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Japan’s Satellite Crashes Into The Moon, Sends Back Footage Of Its Demise
1:10AM Adam Frucci
Japan’s Selene satellite has been sending us amazing HD footage of the surface of the moon for a couple of months now, but on June 11th, it finally crashed into the surface. And its final video might be its best. More »
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Videos So Close to the Moon You Can Almost Touch It
11:00PM Jesus Diaz | Selene— Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s spacecraft mapping and filming the moon in High Definition for the first time—keeps returning crystal-clear videos of the Moon surface. And the video will keep getting closer and closer, until it crashes. More »
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Unmanned Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Could Be NASA’s Next Space Shuttle
3:00AM John Mahoney | With the dinosaur Space Shuttle set to retire in 2010, and Orion due to be finished (optimistically) by 2015, NASA may purchase the US$131 million unmanned HTV cargo vehicle from JAXA, Japan’s space agency, to guarantee fresh shipments of space-Doritos flowing up to the brave souls on the International Space Station. While they had initially planned to fill this gap by relying on commercial space cargo flights by companies like SpaceX, Reuters is reporting that delays in the private-sector space companies have caused NASA to look elsewhere to avoid being crippled by the Shuttle’s retirement. [Reuters] More »
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Video of Space Boomerang Is Exactly What You Expect
10:06PM Jesus Diaz | We knew that boomerangs work in space because Takao Doi tried one in the International Space Station last month. Now, thanks to JAXA’s obsession with cameras we have proof on video. The usual skeptics who think that Elvis is really the only human that ever went to the moon—and still lives there—will be happy. [JAXA via Pink Tentacle] More »
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