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VIDEO: Astronaut makes music video for David Bowie's "Space Oddity" aboard space station
It's being called the first music video made in space. In an online video, astronaut Chris Hadfield sings the David Bowie song "Space Oddity" while floating around in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station. The video features shots of a...
Tags: Music, Science and Technology, Entertainment
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Drury University students go weightless in trip to NASA
jscherder@ky3.comSPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- While NASA recently closed a chapter of American space flights, enthusiasm for the space program is hardly over. Some students at Drury University recently spent a week at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and got an opportunity...Tags: Education, Karate, Travel, Science and Technology, Colleges and Universities
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NASA investing in 3-D food printer for astronauts
Reuters* Texas firm wins NASA study contract * Aims to build, test synthetic food system for zero-gravity By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., May 22 (Reuters) - In a scene right out of Star Trek, a Texas company is developing a 3-D food printer for...Tags: Nutrition, Science and Technology, Science, NASA, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...Tags: Charlie Wilson, Wolfgang Puck, Groceries, Fish and Reptiles, Entertainment
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Private space industry can't get to Mars without NASA
While the Mars rover Curiosity is discovering the building blocks of life on the Red Planet, many are equally excited about another development: Commercial companies have finally discovered profit in space. This is no small feat, considering the...Tags: Satellite Technology, Business Enterprises, Neil Armstrong, Elon Musk, Science and Technology
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Russian mice, gerbils dead in 30-day space ordeal; lizards live
A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth -- but with the majority of its furred passengers...
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Mice and lizards return from a month in space aboard an orbiting Russian capsule
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the longest experiment of its kind. Fewer than half of the 53 mice and other...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Moscow (Russia), Science and Technology, News Agency, Television Industry
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Science and Technology, Explosions, Weaponry, Emergency Incidents, NASA
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EDITORIAL: A smoother ride for the spaceport
The Santa Fe New MexicanBuilding Spaceport America in Southern New Mexico always was a risk. After all, no one knew whether businesses would flock to the spaceport after it opened -- and that was after spending $209 million in taxpayer dollars to get it built. An empty...Tags: Satellite Technology, Federal Aviation Administration, Science and Technology, New Mexico Legislature, Virgin Group, Ltd.
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Canadian astronaut wrestles with gravity after spaceflight
ReutersBack on Earth, Canadian astronaut and cyberspace tweeter Chris Hadfield is getting a rough re-introduction to gravity after a five-month stint aboard the International Space Station, the former commander told reporters during a video webcast from Houston....Tags: Science and Technology, Kazakhstan, NASA
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NASA greenlights UA-led mission to get bits of asteroid
The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonNASA gave the all-systems-go signal Thursday for a University of Arizona-led mission to mine samples from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. The UA's OSIRIS-REx team has passed its design-and-development test. It can now move to building the capsule and...Tags: Science and Technology, Science, NASA, Astronomy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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F-1 project tests team's mettle
The Hutchinson News, Kan.Crumpled-up chunks of metal rest in two large water-retention bins at the SpaceWorks division of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. The impact of each massive 18,000-pound engine falling more than 40 miles to the Atlantic Ocean crushed it like...Tags: Environmental Issues, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Neil Armstrong, Science and Technology, Liberty Bell
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