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When I get really down after reflecting on the state of the world: a war in Iraq and Afghanistan, disengagement and heightened tension with North Korea and Iran, a world financial disaster, food shortages everywhere, gas prices high as high can be, a...
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Six thousand years ago, the massive arid region dominating northern Africa was quite green, a patchwork of trees and savannas as well as many sparkling lakes.
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Need a break from the working, walking, and standing required by the demanding and stressful life you lead?
Well, pack your bags for Houston because NASA wants to pay...
made popular May 8 2008
The ancient catastrophe that gave birth to the Moon may have produced additional satellites that lingered in Earth’s skies for tens of millions of years.
A new...
made popular May 7 2008
NASA has just released CAPS, which is short for Communication Alert and Prediction System. This system enables that anyone can get a model of the Earth’s Ionosphere...
made popular May 3 2008
NASA-funded researchers have just released CAPS, which is short for Communication Alert and Prediction System.
This system enables that anyone with internet access can...
made popular May 2 2008
People got very excited in 2004 when NASA’s rover Opportunity discovered evidence that Mars had once been wet. Where there is water, there may be life. After more...
made popular May 1 2008
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NASA’s final visit to the Hubble Space Telescope has been delayed at least a month, until the fall, because of extra time needed to build the shuttle fuel tanks...
made popular May 1 2008
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The NASA inspector general says the space agency is breaking the law by allowing conflicts of interest on a board overseeing the building of a new spaceship to return...
made popular Apr 30 2008
This is truly a technological splendor as it not only performs at a scale that has been long considered almost impossible but it does so in the cleanest possible...
made popular Apr 28 2008
A Russian space capsule touched down in Kazakhstan after hurtling through Earth’s atmosphere in a steeper-than-normal descent, subjecting the three-nation-crew to...
made popular Apr 21 2008
The US space agency hopes to build moon bases that can house astronauts for stays of up to six months, with an intricate transportation and power system
made popular Apr 20 2008
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A Bahamian girl’s seaborne school project has landed on the sandy doorstep of NASA.
made popular Apr 20 2008
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NASA says it is extending the international Cassini mission that is touring Saturn and its moons for another two years.
made popular Apr 16 2008
Global warming has plunged the planet into a crisis and the fossil fuel industries are trying to hide the extent of the problem from the public, NASA’s top...
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All of us can’t be scientists working with the NASA although a lot of us aspire to be, me certainly dropping out of that category. No it’s not that I don’t like...
made popular Apr 9 2008
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To fix a potentially fatal shaking problem on its snazzy new moon rocket, NASA is considering something that works for mud-stained pickup trucks: heavy-duty shock...
made popular Apr 3 2008
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More than 8,000 NASA contractor jobs in the nation’s manned space program could be eliminated after the space shuttle program is shut down in 2010, the agency...
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NASA shut down a massive air-safety survey project without ever properly evaluating, explaining or publicizing its purpose and results, and thus lost a chance for...
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NASA’s next space shuttle launch has been delayed until May 31, nearly a week late because of extra time needed to get the fuel tank to Florida.
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Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, and South Korean spaceflyer So-yeon Yi pulled in at the station aboard their Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft, which docked...
made popular Apr 11 2008
When the spacecraft Endeavour blasts off in yet another voyage to the International Space Station, it will have one more passenger in addition to it’s crew of...
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Yes, the legendary author Jules Verne still has a connection with space, not just courtesy his books like the classic-Around the world in 80 days, but because the...
made popular Mar 8 2008
Do the stars interest your child? Does the planets capture your twinkling star’s imagination? Or do you find him lost in the thoughts of the animal safari? Time is that...
made popular Jan 1 2008
It was a teary farewell for the astronauts aboard the linked shuttle Discovery and the International space Station, as Discovery makes its return journey to mother...
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It seems like space tourism is getting closer and closer to reality. Few days back I wrote about Galactic Suite, the first hotel planned in space that is expected in...
made popular Sep 6 2007
Russia’s Mission control spokesperson stated that a Russian cargo ship has successfully docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after a three-day orbit flight....
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Space survival gets a whole new meaning with NASA fitting in a fancy new $19 million toilet on the International Space Station. The high-tech toilet has been purchased...
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NASA expects to have twice the room it needs on the international space station after looking at a proposal to use the station as a “National Laborartory”...
made popular Jun 26 2007
June 8 will be the date that engineers and astronauts of space shuttle Atlantis would have been waiting for. Managers at the space agency have announced that the first...
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Russian cosmonauts and an astronaut stationed at the International Space Station are soon to receive their 2.5 tons of daily required amenities – be it oxygen, water...
made popular May 14 2007
Space explorations and navigations have taken a giant leap and have given mankind all those state of the art technological breakthroughs that we could never even think...
made popular Apr 20 2007
After delays, Discovery begins mission to rewire International space station. Low clouds forced the space agency to scrub a launch attempt Thursday night during a...
made popular Dec 10 2006
Discovery, the US space shuttle blasted off in space on a important International Space Station construction mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral,...
made popular Dec 10 2006
NASA is hoping to launch its third mission in six months and get a jump on the looming deadline to finish International Space Station assembly before the shuttle fleet...
made popular Dec 8 2006
Often solar activity goes unnoticed on Earth, but this one will surely grab every ones attention. The Sun is just past its low-point in an 11-year cycle of activity....
made popular Dec 6 2006
Once again, the shuttle Discovery will blast into space and once again, it will dock with the International Space Station. And it all comes to continue the process of...
made popular Dec 5 2006
NASA’s plans for returning people to the moon is now getting its shape but referring NASA’s plans as just returning people to the moon won’t be enough. The...
made popular Dec 5 2006
After Kalpna Chawla, Sunita Williams, 41 will be the second woman of Indian origin to take off on a space mission.
She will spend six months at the International...
made popular Dec 4 2006
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