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Small Business to Fly to the Moon and Then on to Mars »
Posted by: Happy31 3 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Space is calling and small business is answering! Two of the major players in NASA's Constellation Program, which will put Americans back on the ...
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NASA turns 50 »
Posted by: capn_caveman 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
50 years ago today, US president Dwight Eisenhower signed into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, sparking the birth of the National Aeronautics and ...
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NASA: Arctic sea ice at second-lowest level on record »
Posted by: TimALoftis 2 months ago in Science & Technology
NASA has issued a preliminary report confirming environmentalists' fears of disappearing sea ice at the Arctic.
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Buyers of bogus degrees named »
Posted by: Neophile 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
Hundreds of people working in the military, government and education are on a list of almost 10,000 people who spent $7.3 million buying ...
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Mars lander has trouble delivering soil sample to its oven »
Posted by: jeremytoday 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A sample of icy soil collected by the robotic arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is apparently stuck in its scoop, foiling efforts to ...
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NASA confirms water on Mars - Mars - MSNBC.com »
Posted by: pagey 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
By melting icy soil in one of its lab instruments, the robot confirmed the presence of frozen water lurking below the Martian permafrost. Until now ...
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Are the astronauts 'making out' there? »
Posted by: hurr1 3 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
HAVE YOU ever wondered that our astronauts might be making out big time in the space shuttle? Okay, this one is not official yet, but ...
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NASA regains contact with Mars spacecraft »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 2 weeks, 4 days ago in Science & Technology
NASA's Phoenix Mars spacecraft regained contact with Earth more than a day after falling silent, but its days operating on the red planet are ...
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NASA drops plan to fly new spaceships by 2013 »
Posted by: dexlovex2 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
NASA has abandoned plans to get its replacement for the retiring U.S. space shuttles into service by 2013 because of a lack of additional ...
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Small Business and the Future of Spaceflight »
Posted by: Happy31 3 months ago in Business & Finance
Small business continues to be in the thick of America's journey to the stars. Some projects, like the Constellation Program, are very large, while ...
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The Deadly Aftermath of a Rocket Explosion Seconds After Launch »
Posted by: monte-g 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
While space travel is safe for the most part, sometimes things go really wrong. Like last week's NASA's rocket explosion on the Wallops ...
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NASA to try remote-control Hubble fix »
Posted by: Mueritz 1 month ago in Science & Technology
NASA engineers say they know how to fix the broken Hubble space telescope — by waking up computer parts that have been sleeping in space for ...
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NASA Reaches Out to Students to Confront Lunar Dust Problem »
Posted by: DiffeeOnline 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Moon dust contamination was inevitable however, even inside the sealed LEM. So, with the possibility of extended manned exploration of the Moon and Mars from ...
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"Naked-Eye" Gamma-Ray Burst Was Aimed Squarely At Earth »
Posted by: capn_caveman 2 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Data from satellites and observatories around the globe show a jet from a powerful stellar explosion witnessed March 19 was aimed almost directly at Earth.
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Hubble glitch delays shuttle trip »
Posted by: BronxBomber 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A shuttle mission to service the Hubble observatory is delayed to allow time to deal with a malfunction on the telescope.
