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• Lockheed Martin Super Hercules Deliveries Continue to Strengthen USAF Fleet in Europe — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 144
  Lockheed Martin Super Hercules Deliveries Continue to Strengthen USAF Fleet in Europe MARIETTA, Ga., Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ — Brig. Gen. Michael W. Callan, Vice Commander, 17th Air Force and U.S. Air Forces Africa, from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, today accepted the tenth of 14 Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) C-130Js to ...
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• A Symbiotic Friendship of Mechanical Precision

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Watch brands have started using their craftsmanship and technological advancements to benefit the many industries they have been affiliated with over the years.
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• Soyuz Spacecraft Blasts Off to the International Space Station

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi safely launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on Sunday. Liftoff occurred at 3:52 p.m. CST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three Soyuz crew members ...
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• Op-Ed Contributor: Faster, NASA, Faster

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  David Sandlin
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• NASA Flight Tests Unique Jumbo Jet With Opening in Side for a Telescope

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane’s telescope were fully opened in flight. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, a modified 747 jet known as SOFIA, flew for one hour and ...
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• Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light, UCLA scientists report

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  A network of ground-based cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASAs THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the aurora borealis, commonly known as the Northern Lights. Sometimes vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light. ...
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• Avatars moon Pandora could be real

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable - and inhabited - alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science fiction. With NASAs Kepler mission showing the potential to detect Earth-sized objects, habitable moons may soon become ...
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• Colliding auroras produce an explosion of light

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  A network of cameras deployed around the Arctic in support of NASAs THEMIS mission has made a startling discovery about the Northern Lights. Sometimes, vast curtains of aurora borealis collide, producing spectacular outbursts of light. Movies of the phenomenon were unveiled at the Fall Meeting of the American ...
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• Laurence still causing warnings and watches in northern west Australia

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  Although the center of Tropical Cyclone Laurence has been over land for two days, its still holding together and bringing heavy rains and gusty winds to the northern coastal areas of West Australia and will do so into the weekend. Warnings and watches are still in effect in some areas as Laurence will continue moving ...
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• Supernova explosions stay in shape

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  At a very early age, children learn how to classify objects according to their shape. Now, new research suggests studying the shape of the aftermath of supernovas may allow astronomers to do the same. Link:  ...
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• “Best of the Decade” with Air and Space Curator Tom Crouch

  
  Around The Mall — Authority: 496
  As a new decade approaches, we here at ATM thought it a good time to reflect on the last—asking Smithsonian curators to weigh in on their favorite exhibits and acquisitions since 2000. Tom Crouch, Senior Curator of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum. Photo by Eric Long. On this morning, 106 years ...
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• Kitty Hawk, December 17, 1903

  
  Smithsonian Libraries — Authority: 128
  Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dedication of the Wright brothers home and shop in Greenfield village, Dearborn, Michigan, April sixteen, nineteen hundred thirty-eight. , 1938? Taking to the Skies: The Wright Brothers and the Birth of Aviation : On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers were the ...
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• Children 1, Astronaut 0

  
  Gambit — Authority: 411
  An astronaut has resigned his long-running chess game with a group of Washington school children.
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• Come Fly Away with Me, Courtesy of Wilbur and Orville

  
  Inside Adams — Authority: 452
  First flight, 120 feet in 12 seconds, 10:35 a.m.; Kitty Hawk, North Carolina December 17 marks the date of the Wright Brothers’ “First Flight” at Kitty Hawk in 1903. This notable milestone in the history of aeronautics is well documented in the collections of the Library of Congress. If  you are curious about ...
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• Tropical Cyclone Laurence menaces Northern Australia

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  Laurence is still a tropical cyclone even though the storm has made landfall in northern West Australia and is moving over land. Link:  http://www.nasa.gov/goddard
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• Astronomers find super-Earth using amateur, off-the-shelf technology

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based telescopes no larger than those many amateur astronomers have in their backyards. ...
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• Why Are The Himalayas Melting? Blame Soot.

  
  The New Republic - The Vine Feed — Authority: 128
  One of the biggest unpleasant climate shocks in recent years has been the discovery that the Himalayas are heating up much faster than the global average—a trend that most climate models had failed to predict, and something thats difficult to explain by pointing to greenhouse gases alone. And its a critical issue, ...
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• Boeing 787 Dreamliner completes its first flight

  
  OK4me2 — Authority: 448
  Boeings new 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft has successfully completed its first test flight in the US. The three-hour flight started from Everett, north of Seattle, and the plane landed at Boeing Field, just south of Seattle. The 787 project had been delayed by two-and-a-half years following a series of hitches, ...
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• Weather Device Also Tracks Greenhouse Gas

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Aboard NASA’s Aqua spacecraft, the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder is used not only to aid forecasters, but also to gauge carbon dioxide flow and ocean evaporation.
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• NASA unveils latest results from lunar mission, helps prepare for next stage of scientific discovery

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 632
  GREENBELT, Md. -- NASAs current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific meeting today, researchers unveiled the latest findings from three instruments of the powerful ...
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