NASA scientists using the Kepler space telescope also announced the discovery of six planets orbiting a star called Kepler-11.

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Near the space center in Houston,Texas, some amateur star-watchers were trying to see the Apollo spacecraft through telescopes.

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Venables: Your directing credits include Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager in addition to several successful primetime series running now and even a video game.

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The Space Oddity star, it continued, was "the kind of artist who writes and performs what he wants when he wants".

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Driving through the gates of the space town, Star City looks like nothing more than a collection of grey concrete homes, seemingly frozen in the 1960s.

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