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    WORLD'S FIRST SOLAR SAIL IMAGES FROM DEEP SPACE
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    A tiny space camera has snapped amazing photos of the world's first solar sail spacecraft to voyage into deep space on an interplanetary mission for Japan.

    The solar sail vehicle, named Ikaros, took the opportunity for a self-portrait by deploying a free-floating cylindrical camera just 2.4 inches (6 cm) in both width and height. In the photos, the Ikaros sail shines like a gleaming silver ship in a sea of black space. The spring-launched camera snapped the new photos of the solar sail as the mission departs for Venus and beyond. Ikaros, short for Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun, launched in late May and deployed its solar sail in early June to become the first space mission ever propelled only by sunlight. The mission was designed and built by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).

    JAXA engineers will monitor the power generated by thin film solar cells embedded within the kite-like sail, in hopes that future missions could combine solar sailing with electricity to power ion propulsion engines. Like the tale of Icarus, which tells the story of a boy who flew too close to the sun, the Ikaros solar sail is also expected to explore our nearest star. It is headed to the other side of the sun after a detour to Venus, JAXA officials said. "Through these activities, we will ultimately aim at acquiring navigation technology through the solar sail," JAXA officials said in a statement last Friday.

    The solar sail mission piggybacked aboard the main launch of Japan's Venus climate orbiter, called Akatsuki ("Dawn" in Japanese). Both spacecraft launched alongside four small satellites on May 20 (early morning local Japan time on May 21) from the Tanegashima Space Center on Tanegashima island in Japan.

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  • NASA CAPTURES RE-ENTRY OF JAPANESE SPACECRAFT OVER AUSTRALIA VIDEO
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  • Just in case you thought the re-entry of the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft couldn't get any better, NASA has just released an aerial video of the speeding sample return capsule followed by the break-up of the rest of the probe as the whole lot tumbled through the Earth's atmosphere.

    "We could see the little sample return capsule separate from the main ship and lead its way in; and [we] just had this magnificent display of the break-up of Hayabusa," Trevor Ireland, from the Australian National University, told the BBC. The video was taken by NASA's highly modified McDonnell Douglas DC-8 jetliner that was flying above Australia as Hayabusa re-entered. Zooming in on the brightening dot, scientists aboard the flying laboratory captured the sparkling break-up of Hayabusa while also tracking the sample return capsule speed ahead. There's more good news. According to JAXA, the sample return capsule has been found.

    On the UK's BBC News 24, scientists are reporting that the capsule is "in good shape," but they won't be able to move it until the morning as it is too dangerous to land the transport helicopter in the landing zone at night. Presumably, the capsule's parachute operated as expected, allowing the capsule (hopefully containing the precious asteroid dust) to land safely in the Australian Outback.
    SPACE SUIT TESTING AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY FAIL VIDEO
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  • RUSSIAN LUNAR ROVER FOUND 37 YEARS AFTER DISAPPEARANCE

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    A researcher from The University of Western Ontario has helped solve a 37-year old space mystery using lunar images released March 15 by NASA and maps from his own atlas of the moon.

    Phil Stooke, a professor cross appointed to Western's Departments of Physics & Astronomy and Geography, published a reference book on lunar exploration in 2007 entitled, "The International Atlas of Lunar Exploration." On March 15, images and data from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) were posted. The LRO, scheduled for a one year exploration mission about 31 miles above the lunar surface, will produce a comprehensive map, search for resources and potential safe landing sites and measure lunar temperatures and radiation levels. Using his atlas and the NASA images, Stooke pinpointed the exact location of the Russian rover Lunokhod 2, discovering tracks left by the lunar sampler 37 years ago after it made a 35-kilometre trek. The journey was the longest any robotic rover has ever been driven on another celestial body.

    As soon as the NASA photos were released, scientists around the world, including Stooke, began work to locate the rover. Stooke set up a searchable image database and located the photograph he needed, among thousands of others. "The tracks were visible at once," says Stooke. "Knowing the history of the mission, it's possible to trace the rover's activities in fine detail. We can see where it measured the magnetic field, driving back and forth over the same route to improve the data. And we can also see where it drove into a small crater, and accidentally covered its heat radiator with soil as it struggled to get out again. That ultimately caused it to overheat and stop working. And the rover itself shows up as a dark spot right where it stopped." The find, he adds will mean that older maps published by Russia will now need to be revised.

    Stooke says that NASA scientists have used his atlas in both preparation and data recovery. His next project is a similar volume on Mars exploration which will include the best maps of the moons of Mars

    BEST EARTH VIEWS FROM SPACE WITH SHUTTLE LAUNCH (HD) VIDEO

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  • AUSTRALIAN WOMAN IS VIRGIN GALACTIC'S $300,000 ASTRONAUT VIDEO

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  • INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION'S NEW 360 DEGREE WINDOW

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    TRANQUILITY A ROOM WITH A VIEW IN SPACE VIDEO

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  • FASTER THEN THE SPEED OF LIGHT VIDEO

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  • HISTORY OF NASSA: THE OLD BLACK SPACE PROGRAM VIDEO

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  • THE HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD IN 3D VIDEO

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  • AMATEUR BEAR-4 HD CAMERA FLIGHT TO THE EDGE OF SPACE VIDEO

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  • SPACE FENCE DEFENDS AGAINST ORBITAL DEBRIS VIDEO

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  • NEIL ARMSTRONG'S FIRST TELEVISION INTERVIEW 2 PART VIDEO

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  • THE HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD IN 3D VIDEO

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  • MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY VIDEO

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  • 40 YEARS ON AND STILL NO REAL TRUTH ABOUT THE MOON LANDING

    moon landing The year was 1969. In what appeared to most eyes as the most monumental and technologically incredible feat in human history, man had walked on the moon. Blasting from earth into space, NASA's Apollo 11 craft, carrying aloft three heroic astronauts, sat down on the moon's dusty surface. A breathless and ecstatic audience numbering in the billions were glued to their TV sets and radios. Then, they heard those historic words from the astronauts, "THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!" Shortly thereafter, these same throngs of well-wishers saw Commander Neil Armstrong step out into the lunar environment and state the historic phrase, "One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind."

    A fitting and politically correct epitaph to a remarkable journey, was it not? A clarion call to global unity. No acknowledgement to the United States of America, the great nation that made it all possible. No patriotic mention of the military veterans who, over the centuries, fought and died to keep our nation strong and free. No thanks was given to suffering taxpayers whose dollars had paid for the nonessential, but propagandist, moon shot. And certainly, no honor was given, nor homage paid, to Jesus Christ, by whose love, ransom and sacrifice on the cross the whole world has been set free. No, the Illuminati script called only for a nebulous acclaim for the human collective, of the "giant leap for mankind."

    True, a small replica of our proud U.S. flag was dutifully carted off the Eagle lander and posted for all to see. But, then, a strange ritual of an entirely different sort, of a dark and ominous character, took place at Tranquillity Base on the moon. It was not beamed to the earth via television, for this ritual was carefully crafted beforehand as a secret ceremony, to be hidden and seen only by the eyes of the adepts of the Illuminati and its Masonic fraternity. Astronaut Neil Armstrong carefully took out his Masonic apron and held it up for the cameras over his space suit as if to cover his genitals area-the power center, or dynamo, of Luciferian energy in Masonic ritual. Today, a photograph of Armstrong holding his occultic apron hangs on a wall at the House of the Temple, the sanctuary of the Scottish Rite, in Washington, D.C. Next, brother Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, at the time a 32° Masonic initiate, planted on the moon's surface the real flag intended for honor, the flag the Apollo 11 had carried in its storage compartment, the flag with the Scottish Rite's emblem of deep and mysterious spirituality, the doubleheaded eagle.

    This, then, was the esoteric, but hidden and encoded meaning of the name "Eagle" for the lander. The cabalistic ritual script called for elevated man, initiated god-man, to "ride" the black phoenix bird, the "Eagle," to glory, upward toward the sun. God-man was to make his nest among the stars which decorate the black-garbed night, amidst the day-time canopy of the blue sky (the blue lodge).

    And so, following their occultly prescribed pagan psychodrama ritual to the letter, the astronauts claimed the moon for their Sovereign, whom they, the Masons, majestically address as The Great Architect of the Universe, known more simply as The Builder. Just as Christopher Columbus, Hernando DeSoto, Ferdinand Magellan and all the great explorers had planted their flag and had claimed the land and territory they had discovered to be the legal possession of their respective monarch and country, the astronauts declared the celestial body of the moon to be the property of their own Noble and of his fiefdom. In their warped minds, the moon belongs to Lucifer, with title held by his high servant and potentate, the Sovereign Grand Commander, Supreme Mother Council, 33°.

    moon rock For anyone as yet to visit Kennedy Space Center one of most amazing exhibits is a piece of moon rock .

    What is even more interesting is that it is encased in a pyramid of clear resin. It looks exactly like a pyramid capstone and until Texe Marrs exposed the masonic connections with NASA and its missions you would not have suspected the purpose of NASA choosing a pyramid shape to encapsulate such a precious specimen. Is the NASA program a secret ILLUMINATI system of new world order domination and to set up their satellite tracking and global listening stations?
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  • BANNED IN AMERICA: CLASSIFIED MOON LANDING FOOTAGE VIDEO

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  • AMAZING VIRGIN GALACTIC DIGITAL SPACEFLIGHT SIMULATION VIDEO

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    VIRGIN GALACTIC ALL SEEING EYE

    Sir Richard Branson a knight of the realm , part of the illuminati and New World Order and gets his finance from the masonic banking mafia to fund his adventures. The space shuttle has been designed to take the ELITE controllers of this world out into space to avoid the nuclear wars they will trigger with their manipulation of the planets resources while enslaving the population.

    Branson is aiding the extra seats they will need for the extended families that will be safe in space while they blow us all to kingdom come.

    NASA EXPERIMENTS: FROG AND CAT IN ZERO GRAVITY VIDEO

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  • PLANK OF WOOD ON MARS SURFACE ?

    mars WOOD you believe it? A plank appears to have been found on the surface of Mars.

    The snap of what looks like a weathered timber beam was taken by NASA’s Rover explorer in 2004 but has just been uncovered in the space agency’s huge archives.
    Speculation has swept the internet that it proves water was on the Red Planet until recently.

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  • WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS MONOLITH SITTING ON THE MOON? VIDEO

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  • Massive monolith found on the moon, while the Telegragh news this morning states

    "Plans for 'doomsday ark' on the moon" HERE.

    Have they already started BUILDING the ARK? The video certainly makes it look like there is something of substance that is not a curious rock formation but looks more like a massive construction project.