The immortal words of Hamlet "There's a lot more under heaven and earth than is imagined in your philosophy Horatio" are words modern astronomers must learned to embrace fully during the human journey to the beginning of space and time. The solar system in itself is a lot more active and dynamic than first thought and astronomers are finding things just in our own backyard that are currently making modern astronomers smile at their discoveries. Modern astronomers who are essentially detective...

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"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known" are the immortal words of Carl Sagan a noted figure of the human journey to the beginning of space and time whose path to understanding is an inspiration for millions of young people aspiring to be part of the human search for understanding of the universe. Immortal words leading the current human search for planets with Earth-like characteristics, these words have helped prepare the path the current and next generation of human space e...
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Reports of the death of NASA's Constellation program appear to have been a little premature as rocket scientists were testing Development Motor-2 (DM-2), currently the world's largest and most powerful solid rocket motor, on August 31 in static tests conducted by ATK Aerospace Systems in Promontory, Utah. The development of the DM-2 has been managed by the Ares Projects Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, and despite...