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  Software glitch aborts SpaceX rendezvous with space station

  A software glitch caused a SpaceX cargo spacecraft to abort its rendezvous with the International Space Station early on Wednesday.

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  Computer crashed? You could blame forces beyond our solar system

  As our personal electronic devices get more complex, researchers say cosmic rays could put them at a greater risk of operational failure.

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  A Hyperloop prototype is on its way to SpaceX

  A Hyperloop prototype from Delft University is headed to SpaceX's headquarters in California in preparation for a real-life test in January.

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  Mars lander goes silent, but scientists remain hopeful

  All seemed well as the European Space Agency's robotic explorer Schiaparelli closed in on its Mars landing Wednesday. Then it went silent.

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  Obama sets goal of establishing a Mars habitat

  President Barack Obama has set a goal of sending humans to Mars by the 2030s and getting them safely home again. It will likely be one of the topics discussed at the White House Frontiers Conference set for Thursday in Pittsburgh.

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  Musk's SpaceX spaceship will take us to Mars...and beyond

  Elon Musk says space travel throughout our solar system will be made possible with SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System (ITS).

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  Want to live on Mars with 1M of your closest friends?

  Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, envisions the day when there is a working, thriving, self-sustaining civilization of a million people on Mars.

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  NASA $1M contest intent on sending robots to Mars

  NASA engineers want humanoid robots to help astronauts living and working on Mars to help build habitats, grow food and make potable water.

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  Mars rover Curiosity celebrates fourth anniversary

  The rover has found evidence of water on the surface of the planet and in its soil, and that its rocks contain sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and carbon -- all key chemical ingredients for life.

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  NASA ready to build Mars rover 2020

  NASA is ready to wrap up the final design and begin building the next Mars rover, which is set to search, for the first time, for signs of past life on the planet.

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  This top-secret plane has been in space for a year, and we don't know why

  It has now been a year since the U.S. Airforce launched the mysterious X-37B into space, leaving many to wonder why it’s there.

• Start-up eyes mining asteroids for space colonies

  From a nondescript office on the edge of the Ames Research Park in Silicon Valley, Deep Space Industries is plotting a futuristic scheme to locate asteroids, check them out and then send in mining spacecraft to strip them of their minerals.

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  In pictures: How to protect Earth from asteroid destruction

  NASA and others are looking to protect the world from asteroid strikes

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  In Pictures: NASA's rover Curiosity's first year on Mars

  Images tell the story of the super rover's first year of work on Mars.

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  Mad Men writers pitch a new show about NASA, and other stuff you missed

  Apple's WWDC is coming, and so is a new Xbox. if that wasn't enough geeky excitement for you for one day, then you'll want to take a look at your end-of-week GeekBytes update. Today's roundup features Mad Men in space (sort of), the cost of being Iro...