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In the late 1950's, a giant nuclear bomb powered spacecraft was being secretly developed to carry huge payloads to the outer planets. Today, the plans are still in place as a contingency for an asteroid strike.
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China's third manned spacecraft Shenzhou-7 will blast off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China.
The Shenzhou-7 spaceship will carry the three taikonauts: Jing Haipeng, Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming for China's first-ever space walk.
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The NASA STEREO spacecraft sees the disk of the Moon pass in front of the Sun in a view never seen before by human eyes -- in solar eclipses seen on Earth, the Moon and Sun are roughly the same size.
I picked this as one of the Top Ten Astronomy Pictures of 2007.
![Solar eclipse seen by NASA\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/IZlzY-9Qf4M/2.jpg "Solar eclipse seen by NASA\")
