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Then there's Alma, another telescope in the Atacama searching for submillimetre radiation, Hubble in a near-Earth orbit and the yet-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope that will observe the beginnings of the universe from 1m miles above Earth.
TV review: Horizon: Seeing Stars; Safebreakers and Only Connect 2011
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Among mass layoffs, considerable uncertainty and protests, Nasa can do little more than hope that private sector enterprise will carry the US back into low Earth orbit and the ISS, while Nasa itself focuses on more distant manned exploration, perhaps to a passing near-Earth asteroid.
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The second highlighted destination was near-Earth asteroids.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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The second highlighted destination was near-Earth asteroids.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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The second highlighted destination was near-Earth asteroids.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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The second highlighted destination was near-Earth asteroids.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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We might catch a news-byte on the radio or TV about a new near-Earth asteroid that was discovered streaking toward us and missed us by two seconds.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Adrian Brown -- The Time for Mars is Now SETI Institute 2010
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Astronauts will soon be visiting near-Earth asteroids and a next generation of spacecraft will hopefully be replacing the retiring shuttle in the next decade.
SETI Institute: Life at the SETI Institute: Adrian Brown -- The Time for Mars is Now SETI Institute 2010
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The second highlighted destination was near-Earth asteroids.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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The second highlighted destination was near-Earth asteroids.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012
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