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Space Webcasts: Breakthrough Starshot Announcement by Stephen Hawking, Yuri Milner
April 12, 2016 | ArticleStephen Hawking and Yuri Milner will announce a mysterious new space exploration initiative today at 12 p.m. EDT (1600 GMT), called Breakthrough Starshot, and you can watch it live on Livestream.
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Stephen Hawking to Unveil New Space Exploration Project Tuesday
April 12, 2016 | ArticleStephen Hawking will announce a mysterious new space exploration initiative Tuesday, and there's plenty of reason to think it will be a pretty big deal.
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Breakthrough Starshot in Pictures: Laser Sail Nanocraft to See Alpha Centauri
April 12, 2016 | Image AlbumYuri Milner and astrophysicist Stephen Hawking announced Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiative, on April 12, 2016, in New York City.
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Breakthrough Starshot Gets 'Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey' Introduction | Video
April 12, 2016 | VideoThe new project that aims to develop light-propelled nanocrafts to reach for the stars was unveiled at a press event on April 12th, 2016.
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Stephen Hawking Helps Launch Project 'Starshot' for Interstellar Space Exploration
April 12, 2016 | ArticleStephen Hawking is helping to lead Breakthrough Starshot, an effort to develop tiny, light-propelled spacecraft that could reach the Alpha Centauri star system just 20 years after blasting off.
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Stephen Hawking: 'Transcending Our Limits' With Breakthrough Starshot | Video
April 12, 2016 | VideoOn April 12th, 2016, the new project to develop light-propelled nanocrafts that could reach our nearest star, Alpha Centauri, was unveiled.
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It's Yuri's Night! Here's How to Celebrate 55 Years of Human Spaceflight
April 12, 2016 | ArticleFifty-five years ago today (April 12), cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history. Space fans mark Gagarin's feat each year with Yuri's Night, a series of cosmic shindigs and parties around the world.
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Private Space Habitat to Launch in 2020 Under Commercial Spaceflight Deal
April 11, 2016 | ArticleThe private space habitat company Bigelow Aerospace is teaming up with United Launch Alliance to fly a commercial space habitat in 2020 for astronauts to visit. Here's how the plan will work.
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Mars Global Surveyor: A New Generation of Space Probes
April 11, 2016 | ReferenceThe mission rebooted NASA's exploration of the Red Planet, and launched a new strategy for building spacecraft.
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Why the SpaceX Rocket Ocean Landing is a Big Deal
April 11, 2016 | ArticleSpaceX's successful return of the first stage booster of its Falcon 9 rocket to an ocean platform has the potential to revolutionize our access to space. But how?
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