Quoted: Four months after Sputnik, the von Braun/JPL team launches Explorer 1, America's first satellite, into orbit. Eisenhower forms NASA, and two years later, in utmost secrecy, the U.S. launches Corona, the first successful spy satellite.

Quoted: The planet is the most Earth-like ever spotted and is thought to have perfect conditions for water, an essential ingredient for life. Researchers detected the planet orbiting one of Earth's nearest stars, a cool red dwarf called Gliese 581, 20 light years away in the constellation of Libra.

Quoted: The British physicist Stephen Hawking is to embark on a zero-gravity flight in a specially modified plane.

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Quoted: India yesterday held out the possibility of sending astronauts to the moon by 2020 and called for a national debate on whether it should enter a space race with richer nations. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says it could have a manned spaceship ready in eight years to orbit the Earth and put Indian astronauts on the lunar surface in 14 years.

Quoted: Although the space program is a civilian effort, it is a symbol of national excellence -- and that makes it an ideal target. But behind the several layers of security, the Indian Space Research Organisation, or ISRO, is abuzz with new projects and excitement.

Quoted: India is to carry instruments for US space agency Nasa on its first unmanned mission to the Moon in early 2008.

From my mom! Thought some of you might be interested in seeing this tomorrow.

Quoted: Even though Wednesday's eclipse reaches its climax far from North American shores, you can still tune in to totality, thanks to a wide variety of Webcasts.

Quoted: An unmanned NASA spacecraft hurtled toward Pluto on Thursday on a 3-billion-mile journey to the solar system's last unexplored planet — a voyage so long that some of the scientists who will be celebrating its arrival are just taking their first physics class.

Quoted: WASHINGTON - (AP) -- Thinking of spending that next vacation on the moon or Mars or circling the Earth? Before liftoff, there's a list of ...