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DotGizmo  5 days ago:

Xbox One Developers Work With NASA In Simulation -

Xbox One developers and NASA are working together to simulate 35,000 light years of space. Like It , +1 , Tweet It , Pin It Original content from Ubergizmo.
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Silicon Alley Insider  5 days ago:

The 'Star Trek' Medical Scanner Is About To Become A Reality -

A medical scanner called the Scanadu Scout is bringing sci-fi to life.

The small device is similar to the medical tricorder scanners featured in Star Trek, and is used by simply placing it against your forehead.
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AnyGeo  5 days ago:

Landsat 8, officially began its mission on May 30, 2013 -

The latest in the Landsat series of Earth observation satellites, Landsat 8, officially began its mission on May 30.
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Mashable  Jun 11 13 :

NASA Rover Opportunity Makes Big Discovery, Keeps on Truckin' -

NASA's 9-year-old Mars rover Opportunity is on the move again after making a momentous discovery on the Red Planet and defying the limitations of Father Time.
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Engadget  May 30 13 :

Curiosity rover discovers dangerous levels of radiation during Mars transit -

While we've learned that radiation levels on Mars are safe for humans, actually getting there in the first place remains a problem.
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Mashable  May 27 13 :

Time Lapse Shows 9 Months of Curiosity's Mars Mission in 1 Minute -

NASA's Curiosity rover, the 1-ton mobile laboratory that's been tooling around Mars since August 2012, has sent tens of thousands of images of the remote planet back to Earth.
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Engadget  May 25 13 :

NASA creates the first topographic map of Titan, Saturn's largest moon -

Scientists observing Saturn's moon Titan with NASA's Cassini spacecraft have boldly gone where no man has gone before -- visually, anyway.
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All Things Digital  May 16 13 :

NASA Telescope Imperiled by Glitch -

Space engineers are struggling to regain control of the Kepler space telescope, which has lost its ability to aim accurately at the star systems it has been scanning for planets similar to Earth, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Wednesday.
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Mashable  May 14 13 :

Hyperactive Sun Fires Off 3 Major Solar Flares in 1 Day -

The sun, it seems, is in overdrive. Late Monday night, the sun unleashed its third major solar flare in 24 hours — the biggest and most powerful solar storm of the year, so far

This latest sun storm erupted Monday at 9:11 p.
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CNET News  May 11 13 :

Spur-of-the-moment spacewalk a first for NASA, space station -

An impromptu spacewalk triggered by the sight of ammonia flakes drifting past a window of the International Space Station wraps up with a replaced pump and a plan for "additional detective work.
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Mashable  May 06 13 :

Stunning Mars Panoramas Show Curiosity Rover at Work -

Three spectacular new panoramas give an eye-popping look at NASA's Mars rover Curiosity hard at work on the Red Planet.
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Engadget  Apr 30 13 :

NASA extends contract with Russians for ISS crew transportation, doesn't see domestic flights until 2017 -

NASA has been relying on the Russians to get astronauts to the International Space Station since the shuttle program was retired in 2011, and it looks like it will be doing so for at least a few years longer.
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Engadget  Apr 27 13 :

Visualized: Boeing supersonic airliner concept soars in a wind tunnel, quietly -

No, you're not looking at an early preview of Star Wars Episode VII -- it just might represent the future of air transport, though.
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Mashable  Apr 24 13 :

Incendiary NASA Video Shows 3 Years of Sun Explosions in 3 Minutes -

For the past three years, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has tracked our sun as it approaches something called "solar maximum," which is the scientific term for the star's peak in solar activity each 11 years.
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SlashGear  Apr 22 13 :

NASA video displays 3 years of Sun images in 3 minutes -

NASA‘s Solar Dynamics Observatory, more commonly known as SDO, has spent the last three years taking pictures of the sun, showing off its steady increase in activity as its latest 11-year cycle nears its peak.
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Mashable  Apr 22 13 :

Antares Rocket Aces First Test Flight -

An Antares rocket, one of two launchers developed with NASA backing to fly cargo capsules to the International Space Station, blasted off on its debut mission on Sunday, successfully depositing a dummy spacecraft into orbit.
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SlashGear  Apr 18 13 :

NASA discovers three Kepler system planets in the habitable zone -

NASA‘s Kepler space telescope has made a new round of discoveries: two planetary systems, both of which are home to a total of three planets within the habitable zone.
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Engadget  Apr 10 13 :

US budget has NASA planning to capture an asteroid, USAF reviving DSCOVR (video) -

Many have lamented the seeming decline of the US space program.
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VentureBeat  Apr 06 13 :

Experience the Apollo 11 lunar landing from the comfort of your own Internet -

So, it’s date night and you don’t know what to do with your main squeeze. Why not take him or her or them to the moon via a web browser?

Using public domain media from NASA, some enterprising folks have …

    
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Engadget  Apr 03 13 :

AMS detects excess of positrons, could suggest existence of dark matter -

We've been waiting with bated breath all afternoon to find out what NASA, MIT and the Department of Energy has observed with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer.
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