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Nasa plans 3D printer space launch
US space agency Nasa is planning to launch a 3D printer into space next year to help astronauts manufacture spare parts and tools in zero gravity
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For Its 55th Birthday, NASA Shuts Down
October 1st will mark the 55th Birthday of NASA, but if Congress and the President can’t agree on a budget or continuing resolution, it may have to spend that birthday shut down right along with many other Federal agencies.
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Want To Be An Astronaut? Learn To Play Guitar And Basically Be Good At Everything
Plenty of children dream of being an astronaut, but very few ever make it to space. In order to become an astronaut one has to be good at everything, and have something that distinguishes them from the rest of the hopeful space explorers.
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The world needs a rocket tax to solve the “Gravity” space junk problem
Alfonso Cuarón's space adventure Gravity debuted this weekend to record-setting box office numbers, as audiences flocked to see the tale of two US astronauts (played by Sandra Bullock and George Clooney) who are threatened by a cloud of orbital debris.
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Avoiding Armegeddon: The hunt is on for dangerous asteroids
More than 1,000 people were injured last February in Chelyabinsk, Russia, when a meteor exploded over the city. The collision shattered windows and pelted startled residents with shards of glass and debris. In the aftermath, the world was transfixed by extraordinary videos of the huge fireball as it streaked across the sky. Many wondered, why on earth did no one see it coming?
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Russian ‘Pirates’ Offer NASA Help in Times of Crisis
The Pirate Party of Russia has offered NASA the use of its dedicated servers to temporarily host the US space agency’s website as it has been shut down “due to the lapse in federal government funding.”
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NASA's Juno spacecraft to become fastest man-made object as it slingshots around Earth towards Jupiter
At 3:21 p.m. (EDT), NASA'S Juno Mission spacecraft will slingshot around Earth towards Jupiter, accelerating to 25 miles per second along the way and becoming the fastest man-made object in history. A .50-caliber bullet travels at about half a mile a second, by contrast - nowhere near the blistering speed of Juno.
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Godspeed: Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter dies at age 88
NASA pioneer astronaut Scott Carpenter died Thursday at the age of 88 due to medical complications from a recent stroke.
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Google Explains Quantum Computing in One Simple Video
Although we’ll have to wait to discover what innovations Google’s secret “X lab” holds for the future, the company does have at least one bleeding-edge venture it wants to unveil to the public right now. In partnership with NASA, Google has embarked on a project to use a 512-qubit D-Wave Two quantum computer to tackle some of our biggest computational problems.
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A Timelapse of the Final Ride Space Shuttle Endeavour
The video begins with the stacking of the shuttle atop the 747 transporter at the Kennedy Space Station in Florida and the later unstacking at Los Angeles Airport, then follows the earthbound orbiter on the slow crawl along the avenues, side streets and residential roads of L.A. The 6-and-a-half minutes of footage are just a tiny fragment of what was supposed to be a 36-hr. trip and turned out to take four days — and from the look of the video, it’s a wonder it didn’t take much longer.
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Huge Machines Hurl Artificial Storms Deep Inside This NASA Hangar
The colossal wind tunnels at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, have been used for decades not only to test the aerodynamism of planes, but also to subject submarines to simulations of turbulence and drag in aquatic environments.
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Scientists want to annihilate asteroids using nuclear weapons
There's a devastating asteroid hurtling towards Earth, and humanity only has a few years to destroy it before it destroys us. Scientists around the world are looking for solutions to just that scenario, and some of them are channeling Bruce Willis to do it.
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Curiosity proves that bits of Mars fall to Earth as meteorites
The speculation ends: Mars rover Curiosity has positively identified hundreds of meteorites found all over the Earth as Martians.
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NASA's moon probe starts outer space Internet test
NASA's newly launched lunar probe has begun testing what could eventually become an outer space Internet. NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer observatory said the probe on Thursday night began a limited test of a high-data-rate laser communication system. It's the U.S. space agency's first laser communications test.
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NASA shoots lasers at the moon for new communication speed record
NASA has set a new record for data transmission to and from the moon with a 622Mbps transfer carried over laser beams. The space agency used pulsed lasers to transmit data between a ground station in New Mexico and a spacecraft 239,000 miles away during its recent Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration.
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Carbon Worlds May be Waterless, Finds NASA Study
Planets rich in carbon, including so-called diamond planets, may lack oceans, according to NASA-funded theoretical research. Our sun is a carbon-poor star, and as result, our planet Earth is made up largely of silicates, not carbon. Stars with much more carbon than the sun, on the other hand, are predicted to make planets chock full of carbon, and perhaps even layers of diamond.
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NASA explains mysterious ocean lights seen by satellite
It sounds like the setup for an episode of "The X-Files." A satellite records evidence of a mysterious cluster of lights in the Atlantic ocean, far from human civilization. Could it be the reappearance of all the lost ships from the Bermuda Triangle? Could it be a secret alien headquarters hidden in plain sight on the ocean's surface?
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Chris Hadfield: An in-depth look into life behind the scenes
How does it feel to record a Bowie cover in space? Only one man knows. Astronaut and Twitter phenomenon Chris Hadfield talks about life in zero gravity and why he'll never look as good as Sandra Bullock in a spacesuit.
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Solar sail set for deep space voyage in 2015
NASA has plans to launch a lightweight, highly efficient solar sail in 2015 to explore as far as three million kilometres into deep space. The sail, propelled by the Sun's rays, will also be tested as an early warning system for potentially damaging solar emissions headed for Earth. Rob Muir reports.
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United Nations to adopt Asteroid Defense Plan
There are untold billions of dangerous space rocks out there that could come crashing to Earth, but whose job is it to keep that from happening? The somewhat concerning answer is, no one. This is just one of the issues being addressed by a new Asteroid Defense Plan set to be adopted by the UN on the recommendation of astronauts and scientists.
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