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A Tale Of Two CitiesWashington DC (SPX) Nov 18, 2010 You would never confuse Seattle, Washington, with New York City. One is home to about 600,000 people, the other has a population of 8.2 million. One ardently protects the wild salmon thrashing through its rivers, the other likes its salmon smoked and served with cream cheese on a bagel. But these cities share an important feature: They're both leaders in addressing the issue of climate change, and both rely on space-based data to help them make their plans. Even before they formally turned t ... read more |
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  TakeMeToSpace.com Launches Space Tourism There is a new destination on the Internet for would be space travelers. TakeMeToSpace.com is the new place to keep up with the latest space tourism activity. The website provides daily indust ... more | .. |
  Ikeya-Murakami: The New Comet On The Cosmic Block The animation below shows the motion of Comet Ikeya-Murakami on Nov. 13, 2010, captured with a New Mexico-based telescope operated remotely by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The images w ... more | .. |
 Hayabusa Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Artifacts From Space Scientists involved with the first space mission attempting to sample asteroid surface material and return to Earth, have confirmed presence of particles collected from a small container aboard the ... more | .. |
  Two Telescopes For Tiangong In 2011, China will launch Tiangong 1, a small space laboratory. Later that year, China will perform its first docking test in space when the unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft docks with Tiangong 1. In ... more |
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 Flooding In Pakistan In early November 2010, the director general of the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection Department warned that flood water could linger up to six more months in Pakistan. ... more | .. |
  Researchers Trap Antimatter Atoms In the movie Angels and Demons, scientists have solved one of the most perplexing scientific problems: the capture and storage of antimatter. In real life, trapping atomic antimatter has never been ... more | .. |
 Eruption At Mount Merapi The primary danger during the eruption at Merapi Volcano has been pyroclastic flows. These avalanches of hot volcanic gases, ash, and rocks descend rapidly and violently, occasionally at speeds over ... more | .. |
  WISE Image Reveals Strange Specimen In Starry Sea A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer shows what looks like a glowing jellyfish floating at the bottom of a dark, speckled sea. In reality, this critter belongs to the cosmos - ... more |
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  Inspectors find fourth crack in space shuttle Inspectors have found a fourth crack in support beams on the external fuel tanks of the space shuttle Discovery, whose final flight was delayed because of a hydrogen leak, NASA said late Monday. ... more | .. |
 Japan confirms space probe brought home asteroid dust A Japanese deep-space probe became the first ever to collect asteroid dust during a seven-year voyage that ended with its return to Earth over the Australian desert this year, Japan said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Astronomers Discover Merging Star Systems That Might Explode Sometimes when you're looking for one thing, you find something completely different and unexpected. In the scientific endeavor, such serendipity can lead to new discoveries. Today, researchers who ... more | .. |
  Goodrich Supplies Europe's First MEMS Gyros For Space Navigation Goodrich Corporation gyroscopes have successfully passed in-orbit testing on the European Space Agency's (ESA) Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite during a mission to detect shifts in global ice cove ... more |
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  Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013 Russia's next generation Glonass-K2 navigation satellite will be launched in 2013, Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday. "We have decided to modernize the Glonass signal s ... more | .. |
 Most Particles In Hayabusa Explorer's Capsule Originate From Asteroid An analysis of some 1,500 particles found in the Hayabusa explorer's capsule revealed that most of them originated from rocks on the asteroid Itokawa, according to the Japanese science and technolog ... more | .. |
  New Florida Initiative Will Help Local Space Industry, State Economy The University of Central Florida will offer two new programs to retrain residents who lose their jobs as the space shuttle program ends, thanks in part to grants from the Florida Board of Governors ... more | .. |
  How To See The Best Meteor Showers Of The Year There are several major meteor showers to enjoy every year at various times, with some more active than others. For example, April's Lyrids are expected to produce about 15 meteors an hour at their ... more |
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 Linking Geometric Problems To Physics Could Open Door To New Solutions A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to ... more | .. |
 Chinese Female Taikonaut Identified Sources in China have confirmed the identity of one of the two female Air Force pilots currently vying to become China's first woman in space. Captain Wang Yaping, 32, a Transport Pilot in the ... more | .. |
 UN-SPIDER Opens Beijing Office The United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) set up its first office in China Tuesday in a bid to promote international cooperat ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman To Help Build Modular Space Vehicles For DoD Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) was selected by NASA as one of the five contractors for the Modular Space Vehicles (MSV) program. NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., ac ... more |
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  Mining On The Moon Is A Not-So-Distant Possibility While lunar mining might some day be economically feasible for countries and companies, a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher believes strongly that mining in space is essential ... more | .. |
  Camera On Curiosity's Arm Will Magnify Clues In Rocks NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will wield an arm-mounted magnifying camera similar to one on the Mars Rover Opportunity, which promptly demonstrated its importance for reading environmental hist ... more | .. |
 China Great Wall Industry Agrees To Buy 20 Rockets, 8 Satellites China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) agreed Tuesday to buy 20 rockets and eight telecommunications satellites from two Chinese technological institutes Tuesday. CGWIC, China's only sa ... more | .. |
  German Robotic Arm Completes Its Five-Year ISS Mission Germany's first experiment in space robotics has now come to an end. On the evening of 15 November 2010, Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurichikhin and Oleg Skripochka performed a space walk during which ... more |
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