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Astronaut Out of This World as Baby On Way In

Published: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:04 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:04 p.m. CAPE CANAVERAL Atlantis' astronauts anxiously awaited word Friday on the birth of a crewman's daughter as they moved more supplies into the International Space Station and geared up for another spacewalk.

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Fri Nov 20, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

SOFIA Seeks Secrets of Planetary Birth

NASA's SOFIA infrared observatory 747SP overflies its home, the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale, Calif.

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Digital Post Production

Planet 51 PSA Campaign Brings NASA's Message of Exploration Down to Earth

Broadcast-quality digital public service announcements are available for download from NASA featuring actor Dwayne Johnson, star of the new film "Planet 51," discussing the importance of space exploration, diversity and education.

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SPACE.com

Stuck Mars Rover Finally Budges, a Little

This image shows the progress of Spirit after its second drive attempt. In the "after" image, Spirit's left-front wheel has become slightly less buried in the soft soil in which the rover had become embedded about six months ago.

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NewsTalk 1230

Astronaut in space while wife giving birth

Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik can be forgiven if he's having a tough time focusing on work -- his wife is due to give birth on Friday to a baby girl.

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KansasCity.com

Ask AP: Shuttle complexity, credit union agency

A space shuttle is no tinker toy. But is it the most complex machine ever built?Curiosity about the complexity of the reusable spacecraft inspired one of the questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers' questions about the news.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Science / Technology, California, Space

WebWire

Space Shuttle Pilot Set to Talk With Tennessee Students from Orbit

Congressman Bart Gordon and Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville will host a live conversation between more than 120 students and NASA astronaut Barry E. Wilmore on Sunday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Bart Gordon, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN

Thu Nov 19, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

NASA Supercomputer Ranks Among World's Fastest

NASA's premiere supercomputer located at Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has garnered the sixth spot on the Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, CPU, Computers, Science, Computer Science, 9

ETaiwanNews.com

NASA moon strikes found significant water oe ' "OE oeS s

LOS ANGELES, California It turns out there's lots of water on the moon _ at least near the lunar south pole.

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Arizona Daily Star

'Planet 51' puts a cork in humor

How might a kid a ' OK, a teenager a ' protect himself from that dreaded fate described in legions of sci-fi movies , the anal probe? If you weren't thinking "champagne cork," you were way off, according to the sci-fi kids cartoon "Planet 51." A genial but generic riff on sci-fi movie history, "Planet" has barely enough slapstick to keep the kids ...

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Related Topix: Planet 51, Family, Kids, Robots, Science / Technology, Space

Florida Today

US, China to talk about joining forces in space exploration

The U.S. and China agreed to look into cooperation in space exploration during President Barack Obama's visit to that country.

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Mid-Day Mumbai

NASA ties up with ISRO

US space agency NASA has signed an agreement with ISRO to use data from Indian satellite Oceansat-2, for various American agencies for research activities, including weather forecasting.

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite passed over Anja on November 15 at 0904 UTC.

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PhysOrg Weblog

NGC 4710 galaxy: Baffling boxy bulge

Still an astrophysical mystery, the evolution of the bulges in spiral galaxies led astronomers to the edge-on galaxy NGC 4710.

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WFAA-TV Dallas

Big Hubble instruments now Smithsonian artifacts

Equipment that helped save the Hubble Space Telescope from disaster in 1993 was recently returned to Earth and is going on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

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CCTV

U.S. JPL prepares commands to free Mars rover Spirit

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory started Monday to prepare driving commands for the Mars rover Spirit to exit a sand trap on the Red Planet, NASA announced.

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News.com.au

Web surfers can help NASA explore Mars

Microsoft and NASA set up website that gives web users the opportunity to help study the surface of Mars / NASA NASA calls on web surfers to explore Mars Users to search maps for vital data Technology: More gadget news, reviews NASA and Microsoft have launched an interactive website that allows web surfers to become Mars explorers.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

Canada.com

Infrared telescope to detect dim, dusty objects

NASA plans next month to launch a space telescope that will scan the heavens for the infrared glow of celestial objects never seen because they are too dim, dusty or distant, scientists said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, US Military, Vandenberg Air Force Base, US Air Force, UC Los Angeles

ClipSyndicate

Deal in works to save NASA jobs

With only five more shuttle launches, thousands of people who work on the space coast are getting closer to losing their jobs.

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EurekAlert!

Purdue, NASA research provides blueprint for molecular basis of global warming

Some common chemical molecules, most of them used industrially, may be more worrisome from a global warming perspective than carbon dioxide, according to a new study by Timothy Lee, chief... WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.

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