Thursday, March 31, 2011

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Witnesses Say Future Of NASA Human Space Flight Is Uncertain
Space Daily
by Staff Writers today, in a hearing of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, witnesses expressed serious concern about the lack of clear focus by the Administration on NASA's transition from the Space Shuttle program toward development of the ...
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Pratt & Whitney pushing for direction on space travel
Palm Beach Post
latest money news » From The Post and AP By Jeff Ostrowski The end of the space shuttle program will mean more job cuts at Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne's operations in northwestern Palm Beach County. Company officials say they're unsure how many workers ...
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Space Tech in Everyday Life: NASA Brings Inventions Down to Earth
Space.com
But the space agency's contributions to people's everyday lives here on Earth still run wide and deep. NASA's primary charter is to explore and better understand the cosmos. But much of the technology NASA developed in reaching for the stars has ...
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Katy Perry Plays a Space Oddity in New 'ET' Video (watch!)
TheImproper.com
The camera continues to pan in on a glowing chest window in the robot until it segues to West, hurtling through space in a rocketship and breaking into a rap. From there the scene cuts to an alien spinning to the beat through space and morphing into ...
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SpaceX: Something Big (and Heavy) is Coming
Discovery News
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) released a promotional video on Thursday that previews the unveiling of a new member of the Falcon rocket family, a heavy-lifter that will compete with United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rockets. ...
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Severe Storms Rock Space Shuttle Endeavour Launch Site
Space.com
NASA is gearing up for space shuttle Endeavour's final flight next month, but Mother Nature hasn't been cooperating lately. Powerful storms tore through Florida's Space Coast yesterday and today (March 31), cutting short some astronaut training ...
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Canadian radar helps keep astronauts safe from space rocks
Montreal Gazette
By Mark Iype, Postmedia News March 31, 2011 4:55 PM Orbital space is filled with tiny rocks streaking about at 70 kilometres per second — which is why astronauts on the International Space Station never go outside without checking the weather forecast ...
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NASA Negotiates Six, One-Month Options with United Space Alliance
PR Newswire (press release)
HOUSTON, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has incorporated six, one-month content adjustments that provide options for continuation of services to support fly-out of the space shuttle manifest beyond Thursday, March 31. ...
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Dark matter could bring starless planets to life
msnbc.com
A NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the distribution of dark matter in the center of the giant galaxy cluster Abell 1689, containing about 1000 galaxies and trillions of stars. By Charles Q. Choi There may be worlds that float through ...
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PhotoBlog - Get a rosy glow from outer space
By Alan Boyle
Bask in the healthy glow of the star cluster and nebula known as NGC 371. This reddish region is a cloud of glowing hydrogen that is giving rise to hot young stars. NGC 371's host galaxy is the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy ...
PhotoBlog - PhotoBlog's Column... - http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/31/5742103-australia-kicks-off-the-new-year-with-fireworks-over-sydney-harbor?threadId=1157768&commentId=20288386
EXCLUSIVE PHOTO: Katy Perry Goes Space Age For New Video | Radar ...
Style chameleon Katy Perry looks out of this world in her new space age video and RadarOnline.com has an exclusive photo of the singer's futuristic fashion statement. Along with vibrant make-up and a dramatic headpiece, RadarOnline.com ...
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Undergraduate Space Education: A Missed Opportunity
By Administrator
Without a doubt, the US Military Academy is far behind the other academies in term of space education and research. Being one of the largest users of space based operational products, it seems odd that the Army would allow such a large ...
CGSC Student Blog - http://usacac.army.mil/blog/blogs/cgsc_student_blog/default.aspx
"Space cars fighting robots in space" | Robot 6 @ Comic Book ...
By Brigid Alverson
It's about a bunch of dudes who have awesome space cars which they drive around in space fighting monsters and aliens and robots and stuff. Very Saturday Morning Cartoon (indeed, I think it literally is a Saturday morning cartoon), ...
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources... - http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/
Free Space: Black Prophecy First Impressions | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
By Jim Rossignol
The free-to-play space MMO Black Prophecy is out in the EU, and there's a beta underway for North America. I decided to take a look over the past couple of.
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Space Glue Sticks in Dry Environments | Peptide Bonds Keep Hold ...
By continuing to bond even in incredibly dry environments, a new Velcro-like glue could find itself sticking things together in space.
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Endeavour Crew Will Wear Giffords Bracelets in Space
AOL News
Astronaut Scott Kelly was orbiting Earth, halfway through his mission on the International Space Station, when he learned his sister-in-law had been shot. "When you get a phone call from the chief of the astronaut office who wants to talk to you ...
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Watch Katy Perry Turn Into A Space Deer In The New E.T. Music Video
Cinema Blend
The video takes the song's title pretty seriously, and turns Perry into an intergalactic space-deer floating her way through the galaxy looking for robots to make out with. That sentence was not a joke. It gets weirder when you consider that the robot ...
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NASA's servers risked devastating breach
FierceCIO
Six servers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration--servers supporting the International Space Station, Space Shuttle and Hubble Telescope initiatives--were open to vulnerabilities that could have resulted in a devastating breach, ...
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NASA Test Stand Passes Review for Next-Generation Rocket Engine Testing
NASA
Operators at NASA's John C. Stennis Space Center conduct the last scheduled space shuttle main engine test on the A-2 Test Stand on July 29, 2009. › More Images Forty-five years after its first Saturn V rocket stage test and 35 years after its first ...
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Solar company leases space on General Motors land
Cooler Planet
The plan is for the arrays to be built on 10000 square feet of space, and to potentially employ former GM workers who have lost their jobs due to the downturn in the automotive industry, the report said. A number of solar companies and other renewable ...
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Mutant Microbes Test Space Radiation Resistance
Space.com
Now researchers have begun testing modern microbes to see if they could act as pioneers in the harsh conditions of extraterrestrial space and other planetary environments. One such study from last year looked at Bacillus subtilis, a common soil ...
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Giffords' astronaut husband awaiting doctors' OK
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Space shuttle commander Mark Kelly is still awaiting doctors' final OK on whether his congresswoman wife can attend his launch in just under three weeks. Space shuttle Endeavour crew, left to right: mission specialists Greg Chamitoff, Roberto Vittori ...
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Large Retail Space to Be Available at Corner of Congress Avenue and 9th Street
PR Newswire (press release)
AUSTIN, Texas, March 31, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- T. Stacy & Associates, who has been involved with some of Austin's most iconic buildings, announced today that it will reconfigure street-level space in its headquarters building at 823 Congress Avenue to a ...
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Space heater caused a fire in south Oklahoma City
NewsOK.com
A space heater too close to a bed caused a fire late Wednesday in Oklahoma City. All of the people in the house got out safely. About 11:40 pm Wednesday firefighters were called to a house fire at 1407 SE 19, a fire spokeswoman said. ...
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Demo satellites track missile
UPI.com
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., March 31 (UPI) -- Space tracking and surveillance satellites built by US companies Northrop Grumman and Raytheon successfully tracked a short-range missile in testing. The US Missile Defense Agency STSS demonstration ...
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Turn Empty Space Into A Sporting Business Opportunity - Business ...
By Angela Shupe
Blog entry about Turn Empty Space Into A Sporting Business Opportunity.
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The Towerlight » New classroom space in works
By towerlighteditor
Vice president for administration and finance Jim Sheehan said that the additional space on York Road and Pennsylvania Avenue would be used for classrooms and offices for the College of Health Professions. ...
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Robonaut 2, First Humanoid Robot In Space + Special Unboxing Videos
By mikl-em
It's ironic that the first humanoid robot in space is nicknamed R2, as its golden face and gangly limbs are more reminiscent of C-3PO than Star Wars' less person-shaped droid R2-D2. The awesome mission patch above celebrates Robonaut ...
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Space Heater Blamed For Deadly Fire
KPTV Portland
Forest Grove Fire & Rescue crews say a space heater sparked a house fire that killed an elderly woman. Fire crews say they found the home in the 2200 block of Laurel Street engulfed in flames when they arrived just before 2 am Monday. ...
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Solar company will lease space at GM campus in Spring Hill
The Tennessean
A Knoxville-area company plans to lease space in a building on General Motors' Spring Hill campus for an operation that would assemble arrays of solar panels for installation at businesses and homes. Soltility of Friendsville, Tenn., said it plans to ...
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A concert odyssey blasts off in London
Reuters
By Michael Roddy LONDON (Reuters) - Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" made the timpani intro of Richard Strauss's "Thus Sprach Zarathustra" a cliche for a dramatic entrance and the crescendo of Gyorgy Ligeti's "Atmospheres" a cult classic. ...
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Delays in NASA heavy-lift rocket plan stir skeptics
Florida Today
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers, a space industry official and an academic remained skeptical Wednesday about NASA's commitment to developing a heavy-lift rocket and to spurring on the private space sector -- two of the main post-shuttle tasks given to the ...
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County open space district wins $1.5 million grant
Napa Valley Register
The future of our county's agricultural preserve and open space protections depends on the understanding and support of future generations. There's no better way to build that understanding and support than by giving kids the chance to get outdoors, ...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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NASA to check for shuttle damage after hail storm
CNN International
By Rich Phillips, CNN (CNN) -- NASA crews will perform a full survey of the space shuttle Endeavour on Thursday, a day after high winds and hail battered the launch pad, according to the space agency. "No one was injured and initially no obvious damage ...
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Get a rosy glow from outer space
msnbc.com (blog)
Just this week, the ESO and Europe's Hubble team served up even more goodies for fans of space imagery: Apple iPad users can download two new apps that show off the top 100 images from the ESO, and another 100 stunners from the Hubble Space Telescope. ...
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Boulder: Dogs can stay; bike ban likely continues in West Trail Study Area
Daily Camera
The decision is part of a larger management plan for the West Trail Study Area -- the open space land that lies west of Broadway and stretches from Linden Avenue south to Eldorado Springs Drive -- that the City Council approved Wednesday. ...
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NASAs First Orion Capsule and New Space Operations Center Unveiled
By Ken Kremer
The inaugural version of NASA's new Orion human space exploration capsule was unveiled by Lockheed Martin at the company's new state-of-the-art Space Operation Simulation Center (SOSC) located in Denver, Colorado. Orion is designed to ...
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Space heater sparked fire that killed Forest Grove woman, 76, and ...
By Emily E. Smith, The Oregonian
Velvalee Long, 76, died early Monday morning trapped in a house fire that was started when a space heater ignited some nearby clothing and a couch.
Washington County News - http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/
Culture Watch: Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time | Culture ...
By Jori Finkel
"Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time" Edited by Mari Carmen Ramírez and Héctor Olea (Museum of Fine Arts Houston, $75) One star of the Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition "Suprasensorial: Latin American Light and Space" was a ...
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Katy Perry's "ET" Video: Space Glam!
E! Online (blog)
As much as we hoped Katy Perry was going to give a shout-out to a certain Reese's Pieces-lovin' alien in her video for "ET", these sneak peeks indicate otherwise. The pop fashionista blasts off more closely to the style orbit of David Bowie's glittery ...
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Investigators: Space heater caused deadly Forest Grove fire
kgw.com
A space heater sparked the fire that killed a Forest Grove woman and injured her teenaged grandson Monday, investigators determined. The couple, in their 70s, had used the portable electric space heater in the room where they slept and it was left on ...
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Space Oddity
Diamondback Online
At first glance, director Duncan Jones' career seems to have followed a typical path. He began working in advertising, then moved into filmmaking and only directed his first wide-release, studio-produced film after first finding success in independent ...
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Fears grow that US losing its space mojo
CBS News
US space shuttle Endeavour on March 22, 2011 on launch pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida being prepared for her final planned launch on April 19 to the International Space Station. (Getty Images) The United States' ever-fluctuating plans for ...
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NASA Failure to Secure Computer Systems Endangers Space Missions: Audit
eWeek
The United States space agency has a number of serious computer and network security issues that could have complicated missions and jeopardized lives, according to the latest audit report. In an internal audit report titled "Inadequate Security ...
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A-Another Space Place Continues to Create Loyal Customers With U-Haul Products ...
PR Newswire (press release)
CONROE, Texas, March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dick Plank, owner of A-Another Space Place, located at 10670 FM 1484, recently added U-Haul truck and trailer rentals to the storage business he has been operating since January 2010. ...
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Unique office space opens its doors in Portland
WLBZ-TV
The concept is quite simple, build a space with desks, lots of electrical outlets and meeting areas, equip the building with high-speed wireless internet access and invite people to use it like they would their home office. ...
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Museums Battle for One of NASA's Retiring Space Shuttle Orbiters
The Atlantic
By Nicholas Jackson On April 12, timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the first Space Shuttle launch and the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's historic 1961 spaceflight, NASA will announce where the three remaining orbiters will be displayed ...
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Xbox 360 DVDs Get 1GB Extra Space in Dashboard Update?
PCWorld
Pixel-nitpicker Digital Foundry reports that Microsoft may be beta-testing Xbox 360 DVDs that yield back about 15 percent storage space the company previously marked for exclusion. Marked for exclusion why? According to DF's source, Microsoft's been ...
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The Old Tower Records Space on Broadway Is Becoming an 'MLB Fan Cave'
New York Magazine
They will stay in the space, fishbowl-like, for every day of the regular season. The cave features three 60-inch screens and twelve 32-inch screens, with every game running at all times. It also will feature pool tables, a "Bud Bar," a tattoo studio, ...
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NASA in flux: Is US space expertise being hollowed out?
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
By Larry Dignan | Mar 30, 2011 | The United States' ever-fluctuating plans for NASA is threatening the science and engineering brainpower and workforce development needed to remain a space player. James Maser, chairman of the corporate membership ...
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NASA Offers Schools and Education Groups Chance to Talk to Space
PR Newswire (press release)
HOUSTON, March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA is offering opportunities for schools and educational groups to speak with astronauts aboard the International Space Station to learn about the challenges and rewards of their work. ...
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American Art Museum adds education space
Bizjournals.com
"It has been a longstanding dream to have a space dedicated to the museum's education program as a visible symbol of our commitment to education and much-needed flexible learning space," said Elizabeth Broun, The Margaret and Terry Stent director of ...
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Roku gets upgraded Crackle channel, lands shelf space in Best Buy
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FierceOnlineVideo is the first place to turn for must-know B2B news in the online video industry. Join thousands of business leaders who get FierceOnlineVideo via weekly email for exclusive insights. Sign up today! Back in November, Crackle became ...
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Space News in Brief - Technology Review
An Orion spacecraft, an artificial intelligence rocket, and a new multi-mission approach to exploration.
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New York Jail Selling Ad Space Directed At Newly Arrested Prisoners
By The Huffington Post News Editors
In the continuing struggle to keep at least one advertisement in front of every American, all the time, the Erie County Holding Center, a jail in upstate New York, is now selling ad space on HD televisions, in its detention center, ...
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raw_feed_index.rdf
Breathtaking Medieval Building Turned Into Contemporary Living Space
By Lavinia
Located in the core part of Girona's medieval quarter and overlooking the Plaça de Sant Domènec, Spain, this is a property called Alemanys 5 within an.
Freshome.com - Interior Design... - http://freshome.com/
Meridian woman participating in 'tweetup' for space shuttle ...
Reaching out to Americans via social media, NASA is hosting 150 people from across the country, including a Meridian woman, at a Tweetup for the last launch of the space shuttle Endeavor.
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Texans in Congress say retired shuttle should be sent to Houston
Dallas Morning News
By TODD J. GILLMAN WASHINGTON — NASA is about to pick homes for three retired space shuttles, and Houston-area representatives from both parties alleged Tuesday that the White House seems intent to snub Texas for political reasons. ...
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Japanese Robot Spaceship Meets Fiery Doom in Earth's Atmosphere
Space.com
An unmanned Japanese space cargo ship met its fiery demise overnight when it intentionally re-entered the Earth's atmosphere late Tuesday (March 29) one day after its departure from the International Space Station. The robotic spacecraft, an H-2 ...
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British space companies, Gov. Scott talk business in Brevard today
Florida Today
Frank DiBello is president and CEO of Space Florida. In the background is part of the rocket garden at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. / Michael R. Brown, FLORIDA TODAY A delegation of six UK space companies will discuss doing business with space ...
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You'll gladly trade space for style
Belleville News Democrat
In the current post-economic-meltdown marketplace, however, downsizing consumers who willingly trade space for fuel efficiency are increasingly hesitant to also sacrifice style, technology and fun. Starting at $16000, the Fiat 500, or Cinquecento as ...
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Microsoft finds 1GB of extra space on Xbox 360 DVDs
Geek.com
Not only can the PS3 playback Blu-ray content, it also offers developers up to 50GB of storage space for a game. That means better quality videos and higher resolution graphics can be stored without worry of reaching the upper limits of the disc. ...
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Northrop Grumman Makes Two Appointments To Space Systems Division
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Northrop Grumman has named Jeffrey D. Grant vice president and general manager of the Space Systems Division of the Aerospace Systems sector. In addition, Robert V. Burke has been named vice president and deputy general manager, ...
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NASA's inspector general says space station, Hubble were vulnerable to hackers
al.com (blog)
By Lee Roop, The Huntsville Times HUNTSVILLE, Alabama - The International Space Station, the Hubble telescope and the space shuttle were vulnerable in 2009 to hackers who penetrated the NASA computer network that controls them, according to NASA's ...
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