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Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games (AP)

AP - A space elevator may not be rocket science but it can be just as complicated — and rewarding.

Space Junk Buzzes Station as Astronauts Sleep (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A small chunk of space trash made an uncomfortably close pass by the International Space Station late Friday, but not close enough to force the astronauts aboard to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats.

Seattle Team Wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Contest (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A Seattle-based team has won $900,000 in this year's Space Elevator Games, a NASA-sponsored contest to build machines powered by laser beams that can climb a cable in the sky.

Moon's Friends Say 'No' to Future Lunar Crashes (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - When a NASA spacecraft rammed into the moon in October, it tossed up a hard-to-see plume of lunar material.

Mercury probe fly-by maps mysterious inner planet (AFP)

AFP - The US space probe MESSENGER's third and final fly-by of the planet Mercury in September revealed an almost complete view of the solar system's smallest planet, leaving only the polar regions to be surveyed, NASA said.

HAL 9000 vs. IBM 7094: Which ‘Daisy’ is creepier?

As someone who thinks about 2001: A Space Odyssey perhaps too often, I’d like to thank Switched.com for feeding my never-ending hunger for HAL 9000 scoop and trivia. Turns out the song HAL sings before sputtering into obscurity, “Daisy,” was the first song ever “sung” by a computer. In the video below,

Intel Antitrust, 'Net Bug, Coding Error (PC World)

PC World - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed federal antitrust charges against Intel this week, with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission expected to follow suit. Security problems yet again snagged a lot of IT headline attention, including news about yet another flaw affecting Facebook and MySpace users. To mix things up, we've got IT angles to Beatles music and the Boston Celtics in there, too.

U.S. 'Decades Behind' on Space Debris Threat, Official Says (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The amount of junk floating in space is getting out of hand and the United States must step up its effort to control orbital trash, experts are saying.

Some of the Universe's First Galaxies Discovered (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A new survey has found 22 of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, confirming the age of one at just 787 million years after the theoretical Big Bang.

NASA-funded monkey-radiation experiment raises hackles

A nonprofit group that promotes animal rights in medical research has taken issue with a NASA grant funding an assessment of the long-term effects of radiation on monkeys. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), based in Washington, D.C., sent an appeal Thursday to NASA administrator Charles Bolden, urging that the radiobiology study, intended to test the effects of radiation encountered in long-range spaceflight, be suspended.

Sesame Street, Droid get Google's love

The search king has given much of its front page love this week to honor Sesame Street's 40th anniversary, but it did save some space to tout the new Droid smartphone.

Stars May be Cosmic Road Signs to Intelligent Aliens (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - When scientists search the heavens for habitable worlds beyond Earth, they don't necessarily know what to look for. A new study has found that the most probable place to find intelligent life in the galaxy is around stars with roughly the mass of the sun, and surface temperatures between 5,300 and 6,000 Kelvin (9,100 and 10,300 degrees Fahrenheit) - in fact, stars very similar to our own sun.