Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week – Sept. 14, 2014

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Boeing's New Spaceship Makes Strides Ahead of NASA Space Taxi Decision

Boeing

Sept. 9 - The private spaceflight company Boeing has been hard at work designing a capsule that could deliver NASA astronauts to the International Space Station sometime in the next three years.

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NEXT: Mystery of 'Hot Jupiter' Planets' Crazy Orbits May Be Solved

Mystery of 'Hot Jupiter' Planets' Crazy Orbits May Be Solved

Cornell University/N.Storch, K.Anderson, D.Lai

Sept. 10 - A new study of extrasolar planets has found a link between the strange spin of binary stars and weird orbits of so-called "hot Jupiter" planets.

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