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28 min ago | Christian Science Monitor

NASA calls for new spaceships to taxi astronauts to space station

NASA is looking for two private firms to design and build 'space taxis' to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, US Military, US Air Force

1 hr ago | Space Ref

NASA Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA Excerpt) FY 2013 Budget Summary

Full FY 2013 Budget document Funding Highlights: * Provides $17.7 billion, a decrease of 0.3 percent, or $59 million, below the 2012 enacted level.

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1 hr ago | Christian Science Monitor

Mars budget cuts 'irrational' says former NASA science chief

This artist's rendering shows a 'sky crane' lowering NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover onto the surface of Mars.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Cape Canaveral, FL, Space

4 hrs ago | Christian Science Monitor

Obama to slash NASA budget. Will space exploration suffer?

President Barack Obama talks with Ana Nieto in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, on Feb.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Home Listing, Home, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Space, US House of Representatives, Adam Schiff, Democrat

4 hrs ago | International Business Times

Amazing Aurora Borealis Footage Captured on NASA Video

's latest video, shot from the Internatonal Space Station , depicts a fantastic view of the Aurora Borealis from the space.

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6 hrs ago | CNET News.com

End of an era: NASA shuts down its last mainframe

Those days began in the 1960s, when IBM's System 360 rewrote the rules of computing and before humans walked on the moon.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, CPU, Startups, Intel, Space

6 hrs ago | CNet News

End of an era: NASA shuts down its last mainframe

Those days began in the 1960s, when IBM's System 360 rewrote the rules of computing and before humans walked on the moon.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Science, Computer Science, CPU, Startups, Intel, Space

10 hrs ago | Daily Mail

Out of this world! Video shows spectacular view of moon and Northern Lights from space

These are the astonishing images taken from space that capture the moon as it eases through the clouds above the Earth's night sky.

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Sun Feb 12, 2012

Clarksville Online

NASA Mission Takes Stock of Earth's Melting Land Ice

Austin Peay Lady Govs Track and Field's Chantelle Grey to face NCAA's best at SPIRE Invite Indoor Track and Field > Pasadena, CA - In the first comprehensive satellite study of its kind, a University of Colorado at Boulder-led team used NASA data to calculate how much Earth's melting land ice is adding to global sea level rise.

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Daily Camera

Carrying two CU instruments, Voyager 1 prepares to leave solar system

An artist's rendition of Voyager 2 in space. The spacecraft, one of two launched in 1977, is about to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space, something no man-made object has ever done.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Boulder, CO, Astronomy, Science

Mansfield News Journal

John Glenn reflects on 50 years in orbit

The News Journal had a big garage sale of sorts early last fall and unloaded a bunch of used office... Glenn's 50th: John Glenn looks back at orbital fli...: Retired Sen.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, US Military, US Air Force, Space, Cape Canaveral, FL

FOX19 Cincinnati

Cleveland-built testing equipment ready for space

Communications testing equipment built at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland over the past five years is ready to start its journey to space.

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RedOrbit

NASA To Celebrate 50 Years Of Americans In Orbit

In celebration of 50 years of Americans in orbit, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida will host several events Feb.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, US Senate, US Politics, Democrat, US News, Bill Nelson

Bad Astronomy Blog

An ear to the ocean

The Terra satellite is designed to study our planet from space, examining the environment over large scales and in high resolution.

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Sat Feb 11, 2012

The Washington Post

NASA's science missions bring the universe into sharper focus even...

View Photo Gallery - Distant galaxies, NASA's nighttime images of the U.S. and other fascinating views of the cosmos.

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The Salinas Californian

Calif aerospace workers brace for NASA cuts

LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. - Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Canada Flintridge are bracing for an announcement of NASA's budget in anticipation of major cuts.

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Jerusalem Post

NASA inspires Israeli youth to reach for the stars

The high school pupils fiddling with their smartphones while waiting for the event to start might be forgiven for thinking man has been in space for at least a century and that the amount of brainpower, determination, expense and risk it took to get there was "no big deal." But most of their teachers and administrators at Jerusalem's Israel Arts ... (more)

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Texas, Family, Teenagers, Columbia University, California Institute of Technology

LocalOnlineNews.tv

What's Next For NASA? Illustrated Talk by Lon Seidman at Essex Library

Connecticut has played an important role throughout the history of the space program, with both space suits and fuel cells manufactured by companies here in the state.A Essex resident Lon Seidman and a few colleagues were granted media access to NASA's Kennedy Space Center to learn more about the Connecticut contributions to space exploration and ... (more)

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International Business Times

NASA Releases Stunning Video of Northern Lights [VIDEO]

Have you ever seen northern lights? Nasa has released a video of the Northern lights seen in the Northern U.S. and in Canada.

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KNIN-TV Boise

NASA in Nampa: Middle schoolers prepare for Mars mission, launch rockets above city

Six months after the last ever shuttle launch and 2,600 miles from Cape Canaveral, Nampa sixth-grader Caden Jantz watched a rocket he built climb 300 meters above his school.

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