Thursday, May 5, 2011

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Freedom 7: 50 Years Ago Today, the First American in Space (VIDEO)
Huffington Post (blog)
Fifty years ago today, Alan Shepard became the first American in space, twenty-three days after Russian Yuri Gagarin had orbited the earth. In fifteen minutes and twenty-eight seconds, the Mercury capsule rose 116.5 miles -- jettisoning its rockets on ...
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What's Wrong With Space Shuttle Endeavour?
The Atlantic
By Nicholas Jackson Thousands of would-be spectators, including President Obama's family and Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, made their way to the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral last Friday to watch the penultimate Space Shuttle flight ...
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Space War! Air Force to Launch Missile-Spotting Satellite
Fox News
By Mickey McCarter An artist's conception of one of the satellites that makes up the Space Based Infrared System, an network of satellites that will help the military track and destroy incoming missiles. The Air Force will launch a key satellite for ...
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Experiment Confirms Space-Time Vortex Around Earth, Makes Our Heads Hurt
PCWorld
In it, he said a bunch of seemingly crazy things about light bending, objects with mass dragging space and time along with them, and how the universe is hurtling away from itself--an expansion occurring at the speed of light. ...
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Chevrolet hypes Corvette on 50th space shot anniversary
USA Today
By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY Chevrolet is hoping to remind us all today, the 50th anniversary of the first American in space, that astronauts have always loved Corvettes. It started with that first spaceman, Alan Shepard, who drove off in a Corvette as ...
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USA Today
Handicapping the Next Wave of US Manned Space Systems - Part II
TMC Net
By Doug Mohney, Contributing Editor Out of the four companies that received money out of NASA's CCDev-2 program, I believe only two will be ready by the agency's "middle of the decade" time table to take US astronauts back to space. ...
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