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US space programme in shock metric conversion

Falcon 9 launch proves a 'small, one-metre step for man'

Star Trek's Scotty boldly goes where he always wanted to

James Doohan's ashes hitch a ride on the SpaceX Dragon

SpaceX Dragon, first private ship to the ISS, launched successfully

PicAnother giant step for Elon Musk's space programme

Brit knits jumper for NASA space chicken

Rubber mascot wraps up warm for solar eclipse mission

SpaceX Dragon chokes at the last second

Computer said no: New attempt expected on Tuesday

Does Britain really need a space port?

AnalysisPlus: Sky TV accounts for most of UK's 'space sector'

SpaceX Dragon to smuggle SECRET package to the ISS

Mysterious cargo buried in the belly of the beast

Soyuz hooks up with Space Station, delivers new 'nauts

VidFull crew to be ready for Dragon arrival

GPS rival Beidou will cover Asia Pac by end of the year

Chinese satnav project could go global as early as 2014

Australia's first space park launched

WA set to track space stations Swedish style

NASA found filming August's Mars landing in California desert

'Just a rehearsal for the real one', insist rover boffins

ESA seeks doctor for Antarctic spaceflight sim

13 months of cold, dark, cramped quarters a "very interesting analogue"

SpaceX sets new blastoff date for Dragon: 19 May

Really this time, we think

Behind the lens of NASA's self-adapting ISS space telescope

AnalysisA hunk of space glass this ain't

SpaceX and Bigelow sign deal for inflatable space stations in orbit

Budget hotel mogul offering bubbles in space

Shy Venus in rare Sun crossing next month

Last chance to see until 2117 has exoplanet-spotters excited

Did dicky power supply silence climate-change probe Envisat?

PicOr had the silent craft seen enough of our planet?

Supersize shifting sand dunes stalk surface of Mars

PicNew photos are key clue to cracking Red Planet's past

NASA spots the light of a ‘super-Earth’

Spitzer space ‘scope serves up surprise

Planet systems with 'hot Jupiters' PULVERISE innocent strays

Should help boffins narrow search for Earthlike second home

Old-school Mars rover water findings confirmed

Veteran machine to resume work as summer approaches

Crazy old black hole's X-ray ultra-belch makes galaxy blush

Space telescope sniffs outburst more powerful than MILLION Suns

European Space Agency heads for Jupiter's moons

JUICE mission will inspect Europa, Callisto and Ganymede

Black hole swallows star in GALACTIC SUPER-GUZZLE!

Astroid-gazing telescope catches distant star flare-out

Boffins bone up on rover skills as Curiosity speeds to Mars

100-day countdown to touchdown

SpaceX test-fires Falcon 9 rocket as Dragon sleeps

Launch rescheduling confirmed for 7 May

Shuttle Enterprise comes home to New York

Buzzing the Big Apple

Gigantic lava spirals wreck Mars ice valley theory

Student goes looking for water, finds yet more rock

Billionaire astro mining venture long on hype and timescale

First launch in 2014, mining in 2022

SpaceX launch put off for a week

Let's just check everything one more time...

'Asteroid mining company' makes classic hypegasm debut today

James Cameron now OK with resource exploitation in space

Google founders, James Cameron, go asteroid mining

Tech elite seek rocks ... IN SPAAAACE

Cosmic ray source riddle mystery now even more mysterious

Eggheads stumped after killer gamma rays ruled out. Probably

PLANET-SWAP shock: Stars grabbed dirtballs from other clusters

Galaxy was young then, explain boffins

POWERFUL solar flare belched at Mars rover Curiosity

VidNASA robot hit by giant blast en route to Red Planet

SpaceX Dragon gets green-light for launch to Space Station

PicTreat-laden private rocket in May ISS hookup

NASA brainstorms with John Q Public for 2018 Mars mission

If the money's in the pot, that is

Euro climate probe Envisat silenced, boffins baffled

ESA loses contact with ageing space workhorse

Star sacrifices 2,000 comets a DAY to cloak twin planets in dust

PicIce cloud hid worlds from boffins - until now

Life on Mars found – in 1976

Re-analysis of Viking data suggests microbes took the bait

SpaceX taps Texas for 'commercial Cape Canaveral' site

Hang in there for the tedious environmental review, Mr. Musk

Shuttle Discovery to buzz Washington DC at 1,500 feet

UpdatedFarewell flyover scheduled for next Tuesday

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