Space Stories for 2009

Russia Plans To Divert Asteroid 305
Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught 162
Launching Frequently Key To NASA Success 145
Amazing New Movies of Saturn's Moons 32
More on the Waterworld Goldilocks Planet 107
The Science of Avatar 275
Demo For NASA MMO Coming In January 84
Simulation of Close Asteroid Fly-By 148
Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan 197
Colliding Auroras Produce Explosions of Light 30
The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid 391
Lake On Titan Winks From a Billion Kilometers Away 139
PhD Candidate Talks About the Physics of Space Battles 361
Did Chandrayaan Find Organic Matter On the Moon? 141
Nearby "Super Earth" May Have Atmosphere 7
Herschel's First Science Results, Eagle Nebula 91
Dying Star Mimics Our Sun's Death 149
Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242
NASA WISE Satellite Blasts Into Space 139
House Outlaws Obama's NASA Intervention 209
Mars Express Captures Phobos and Deimos 84
Is Earth's Atmosphere an Import? 114
Big Dipper "Star" Actually a Sextuplet System 88
Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway's Light Show 236
Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? 418
Martian Methane May Be Created By Lifeforms 297
Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShipTwo 260
Air Force Extends Plug-and-Play Spacecraft 77
What Drugs Do Astronauts Take? 132
SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing 295
SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation 621
New Aluminum-Ice Rocket Propellant Tested 130
NASA Campaigns For Safer Launch Requirements 193
STS-129 Ascent Video Highlights 117
Herschel Spectroscopy of Future Supernova 21
Cassini Captures Saturn's Northern Lights 33
New Evidence For Ancient Life On Mars 186
Astronomers Invent "Galaxy Game" 55
STEREO Satellites Spot Solar Flare Tsunami 89
New Theory of Gravity Decouples Space & Time 575
Intelsat Launches Hardware For Internet Routing From Space 83
After 35 Years, Another Message Sent From Arecibo 249
Dark Energy, Life Searches Make Strange Bedfellows 68
Spaceworms To Help Study Astronaut Muscle Loss 73
NASA Willing To Team With China; Rumors of a Budget Cut 200
New Zealand To Launch First Private Space Rocket 96
Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Early Tuesday Morning 87
"Pathfinders" Take Shape For Galileo, Europe's GPS 105
The Space Garbage Scow, ala Cringely 221
Two Earth-Sized Bodies With Oxygen-Rich Atmospheres 111
Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life 721
Rosetta Fly-By To Probe "Pioneer Anomaly" 89
Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers 314
Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA 111
Unknown 7m Asteroid Almost Impacted Earth 289
US Navy Was Ordered To Listen For Martian Broadcast 154
NASA Reproduces a Building Block of Life In the Lab 264
NASA May Drop Ares I-Y Test Flight 203
LaserMotive Finds Success In Space Elevator Competition 258
Possible Dark Matter Signs At the Core 234
The Tech Aboard the International Space Station 183
Europe Launches Flood-Predicting Satellite and Test Probe 28
Bacteria Could Survive In Martian Soil 90
Disease May Prevent Manned Journey To Mars 177
Masten Qualifies For $1 Million Space Prize 40
Hunt For Earth-Like Planets Delayed 56
Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules 227
Russia Develops Spaceship With Nuclear Engine 297
"Frickin' Fantastic" Launch of NASA's Ares I-X Rocket 383
Ares 1-X Ready On Pad, Launch Set For 1200 GMT 260
Possible Meteorite Leaves a Crater In Latvia 177
Astronaut Group Endorses Commercial Spaceflight 144
Volunteers Wanted For Simulated 520-Day Mars Trip 356
Cosmic Radiation Makes Trees Grow Faster 162
32 Exoplanets Discovered By Chilean Telescope 146
Giant Ribbon Discovered At Edge of Solar System 251
New Kind of Orbit Could Ease Mars Communications 127
Australian Student Balloon Rises 100,000 Feet, With a Digital Camera 174
More Water Out There — Ice Found On an Asteroid 123
NASA Downgrades Asteroid-Earth Collision Risk 244
NASA Discovers Giant Ring Around Saturn 255
Universe Has 100x More Entropy Than We Thought 304
Ex-Astronaut Developing Plasma Rocket To Revitalize NASA 277
Tourists To ISS Two At a Time Starting In 2012 91
Huge ISS Science Report Released 87
Herschel Releases First Images of Milky Way 55
Exoplanet Has Showers of Pebbles 341
Cosmic Ray Intensity Reaches Highest Levels In 50 years 263
LCROSS Team Changes Target Crater For Impact 39
The Night Sky In 800 Million Pixels 120
ICE Satellite Maps Profound Polar Thinning 245
SpaceX Announces Dragon As First Falcon 9 Payload 83
NASA's Space Plans Take Another Hit 12
New Images Reveal Pure Water Ice On Mars 179
One Telescope Per Child 63
HD Video From the Edge of Space, On the Cheap 205
Crew For Final Scheduled Space Shuttle Mission Selected 108
Lawmakers Voice Support For NASA Moon Program 206
Gravitational Currents Could Slash Fuel Needed For Space Flight 177
Planck Satellite Releases First Images 59
New "Drake Equation" Selects Between Alien Worlds 220
First Rocky Exoplanet Confirmed 155
A Galaxy-Sized Observatory For Gravitational Waves 190
First Private Manned Orbital Flight Announced 165
Captured Comet Becomes Moon of Jupiter 108
Students Take Pictures From Space On $150 Budget 215
Armadillo Aerospace Claims Level 2 Lunar Lander Prize 134
Surprise Discovery In Earth's Upper Atmosphere 243
Scientists Levitate Mice for NASA 237
Risk Aversion At Odds With Manned Space Exploration 371
New Unmanned Japanese Re-Supply Vessel For the ISS 93
Hubble Releases First Post-Upgrade Images 129
Future of NASA's Manned Spaceflight Looks Bleak 452
Andromeda Devouring Neighbor Galaxy 60
Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion 157
Additional Lab To Be Added To the ISS 81
Can the Ares Program Be Salvaged? 245
Kepler Mission Could Detect Exomoons 64
NASA Robots and Rovers At Play In the Desert 54
Astronomers Find the Calmest Place On Earth 231
Mount Wilson Observatory In Danger From L.A. Fire 125
Space Shuttle To Be Replaced By SpaceX For ISS Resupply 297
Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy 262
British Company Takes Lead To Stop Asteroids 198
Ares Manager Steve Cook Resigns From NASA 153
Communication Lost With Indian Moon Satellite 186
Astrophysicists Find "Impossible" Planet 436
NASA Explores the Moon's Water/Oxygen Deposits 73
Scientists Get $2M To Predict Space Weather 40
South Korea's First Rocket Fails To Reach Set Orbit 101
NASA To Team Up With Russia For Future Mars Flight 318
Air Force & NASA Fire Off Green Rocket 157
NASA May Outsource 219
Sunspots May Be Different During This Solar Minimum 95
Initial Tests Fail To Find Gravitational Waves 553
Alternative Orion Missions Proposed 137
NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily 203
Relativistic Navigation Needed For Solar Sails 185
Excalibur Almaz To Offer Commercial Orbital Flights 76
NASA Discovers Life's Building Block In Comet 148
NASA Developing Nuclear Reactor For Moon and Mars 424
Mystery of Sun's Outer Atmosphere Solved 56
NASA's Cashflow Problem Puts Moon Trip In Doubt 357
A Planet That Orbits Its Star the Wrong Way 257
EVE Online's Fight Against Currency Farmers 208
NASA Wants To Fund Space Taxis 136
Nearby, Recent Interplanetary Collision Inferred 88
Strange New Objects Seen In Saturn's Rings 113
NASA's New Telescope Finds Exoplanet Atmosphere 124
NASA To Invest In Commercial Crew Concepts 77
NASA's LCROSS Spacecraft Discovers Life On Earth 171
Surface Plume On Betelgeuse Imaged 51
Possible Meteorite Imaged By Opportunity Rover 82
Orbit Your Own Satellite For $8,000 208
Panel Recommends Space Science, Not Stunts 304
Experts Puzzled By Bright Spot On Venus 107
White Knight Two Unveiled 144
Fewer Than 10 ET Civilizations In Our Galaxy? 642
Jumpgate Evolution Dev Talks Class Balance 86
Panel Advises Longer Life For Space Station 237
New Class of Galaxy Discovered 104
Is Jupiter Earth's Cosmic Protector? 222
Hubble Photographs Jupiter's New "Scar" 60
$2 Million NASA Power Beaming Challenge Heating Up 98
Armadillo Aerospace Flight Paves Way For Science Payloads 63
White House Panel Seeks Input On Spaceflight Plans 224
Pics of the Longest Solar Eclipse of the Century 97
Solar-Powered Moon Rover To Explore Apollo Landing 151
Astronomer Photographs Meteor Through Telescope 81
Entire Moon Added To Google Earth 109
How They Built the Software of Apollo 11 220
Forty Years of Lunar Lander 136
Main Toilet On ISS Craps Out 219
Something May Have Just Hit Jupiter 299
Noctilucent Clouds Spread and Mystify 227
Early Abort of Ares I Rocket Would Kill Crew 414
Beyond the X-PRIZE — a $1.5B Commercial Lunar Market 33
NASA's LRO Captures High-Res Pics of Apollo Landing Sites 197
NASA Releases Restored Apollo 11 Video, But Originals Lost 173
What If the Apollo Program Had Continued? 389
Space Shuttle Endeavour Heads To Space Station 79
Shiny New Space Fence To Monitor Orbiting Junk 76
Six Men Endure 105-Day Mars Flight Simulator 274
NASA's Skylab $400 Littering Fine Paid By DJ 111
New Map Hints At Venus' Wet, Volcanic Past 118
SpaceX Boosts Malaysian Satellite Into Orbit 71
NASA Has the Lost Tapes 256
ISS Launches First Permanent Node of "Interplanetary Internet" 121
Endeavour's Launch Once More Delayed 65
Military's Satellite Meteor Data Sharing May Soon Resume 35
Lightning Strikes Delay Shuttle Launch 50
More First-Light Data From Herschel Space Telescope 21
NASA Successfully Tests Orion's New Crew Escape System 64
Stacking of New Space Vehicle Begins At KSC 121
Vint Cerf Imagines the Net's Future At NASA 67
ESA and NASA Establish a Joint Mars Exploration Initiative 95
Sunspots Return 276
Successful Test of Superconducting Plasma Rocket Engine 168
NASA Hedges Their Bets On Return To Moon 205
Cosmic Fireworks Display Seen Inside Helix Nebula 34
Space Station Marathon Starting This Weekend 61
Planck Telescope Is Coolest Spacecraft Ever 196
TerreStar Launches World's Largest Telecom Satellite 57
Phoenix Lander Discovers Nighttime Snowfall On Mars 48
NASA Suggests Nano Robots To Explore Mars 104
Comets Probably Seeded Earth's Nitrogen Atmosphere 110
Images of Apollo Landing Sites Soon Available 263
Galactic Origin For 62M-Year Extinction Cycle? 221
NASA Requests Help With Von Braun's Notes 148
Spirit Rover Begins Making Night Sky Observations 157
Has NASA Found the Lost Moon Tapes? 222
Ulysses Space Mission Finally Coming To an End 45
Milky Way's Spiral Arms Could Not Have Caused Climate Change 86
Buzz Aldrin's Radical Plan For NASA 519
Stuck Knob Causes Serious Window Damage To Atlantis 291
Cassini Spots Geysers On Saturn's Moon Enceladus 107
Pictures of Kuril Islands Volcano From ISS 65
NASA Sticking To Imperial Units For Shuttle Replacement 901
US Military Blocks Data On Incoming Meteors 172
White House Panel Considers New Paths To Space 151
First Light Images From Herschel Satellite Released 35
Spaceport America Begins Construction 95
"Definitive Evidence" For Ancient Lake On Mars 102
Satellite Glitch Rekindles GPS Concerns 101
Mystery of the Missing Sunspots, Solved? 99
Aussie Scientists Build a Cluster To Map the Sky 58
Can Commercial Space Tech Get Off the Ground? 133
Revived Microbe May Hold Clues For ET Lifeforms 126
NASA To Trigger Massive Explosion On the Moon In Search of Ice 376
Kilometer-High Waves Flow In Saturn's Rings 31
Herschel Space Telescope Opens For the First Time 84
Introducing the Warpship 361
"Burning Walls" May Stop Black Hole Formation 100
Lucky Thirteen On the ISS 120
14-Year-Old Boy Smote By Meteorite 435
Could Betelgeuse Go Boom? 383
Junior-Sized Supernova Discovered By New York Teen 154
Possible Extra-Galactic Planet Detected 83
Measuring the Hubble Constant Better 102
One Fifth of World's Population Can't See Milky Way At Night 612
Inflatable Tower Could Climb To the Edge of Space 296
US Manned Space Flight Taking a Budget Hit 182
Black Hole Swallows Star 166
How Do You Greet an Extraterrestrial? 803
China's First Mars Probe Ready To Launch 67
Penguin Poop Seen From Space 86
Could a Meteor Have Brought Down Air France 447? 884
Protecting the Apollo Landing Sites From Later Landings 339
An Inside Look At the SpaceX Rocket Factory 50
The Real British X-Files 239

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