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• NASA reports Project 1640 explores the Atmosphere of Planets far away

  
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  Written by Whitney Clavin NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA – Gone are the days of being able to count the number of known planets on your fingers. Today, there are more than 800 confirmed exoplanets — planets that orbit stars beyond our sun — and more than 2,700 other candidates. What are ...
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• Astronauts Replace a Pump, Hoping to Stop Leak

  
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  Two astronauts spent 5 ½ hours outside the space station. They were unable to locate the source of the leak, but did install a new pump, which appeared to solve the problem.        
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• NASA says Venus, Jupiter, Mercury to Align in Triple Conjunction in the Sunset Sky May 25th

  
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  Written by Dr. Tony Phillips Science at NASA Washington, D.C. – Sunset is a special time of day.  Low-hanging clouds glow vivid red and orange as the background sky turns cobalt blue. The first stars pop out in the heavenly dome overhead, eliciting wishes from backyard sky watchers. The sunset of May 26th ...
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• New Endurance Record for Small Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

  
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  Fueled by liquid hydrogen (LH2), the Ion Tiger unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) completes a record flight time of 48 hours and 1 minute. The electric fuel cell propulsion system onboard the Ion Tiger has the low noise and signature of a battery-powered UAV, while taking advantage of high-energy hydrogen fuel and the high ...
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• VIDEO: 78,000 Apply to Leave Earth Forever to Live on Mars

  
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  78,000 apply to leave Earth forever to live on Mars 19 dead in gas tanker explosion near Mexico City 5 killed as Philippine volcano spews rocks ‘as big as a living room’ This article, “78,000 Apply to Leave Earth Forever to Live on Mars”, is categorized as “World” and its copyright notice is “”. ...
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• NASA reports International Space Station Scientists study Glow in the Dark Plants

  
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  Written by Dr. Tony Phillips Science at NASA Washington, D.C. – The world is changing.  As greenhouse gases accumulate in the atmosphere, global temperatures are on the rise. Sea levels inch upward as polar ice retreats. Crops are growing in new places. The world is changing.  The question is, can life ...
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• Solar-powered plane takes off for flight across U.S.

  
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  1 of 5. The Solar Impulse aircraft takes off from Moffett Field to begin the first leg of its 2013 Across America Mission in Mountain View, California May 3, 2013.  Credit: REUTERS/Stephen Lam (Reuters) – A solar-powered airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the world took off early on ...
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• High-flying educators trained at Yerkes Observatory

  
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  Constance Gartner first heard about NASA’s SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) from her students at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan, Wis. Her students participate in programs developed at the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis. that make astronomy ...
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• The Future of Privacy, or is the Genie Out of the Bottle for All Time?

  
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  Submitted by Charlton Stanley (Otteray Scribe), guest blogger This story started out in one place and ended somewhere else.  I had been thinking about privacy issues for some time. A friend of mine, a forensic psychologist, like so many professionals, has gone to a (mostly) paperless office. Instead of taking a ...
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• PITISE UNIV

  
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  DOD AWARDED CONTRACTS NAVY Raytheon Missile Systems , Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $12,703,078 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order (#2002) against a previously issued basic ordering agreement (N00019-10-G-0006) for the development and integration of the joint standoff weapon AGM-154C-1 into the F/A-18E/F ...
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• How to Fly a Satellite at 17,000 MPH; The Historic Flight of Landsat 5

  
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  Landsat 7 image of Mississippi river from May 28, 2003. From the Earth as Art Collection, USGS EROS Data Center. In 1984, the U.S. launched an Earth remote sensing mission to extend the observational record of our planet’s land masses begun 12-years earlier by the first Earth Resource Technology Satellite , later ...
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• NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes Comet ISON approach

  
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  Written by Dr. Tony Phillips Science at NASA Washington, D.C. – Later this year, Comet ISON is expected to become a naked-eye object when it skims through the atmosphere of the sun. The Hubble Space Telescope has just obtained a sneak preview. Hubble photographed ISON on April 10th.  At the time, the comet ...
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• Dot Earth Blog: Should Sunday Become Sun Day?

  
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  NASA provides a three-year time-lapse view of the Sun’s dynamics.        
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• Should Sunday Become Sun Day?

  
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  NASA provides a three-year time-lapse view of the Suns dynamics.
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• Project Zero is a fast vertical lift aircraft that is an...

  
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  Project Zero is a fast vertical lift aircraft that is an aerospace first as a electric tilt-rotor aircraft allowing this craft to take-off and land like a helicopter then to fly like a fixed-wing aircraft. wildcat2030 : The Future Of Fast Vertical Lift Aircraft: Project Zero The UK-based aerospace company ...
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• Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes – review

  
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  A study of the romantic pioneers of hot-air ballooning provides plenty of uplifting moments for the jaded modern air passenger Richard Holmes has twice defined himself in the subtitles of his books as "a romantic biographer", which in his case means more than a biographer who specialises in Romantic poets. He is ...
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• 2 Good Places to Live, 1,200 Light-Years Away

  
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  Astronomers working with NASA’s Kepler mission said Thursday that a pair of newly discovered planets in the constellation Lyra appear capable of supporting life.        
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• Rise of the PhoneSats

  
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  A PhoneSat to scale. (Credit: NASA ). Satellites can now fit in the palm of your hand. Known as Cubesats, several of these tiny but cost-effective payloads use off-the-shelf technology that you may currently carry in your pocket. In fact, engineers have put out a call for app designers to write programs for these ...
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• Boeing X-48C Blended Wing Body Research Aircraft Completes Flight Testing

  
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  The Boeing X-48C research aircraft flew for the 30th and final time last week, marking the successful completion of an eight-month flight-test program to explore and further validate the aerodynamic characteristics of the Blended Wing Body design concept. All 30 flights were conducted at NASA’s Dryden Flight ...
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