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Space budget takes a hit
President Obama's budget proposal, unveiled on Wednesday, would cut funding for planetary exploration at NASA by roughly $200 million, although it still funds several high profile missions being planned out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Caņada...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Google Inc., NASA Mars Exploration Program, NASA, Science
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Twitter photos from space as astronaut tweets from International Space Station
Orlando SentinelMany Twitter users share with their followers their daily routines and perhaps photos from on their way to work. Thomas Marshburn also shares the views from his officer window. But that window is really something. Marshburn is an astronaut who has...Tags: The Huffington Post, Science and Technology, Social Media
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NASA wants poets to send haikus on Mars MAVEN mission
NASA wants to send haikus to Mars, and you — yes, you! — might be just the poet for the job. The space agency plans to launch a spacecraft to study the upper layers of the Red Planet’s atmosphere in November. But before the Mars...
Tags: NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science and Technology, NASA Voyager Program, NASA, Media Industry
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Commentary: Mission Hospital seeks flexibility for ICU space
Meeting the evolving healthcare needs of our community requires both flexibility and investment. In the tradition of our founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange, Mission Hospital - Laguna Beach is committed to ensuring everyone in our communities...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Science and Technology, Human Interest
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Third-grader names asteroid that is focus of NASA mission
Asteroid (101955)1999 RQ36 doesn't really roll off the tongue, but asteroid Bennu? That's an asteroid that a person, a country and the world can get excited about. This week, NASA announced that 9-year-old Michael Toler Puzio of North Carolina had won...
Tags: Science and Technology, Satellite Technology, NASA, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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May night sky happenings
May is a great month to see a lovely collection of constellations with your own eyes and view objects studied by NASA spacecraft and telecopes. Use the moon to help locate the constellations this month. - On May 13 the crescent moon is between the...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA
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Space telescope astrophysicist probes space, spreads the word
Jason Kalirai doesn't just reach for the stars. He pulls them close and studies them — and encourages others to do so, as well. For two years, Kalirai, an award-winning astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, worked...
Tags: Applied Physics, Astronomy, Science and Technology, NASA, Research
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Space-tourism firm Virgin Galactic goes supersonic in rocket test
British billionaire Richard Branson’s commercial space venture Virgin Galactic got one step closer to carrying tourists into space when a test pilot cracked the sound barrier over the Mojave Desert. For the first time, the company's SpaceShipTwo...Tags: Richard Branson, Emergency Incidents, Explosions, Boeing Co., Science and Technology
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Supersonic flight brings Virgin Galactic closer to space tourism
With a sonic boom that resounded above the Mojave Desert, a rocket plane belonging to British billionaire Richard Branson's commercial space venture Virgin Galactic got one step closer to carrying tourists into space. On Monday the company's...Tags: Emergency Incidents, Richard Branson, Explosions, Science and Technology, Travel
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NASA gets view of Saturn's extreme "hurricane"
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. In high-resolution pictures and video, scientists see the hurricane's eye is...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA, Hurricanes, Science, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Marshall medical school acquires additional space for research, development
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Marshall University's medical school is acquiring more space for research and development. The university announced Monday that the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine will sublease 2,100 square feet of space in the...Tags: Medical Research, Science and Technology, Marshall University, Colleges and Universities, Kidney Disease
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ESA: Herschel space telescope blinded by heat, retires for good
Astronomers knew this day would come. The Herschel Space Observatory has run out of coolant and ceased looking into the cold, distant universe. Without liquid helium to keep the instruments chilled to minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit, the European Space...
Tags: Science and Technology
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