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The Bay Area Citizen - Thu Dec 3, 2:15 am ET
As of Dec. 1, four Painted Lady butterflies are living aboard the International Space Station.
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The Spokesman-Review - Thu Dec 3, 3:16 am ET
When Eastern Washington University started its computer science program, the boxy little Macintosh was making waves and personal computers were still exotic. A quarter-century later, things have changed a bit. Most of us carry hundreds of times more computing power on devices in our pockets than the original Mac had. And the EWU program has trained hundreds of computer scientists, programmers ...
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Newswise - Wed Dec 2, 9:54 am ET
Four Painted Lady butterflies are now living aboard the International Space Station. The "butterflynauts" are part of an educational experiment launched Nov. 16 on space shuttle Atlantis. Students of all ages are following the tiny crew's development from larvae to butterflies.
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Orlando Sentinel - Thu Dec 3, 12:27 am ET
WASHINGTON — A congressional hearing on astronaut safety turned into a pep rally for NASA's troubled Constellation moon-rocket program, with lawmakers and witnesses endorsing it as the best replacement for the space shuttle even as critics complained the hearing was one-sided.
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SpaceRef - Wed Dec 2, 8:32 pm ET
House Committee on Science and Technology's Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics Examines Ways to Make Human Space Flight Safer
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Fox News - Wed Dec 2, 9:01 am ET
A tiny piece of a defunct Russian satellite zipped by the International Space Station Tuesday, but was far enough away that outpost's two-man crew did not have to strap into their lifeboat to wait out the close shave, NASA officials said.
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redOrbit - Wed Dec 2, 6:06 pm ET
Image Caption: This is a comparison of NOGAPS synoptic weather fields for 82 km for 18 UT (Universal Time) on June 13, 2007. Shown are maps of (a) temperature, (b) abundance of water vapor (parts per million by volume) and (c) resultant saturation (proportional to relative humidity). Values greater than 1 represent super saturated air. The three red dots are locations of ice clouds observed by ...
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SPACE.com - Wed Dec 2, 3:03 pm ET
NASA spent roughly $570 million of its $1 billion in stimulus funds, with nearly half of those dollars going toward its embattled Constellation program.
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CNN - Tue Dec 1, 4:04 pm ET
A piece of space debris is not expected to pose any danger to the two crew members aboard the international space station, a NASA spokesman said Tuesday.
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SpaceRef - Wed Dec 2, 4:32 pm ET
Opening Statement By Chairwoman Gabrielle Giffords
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The Miami Hurricane - Wed Dec 2, 7:38 pm ET
“Oh, my God.” That was the reaction of most of us to the news Tuesday that Challenger, the second of the four space shuttles in the NASA program, had exploded in midair, 74 seconds and 10 miles into what would have been its tenth mission into space.
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MSNBC - Tue Dec 1, 8:33 pm ET
A tiny piece of a defunct Russian satellite zipped by the International Space Station Tuesday, but was far enough away the crew didn’t have to strap into their lifeboat to wait out the close shave.
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MSNBC - Tue Dec 1, 3:03 pm ET
For the first time in history, two butterflies have survived the chrysalis stage of development and spread their wings as fully grown Painted Lady butterflies in microgravity.
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Sparta Expositor - Fri Dec 4, 1:25 am ET
Seven Northfield Elementary School students, including Mackenzie Burton, Angelle Howard, Dalton Stallings, Bethany Tripp, Logan Sims, Riley Whiteaker and Alissa England, were selected from a multitude of submissions to receive invitations to a communications downlink with astronauts on the International Space Station.
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Boulder Weekly - Mon Nov 30, 2:50 pm ET
"Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts ended an 11-day journey of nearly 4.5 million miles with a 9:44 a.m. EST landing Friday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida." Via NASAtelevision on YouTube.