Of course, you may remember Space X carrying out a similar mission recently, which it turns out was apparently just a practice run!
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Space X recently revealed that the first of its 12 planned cargo runs to the ISS will take place in October.
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The news comes after NASA announced that Space X was fully certified to shuttle (as it were) cargo up to the permanent space station.
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Obama should make it clear that the space shuttle is ending, but at the same time Elon Musk, a South African immigrant, is launching Space X.
Sure, Space X and the like are making them better.
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There was a time when projects like Space X were the reserve of dream and fantasy, and this next vehicle -- for now at least -- also sits in that category.
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If you didn't manage to follow the whole Space X Dragon mission, then a handy video featuring the highlights of the recent journey found its way onto YouTube this week.
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In fact, Tesla and Musk, a self-made billionaire whose Space X startup is privatizing space travel, would seem to be poster children for the type of entrepreneurialism Romney says he seeks to unleash.
The former Paypal and Space X founder took to Twitter to defend the Model S after the review said the car ran out of power sooner than expected during a test drive on a cold, winter's day.
As they were working on this, another company in the online payments space, X.com run by now-Tesla (TSLA) CEO, Elon Musk, was located down the street.
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Measurements undertaken with two space-based X-ray telescopes imaged the black hole at the centre of galaxy NGC 1365.
Kobo's calling the Mini "the world's smallest and lightest e-reader" -- a bit of a dubious claim (given the existence of the Txtr Beagle, for one), but it can certainly lay claim to being one of the most compact mainstream devices in the space at 4 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches, compared to 6.4 x 4.5 x 0.39 inches for the Kobo Glo.
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In 1999, it deployed the powerful Chandra X-ray space telescope, with the first female commander at the helm, Eileen Collins.
All you need is a USB flash drive with at least 1GB of free space, and the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant.
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The observations from the Chandra space telescope are the deepest X-ray images ever obtained, viewing events that are 10 billion light-years away.
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This appears to be the mindset of the Air Force regarding its experimental X-37B space plane, the billion-dollar robotic vehicle's orbital flight being extended beyond the 270 days it was initially designed for.
Dr Stern and his colleagues used the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (Nustar) space telescope to examine the X-rays coming out of the black hole candidates spotted by Wise, presenting their findings in a paper to appear in Astrophysical Journal.
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Space launch: Technologies codeveloped by the FS-X project may contribute to Japanese efforts to build an indigenous space launch industry -- again in competition with America's own developing commercial launch capabilities.
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Facilities include 30 in-patient beds, a midwifery-led maternity unit, a minor injury unit and X-ray and space for mobile scanners.
TanDEM-X was put in space in June, since when it has been brought closer and closer to its more established sibling.
The company, known as Planetary Resources, is also backed by space tourism pioneer Eric Anderson, X-Prize founder Peter Diamandis, Ross Perot Jr, son of the former US presidential candidate, and veteran astronaut Tom Jones.
It's not the absolute smallest phone on Verizon but geez they need a little space to fit in that 176 x 220 internal color display, a VGA camera, a spacious keypad and an external color display too.
The closest most of us 'round here will ever get to outer space is blogging about the Lunar X Prize, so our inner astronauts get rather giddy any time an amateur makes it to the cusp of the gravity well.
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Many Americans recognize the unsurpassed science and inspiration that have come from the Hubble Space Telescope over the past two decades, as well as from its less famous sister satellites like the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space (Infrared) Telescope and the Fermi gamma-ray observatory.
We also take a closer look at how the commercial space sector is pushing exploration forward with Google Lunar X Prize senior director, Alexandra Hall, a lunar rover team at Carnegie Mellon, the Space Angels Network VC firm and Laser Motive, which is working on powering crafts through lasers.
On paper, this is a slight downturn from the original Note, which crammed more pixels (1, 280 x 800) into less space, but the sequel is actually a smidge better.
But officials are being asked to consider ballot papers bearing 'smiley' faces and games of noughts and crosses, as long as they appear in the space usually reserved for the voters 'X'.
Second, governments should not pick winners or give out extensive subsidies. (Translation: Ethanol is a bad idea, and other existing "renewables, " such as wind power, are unlikely to ever be more than a niche source.) Better to have a small carbon tax to place a price floor for competing technologies, and offer large cash prizes, similar to the X-Prize for private space flight, for specified energy breakthroughs.
The agency has already spent billions of dollars on the National Aerospace Plane, the X-33, X-34, X-37, X-38 and the Orbital Space Plane.
Latest example of NASA bloated spending: The agency has already spent billions of dollars on the National Aerospace Plane, the X-33, X-34, X-37, X-38 and the Orbital Space Plane.
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