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Nasa Ames Selects Sgi Uv™, the Big Brain Computer, for a Wide Range of Research

SGI , the trusted leader in technical computing, today announced that NASA's Ames Research Center has selected an SGI UVTM 2000 shared memory system to support more than a thousand active users around the country who are doing research for earth, space and aeronautics missions.

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Related Topix: SGI, CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, Space, High Performance Computing

Thu May 23, 2013

Pasadena Star-News

Dennis McCarthy: Neighborhood muse helps kids learn science

Maureen Clemmons, "Aunt Mo" with her telescope in Reseda. Clemmons regularly pulls out her telescope for neighborhood kids to look at the sky with.

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WHTC

Pentagon sees doubled cost for rocket launch program

The Pentagon on Thursday told Congress that a recent restructuring of its heavy rocket launch program to add 60 more launches and extend the schedule for a decade would more than double the program's projected cost to $70.7 billion.

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

KLAS-TV Las Vegas

I-Team: NASA, NLV Aerospace Co. to Explore Space Together

Air Force pilot Scott Powell returned home three weeks early from a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, surprising his children at school.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, US Military, US Air Force, Las Vegas, NV, North Las Vegas, NV, Carson City, NV

MSNBC

Recommended: Private spaceflight study aims for the moon while NASA goes deep

Human exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, US News, Liberal Political News

Reuters

Commercial human ventures planned for the moon: NASA study

Corporate researchers may be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s, a study of future human missions unveiled on Thursday shows.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space

Reuters

NASA puts shuttle launch pad in Florida up for lease

Nearly two years after space shuttle Atlantis blasted off for the last time, NASA on Thursday put out a "For Lease" notice for one of its shuttle launch pads in Florida.

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

TwinCities

NASA head views progress on asteroid lasso mission

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visits to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., on Thursday, May 23, 2013.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Pasadena, CA, Space

The Beaumont Enterprise

Va. students build disorientation chair for NASA

This image provided by NASA shows Carroll Whitley, NASA Engineering Technician, left, and Nicholas Karavolos, New Horizons Regional Education Center, HVAC student working on a Barany chair at the NASA Langley facility in Hampton, Va., Thursday May 23, 2013.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Education Etc., Space, Texas

ThinkGeek

loves NASA Goddard & Space

On Tuesday, May 16th, we had the privilege of touring NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Greenbelt, MD, Astronomy, Science

CBS Local

Brown Presses Climate Change Crusade At NASA Ames In Mountain View

Gov. Jerry Brown Thusday urged scientists to dedicate themselves to convincing a distracted public and news media about the dangers of climate change and other potential disruptions to human life.

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TV Squad

'Star Trek' Actress Suspects NASA Is Hiding Proof Aliens Exist

Alice Eve knows aliens, or at least she does in her movies. The British actress has dealt with the topic of extra-terrestrial life quite a bit, as she's appeared in both "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "Men In Black 3," which is fitting since she believes we're not alone .

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Related Topix: Star Trek, Science / Technology, Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Star Trek Into Darkness, John Cho, Chris Pine

Official Wire News

UN: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus

The World Health Organization says there are now 22 deaths worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.

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Examiner.com

Beware The False AGW Beliefs Of Some In NASA

It is known NASA does not have everyone believing earth will perish due to global warming.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Global Warming, Activism, Space, Natural Disasters, Solar Flare

Sys-Con Media

Chief Engineer of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Keynote Day Two of Black Hat USA 2013

Black Hat A recipient of two of NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medals, Brian Muirhead has unique experience in solving the challenges of both robotic and human exploration of space.

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Science, Industry and Business

NASA's Landsat Satellite Looks for a Cloud-Free View

Clouds are hard to spot in this natural-color image of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, taken March 24, 2013.

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Related Topix: US Geological Survey, Technical Services, Sioux Falls, SD

Domestic Fuel

EMCORE Wins NASA Solar Contract

EMCORE Corporation has been awarded a contract by ATK to design and manufacture solar panels for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission planned for launch in 2015.

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Related Topix: Semiconductors, Electronics, EMCORE, Science / Technology, Space, US Military, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, US Air Force, Kirtland Air Force Base

Houston Chronicle

Buzz Aldrin: Why NASA is - wrong,' why English-speaking nations must...

I recently had the chance to speak with Aldrin, 83, as part of a promotion for his new book, Mission to Mars .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Drama Movies, Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Space

KurzweilAI.net

NASA experiment to examine the beginnings of the universe

Numerical simulation of the density of matter when the universe was one billion years old.

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Clarksville Online

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft data suggests Wild Weather for Saturn's Moon Titan this Summer

Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct.

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Related Topix: Weather, Science / Technology, Ithaca, NY

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