Blast off on Search for Another Earth

This is a neat project from the Euros…apparently they still have the potential to get themselves positively organized…although they may not exercise it very often these days.

The hunt for alien life took on a new urgency yesterday with the launch of a spacecraft designed to search out Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars. The Corot (pronounced “Coreau”) mission to scan the skies for new worlds blasted off on a Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, said Igor Panarin, a Russian Federal Space Agency spokesman.

The hunt for alien life took on a new urgency yesterday with the launch of a spacecraft designed to search out Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars.

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The Corot (pronounced “Coreau”) mission to scan the skies for new worlds blasted off on a Russian Soyuz 2-1B rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, said Igor Panarin, a Russian Federal Space Agency spokesman.

Moving us towards space is always a good thing IMHO.