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William C. Brubaker, founding Colts band member
William Charles Brubaker, a retired aeronautical engineer who was a founding trombone player in the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, died Feb. 12 at Sinai Hospital of complications from injuries he suffered near his Lutherville home. Family members said...Tags: Baltimore Colts, Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, Indianapolis Colts, ESPN (tv network), Cleveland Browns
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Aberdeen: It all depends upon the weather
It all depends upon the weather. How often do we say that? Especially this winter. Our holiday celebrations were altered this year. Dinners were held later or earlier because of bad weather predicted. Meetings were canceled. Schools delayed or canceled....Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Yorktown (York, Virginia), Woodrow Wilson, George Washington, Long Island
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Residents warned to be prepared to lose electricity
Utility and emergency response officials prepared for the worst Friday as Hurricane Sandy churned northward, readying for nearly a foot of rain, hurricane- or tropical storm-force winds, and power outages that could number in the hundreds of thousands....
Tags: National Hurricane Center, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, The Home Depot, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Rail
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Rocket launches, placing in orbit probes Hopkins APL built for NASA
An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, launching a mission to study Earth's radiation belts using a pair of NASA satellites designed and built by scientists at the Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Space Programs, Satellite Technology, Science, Atlantic Ocean
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The Interview: Bentley on a maritime promise lost
The Baltimore Sun's front page on July 22, 1959, carried the news accompanied by a six-column photo: The world's first nuclear-powered cargo ship had been launched at Camden, N.J.
The christening of the $47 million N/S Savannah was bigger than news about...Tags: Facebook, U.S. Postal Service, Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Power
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Weird Science: Hopkins physics lab celebrates 70 years
Some of the world's greatest innovations were conceived in the humblest of places, and that was certainly true of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. When it opened its doors in 1942, in a former used-car dealership in Silver Spring,...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Johns Hopkins University, Science, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Technology
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Fingers crossed for Mars launch at Goddard
Florence Tan says she'll have fingers and toes crossed when NASA's latest Mars mission blasts off as early as Saturday morning from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The 47-year-old electrical engineer from Montgomery County oversaw all the wiring of an...Tags: Space Programs, Montgomery County (Maryland), Greenbelt (Prince George's, Maryland), NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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SpaceX pushes back the final frontier
If all goes as planned, sometime this morning a spacecraft will blast off from its launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and ride a fiery plume of contrails upward through the pre-dawn darkness to begin a two-week journey to the International Space Station...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Tom Hanks, Air Transportation, Air Transportation Industry, Alliant Techsystems Inc.
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SpaceX launches rocket to International Space Station
Space Exploration Technologies is vying to be the first private company to send a spacecraft to the International Space Station, and its mission got off to a successful start with a launch this morning. A Dragon spacecraft launched from the company's...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Space Programs, Satellite Technology, Medical Procedures and Tests, Orbital Sciences Corporation
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SpaceX rocket carries Maryland science project into space
As the space capsule called Dragon hurtled toward the International Space Station at about 17,500 miles per hour on Friday, no space enthusiast was more enthralled than Paul Warren, a self-described "nerd" who attends Henry E. Lackey High School in...
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Hopkins launches new space science minor for undergraduates
What lies at the center of that giant ball of gas we call Jupiter? When you cut through the incredibly dense atmosphere of Venus, what's happening on the planet surface?
These are the questions that dance in the mind of Johns Hopkins University student...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Astronomy, Applied Physics, Lobbying, Teachers
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Atlantic offshore oil & gas exploration gets hearing
The Obama administration's move to open the mid- and South Atlantic coasts to offshore oil and gas exploration is scheduled to get a public airing in Annapolis on Wednesday. The Annapolis session is one of a series being held from Florida to New Jersey...Tags: Ken Salazar, Energy Resources, Petroleum Industry, Annapolis, Natural Resources
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