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Daredevil went faster than previously thought during 24-mile fall
The results are in from Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting leap from a capsule floating more than 24 miles above a barren New Mexico desert, and it turns out he went faster during his supersonic free fall than originally estimated. With more...
Tags: Parachuting, Air and Aviation Sports, Food Industry, Aerospace Manufacturing, NASA
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SpaceX's Elon Musk pays $17 million for Bel-Air manse
Billionaire entrepreneur and inventor Elon Musk has bought a mansion in Bel-Air for $17 million.
Built in 1990 and remodeled with entertaining in mind, the 20,248-square-foot manse features a two-story library, a theater, a library/study, a wine cellar,...Tags: Fuel-efficient Vehicles, Sotheby's Holdings Incorporated, Lauren Beale, Hybrid Vehicles, PayPal, Inc.
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SpaceX's newest rocket hovers above launch pad in test flight
Outside of a science fiction movie, it’s a little strange to see a rocket fire up its engines, blast off, and then hover in the air. But that’s exactly what Hawthorne rocket maker SpaceX pulled off with its 10-story Grasshopper test vehicle....
Tags: Technology, NASA, Space Programs, Science and Technology, Fiction
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Taking a look at the lunar rovers 40 years later
NASA knew that in order to properly explore the moon, walking wouldn’t be enough. Astronauts needed to drive. This month marks 40 years since man has been to the moon. It also marks the last ride of the lunar roving vehicles that gave astronauts...
Tags: NASA, Military Equipment, Science, Space Programs, Science and Technology
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On Wall Street and In Connecticut, SolarCity Advances
The Hartford CourantLyndon Rive, founder and CEO of SolarCity Corp., was at the company's brand new Rocky Hill office just after 4 p.m. Thursday when Ed Steins, his Northeast regional vice president, read aloud the closing price of the company's shares on its first day of...Tags: Solar Energy, Tesla Motors, Inc., Auction Service, Dannel P. Malloy , Environmental Issues
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An asteroid is coming! An asteroid is coming! And Petit Poulet is worried!
Forget the “fiscal cliff.” And global warming. Heck, forget about what to get your wife for Christmas. It’s time to start worrying about Toutatis. Asteroid 4179, a.k.a. Toutatis, is heading our way, again. OK, sure, the mountain-...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Politics, Democratic Party, Planned Parenthood, Weather
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Air Force set to blast off another secretive space drone
An experimental robotic space plane developed for the Air Force is slated to launch Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, fueling an ongoing mystery about its hush-hush payload and overall mission. Air Force officials offered few details about the mission....
Tags: Technology, Mountains, Military Equipment, The Pentagon, Space Programs
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Trips to the moon for sale soon? Wait and see
It's been exactly 40 years since NASA's last manned lunar mission, Apollo 17, launched from the Kennedy Space Center. This week, the National Research Council released a report that said that the space agency was losing its edge and needed to hone its...
Tags: Heavy Engineering, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Trips and Vacations, Travel
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UCF, FIT, Sanford-Burnham projects headed to ISS
The Write Stuff - Orlando SentinelThree locally-designed research projects were selected in an international competition by Space Florida to fly up to the International Space Station next year on a SpaceX rocket. Projects from the University of Central Florida and Sanford-Burnham... -
Sanford-Burnham to send two experiments to Space Station
Vital Signs Health Blog - Orlando SentinelSanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute is heading to space. Research teams at the institute in Lake Nona as well as its counterpart in LaJolla, Calif., both won an international competition to send experiments to the International Space Station, Space... -
SpaceX's Elon Musk: Your ticket to Mars? Half a million dollars
SpaceX founder and billionaire Elon Musk is laying out his plans for a colony on Mars, and they are specific. Musk has already mapped out an approximate number of people he imagines living in the Mars colony (80,000), as well as how much a ticket to...
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SpaceX Dragon Cargo Capsule Splashes Down to Earth
CNNThe SpaceX Dragon has splashed down in the Pacific Ocean after a three-week flight to the International Space Station, completing the first commercial cargo mission to Earth's orbit, NASA announced Sunday. The unmanned capsule came down about 250 miles...Tags: Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Space Programs, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Rocketry, Technology
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