Commercial spacecraft will replace NASA&39's shuttle program.
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Orbital Debris-Debris Collision Avoidance
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What to do with all the space junk now in orbit around Earth Each year, that questio...
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Micron Technology tomorrow is set to disclose a hybrid memory technology that it claims will boost performance 20-fold over the memory chips used in ...
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Projects designed to help communities improve access to clean water, cook with clean-burning fuel, fortify salt to maintain nutrients, and use mobil...
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Physicists at CERN have taken a major step forward in antimatter research, according to the European science organization. For the first time, scien...
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Not long after creating a functioning rat lung in her lab, Yale University Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering Laura Niklason is t...
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A Puerto Rican moonbuggy team in action.
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The space shuttle program may be drawing to a close, but a little bit to the south of...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Engineers believe they have zeroed in on the root cause of cracks in the shuttle Discovery's external tank, NASA official...
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The clean-energy geeks (definitely a term of endearment) at Stanford University have come up with a way to turn every river in the world into a power...
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In case a name and phone number on Fido's dog tag aren't enough to bring him home from his wanderings, a new tag from online pet community PetHub inc...
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Best Buy is offering a deal to people who don't hold onto gadgets for long.
Through Saturday, customers...
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Lytro says its light-field camera, due to ship later this year, will let people change the focus of their photos after the fact.
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The X-47B comes in for a landing on March 4 at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Almost from the very beginning sev...
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and he's equipped with the latest in satellite-based technology to get you your toys on time (and in one piec...
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On the electron microscopy drawing board: programmable nanowire nanoprocessors.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--Less than six weeks before launch, astronaut Timothy Kopra, injured in a bicycle accident Saturday, was removed from the ...
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Have you ever forgotten to turn your cell phone off during a flight Did you survive
The question might seem slightly churlish, but the airline indu...
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Germany&39's Festo says it has &34'succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds.&34'
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Bird flight has fascinated mankind for cen...
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Twelve years after launch and seven years after it collected dust from comet Wild 2, NASA's Stardust probe streaked past comet Tempel 1 late Monday, ...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--After a last-minute Air Force computer glitch threatened to derail launch, the shuttle Discovery, carrying an all-veteran...
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