Tuesday, September 20, 2011

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Astronauts risk blurred vision after months in space
Los Angeles Times
NASA has ordered studies on the eye condition and sent special glasses to the International Space Station to aid vision-impaired astronauts. A Russian Soyuz space capsule floats to a landing in Kazakhstan this month carrying crew members from the ...
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Launch to pave way for space station
Xinhua
21 (Xinhuanet) -- China will launch an unmanned module next week, paving the way for a planned space station, a spokesman for the space program said on Tuesday. Tiangong-1, or "Heavenly Palace 1", will blast off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in ...
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Space telescope sunshade tested
UPI.com
This is an artist's conception of the James Webb Space Telescope, with the five-layer sunshield stretched out in space. Credit: NASA GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 20 (UPI) -- NASA says it's testing the sunscreen that will protect the James Webb Space Telescope ...
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Google Wallet Won`t Dominate Mobile Payment Space: 10 Reason Why
eWeek
In fact, there's a good possibility that Google Wallet won't even have a chance to dominate that space at all. Unfortunately for Google and any other company thinking of competing in the mobile-payment business, there is a general lack of knowledge ...
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Digital Realty Opens Large Phoenix Expansion Space
Data Center Knowledge
The expansion nearly doubles the size of the former 365 Main facility at 2121 S. Price Road in Chandler, which already included 293000 square feet of data center space. The expansion project began in the first quarter of 2011, and Digital Realty will ...
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China to put 'Heavenly Palace' in space next week
msnbc.com
China is getting set to launch the first piece of a full-fledged space station, called Tiangong ("Heavenly Palace"). This graphic shows components of the space station docking in orbit. BEIJING — China will launch an experimental craft next week to ...
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Fly over the southern lights in the space station
msnbc.com (blog)
A time-lapse video from the International Space Station features a flyover of the southern lights. It's been a great summer for auroral displays, and especially from space. Here's a time-lapse video showing the International Space Station's passage ...
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Activists convert parking spaces into parks
MiamiHerald.com
Local activists along with organizations such as Transit Miami, Urban Environment League, and the Miami Parking Authority converted ten metered parking spaces into a miniature park. The event also featured music, food for sale, and art displays. ...
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PhotoBlog - Fly over the southern lights in the space station
By Alan Boyle
It's been a great summer for auroral displays, and especially from space. Here's a time-lapse video showing the International Space Station's passage over the southern lights on Sept. 11.
PhotoBlog
Rovio wants to enter retail space with Angry Birds | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
Rovio is certainly attempting to milk the goose that lays the golden egg, so to speak, to the maximum by [...]
Ubergizmo
Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day… - Amazing Space Station Video
By Larry Ferlazzo
Amazing Space Station Video. Filed under science,video. If you haven't yet seen this video from a camera attached to the International Space Station, you definitely want to take a look. I'm adding it to The Best Images Taken In Space. ...
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Motorola hunting for office space in Chicago | Technology | Crain's ...
Motorola Solutions leases offices in Illinois Center but will need more space, Mr. Brown said in an interview. "Some will be in the existing space, but it's not big enough to house all those folks," he said Monday. "So it's likely to be a new facility. ...
Chicago Business News
Create a middle-ground space between the cozy indoors and the ...
There's a scene in the movie Titanic: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet are at the brow of this great ship, high above the water with the ocean stretched out before them. DiCaprio...
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This Massive Cold War Spy Satellite Was Hidden from the World ...
So the Pentagon cooked up HEXAGON—the most sophisticated space eyeball among the first generation of spy sats. Beginning in 1971, each HEXAGON was ...
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Space Satellite UARS Might Hit Earth Friday
ABC News
By GINA SUNSERI The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery in this Sept. 14, 1991 file photo in space. (NASA/Getty Images) UARS is scheduled to de-orbit Friday, plus or minus a day, according to NASA ...
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NASA to Pay $1.6 Billion for Private Space Taxi Flights
Space.com
by Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor NASA on Monday (Sept. 19) unveiled a billion-dollar plan to purchase flights of new private space taxis to fly American astronauts to and from Earth orbit now that the agency's shuttle fleet is retired. ...
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California desert spaceship factory completed
The Associated Press
MOJAVE, California (AP) — Space tourism is closer to reality after the completion of an $8 million Mojave Desert production plant where the world's first fleet of passenger-ready spaceships will be built. Hundreds of public officials and reporters ...
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NASA wants to hire a space taxi
TG Daily
NASA - which recently retired its shuttle flight - wants to hire private "space taxis" that will transport US astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS). The space agency believes outsourcing low Earth orbit transportation will allow ...
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Digital Shelf Space to Begin Selling GSP RUSHFIT in US Retail at The Sports ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Digital Shelf Space is an independent producer of home entertainment content and online delivery technology provider to digital retailers, content owners and aggregators. Digital Shelf Space's proprietary technology platform has been custom built to ...
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Last updated at 11:18 AM on 20th September 2011
Daily Mail
We have already seen an amazing time-lapse video showing an orbit of the Earth from the International Space Station - as featured first on Mail Online. And now astronauts have released another amazing video of their window on the world. ...
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NASA Announces International Space Apps Competition
MarketWatch (press release)
20, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- NASA is announcing the International Space Apps Competition to support the Open Government Partnership (OGP), which President Barack Obama announced Tuesday. The challenge will culminate with a two-day event next ...
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NASA Unveils $1.6 Billion 'Space Taxi' Plan
PC Magazine
By Chloe Albanesius NASA on Monday unveiled a plan that will allocate $1.61 billion to private companies that will transport US astronauts to the International Space Station and low Earth orbit. The program, which will run from July 2012 to April 2014, ...
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James Webb Space Telescope parts wow visitors to Huntsville's high-tech zone
al.com (blog)
The visitors were at ManTech International Corp. seeing a full-size template of one layer of the sunshield that will protect the James Webb Space Telescope in orbit. ManTech will eventually build five of these layers for the Webb. ...
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FEMA Prepared for Dead NASA Satellite's Plunge to Earth This Week
Space.com
by Leonard David, SPACE.com's Space Insider Columnist With a massive dead NASA satellite due to plunge back to Earth this week, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is laying the groundwork for a fast response in case the 6 1/2-ton spacecraft ...
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Best Electric-Car Cargo Space: 2012 Nissan Leaf, 2012 Toyota Plug-in Prius
Green Car Reports
Read More When you're researching your next new car it's likely that you research not one but many different cars, comparing them on everything from fuel economy and features to reliability and interior space. Electric and plug-in hybrid cars are no ...
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Southern Lights (Aurora Australias): A rare video from above
Christian Science Monitor
Check out this video of the Southern Lights, aka Aurora Australias taken from aboard the International Space Station. By David Clark Scott, Staff / September 20, 2011 A still from the video of the Aurora Australias or Southern lights, captured by the ...
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Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites Launch Space Tourism Company
ThirdAge
Read Moretaken by NASA's, Spitzer Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. UPI/NASA Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and spaceship builder Scaled Composites have come together in a partnership to help promote space ...
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Time-lapse video of Earth from International Space Station
Daily Mail
This whirlwind video tour of the planet is a compilation of time-lapse images shot from the International Space Station (ISS). James Drake spliced together the images from the ISS, which travels at about 220 miles above the surface, to create the ...
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Citizant Expands Office Space to Accommodate Growing Workforce
MarketWatch (press release)
"This new space gives us breathing room to add employees through the end of the year while we establish a strategy for expanding our real estate footprint to best serve our customers in Washington, DC, and other key markets around the country. ...
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NASA Moves Step Closer to Space Taxis
Discovery News
NASA hopes some US companies will soon be giving the Russians a run for their money to fly astronauts to the International Space Station. Under a new draft solicitation unveiled Monday, the US government is planning to buttress private space efforts to ...
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Space Station Soars Over the Southern Lights
Discovery News
It must be ISS flyover video season, because here's another breathtaking beauty made from images taken by the Expedition 28 crew aboard the space station! Here we get to witness the glamor of the Aurora Australis -- aka the Southern Lights -- as the ...
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Space Junk Threatens Earth's Orbital Environment
Voice of America
19 September 2011 Space Junk Threatens Earth's Orbital Environment TO DOWNLOAD the MP3 of this story, click on the MP3 link in the upper right corner of the page. Double-click any word to find the definition in the Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary. ...
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Monday, September 19, 2011

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Rain of Space Debris Coming: NASA
International Business Times
said Dr. Mark Mateny of the Orbital Debris Program at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Most of the vessel is expected to burn up in the atmosphere, but the agency said there was still some potential for problems. "The risk to public safety or ...
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Nasa to spend $1.6bn on space taxis
Telegraph.co.uk
Nasa plans to spend $1.6 billion (£1.01bn) over the next two years bolstering industry efforts to develop "space taxis". The US space agency will be looking for complete systems - launchers, spaceships, mission operations and ground support - to ferry ...
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Space shuttle launch gantries disappear
Florida Today
NASA photo KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — The historic space shuttle gantries that for decades stood at Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center are no more. After more than two years of careful "deconstruction" work, demolition crews told NASA last week that ...
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Open space advocate Audrey Rust receives honor from Palo Alto council
San Jose Mercury News
The Palo Alto-based Peninsula Open Space Trust raised $325 million and preserved more than 53000 acres of land in San Mateo, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties during Rust's 24 years as president of the nonprofit, according to the proclamation. ...
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NASA's New Deep Space Rocket | Flashpoints
By David Axe
NASA announces plans for a replacement for the retired Space Shuttle. It could also give the US a military edge.
Flashpoints
Stirrings at the Speedy Romeo Space | Brownstoner
By Emily
Rental of the Day: 124 Atlantic Avenue. This one-bedroom duplex loft at 124 Atlantic Avenue is a pretty sweet pad. There's plenty of space, the kitchen looks new, an... More. By Emily · 09/19/2011 12:30 PM · A Mural Contest to Beautify Church ...
Brownstoner
International Space Station Time-Lapse: Flying Over The Earth ...
By The Huffington Post News Team
You'll probably never get to visit the International Space Station, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the view it affords. YouTube user "yesterday2221" compiled this stunning time-lapse simply using images taken from the ISS that are ...
Video on Huffington Post
Breaking Bad Trailer: "Crawl Space" - TV Fanatic
By matt@tvfanatic.com (TV Fanatic Staff)
What can viewers expect on "Crawl Space?" Check out the official promo for next Sunday's episode of Breaking Bad.
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Firm completes spacecraft factory in Mojave
Los Angeles Times
The facility will be home to Spaceship Co., a joint venture of Scaled Composites and British billionaire Richard Branson's space tourism company, Virgin Galactic. The company expects to begin production at the end of the month. ...
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A new era of space exploration
Houston Chronicle
With NASA's recent announcement of plans to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System (SLS), America now has the major elements in place to usher in a new era of human space exploration. In addition, Houston's Johnson Space Center ...
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Tests Underway on Sunshield for NASA's James Webb Space Telescope [PHOTOS]
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | September 19, 2011 8:47 PM EDT NASA has announced that it is currently testing an element of the sunshield that will be used to protect the James Webb Space Telescope's mirrors and instruments when it embarks on its mission ...
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NASA Announces Design for New Deep Space Exploration System
Washington DC (SPX) Sep 15, 2011 - NASA is ready to move forward with the development of the Space Launch System - an advanced heavy-lift launch vehicle ...
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Secret Sats, Giant Rockets: U.S. Unveils Space War Arsenal
Wired News
By David Axe When the Space Shuttle flew its 135th and final mission in July and retired without a direct replacement, some critics accused Washington of abandoning America's 50-year orbital legacy. The Telegraph even called it a "retreat. ...
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Coming up this week: Fiery death of a NASA satellite
msnbc.com
The space agency's space debris experts predict that at least 26 pieces of the satellite will survive the scorching temperatures of atmospheric re-entry. But exactly where the UARS satellite debris will fall is uncertain. NASA officials have said that ...
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Space station captures amazing time-lapse view of earth
CBS News
This time-lapse video was captured by a camera mounted in front of the International Space Station as it orbited Earth at night. According to the YouTube video's description, the clip "begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South ...
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Space Marine Review (Multi-platform)
Paste Magazine
At our Lord Macragge's request, two of our battle-brothers, Robert Zacarius and John Petraeus Grantae, have spent some weeks with the new Space Marine training software from the Adeptus Ludificatus at Reliquary. Brother Robert tested it using his ...
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Space Telescope Revived? Breaking Down NASA's FY12 Appropriations
National Journal
By Kenneth Chamberlain As part of its approval of NASA's fiscal year 2012 budget on Wednesday, the Senate Appropriations subcommittee in charge of NASA's budget included about $500 million to help fund the James Webb Space Telescope. ...
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Manhattan's Last Single-Space Parking Meter is Retired
DNAinfo
A few minutes later DOT worker Dennis Weber pulled the mechanical innards out from the single-space meter on Frederick Douglass Boulevard between 125th and 126th streets. Next came the jackhammer as his partner Kemraj Bowani worked his way around the ...
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Dead Space Satellite Studio Goes Belly Up
By Luke Plunkett
Visceral Games, the team behind the Dead Space series, had a small studio based in Sydney, Australia. That studio is now no more, its 21 employees let go earlier today.
Kotaku
Twitter Adding More Data Center Space (Again)
By Rich Miller
Twitter recently surpassed 100 million active users, and is expanding its data center network to keep pace.
Data Center Knowledge
Watch Out For Falling Space Junk! « CBS Philly
By SteveBeck
Watch for falling space junk this Friday! Satellite shrapnel is the latest phenomenon to watch for in the sky.
CBS Philly
Dead Island, Warhammer 40K: Space Marine continue fight atop UK ...
By Alexander Sliwinski
Another unexpected development on the charts: Warhammer 40K Space Marine maintained its second place position again this past week. Despite a 52 percent drops in sales, the Emperor's fist kept the aliens of Resistance 3 in third. The only ...
Joystiq
Focus on Typography: Space » Typography » Design Festival
By Jennifer Farley
There are a number of ways to add breathing space to your type. White space or negative space helps to.
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6.5-Ton Defunct Satellite Falling to Earth Faster Than Expected, NASA Says
Fox News
By Tariq Malik An artist's concept of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) satellite in space. The 6 1/2-ton satellite was deployed from space shuttle Discovery in 1991 and decommissioned in December 2005. NASA space junk experts have refined ...
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Space junk: satellite heading for Earth
Washington Post
CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood talks about a six-ton, dead satellite that is expected to fall into Earth very soon. (/CBS News) Correction: Clarification: SuperFan badge holders consistently post smart, timely comments about Washington area ...
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Storm of Controversy Bedevils NASA's New Deep Space Program
TechNewsWorld
By Richard Adhikari NASA has launched a new deep space manned exploration program, but the project is already facing opposition from the White House that may keep it from getting off the ground. At issue is the program's cost. ...
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International Space Station time lapse of Earth flyover: clouds, city lights ...
Washington Post (blog)
By Jason Samenow A time-lapse taken from the front of the International Space Station as it orbits our planet at night. This movie begins over the Pacific Ocean and continues over North and South America before entering daylight near Antarctica. ...
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XCOR Aerospace and Space Expedition Curacao Sign Eight-Figure Wet Lease ...
MarketWatch (press release)
19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Space Expedition Curacao (SXC) and XCOR Aerospace, Inc. jointly announced today the completion of a multi-million dollar transaction that secures the wet lease of production Lynx tail number two for operation on the ...
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NASA's Future on Space Station Hinges on Private Spaceships
Space.com
by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer NASA vitally needs new private spaceships, vehicles capable of carrying US astronauts and from the International Space Station (ISS), in order to maintain the future health of the massive orbiting laboratory. ...
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NASA's Webb Telescope Mirrors Coated with Spectacular Gold
International Business Times
Toward fulfilling the mission to observe the most distant objects in the universe, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope was newly dressed with giant mirrors coated with gold - a spectacularly new technology fit for its grand mission. ...
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