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Space Shuttle Launch: Chicago Surgeon To Operate On Space Station's Robotic Arms

Huffington Post | Posted 11.13.2009 | Chicago

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The nation's space program is calling on a Chicago surgeon to fix faulty robotic arms on the international space station, Monifa Thomas of the Chicago...

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2012, Seriously

Lawrence E. Joseph | Posted 11.13.2009 | Books

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As author of "Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation into Civilization's End" (Broadway/Random House, 2007) I am frequently asked what I thought of "2012," the Columbia Pictures film directed by Roland Emmerich.

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Water On Moon: NASA LCROSS Bombing Finds Water, Ice On Moon (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.13.2009 | Technology

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NASA announced that a "significant" amount of water has been found on the moon, following the LCROSS mission to "bomb" the moon earlier this year. ...

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Moon Ice: NASA LCROSS Bombing Discovers Water, Ice Field (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.13.2009 | Technology

NASA announced that a "significant" amount of water has been found on the moon, following the LCROSS mission to "bomb" the moon earlier this year. ...

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Mars Rover Stuck: NASA Struggles To Free Spirit From Sand

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 11.12.2009 | Technology

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LOS ANGELES — For NASA's stuck Mars rover, the Spirit may be willing, but the wheels could prove too weak. The space agency on Thursday outlined...

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Uracil: NASA Reproduces A Building Block Of Life In Laboratory

sciencedaily.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology

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NASA scientists studying the origin of life have reproduced uracil, a key component of our hereditary material, in the laboratory. They discovered tha...

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2012: NASA Crusades To Debunk 2012 Apocalypse Myths

breitbart.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology

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The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fuelled by ...

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Why We Need Better Rockets

Buzz Aldrin | Posted 11.09.2009 | Technology

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NASA's recent launch of the Ares 1-X was billed as the prototype of a crew launch vehicle, a fancy term for a manned space booster. In fact, the much-hyped Ares 1-X was much ado about nothing.

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Last Call to be World Leader

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology

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Let America marshal its vast resources in the self-interested pursuit of innovation and science in space for the greatness of a nation and the benefit of the world.

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Space Elevator Games: Teams Compete To Build Elevator To Space

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology

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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qu...

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Star Pictures: NASA's Most Extraordinary Images EVER (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology

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These extraordinary images are literally out of this world. Galaxies and supernovae, protostellar jets and pulsars: these pictures of stars from the ...

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NASA To Start Irradiating Monkeys

dsc.discovery.com | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology

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NASA is stepping up its space radiation studies with a round of experiments that for the first time in decades will use monkeys as subjects....

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Horse Races with Rocket Engines

William Pomerantz | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

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We're clearly coming into an era where commercial competition will have a major impact on the aerospace community -- and on the financial community as well.

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Ares I-X Launch: NASA's New Rocket Blasts Off On Test Flight

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's newest rocket successfully completed a brief test flight Wednesday, the first step in a back-to-the-moon program t...

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Ares I-X: NASA's New Rocket Versus Tallest Rockets EVER (PHOTOS, POLL)

Posted 10.27.2009 | Technology

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As NASA prepares for the launch of its lofty new Ares I-X rocket, we decided to take a look back at the biggest rockets of years' past. See how NA...

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Ares I-X: NASA Launching Brand New Rocket, First Step In Effort To Return Astronatuts To Moon

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA tried for hours Tuesday to launch its newest rocket for a shakedown flight, but clouds and high wind kept it stuck o...

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Statisticians Confirm: No Global Cooling Despite Skeptic Spin

Brendan DeMelle | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

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Despite the best efforts of a small handful of climate skeptics who argue that the globe has cooled rather than warmed since the record hot year of 1998, no such cooling trend has taken place.

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Ares I-X: NASA Unveils First New Rocket In 30 Years (PHOTOS)

AP/Huffington Post | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 10.27.2009 | Technology

(MARCIA DUNN, AP) CAPE CANAVERAL-- NASA's lofty new rocket arrived at the launching pad Tuesday for a test flight next week that comes at a time when ...

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NASA Moon Bombing: LCROSS Photos Show Moon Blast Debris Cloud

AP | Posted 10.18.2009 | Technology

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LOS ANGELES — NASA's much-hyped mission to hurl a spacecraft into the moon turned out some worthwhile data after all, scientists said. New imag...

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Invading The Moon & Our Disordered Home Planet

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

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I think there's a message in Chicago losing the Olympics. I also think there's a message in the moon invasion despite its alleged success. The message is a simple one: It's time to focus on home.

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Astronomers Shocked: "The Edge Of The Solar System Is Tied Up With A Ribbon" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, has just produced new images of the solar system that has shocked astronomers. This first full-sized m...

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Not Talking 'bout the Weather

Jennifer Schneider | Posted 10.15.2009 | Denver

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Is it possible that the climate change communication problem is no longer a problem of science education at all, and trying to clarify and explain the science might be counterproductive?

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Atlantis Shuttle: NASA Invites Twitterers To Launch, Prepares Shuttle (PHOTOS)

AP / Huffington Post | Posted 10.14.2009 | Technology

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See photos below CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA is inviting its Twitter followers to the next space shuttle launch. The shuttle Atlantis was moved...

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Don't Trust Science?

Lee Schneider | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

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People don't trust science like they used to. A Pew Research Center poll says that only 27 percent of Americans think our greatest achievements are in science - down from 47 percent a decade ago.

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Oct. 12, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

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President Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize. Shock and awe or shocking and awful? Also, NASA sends two rockets to explode on moon. Luckily, the moon does not fire back.

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