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Russian mice, gerbils dead in 30-day space ordeal; lizards live
A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth -- but with the majority of its furred passengers...
Tags: Science and Technology
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: NASA, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Science and Technology
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'Star Trek' crew meets Space Station crew in live Google Hangout
Free live streaming by Ustream "Star Trek" fans, set your alarms. And fans of the astronauts who live and work on the International Space Station, set your alarms too. At 9 a.m. Pacific time Thursday, the filmmakers behind "Star Trek Into Darkness"...
Tags: Science, Damon Lindelof, Google Inc., Alice Eve, NASA
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Canadian astronaut wrestles with gravity after spaceflight
ReutersBack on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-month stint aboard the International Space Station, the former commander told reporters during a video webcast from Houston....Tags: NASA, Kazakhstan, Science and Technology
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: No need to leave Fido behind Vacationers traveling to Orlando don’t have to leave Fifi or Fido behind with Rosen Hotels & Resorts’ VIP ¿ Very Important Pet ¿ package...Tags: Grocery Coupons, Regent Seven Seas Cruises, Oysters, Gulf of Mexico, Dining and Drinking
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NASA greenlights UA-led mission to get bits of asteroid
The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonNASA gave the all-systems-go signal Thursday for a University of Arizona-led mission to mine samples from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. The UA's OSIRIS-REx team has passed its design-and-development test. It can now move to building the capsule and...Tags: Science, Astronomy, NASA, Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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F-1 project tests team's mettle
The Hutchinson News, Kan.Crumpled-up chunks of metal rest in two large water-retention bins at the SpaceWorks division of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. The impact of each massive 18,000-pound engine falling more than 40 miles to the Atlantic Ocean crushed it like...Tags: Buzz Aldrin, Amazon.com Inc., Conservation, NASA, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975)
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Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore., Chris Conrad column
Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore."Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride: Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over,...Tags: Science, Google Inc., Music, Justin Bieber, Twitter, Inc.
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Astronauts take Dream Chaser spacecraft for simulated spin
Astronaut Jack Fischer took the Dream Chaser winged spacecraft for a spin, rocketing down from 10,000 feet, bucking through 60 seconds of turbulence to land hard on the runway in the Mojave desert in southern California. Then he tried it again. And...
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Astronaut flies NASA's Dream Chaser spacecraft in flight simulator | Video
Lt. Col. Jack Fischer visits NASA-Langley to fly the Dream Chaser spacecraft on the motion-based Research Flight Deck simulator. Read the whole NASA Dream Chaser spacecraft simulator story.
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Space plane arrives at NASA facility for flight testing
A white-and-black space plane, very much resembling the now-retired space shuttle, was trucked to a NASA flight center in the Mojave Desert to begin a round of testing to see if it has the right stuff to carry astronauts one day. Tucked under a white...
Tags: Science, SpaceX, NASA, Rocketry, Technology
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My Word: Remembering Astronaut Cooper's firsts
Most people have seen videos of Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the moon after taking manual control of the landing. But who led the way with many space-mission firsts? In May 1963, I was working at NASA Mission Control at Cape Canaveral...Tags: Maitland, NASA, Ceremonies, Culture, Science and Technology
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