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Samples from asteroid could be key to understanding how life formed on earth, says key scientist
Footage from the National History Museum of a sample of Asteroid Bennu is a 4.5-billion-year-old remnant of our early Solar System. Interview with Prof Sara Russell, Senior Research Lead.
Press Association
4.5 billion-year-old asteroid could reveal origins of life on Earth
Samples of a 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid that have travelled millions of miles to make it to Earth could reveal the origins of life on the planet. The teaspoon-sized specimen, taken from asteroid Bennu, is being examined by scientists...
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SPACE: NASA VIEWS OF ASTEROID EROS
Natural Sound
The first pictures of the asteroid Eros taken from the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft were released on Thursday.
The pictures were taken on December the 23, when NEAR flew within 2320 miles (3830...
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NASA: Asteroid to Flyby Earth at Safe Distance
RESTRICTION SUMMARY: MUST COURTESY NASA / AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:NASA TV - MUST COURTESY NASA / AP CLIENTS ONLYMillion Miles from Earth - 18 April 20171. Rotation of "binary structure" asteroid(++BLACK BETWEEN SHOTS++)2. Slightly...
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NASA Details Historic DART Mission That Crashed Into Asteroid
The purpose of the mission was to test the ability to protect Earth from potential planet-killing asteroids in the future.
Bloomberg
Japan Is Quietly Preparing the Way for Humans In Space
Material samples from asteroids may be instrumental to figuring out humanity's next steps into the solar system. Japan's young space agency, JAXA, has become the expert at going to get them.
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A high-technology company announced a risky and monstrously expensive project hoping to use space-faring robots to mine precious metals from asteroids that routinely whiz by Earth.
HEADLINE Space-faring robots to mine asteroids
CAPTION: A high-technology company announced a risky and monstrously expensive project hoping to use space-faring robots to mine precious metals from asteroids that routinely whiz by Earth....
Bloomberg
The Final Frontier for Energy Giants
Apr.23 -- The Middle East has an outsize impact on energy on Earth, but one analyst thinks some regional powerhouses may leverage that role into the development of natural resources in space. Bloomberg's Dan Murtaugh reports on...
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+4:3 Close encounter expected with space rock the size of an aircraft carrier
200-thousand miles (322-thousand kilometres) from Earth - 7 October, 2011
1. Radio telescope image of asteroid 2005 YU 55
2. Animation of path of asteroid 2005 YU 55
3. Spinning animation of asteroid
Washington, DC - 7 November...
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NASA Spacecraft Going to Asteroid
VOICEOVER SCRIPT:THROUGHOUT FLORIDA'S SPACE COAST, THEY WATCHED BY THE THOUSANDS AS AN ATLAS V CARRYING OSIRIS-REX SOARED INTO THE LATE DAY SKY.SOUNDBITE (English) Valeria Rodriguez, Miami Resident:"That was amazing. Inside, when it...
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Space probe Cassini sends back Saturn moon pictures
1. Wide of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) press conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Torrence Johnson, Cassini Image Scientist, NASA JPL:
(overlaid with pictures of Phoebe, Saturn's small moon)
"Very heavily cratered drains,...
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NASA Spacecraft Going to Asteroid
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus062717VOICEOVER SCRIPT:THROUGHOUT FLORIDA'S SPACE COAST, THEY WATCHED BY THE THOUSANDS AS AN ATLAS V CARRYING OSIRIS-REX SOARED INTO THE LATE DAY SKY.SOUNDBITE (English) Valeria Rodriguez, Miami...
Bloomberg
Andreessen: Airbnb Is a Gigantic Commercial Success
Oct. 15 -- Andreessen Horowitz Co-Founder Marc Andreessen discusses the new generation of tech companies. He speaks with Bloomberg West Host Emily Chang at Dreamforce 2014 in San Francisco. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg
How To Predict and Maybe Prevent an Asteroid Strike
Dec.18 -- An impact from an asteroid could have catastrophic consequences for humanity. Meet the scientists trying to predict when big asteroids will hit and how we might prevent it.
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Observatory in Puerto Rico gets a paint job.
1. Aerial still of telescope (mute)
2. Telescope sign
3.Telescope platform framed by trees
4. Various of towers that support dish
5. Various of worker walking to wide of structure
6. Various still of painters at work on dish (mute)
7....
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English interview with NASA on origin of planets
1. NASA animation of "space debris" that may be the basis for planets
2. SOUNDBITE (English): Dr. Karl Stapelfeldt, Spitzer Project:
"This is more tied into the question of the origin of life. How common are planets like the Earth out...
Bloomberg
ESAs Rosetta Accomplished an Extraordinary Feat: Lewicki
Nov. 12 -- Europes Rosetta spacecraft today landed the first ever probe on a comet, the culmination of a decade-long mission to the icy body thats currently between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Planetary Resources President Chris...
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The Dawn spacecraft blasted off from Florida this morning. It will venture into the heart of an asteroid belt, where it will document the mammoth asteroid Vesta, and then Ceres. Scientists hope to learn more about how planets form.
HEADLINE: Raw video: Dawn spacecraft launch
CAPTION: The Dawn spacecraft blasted off from Florida this morning. It will venture into the heart of an asteroid belt, where it will document the mammoth asteroid Vesta, and then Ceres. ...
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A new mission to sample an asteroid near Earth
US ASTEROID MISSION SOURCE: AP HORIZONS, LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY / VNR: COPYRIGHT OF NASA RESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 5.16SHOTLIST:VNR: Copyright of NASA Not...
Bloomberg
Tencent's Wallerstein Says Open to the Unexpected Company
Jun.20 -- Tencent Chief Exploration Officer David Wallerstein discusses what kind of companies interest Tencent. He speaks with Bloomberg's Stephen Engle.
Bloomberg
Japan Takes the First Step Toward Asteroid Mining
Sep.28 -- Tom Risen, Aerospace America reporter, discusses the future of asteroid mining with Bloomberg's Brad Stone on "Bloomberg Technology."
Bloomberg
Former Astronaut Expects Space Tourism in 10 Years
Nov.16 -- SpaceX launched a NASA mission to the International Space Station with four astronauts aboard. Thomas Jones, a former NASA space shuttle pilot, discusses the milestone on "Bloomberg Technology."
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Three years after the retirement of the space shuttle, NASA is making progress on the Space Launch System. Across the country, parts are being assembled and tested to propel SLS and the next generation of astronauts to an asteroid or Mars. (June 19)
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SOUNDBITE: Jackie Nesselroad, The Boeing Company: "The United States is the leader in the industry. We're the leader for the world."
SOUNDBITE: Curt Jackson, NASA:
"This is essentially the...
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NASA says asteroid may collide with Mars on January 30
December 21, 2007
1. NASA animation of planet Mars with graphics
Pasadena, California - December 21, 2007
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Chesley, Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory:
"If this asteroid actually does hit Mars, there...