Orion moves towards its first EFT-1 spaceflight later this year. (Credit: NASA)
There’s an old Chinese proverb that says, “May you live in interesting times,” and 2013 certainly fit the bill in the world of spaceflight and space science. The past year saw spacecraft depart for Mars, China land a rover on the Moon, and drama in low Earth orbit to repair the International Space Station. And all of this occurred against a landscape of dwindling budgets, government shutdowns that threatened launches and scientific research, and ongoing sequestration.
But it’s a brave new world out there. Here are just a few space-related stories that we’ll watching in 2014:(...)
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Post tags: 2014 space stories, 2014 spaceflight, A1 siding spring, advanced LIGO, comet mars 2014, esa comet mission, esa gaia, India Mars, LUX dark matter, MAVEN, Orion EFT-1, rosetta philae, SpaceX
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