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Energy Independence: Can we do it?
MotorTrend Magazine"I will set a clear goal as president: In 10 years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East." As I listened to Barack Obama's speech from the Democratic Convention in Denver last week, I wondered for a split second whether he'd been... -
The long voyage out
Alice Bowman is the mission operations manager (M.O.M.) for NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, now on course for a rendezvous with the (former) planet Pluto in 2015. It's her job to watch over the health of the spacecraft, to manage continuing upgrades and...Tags: Applied Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Satellite Technology, NASA
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NASA chief rips 'jihad' on shuttle
CAPE CANAVERAL — In an internal e-mail obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, NASA Administrator Mike Griffin lashed out last month at the White House for what he called a "jihad" to shut down the space shuttle, expressed frustration at the lack of...Tags: Cape Canaveral, Mike Griffin, The White House, NASA
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Video games aren't just child's play
Columbia News ServiceNEW YORK––Luis Trujillo, 39, is married with three sons. He spends about $60 a month on video games, and a few hundred every two years to buy the latest, state-of-the-art video consoles the day they come out. His eldest sons, 8-year-old twins,...Tags: Best Buy Company Incorporated, Electrical Appliance, Wii, Consumer Electronics Industry, Nintendo Company Ltd.
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Frustrated NASA chief vents in internal e-mail over fate of agency
Sentinel Space EditorIn congressional testimony and speeches across the country, NASA Administrator Mike Griffin has presented the Bush administration's space policy as under pressure but on track to returning humans to the moon by 2020. His public face has been steadfast....Tags: Aerospace Manufacturing, Mike Griffin, NASA, Government, Retirement
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Spacecraft Flies By Remote Asteroid; Camera Stops
The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from Earth, but its high-resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday. Rosetta caught up with the Steins...Tags: Natural Disasters, Astronomy, Disasters, Natural Science
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High-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite launch a success
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite was launched into orbit yesterday from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast. A Delta 2 rocket carrying the GeoEye-1 satellite lifted off at 11:50 a.m....Tags: Defense, Armed Forces, Satellite Technology, NASA
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Music of the mind
Astral Weeks Pop Quiz: Name the piece of music responsible for these flights of fancy:
Example one: "About fifteen minutes [in] . . . I have entered a different reality and am in a strange part of the universe where you can sit on the tail of a flaming...Tags: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Robert Heinlein, Carl Wilson, Fiction, Jimi Hendrix
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European asteroid probe reaches first milestone
Associated PressThe Rosetta deep space probe successfully passed close to an asteroid 250 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency said last night. In a mission that may bring man closer to solving the mystery of the solar system's birth, the craft...Tags: NASA, Natural Disasters, Astronomy, Disasters, Natural Science
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Germany: Probe makes asteroid flyby
A deep space probe launched by the European Space Agency has successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth. ESA announced Friday night that the Rosetta space craft had rendezvoused with the Steins asteroid, also known as... -
Space probe flies by asteroid
DARMSTADT — The Rosetta deep-space probe successfully passed close to an asteroid 250 million miles from Earth, the European Space Agency said Friday night. In a mission that may bring humanity closer to solving the mystery of the solar system's... -
Florida: Shuttle launch delayed 2 days
NASA has delayed next month's space shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope by two days. Tropical Storms Fay and Hanna have held up operations at Kennedy Space Center. So on Friday — one day after moving shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad &#...Tags: Rocketry, Tropical Storms, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Technology
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