire set of hundreds of clips into one perfected bunch. This version is the "final" version of the film, and is available for you to watch 100% for free and in its entirety.
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