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LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory

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LARES 'mirror ball' sat will test Einstein's theory

A small satellite that will measure whether Earth drags space-time as it spins launched from French Guiana today on a new European Space Agency rocket

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Astronaut dream lives on despite cash woes and crashes

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Astronaut dream lives on despite cash woes and crashes

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Private spacecraft move forward as Soyuz struggles

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Private spacecraft move forward as Soyuz struggles

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Lost treasures: President Nixon's moon rocks

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Lost treasures: President Nixon's moon rocks

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Hayabusa's asteroid-sampling mission, take two

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Newt Gingrich, bizarre space visionary

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Newt Gingrich, bizarre space visionary

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Did the US accidentally zap Phobos-Grunt?

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Did the US accidentally zap Phobos-Grunt?

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The US didn't shoot Phobos-Grunt down (but could have)

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The US didn't shoot Phobos-Grunt down (but could have)

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Kinect weighs astronauts just by looking at them

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We have drift off: Balloons to the edge of space

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We have drift off: Balloons to the edge of space

Space tourism doesn't have to be rocket science, discovers Michael Le Page

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Kepler telescope detects distant star's heartbeat

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Aerospace dream team aims to launch people into orbit

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NASA confiscates web-auctioned rocket engine

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'Astronauts' to emerge from 520-day mock Mars mission

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