Space News, 7 April 2018 | 15 Minute News

German Scientists Harvest Their 1st Antarctic Salad, and It Looks Amazing

SPACE.com - 7 Apr 2018 15:20

Lettuce, cucumbers and radishes are among the first plants to be collected from the greenhouse.

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A Third of Young Millennials Are Confused About This Incontrovertible Fact

SPACE.com - 7 Apr 2018 15:16

Younger people seem perplexed about whether Earth is round or flat.

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Interplanetary CubeSats Are Go!

Scientific American - 7 Apr 2018 21:00

NASA’s latest Mars probe has a couple of very special hitchhikers --

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Earth from Space: Lake Baikal, Siberia

SpaceRef - 7 Apr 2018 17:06

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A satellite takes us over southern Siberia and the world's largest freshwater lake: Lake Baikal....

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Today's "Planet Earth Report" --"Humans Have Been Making Glass for Millennia and We Still Don't Have a Good Idea of What It Is"

The Daily Galaxy - 7 Apr 2018 15:41

To reach you, these words were encoded into signals of light moving about 125,000 miles per second through fiber-optic cables. These lines, splayed out across mountains and oceans, are made of hair-thin glass 30 times mo...

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Awesome Video Shows What It Was Like to Fly Virgin Galactic's Rocket-Powered Test Flight

SPACE.com - 7 Apr 2018 15:13

Even after flying 140 different types of aircraft, the chief pilot on Virgin's successful powered spaceship test yesterday (April 5) says being at the helm of the VSS Unity was "something else."

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Help wanted to operate and maintain Air Force deep space telescopes

Space News - 7 Apr 2018 15:03

The Air Force Space Command last week posted a "sources sought" notice for the operations and maintenance of the Ground-based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance System. SpaceNews.com

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