Orion spacecraft completes first mission – is Mars next?

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Published on Dec 5, 2014
NASA scientists successfully launched the Orion spacecraft early Friday from Florida and, four-and-a-half hours later, the experimental vehicle splashed down in the Pacific. In the interim, Orion traveled more than 3,000 miles from Earth and orbited the planet twice. NASA believes that Orion or a similar spacecraft may be able to bring astronauts to a near-Earth asteroid during the next decade and eventually to Mars. Leroy Chiao, a former NASA astronaut, talks to RT’s Ameera David about the future of the project and what else is planned for the space agency.

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Sleepless in Sillicon Valley, Myth of the Free Press & When Satire Becomes Cable News

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Published on Dec 5, 2014

Tyrel Ventura Breaks the Set on Homeless in Silicon Valley, Chris Hedges on Corporate Media, Cable News Losing Its Mind
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EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, guest host and RT Producer, Tyrell Ventura, discusses the dismantling of an enormous homeless camp in San Jose, California and how this approach to combating homelessness will never eliminate the problem. Tyrell then sits down with former New York Times journalist, Chris Hedges, to talk about the state of corporate cable news and what purpose it serves in today’s world. Tyrell then speaks with RT Producer, Tabetha Wallace, and host of Redacted Tonight, Lee Camp, about how the cable news has covered the Ferguson and Eric Garner cases and the differences between corporate and alternative media. BTS wraps up the show with hip hop artist, Sage Francis, playing his song ‘Vonnegut Busy’.

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Obama Nominates Physicist, Ex-Deputy Carter for Defense Secretary

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Published on Dec 5, 2014

President Barack Obama has nominated Ashton Carter as the next U.S. defense secretary, replacing Chuck Hagel, who resigned last week. If confirmed, Carter, a former deputy Pentagon secretary, will take over a sprawling department that is dealing with a host of national security issues. VOA’s Aru Pande has more from the White House.
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How Ashton Carter differs from Obama’s past defense secretaries

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Published on Dec 5, 2014

President Obama announced that Pentagon veteran Ashton Carter will be his nominee to succeed Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense. From the White House, Carter pledged his “most candid” strategic and military advice if he is confirmed. Judy Woodruff gets reaction from retired Brig. Gen. David McGinnis, a former Defense Department official, and Foreign Policy’s David Rothkopf.

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Can humans become a multi-planet species?

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Published on Dec 5, 2014

NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay studies the most extreme parts of Earth to understand how life might survive in other perts of the universe. But he’s also studying another life form living in space: humans.

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Mass evacuation in Philippines as the islands wait for Typhoon Hagupit to strike

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Published on Dec 6, 2014
Around 500,000 people living in coastal areas of the Philippines have fled inland as the islands await the arrival of a powerful storm.

Typhoon Hagupit has lost its ‘super’ status, having dipped below the level five category, but weather experts still expect it to be destructive with winds up to 195km per hour.

People are taking no chances. Shops that have anything left to sell are still open as families continue to stock up, but many are closed, boarded up in precautionary fashion.

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COP20 daily update with Saleemul Huq, 5 December

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Published on Dec 6, 2014

IIED senior fellow and ICCCAD director Saleemul Huq reports on the fifth day of the UNFCCC climate talks in Lima, Peru from 1-12 December 2014.

On 5 December, Huq focuses on the contentious issue of loss and damage, the history of the negotiations between the rich and poor countries, and the progress of discussions in Lima.

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Calls on Rome administration to step down over corruption allegations

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Published on Dec 6, 2014
Opposition parties in Rome are calling on the city’s ruling administration to step down after a police investigation revealed a web of corrupt dealings between criminals and politicians

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GMOs, Geoengineering, Solar Uptick | S0 News December 6, 2014

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Published on Dec 6, 2014
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The New Space Race

Al Jazeera English

Published on Dec 6, 2014

“There’s your new spacecraft, America”.Those were the words NASA’s mission control commentator used as the Orion capsule came safely back to earth.It was a declaration that spoke of politics and prestige. The United States, demonstrating its superpower status to the world.But what of the reality? At the height of the Cold War, the US devoted over four percent of its total federal budget to space exploration.Today, NASA gets less than a tenth of that. The US space agency is a shadow of its former self.The Orion won’t fly again until 2018 at the earliest. But the new space race is not with the Soviet Union, it’s with private enterprise.One crowdfunded private consortium, Mars One, is aiming to put humans on the red planet a decade earlier than NASA.Another company, Planetary Resources, is planning to mine asteroids for rare metals.And for the super-rich, there’s the promise of space tourism from Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic.So what is the future of space travel?

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