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Interstellar mission patch: Paramount and Warner Bros this week debuted a new trailer for "Interstellar," the highly-anticipated sci-fi film directed by Christopher Nolan. The two-and-a-half minute video includes some new, visually-stunning space scenes, as well as offers a look at the movie's spaceships, spacesuits and the mission patch that astronauts Cooper and Brand (Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway) wear aboard the Endurance ship.
/ 4:30 p.m. CT (2130 GMT)
Make Your Own SpaceShipTwo: Late next month, DK Publishing will release three new books under a seven title deal announced on Tuesday (Aug 5) with Virgin Galactic. "Make Your Own SpaceShipTwo," which has within its pages the parts to build a paper model of the suborbital spacecraft and its WhiteKnightTwo mothership, will be sold for 1/10,000th the price of the $250,000 ticket to fly on the real SpaceShipTwo. The other titles reaching store shelves on Sep. 29 include an "Ultimate Sticker Collection" and the flagship book, "Virgin Galactic: The Ultimate Experience."
/ 10:00 a.m. CT (1500 GMT)
Rosetta comet rendezvous: After a decade chasing its target, ESA's Rosetta spacecraft on Wednesday (Aug. 6) arrived at the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, where it's set to make history by entering orbit and landing a probe on the irregularly-shaped surface. "After ten years, five months and four days traveling toward our destination, looping around the Sun five times and clocking up [4 billion miles], we are delighted to announce finally 'we are here,'" Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA's Director General, said.
/ 12:55 p.m. CT (1755 GMT)
R/V Sally Ride: The U.S. Navy on Saturday (Aug. 9) christened its first research vessel named for a female scientist, the R/V Sally Ride, during a ceremony held at the Dakota Creek Industries, Inc. shipyard in Anacortes, Washington. Named for the first American woman to fly in space, the R/V Sally Ride will be operated for the Navy by Scripps Institution of Oceanography to conduct research in physics, chemistry, biology, geology and climate science.
/ 1:30 p.m. CT (1830 GMT)
Marking a year in space: Less than a year remains before the first year-long mission on the International Space Station. From March 2015 to March 2016, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko with Roscosmos will gather data to better ready future crews to leave Earth orbit and explore the solar system. The crew's recently revealed patch celebrates their "Year in Space."
/ 7:15 p.m. CT (0015 GMT Aug 14)
ATV commemorative kit: Europe's fifth and final space freighter, the Automated Transfer Vehicle-5 "Georges Lemaître," docked to the aft port on the International Space Station's Russian Zvezda service module on Tuesday (Aug. 12) to deliver six tons of fuel and supplies. On board the spacecraft is one of only 100 commemorative box sets that the European Space Agency assembled to honor the history of the fleet and its visionary scientist namesakes.
/ 4:00 p.m. CT (2100 GMT)
Hello Kitty in space: Japan's famous feline Hello Kitty is now in orbit celebrating its 40th anniversary. A 1.5-inch-tall figure of the cute cat was launched onboard the small satellite Hodoyoshi 3, posed by a window with a view of the Earth below. Sanrio, the company that created Hello Kitty, is inviting fans to submit messages to be shown with the popular character's figure in videos sent from space.
/ 2:30 p.m. CT (1930 GMT)
'American Flag on the Moon': Standing on NASA's Launch Pad 39B on Saturday (Aug. 16), country music star Brad Paisley 'leaked' his new song, "American Flag on the Moon." The singer's tweet announcing the leak drew the attention of NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman aboard the International Space Station. "Hold on, we don't usually like leaks at the launch pad." The song, which will be released with Paisley's new album on Aug. 26, was inspired by his 5 year old son's attempt to see the U.S. flag on the moon.
/ 10:00 a.m. CT (1500 GMT)
'Beam Me to Mars': Space research funding company Uwingu announced Tuesday (Aug. 19) the launch of "Beam Me to Mars," a new project allowing anyone to be part of a global "shout-out" to Mars. The broadcast, which is set for Nov. 28, is timed to coincide with and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Mariner 4, the first successful mission to reach the Red Planet and return photos of the surface.
/ 12:00 a.m. CT (0500 GMT)
'Astronaut's Guide,' the sitcom: Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's "Guide To Life On Earth" will be the basis for a new TV sitcom, Deadline Hollywood reported Tuesday (Aug. 19). ABC has committed to producing a pilot episode for the series about an "astronaut who's back from space and finds that re-entering domestic life might be the hardest mission he's ever faced." Penned and produced by the creative team behind "S#*! My Dad Says," Hadfield will be a consulting producer on the 'Astronaut's Guide' series.
/ 3:00 p.m. CT (2000 GMT)
Steven Nagel, 1946-2014: Former astronaut Steve Nagel died on Thursday evening (Aug. 21) at age 67. A veteran of four spaceflights, Nagel first served as a mission specialist on STS-51G in 1985 and then piloted the space shuttle on STS-61A later that same year. He commanded his third and fourth missions, STS-37 and STS-55, in 1991 and 1993. In total, he spent more than 30 days in space.
/ 5:00 a.m. CT (1000 GMT)
Mate-Demate demolition: The iconic space shuttle Mate-Demate Device that has been a fixture at NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., for the past 38 years is being dismantled, three years after the shuttle program ended and six years since it last supported turnaround operations after the last shuttle landing on the west coast. The 110-foot tall MDD structure supported 59 shuttle landings between 1977 and 2009.
/ 3:30 p.m. CT (2030 GMT)
Beyond Neptune: In a cosmic coincidence evoking a space history connection, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft traversed the orbit of Neptune on Monday (Aug 25), 25 years to the day after Voyager 2 encountered the gas planet. The probe, on its way to a July 2015 flyby of Pluto, missed Neptune by 2.5 billion miles, but mission managers marked the milestone by sharing a new image of the planet and its moon Triton captured by New Horizons in July.
/ 6:30 p.m. CT (2330 GMT)
Restoring a retired rocket: For nine years, it has sat, separated into huge parts, waiting inside a World War II-era hangar in Ohio. On Tuesday (Aug. 26), the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force announced it was time to begin restoring its Titan 4B space launch vehicle so that it can be exhibited in the museum's fourth building opening in 2016. The more than 200-foot-tall rocket is the largest item the museum has restored and its curators are seeking help from those who worked on the retired Titan 4B program.
/ 7:30 a.m. CT (1230 GMT)
Committing to launch: NASA committed to building the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) Wednesday (Aug. 27), announcing the rocket had passed a key review, progressing from formulation to development, something no other exploration class vehicle has achieved since the space shuttle. As part of the review, the agency set a cost baseline of $7.021 billion and approved a launch readiness schedule for the first SLS to fly no later than Nov. 2018.
/ 11:45 a.m. CT (1645 GMT)
Tire marks and teardrop tiles: Thirty years ago Saturday (Aug. 30), NASA's third orbiter lifted off on its maiden flight. Three decades later, space shuttle Discovery is exhibited at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center. What would Discovery think of its setting? "It would love being in so many selfies because everybody takes a picture beside Discovery," said curator Valerie Neal, marking the orbiter's anniversary by taking part in an AMA (Ask Me Anything).
/ 4:35 p.m. CT (2135 GMT)
LEGO Hubble: Gabriel Russo's design for a Hubble Space Telescope made out of LEGO bricks will be reviewed by LEGO for possible production, now that it's topped 10,000 votes on the Danish toy company's Ideas website. Russo proposed the model to mark the 25th anniversary of the orbital observatory's launch next April. The set is sized to be LEGO minifigure-scale, and includes two astronauts.
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