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News6 new results for space
 
Shuttles, Turning Sedentary, Leave Pieces Behind for Science and Safety
New York Times
The shuttle Endeavour landing at Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, the end of its final mission. It will be on display at the California Science Center, without its engines and other parts. By HENRY FOUNTAIN KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. ...
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New York Times
Space shuttle Endeavour: How to get tickets to watch final blastoff of Atlantis
Los Angeles Times
By Mary Forgione Los Angeles Times Travel & Deal blogger On Tuesday, a few hours before the space shuttle Endeavour touched down on its final flight, its sister spacecraft Atlantis was rolled out to the launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in ...
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Los Angeles Times
UK ecosystem assessment warns of decline in green space
The Guardian
Photograph: Jeff Morgan /Alamy Maintaining the UK's green spaces would reap at least £30bn a year in health and welfare benefits, according to the first attempt to put a price on the natural environment. About a third of the UK's natural assets ...
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Filmmakers get more time to rent space in Mid-Market
San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Independent filmmakers looking to run productions on a budget now have two extra weeks to seek to rent office space from the city. The San Francisco Film Commission announced today that it is extending the application process to set up shop in 134A ...
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San Francisco Chronicle (blog)
Grass fire sears JSC grounds
Your Houston News
Flames rage as hay bales burn on the Johnson Space Center property along Saturn Lane behind Houston Fire Station 72. Firefighters had to lay a long supply line to get water to the fire on the Johnson Space Center grounds Wednesday afternoon. ...
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Mars Rover is dead but not gone
CollegeNews
Prior to its loss of consciousness, Spirit's mission was to search for signs of past water activity on Mars, according to SPACE. Spirit found a great deal of evidence, which indicated that Mars was once a much wetter, warmer place, according to SPACE. ...
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Blogs1 new result for space
 
HD Space Video: Astronaut's 1080p Tour of Earth's Striking Landscapes
By Chris Anderson
In the HD space video posted by Space Rip, Dr. Justin Wilkinson from NASA's astronaut team takes viewers through the stunning footage by describing those places special to astronauts whenever they get a chance to sit back and enjoy the ...
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Era of Space Shuttle Endeavour Ends with June 1 landing at the ...
By Ken Kremer
ShareKENNEDY SPACE CENTER – Space Shuttle Endeavour and her six man crew landed safely today at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:35 a.m. EDT following a 16 day journey of more than sixteen million miles. STS-134 was the.
Universe Today - http://www.universetoday.com/
Space Shuttle Endeavour Makes Historic Final Return to Earth
By The Huffington Post News Editors
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Endeavour and its six astronauts returned to Earth early Wednesday, closing out the next-to-last mission in NASA's 30-year program with a safe middle-of-the-night landing. Endeavour glided down onto ...
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Proteus Folding Helmet helps save space | Ubergizmo
By Edwin Kee
Who would have ever thought that a regular helmet might actually end up being nigh portable, and heck, foldable? Sure, [...]
Ubergizmo - http://www.ubergizmo.com/
Gassy Uranus could fuel space travel (no puns intended ...
By Amy Rolph
Gas from Uranus might be a viable source of fuel for long-distance space travel, according to scientists with the Project Icarus. I'm assuming it could be fuel for a lot of juvenile jokes, too — most of which I'll try to refrain from ...
Seattle's Big Blog - http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/
The Last Landing of the Space Shuttle Endeavour
By Jesus Diaz
After a total journey of 122 million miles and 25 perfect missions, Endeavour has landed in the dark. She was the youngest in the space shuttle fleet. This is how she arrived home:
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2nd last space shuttle lands; final on launch pad
Seattle Post Intelligencer
A photo released by Nasa shows the Endeavour with a backdrop of a night time view of the Earth and the starry sky, while docked at the International Space Station on Saturday May 28, 2011. The STS-134 astronauts left the station the next day on May 29, ...
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Eight surprising dangers in space shuttle flight
International Business Times
By Bob Bahr | June 1, 2011 12:24 PM EDT With Endeavour's final flight finished and the space shuttle program winding down this summer, memories of past flights return to mind. The early test flights in 1977 featuring the Enterprise riding piggyback on ...
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International Business Times
7-Eleven Blasts Off With 'Check in to Space' Promo and Sweepstakes
CSNews Online
One grand-prize winner will receive a zero-gravity suborbital space flight, the company announced. "Super 8" takes place in 1979 Ohio and features a group of adolescent amateur filmmakers who witness a devastating train crash and soon discover the ...
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Ann Arbor's Passport Restaurant and Lounge, in former Chi-Chi's space, adds to ...
AnnArbor.com
Cherry Blossom Restaurant moved into the space in 2006, but it too went under, in 2008. The imposing right-angled building sat vacant again until October of 2010 when Passport Restaurant and Lounge opened. Since then, Passport has become a place where ...
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True cost of NASA cuts is …
NeighborNewspapers.com
The Space Shuttle program is on its last breath as well with a final flight by The Atlantis slated for July. Funding for a new space vessel the Constellation that has been several years in the making and cost more than $10 million in research and ...
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MLB: Boston Red Sox rotation lacks space with the return on John Lackey
Sports Haze
John Lackey returned to the mound in Triple-A Pawtucket Tuesday night, hoping to give the Red Sox some promise that his dismal start was a fluke. Lackey hit the disabled list in mid-May with an elbow strain. By then, he had accumulated a 2-5 record ...
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Student Designers Design a Tent Perfect for Camping Out on Mars
Popular Science
By Clay Dillow Posted 06.01.2011 at 12:21 pm 0 Comments Inflatable Space Habitats Inflatable space habitats aren't a new concept--the one above was designed as a lunar base--but a team from NCSU has made some leaps forward in textile and aerospace ...
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Next Stop, Atlantis: NASA Readying for Final Space Shuttle Flight
Fox News
By Denise Chow The space shuttle Atlantis rolls out to Launch Pad 39A in preparation for its final launch in July. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – With the safe landing today of shuttle Endeavour after its final mission in space, NASA is another step closer to ...
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StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm features mutating DNA, yetis from space
Ars Technica
By Andrew Webster | Published June 1, 2011 11:11 AM The first chapter of the StarCraft II trilogy launched late last year, and it'll likely be quite some time before we can finally play the second entry, Heart of the Swarm. But at least we finally have ...
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Local Astronaut Michael Fincke Lands Safely Back Home
Patch.com
The Sewickley native showed off his breakfast before the history-setting space shuttle launch. The shuttle returned home this morning. Pictured clockwise in the STS-134 crew portrait are NASA astronauts Mark Kelly (bottom center), commander; ...
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7-Eleven® Launches Super 8 Movie 'Check in to Space' Promotion with ...
Sacramento Bee
By 7-Eleven, Inc. DALLAS, June 1, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- In June, 7-Eleven, Inc. will award one of its most unusual prizes ever – a trip to space – as part of its super month-long promotion with Paramount Pictures' film Super 8, released in theaters ...
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Keeping The Power On In Space
RedOrbit
All space missions have one inescapable dependency: the electricity flowing through their systems to keep them alive. Take away its power and a spacecraft is nothing more than space debris – an eventuality the space power professionals strive to avoid. ...
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New Prius 'v' Skimps on Fuel, Not Space
ReadMedia (press release)
(06/01/2011)(readMedia)-- Even with the abundance of versatile crossover vehicles on the market, today's growing families still end up walking a tight line between fuel economy and child-appropriate space when buying a new car. ...
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Endeavour ends final mission with smooth landing
CNET
by William Harwood KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Signaling the beginning of the end for NASA's storied shuttle program, the Endeavour plunged back to Earth today, closing out its 25th and final flight. The baton is now passed to its sistership, Atlantis, ...
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Test of Orion navigation system made during latest space shuttle mission
Military & Aerospace Electronics
Engineers from NASA, Ball Aerospace, and Lockheed Martin ran a test of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) navigation system during the last mission of Space Shuttle Endeavour. During the mission the shuttle commander, Mark Kelly made an ...
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Shuttle STS-134 back from enhancing Space Station
WebWire (press release)
The wheels of Space Shuttle Endeavour touched down at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning at 06:35 GMT (08:35 CEST) after a 16-day mission that added a pioneering experiment to the International Space Station. Endeavour and its six-man ...
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Searching for life in space
Edmonton Journal
Depending on where you live, either before the game or following, Vision TV presents a two-hour special on the search for life on other planets, A Message from Space. The special has three components. First up is filmmaker Michael Lennick's documentary ...
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UBS scouts space in NYC
New York Post
A UBS spokesperson said the company leases space throughout the tri-state area and routinely evaluates its business needs and space allocation as leases expire and/or space becomes available. "No final decisions have been made about moving any ...
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Apple's new data center is visible (at last!) from space
CNNMoney
By Philip Elmer-DeWitt June 1, 2011: 6:46 AM ET One of the mysteries surrounding the 500000-square foot server farm Apple (AAPL) has famously constructed in a small North Carolina town called Maiden -- besides its ultimate purpose -- is why it didn't ...
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Need Gardening Space? Join a Community Gardens
Patch.com
If you're an avid gardener looking to get your hands on a little more land, consider joining a community gardens. If you're an avid gardener and you're looking for a way to get your hands on a little more land, consider joining a community gardens. ...
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Space Shuttle Endeavour Lands for the Last Time [VIDEO]
Mashable
Space Shuttle Endeavour has touched down safely at the Kennedy Space Center at 2:34 am ET, ending its last mission. Endeavour's STS-134 mission was originally supposed to be the final mission of the Space Shuttle program, but the STS-135 mission was ...
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Endeavour Final Space Mission (PHOTOS)
International Business Times
By IB Times Staff Reporter | Jun 01, 2011 05:07 AM EDT After a 19-year career and 299 days spent in space, the youngest NASA shuttle Endeavour has landed in Florida and brought its 19-year operational career to a close. The vehicle hove into view ...
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Desperation continues for legacy space companies
Washington Examiner (blog)
Regular readers of this space will recall that last week, faux-libertarian and pretender-to-concern-for-the-taxpayer Loren Thompson of the Lexington Institute took some cheap shots at Space Exploration Technologies, Inc., in a misleading and ...
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Something positive NASA firms up deep space exploration and Johnson Space ...
Houston Chronicle
Up till now, 2011 has been one of the darkest years for the Johnson Space Center. Since its establishment at Clear Lake in 1961, the JSC has played central roles in the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, space shuttle and international space station programs. ...
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Space shuttle Atlantis begins final rollout to the launch pad before Endeavour ...
The Herald-Mail
By Scott Powers, Orlando Sentinel As night fell at Kennedy Space Center, the final space shuttle, Atlantis, began its slow rollout from NASA's vehicle assembly building to the launch pad, even as its younger sister, Endeavour, prepared to return to ...
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