US astronauts should use trampolines to get into space, Dmitri Rogozin, Russian DM says

A Russian official angered over new sanctions that the United States imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis is suggesting that American astronauts get to the International Space Station by using trampolines instead of rockets.
"The United States introduced sanctions against our space industry... We warned them, we will reply to statements with statements, to actions with actions," Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Russia's defense industry, said on Twitter, according to Reuters.

India lanzó su primera misión a Marte. (video).

Es el sexto país en tratar de llegar a Marte, una misión que sólo han conseguido con éxito Estados Unidos, Rusia y la Agencia Espacial Europea.

India lanzó hoy con éxito una misión a Marte, un proyecto que puede colocar al país al frente de la carrera espacial en el continente asiático. Casi la mitad de los intentos (21 de 51 misiones) han fracasado, incluso los de Japón en 1999 y China en 2011. Si lo consigue, India será parte del exclusivo club integrado por Estados Unidos, la antigua Unión Soviética y Europa.

2012 DA14: Too close for comfort

It's an asteroid, it's called 2012 DA14, it was only discovered last year, it is going to pass by Earth on Friday of next week (February 15) and it is going to set a record for a close miss of a space object. This monster is approaching at 4.8 miles per second. However, there is good news. It isn't going to hit... so they say.
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Federal'noe Kosmicheskoe Agentsvo) confirms that the object will fly near the Earth on February 16 MSK time, between approximately twenty to twenty-five miles from our planet (nearest point 17,200 miles). This is lower than some geostationary satellites and even closer than the upcoming near-impact with the Doomsday Asteroid, Apophis, scheduled for 2029.