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SpaceX Falcon 1 Finally Gets Into Orbit, Makes History [SpaceX]

After three failed attempts, one scattering of Scotty's ashes over the Pacific Ocean, and a few mid-air explosions, the SpaceX Falcon 1 rocket has finally reached orbit. The achievement marks a major milestone for Elon Musk, whose visions of a privately. [lien] [EN]

Can Russia Walk Away From Its Cape Canaveral?

A Soyuz space vehicle bound for the International Space Station lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 8. (Sergei Chirikov/EPA) [lien] [EN]

Giuliani planning “space policy roundtable” Friday

At the end of a blog post about a new campaign ad, the New York Times reports that Rudy Giuliani will be holding a “space policy roundtable” Friday in Cape Canaveral. No other details about the event are provided, and the campaign web site doesn’t have any information yet about the event. [lien] [EN]

Elon Musk's latest failed rocket launch sends Scotty's remains into Pacific, not space [SpaceX]

On Omelek Island in the Pacific Ocean, 2,500 miles from Hawaii, a rocket carrying the ashen remains of Star Trek actor James “Scotty” Doohan and 207 other people was poised to rocket to the heavenes Saturday. Footing the bill: Elon Musk of PayPal and Tesla Motors fame. Instead. [lien] [EN]

NASA Launch Complex Gets Demolished, Bounces Back [Launch Pad Crash]

newVideoPlayer("complex40boom_gizmodo.flv", 494, 390,""); We have seen many spectacular demolitions, but the destruction of the Mobile Service Structure at NASA/USAF's Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida, is perhaps the most striking of them all: instead of imploding down. [lien] [EN]

Private Rocket Goes to Space

(YouTube link) SpaceX has succeeded in their attempt to launch the Falcon 1 rocket into space. The company, headed by eBay co-founder Elon Musk, had made three unsuccessful tries before yesterday’s launch. The tensest moment came just before stage separation. [lien] [EN]

Space shuttle Endeavour launches with Japanese lab

Source: [b]Reuters[/b] CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour blasted off from a seaside Florida launch pad on Tuesday to deliver part of a long-awaited Japanese space laboratory and a Canadian-built robotic system to the International Space Station. [lien] [EN]

Palin to move to Quahog

Oh sure. Why not? The Providence Journal reported that Sarah Palin is moving to Rhode Island. It cited a gossip column in the Anchorage Daily News. Quahog is the fictional Rhode Island town that is the setting for the cartoon series, “Family Guy.” Someday some psychiatrist will make big bucks analyzing the anti. [lien] [EN]

NASA Finds Sensor Problem But Atlantis Launch Date No Closer

NASA troubleshooters determined on Tuesday that the problem that delayed space shuttle Atlantis’ launch by at least a month is not caused by defective fuel sensors as originally suspected, but by a bad connector that links wires from the sensors inside the shuttle's fuel tank to the outside. [lien] [EN]

V1 Rocket Car; Goodbye, Eric [Space Car]

Here's what we do know: 1). There is a car. 2). It has a freaking rocket attached to it. 3). If it is not the product of PS mastery, we volunteer Eric to test it out. (Benny is busy growing his hair... [lien] [EN]

V1 Rocket Car—Goodbye, Eric [Space Car]

Here's what we know: 1) There is a car. 2) It has a freaking rocket attached to it. 3) If this is not the product of PS mastery, we would like to volunteer weekend intern Eric to test it out. Benny,... [lien] [EN]

Space Shuttle Final Flight Programmed: May 31 2010 [To Infinity And Into Storage]

NASA has put a final date on the shuttle program: May 31 2010. That day, the shuttle will launch for the last time, putting an end to 29 years of amazing missions, two of them with tragic endings. The final will be STS-133, in which Endeavour "will carry critical spare components that will be placed on the outside of the station. [lien] [EN]

New Dish Network Satellite Launched, More HD Channels On the Way [Satellite]

In order to offer more HD channels, satellite providers need more satellites. So happy day for Dish Network subscribers, their EchoStar XI satellite was successfully launched this morning after a satellite propelled into space last March didn't reach the right orbit. [lien] [EN]

Spitzer Space Telescope Celebrates 5th Birthday With Portrait of Stellar Nursery [Happy Birthday]

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the last of the space agency's Great Observatories satellites to launch, celebrated its fifth birthday recently... giving me the opportunity to post this amazing multigenerational picture of star-forming region in the constellation Cassiopeia. [lien] [EN]