Wednesday, August 31, 2011

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Ford Arts, Beats & Eats adds more art, music, dining, space
Detroit Free Press
Ford Arts, Beats & Eats returns to downtown Royal Oak for a second year. The four-day festival is a celebration of music, food and the visual arts. / REGINA H. BOONE/Detroit Free Press BY BRIAN MCCOLLUM This year's Ford Arts, Beats & Eats music lineup ...
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Florida State ready to carve out its space at the top
Orlando Sentinel
It was once a dominant empire. The hip-hop place to be and be seen. The masses were smitten by its allure, its power, its persuasion. Then it all crumbled. People got old, things got stale. The masses found a better place to go; the "It" factor was ...
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Space agencies set two courses
msnbc.com
The moon vs. asteroid debate was brought back into the spotlight during the deliberations of a panel known as the International Space Exploration Coordination Group, or ISECG. The group, which includes representatives from Britain, Canada, the European ...
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Space Cannibal: Ginormous Black Hole Caught Eating Another
Space.com
by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor A monstrous black hole at the heart of one galaxy is being devoured by a still larger black hole in another, scientists say. The discovery is the first of its kind. At the centers of virtually all large ...
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Seeking Space, Well-to-Do Londoners Dig Deep
New York Times
To assuage the concerns of swimmers who hate cramped spaces, another resident dug down so far beneath the earth that his pool is 16 feet deep and has a high-diving board. Britain is not immune from the housing slump, and London is still reeling from ...
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Solutions sought for growing space junk problem
USA Today
By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY The alarm came too late, and the six men aboard the International Space Station hurried to Soyuz escape capsules. This 2009 photo shows Astronaut Michael Fincke performing maintenance on the International Space Station. ...
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Slow Liftoff for Space Tours
Wall Street Journal
The two-mile-long runway for space planes is ready to go. Construction crews are putting the finishing touches on the futuristic terminal. But the real challenge is yet to come. The spaceport was launched in 2006 by former Gov. ...
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Space Agencies Set Roadmap for Manned Mars Mission
Space.com
Representatives of 10 space agencies from around the world met in Japan Tuesday (Aug. 30) to advance plans for getting humanity to Mars by the mid-2030s. The space agencies have been working together for the past year as part of the International Space ...
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Secretary Chu: Sustainability is the new space race
Sustainable Business Oregon
Photo by Tyler Brain, Portland State University US Energy Secretary Stephen Chu came to Portland Wednesday and while he was in town to promote engineering education, he also got a chance to talk about what he sees as the next great space race: ...
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New lounge spaces greet students at ECC
Chicago Sun-Times
It also was home to a monumental stone staircase that dropped from the second floor into the middle of the space. When the fall semester began last week, the Jobe Lounge still was carpeted, but bigger and sans staircase, and just one of several ...
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Russia considering unmanned space station
AFP
MOSCOW — Russia's space agency Roskosmos is considering ending a permanent human presence in space, an agency official said Wednesday following last week's crash of a supply ship delivering precious cargo to the ISS. "Perhaps in the future, ...
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How to Send Astronauts to Asteroids? Earth Needs to Know, Report Suggests
Space.com
by Leonard David, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist Developing the capability to launch human missions to asteroids would aid humanity's ability to foil a potentially devastating asteroid strike and help spur our march to Mars, a new report finds. ...
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U.S. Taking Initial Steps to Grapple with Space Debris Problem
Scientific American
By John Matson | August 31, 2011 A paint chip struck a space shuttle in 1983, carving out a pit in the windshield. Image: NASA The space shuttle era is finished, its vehicles museum-bound. The deep-space forays of Apollo astronauts are long gone, ...
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China Analyst: US Can't Win in Space, So Why Bother Racing?
Wired News
Last year, Beijing matched Washington in space launches for the first time, boosting no fewer than 15 satellites into orbit. It was the first time any nation kept a celestial pace with the US since the height of the Cold War. The new space race is on. ...
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[Un]remarkable space | Voltage Gate
By jeremy
[Un]remarkable space. Aug 31 2011 Published by jeremy under Etc, Writing. Another move finished. That's seven-ish in the past four years. I swear I'm not going anywhere this time. I said that in February of this year. "We're not going anywhere ...
Voltage Gate
Killing Elephants, Space Travel, Running Marathons: What 12 CEOs ...
By Vivian Giang and Eric Goldschein
If you're a CEO dealing with high-stress financial decisions on a daily basis, how do you maintain your confidence and blow off some steam? By staring danger straight in the face. With hobbies that range from killing elephants to space travel, ...
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Deflecting doomsday: New ideas for deflecting killer asteroids
CBS News
While scientists keep a close watch on the myriad space rocks near Earth, they don't yet have a solid plan on what to do if one appears headed on a collision course toward our planet. Two new studies propose potential spacecraft missions that would ...
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The Deals Space: It's Easy to Start, But Not to Grow
WebProNews
The daily deals space will mature and the flexibility that merchants may see today will disappear or become commoditized. Why? Daily deals / flash deals are still in infancy and a lot of trial and error/learning is still taking place. ...
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Space Station's Robot Mechanic Makes Out-of-This-World Repair
Space.com
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Senior Writer A robot on the International Space Station has completed a job that until now has only been possible with spacesuit-clad astronauts conducting spacewalks. Late Monday (Aug. ...
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Video: Hubble Captures Stars Unleashing Supersonic Jets
Wired News
By Dave Mosher Using 14 years' worth of Hubble Space Telescope images, astronomers have animated the chaos inside supersonic jets of newborn stars. Hubble took still photographs of the jets from 1994 through 2008, and animators used image-morphing ...
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China Moves Toward Permanent Space Presence
Voice of America
August 31, 2011 China Moves Toward Permanent Space Presence Ivan Broadhead | Hong Kong China is expected to launch its Tiangong 1 space laboratory in the coming days. A country that only eight years ago put its first taikonaut (astronaut) into orbit ...
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Tea Party in Space Raps NASA's 'Warped Priorities'
NewsMax.com
By David A. Patten Tea Party in Space, the grass-roots offshoot that focuses on applying free-market reforms to the US space program, blames "warped priorities" for the dilemma that NASA faces over possibly abandoning the International Space Station ...
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Outbound space probe looks back at tiny Earth and Moon
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By Lewis Page • Get more from this author Pic NASA's space probe Juno, outward bound for Jupiter, has sent pack a pic of the Earth-Moon system from 6 million miles away. According to NASA, Juno was further away than the Moon within a day of being ...
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How's Switching NASA's Mission From Exploring Space To Muslim ...
By John Hawkins
Today, more than 40 years later under Obama, not only have we not gone back to the moon, we don't even have a space shuttle capable of getting to the International Space Station. How's that working out for us? WASHINGTON — The ...
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Russia identifies cause of space freighter failure | TG Daily
By Trent Nouveau
The latest news will undoubtedly be welcomed by NASA, as the space agency had previously voiced concern that the International Space Station may be temporarily evacuated if the grounded Soyuz rockets could not ferry a fresh crew to the ...
TG Daily
Massalogy to open in former Massage Junkie space on East Central ...
By Carrie Rengers
WICHITA — A new massage business is going in the former Massage Junkie space. Donna Chickadonz is opening her second Massalogy — which means the study of massage — site at 9390 E. Central. She's also keeping her first location in ...
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Space is the Final Luxury Frontier | Think Tank | Big Think
By Daniel Honan
In space these days, it's feast or famine. At a time when our infrastructure appears to be breaking down--from aging weather satellites to NASA warning the International Space Station may face an unprecedented evacuation--we are also ...
Big Think
This Is the Mantra of Warhammer 40000: Space Marine
By Mike Fahey
While its big, burly characters make it look like it wants to be Gears of War, Warhammer 40000: Space Marine's core tenant is distinctly un-Gears-like: Cover is for the weak.
Kotaku


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NASA: Space station may be evacuated by late November - Yahoo ...
Read 'NASA: Space station may be evacuated by late November' on Yahoo! News. NASA says astronauts may need to abandon the International Space Station ...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

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Double duty: Military vet embraces new role, ranking at Patrick Air Force Base
Florida Today
45th Space Wing gets new commander: Anthony Cotton was promoted to Brig. General, then took command of the 45th Space Wing on Tuesday afternoon. By Craig Bailey and Tim Walters Posted Aug. 30, 2011 Brig. Gen. Anthony Cotton's daughter, Brianna, ...
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"Eureka," 4.18 recap - This One Time at Space Camp
Gather.com
Fargo shares a story about Space Camp and how he designed an incredible combustible engine, but that the timing and the intensity of the flare gave the win to the competition's three-time champions. Which might not seem like such a great memory to ...
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International Space Station to stay manned after all?
Los Angeles Times
Russian space officials say they have identified what went wrong with the rocket that failed to reach orbit last week. Now the question is whether the explanation will allay enough fears to keep the International Space Station going. ...
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CLC dean captures shuttle history in photos
Chicago Daily Herald
By Melissa Silverberg Growing up in the early years of space exploration in the 1960s, Miller said he was drawn to discovering the new frontier just like millions of other Americans. Later, as an adult teaching photography at a community college near ...
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Van rolls from parking space, kills boy, 5
Cincinnati.com
SPRINGBORO - A 5-year-old boy died Tuesday afternoon after being hit by a van that rolled backward from an elevated parking space. The woman who had parked the van was the boy's mother, according to witnesses. Springboro police said the boy had gotten ...
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NASA warns 'risk of losing' space station rising
AFP
WASHINGTON — The risk of an unprecedented evacuation of the International Space Station will spike if Russian craft cannot resume their missions and return by November, a senior NASA official has warned. "There is a greater risk of losing the ISS when ...
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Proposed Missions Could Deflect Space Rocks Like Asteroid Apophis
Space.com
by Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor While scientists keep a close watch on the myriad space rocks near Earth, they don't yet have a solid plan on what to do if one appears headed on a collision course toward our planet. ...
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Space.com
Space Agencies Meet to Discuss a Global Exploration Roadmap
PR Newswire (press release)
30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senior managers representing 10 space agencies from around the world met in Kyoto, Japan today to advance the Global Exploration Roadmap for coordinated space exploration. During the past year, the International ...
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San Francisco Architects Open 1800 Square Feet of Western Soma Studio Space
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The space features a shared conference room constructed of translucent cobalt plastic panels over steel framing studs, towering exposed ceilings, natural wood floors and a wall of steel casement windows that make artificial light unnecessary during ...
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Obama Administration: Lost in Space - Big Government
By Jason Killian Meath
Astronauts are stranded on the space station. America's once-mighty Space Shuttle fleet has been disassembled and mothballed with nothing to replace it. The Russians, once the inferior player in the space race, is the only hope left to rescue ...
Big Government
David Bowie's Space Oddity as a Children's Book
By Stacy
Illustrator Andrew Kolb was listening to David Bowie's "Space Oddity" when he realized the imagery would make a great children's book. Well, you know – if your kids are ready to deal with the tragedy of an astronaut dying alone in space. ...
Neatorama
Just How Important Is Space Policy? - Transterrestrial Musings
By Rand Simberg
Traditionally, though it's not a written rule, vice presidents have been in charge of space policy, though some are more so than others. Johnson was very much so, Agnew was somewhat, Ford and Rockefeller not much, Mondale tried to kill the ...
Transterrestrial Musings
Seeing Pink Over Gage & Tollner Space -- Grub Street New York
By Jenny Miller
The Landmark Preservation Commission is not pleased with those hot-pink walls.
Grub Street New York
Eliminating slack space in the ConfigMgr 2007 database - The ...
By jchornbe
News and support information for System Center Configuration Manager 2007 and SMS 2003.
The Configuration Manager Support...


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Will International Space Station Be Abandoned? | FoxNews.com
Following the crash of a spaceship in the remote reaches of Siberia, Russia on Monday delayed the return to Earth of three astronauts -- calling into question the ...
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Space Station Supply Rocket Crashes | The Onion - America's ...
A Russian rocket carrying nearly 3 tons of supplies for the International Space Station crashed five minutes after takeoff, an accident expected to delay the return ...
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David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' Transformed Into Picture Book for Kids
Wired News (blog)
By Angela Watercutter The David Bowie song "Space Oddity" probably shouldn't have been made into a children's book: The haunting 1969 track about an astronaut who loses contact with Earth to float around the universe would probably give most kids ...
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What Will Happen if International Space Station is Left Unmanned?
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | August 30, 2011 1:34 PM EDT Following the failure of the Russian Soyuz rocket last week, if the astronauts, currently living in the International Space Station, will have to abandon ship even temporarily, the $100 billion ...
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Private space station cargo ship arrives at launch site
msnbc.com
23 ahead of preparations for a February 2012 test flight to the International Space Station. By Denise Chow A private US rocket company building robotic spaceships to carry space station supplies for NASA has delivered the first of its cargo ships to ...
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Florida Senators Chime In on NASA Heavy lift Space Launch System
TMC Net
By Doug Mohney, Contributing Editor Senators Bill Nelson (D) and Marco Rubio (R) are the latest lawmakers to send a letter about NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), the heavy lift rocket project intended for beyond earth orbit exploration. ...
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Cotton: Stay sharp; Our mission demands it
Pactrick Air Force Base
About thirty minutes later, he assumed command of the 45th Space Wing from outgoing commander, Brig. Gen. Ed Wilson in back-to-back ceremonies held here at the Base Theatre. Not a bad way to start the day. The promotion ceremony was presided over by ...
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NASA Names Astrophysics Fellowship for Iconic Woman Astronomer
MarketWatch (press release)
30, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NASA has established an astrophysics technology fellowship named for the woman many credit as one of the key contributors in the creation of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in ...
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Carnival of Space #212
By Nancy Atkinson
A brand new Carnival of Space is hosted by Brain Wang over at Next Big Future. Click here to read Carnival of Space #212 And if you're interested in looking back, here's an archive to all the past Carnivals of.
Universe Today
What makes this strange space blob glow?
By Alasdair Wilkins
That green clump might not be much to look at, but it's one of the rarest sights in the cosmos: a Lyman-alpha blob. They're among the universe's biggest structures, and only now are we starting to understand how they work.
io9
How to evacuate a space station | MNN - Mother Nature Network
By Space.com
In the wake of a Russian rocket failure, NASA is considering evacuating the crew of the International Space Station later this year. The unprecedented move would mark the first time in more than 10 years that the orbiting outpost has gone ...
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MAKE | Hackerspace Happenings: BioCurious Finds a Space
By John Baichtal
Are you a hackerspace member with an event you'd like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I'll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter.
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NASA: International Space Station could be evacuated | TG Daily
By Trent Nouveau
NASA is warning that astronauts may be forced to temporarily abandon the International Space Station (ISS) if a recent space freighter crash prevents Russia from ferrying a fresh crew to the station. As TG Daily previously reported, a Russian ...
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Space station could be at risk if crews are forced to leave temporarily
USA Today
By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY NASA International Space Station Program Manager Mike Suffred says evacuation is a distinct possibility in mid-November if Russian Soyuz rockets are not flying, writes Florida Today's Todd Halvorson. ...
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Joao Silva on his future; NASA mulls an empty space station; Wikileaks leaks
Washington Post (blog)
The International Space Station, lived in continuously by astronauts since 2000, may have to go empty for a short time period. The Russia rockets NASA intended to hitch a ride on had a technical failure last week, and new flights have been delayed ...
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What vegetables are best for growing in Spaaace?
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By Lewis Page • Get more from this author It's a question that must have vexed many space-loving gardeners over the years: Just what kinds of vegetables are most suitable for growing in space or at far-flung bases on alien worlds? ...
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Beads of Courage Beads in Space Tour Travels to Ten US Cities Presented by ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BOC Children and families will be invited to see handmade Beads of Courage space beads that flew 4.8 million miles at over 17500 miles per hour aboard the NASA Atlantis Space Shuttle Mission STS-132 and Endeavour Space Shuttle Mission STS-134 and to ...
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'Suitcase' Sized Nuclear Neactor Will One Day Power Space Colonies
International Business Times
A fission power system contains components similar to those found in the commercial reactors currently in use, but for space applications, nuclear fission is a bit different. Werner explains that while the physics are the same, the smaller reactor ...
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International Space Station Prime Contractor Wyle Selects Paragon Software ...
MarketWatch (press release)
IRVINE, Calif., Aug 30, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- At 11:29 am EDT on July 8, 2011, Paragon Software Group reached a milestone in the company's brief history as it soared into the heavens on the final flight of America's Space Shuttle Atlantis. ...
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