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Atlantis Astronauts Grab Hubble Space Telescope, Now Face 5 Treacherous Space Walks

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 06.13.2009 | Home

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Atlantis' astronauts grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, then quickly set their sights on the difficult, dan...

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NASA's Exploration Overhaul

William Pomerantz | Posted 06.12.2009 | Politics

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A document submitted to Congress by NASA in late April indicates that as much as $150 million may be set added to the COTS program.

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Shuttle Atlantis Damage Doesn't Appear To Be Serious: NASA

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 06.12.2009 | Home

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Atlantis astronauts uncovered a 21-inch stretch of nicks on their space shuttle Tuesday, but NASA said the damage did...

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Space Shuttle Launch: WATCH IT LIVE

Posted 06.11.2009 | Home

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The space shuttle Atlantis is set to blast off today at 2:01pm for its most dangerous mission ever: repairing the Hubble Telescope. The mission will ...

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Space Shuttle Launch: VIDEO Atlantis Blasts Off To Hubble Telescope

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 06.11.2009 | Home

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Atlantis blasted off Monday for the Hubble Space Telescope on the most delicate and dangerous repair job ever in orbit _ ...

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NASA's Most Dangerous Ever Shuttle Mission To Fix Hubble Telescope Set To Blast Off

Daily Mail | Jacqui Goddard | Posted 06.10.2009 | Home

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Nasa is set to dispatch seven astronauts on its most dangerous ever shuttle mission as it attempts to rescue the $7 billion Hubble Space Telescope fro...

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Colbert Treadmill: NASA Names Exercise Machine After Host

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 05.16.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — One small step for NASA, one giant running leap for Stephen Colbert. NASA announced Tuesday that it won't name a room in the interna...

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NASA To Announce Name Of New Module On "Colbert Report"

AP | Posted 05.11.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — Stephen Colbert is still clinging to hope that NASA will name a new room at the international space station after him. The space age...

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Extraterrestrial Intelligence?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.01.2009 | Politics

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I suggest that we seek the wisdom of far more advanced societies from our common universe. The worst case result would be no signal. This research would cost far less than the AIG bailout.

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Question For Obama: How About A Science-Based Drug Policy?

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

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Stephen Colbert Wins NASA Contest -- But Will They Name Space Station After Him?

AP | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media

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WASHINGTON — NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won. The name "Col...

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Are We Flying Blind?

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.23.2009 | Green

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Now, in 2009 we find ourselves at a low point in our ability to monitor the climate from space. It probably won't come as a shock that the scientific community has not endorsed the decline in America's climate monitoring capability.

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Bring NASA Back to Earth

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics

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I grant you it is not high on President Obama's priority list but, if he cannot ground NASA, he will never be able to rein in the much more powerful Pentagon.

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NASA Shuttle Launch Set For Sunday Night

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 04.15.2009 | Home

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven rocketed into orbit Sunday evening, setting off on a space station construc...

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Discovery Launch Postponed Due To Gas Leak

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 04.11.2009 | Home

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Hit by more valve trouble, NASA postponed the launch of space shuttle Discovery just hours before it was to head to the i...

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Stephen Colbert's NASA Dream: Host Lobbies For Space Station Write-In Vote

AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media

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WASHINGTON — Earth to Space Station Colbert: The cosmic joke may be on NASA. Comedian Stephen Colbert, who couldn't get his mock presidential c...

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Kepler Telescope Blasts Into Space To Find Other Earths

AP | MARCIA DUNN | Posted 04.07.2009 | Home

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA's planet-hunting telescope, Kepler, rocketed into space Friday night on a historic voyage to track down other Earths...

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Courtney Stadd, Ex-NASA Official, Indicted For Ethics Breach

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 04.06.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — A former top NASA official has been indicted on charges of steering $9.6 million in agency funds to a consulting client. The U.S. ...

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Government Intervention: Racism and the Moon

Ben Stoddard | Posted 04.03.2009 | Green

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When the goal is sweeping social change, government intervention has been mostly a stopgap. When the goal is technological progress and invention, government programs have been bloated and slow.

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Dig the Oceans

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 03.28.2009 | Green

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All we need is a good race with other nations -- measured by how much ocean we cover and who can find more goodies faster -- and ocean exploration will be all the rage.

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Green Guilt

Ben Stoddard | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green

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Recently I got into an argument with my coworker over terraforming Mars. Sure, it's a long way off but things going the way they are, you never know when you might have to jump ship.

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Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Fails To Reach Orbit

AP, NASA | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green

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***UPDATE*** NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory failed to reach orbit, the agency's Web site said. A media briefing is scheduled for 7:15 a.m., easte...

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Cosmic Cleanup Or Duck And Cover? How To Deal With Space Pollution

AP | VERONIKA OLEKSYN | Posted 03.22.2009 | Green

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VIENNA — Think of it as a galactic garbage dump. With a recent satellite collision still fresh on minds, participants at a meeting in the Austri...

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Nakagawa's Career Karoshi

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.20.2009 | Business

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Mr. Nakagawa may be Japan's worst Finance Minister ever, but that doesn't stop me from taking a moment as he leaves the world stage to bow my head in empathy.

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