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Space Shuttle Era Ends with Atlantis LandingHouston TX (SPX) Jul 22, 2011 Space shuttle Atlantis touched down on the Shuttle Landing Facility's Runway 15 at 5:57 a.m. EDT on July 21. After 200 orbits around Earth and a journey of 5,284,862 miles, the landing at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida brought to a close 30 years of space shuttle flights. "Although we got to take the ride," said Commander Chris Ferguson on behalf of his crew, " we sure hope that everybody who has ever worked on, or touched, or looked at, or envied or admired a space shuttle was able to tak ... read more |
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 Space Shuttle final landing marks end of an era Thus was history made: Space Shuttle Atlantis left the International Space Station on Tuesday and made its last return to Earth. The Shuttle era is now over and the door is open to the next generati ... more | .. |
 Atlantis Carries Adult Stem Cells Into Space On its 135th and final flight in NASA's shuttle program, the shuttle Atlantis carried the stem cells of six adults to the International Space Station. Alberto Sant Antonio, MD, a Weston, Florida gen ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Honored by IEEE for Development of Lunar Module On the 42nd anniversary of Apollo 11 Commander Neil A. Armstrong's first steps on the moon's surface, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest technical professi ... more | .. |
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  This Time It's Both Rocket Science AND Surgery Not all great collaborations are planned. In fact, many of the best partnerships are the work of timing and serendipity. This is the case with two friends who met to talk over their lives and work a ... more | .. |
  Off to a Rocky Start Today was the first day of "sub ops" in the Pavilion Lake Research Project's (PLRP's) exploration of Kelly Lake. For the past couple of days, engineers and technicians worked to put in place the bar ... more | .. |
  Dawn Spacecraft Beams Back New Photo Dawn took this image during its current orbit of Vesta, traveling from the day side to the night side. The large structure near the south pole that showed up so prominently in previous images ... more | .. |
  Exoplanet Aurora: An Out-of-this-World Sight Earth's aurorae, or Northern and Southern Lights, provide a dazzling light show to people living in the polar regions. Shimmering curtains of green and red undulate across the sky like a living thin ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Rheinmetall ICEYE Space Solutions to provide SAR reconnaissance data to German military
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 Space Program Mavens Comment on the Future of Space Exploration As space shuttle Atlantis lands for the last time, marking the end of NASA's space shuttle program, Maven, the Global Knowledge Marketplace, surveyed space program experts to ask the question: "what ... more | .. |
  Elliptical galaxies much younger than previously thought The standard model for elliptical galaxies formation is challenged by a new result uncovered by an international team of astronomers from the Atlas3D collaboration. Team members from CNRS, CEA ... more | .. |
  Landsat Satellites Track Continued Missouri River Flooding Flooding along the Missouri River continues as shown in recent Landsat satellite images of the Nebraska and Iowa border. Heavy rains and snowmelt have caused the river to remain above flood stage fo ... more | .. |
 Cigars and flowers as NASA savors shuttle's end Cigars were passed around, flowers brightened desktops and pictures snapped from all angles as NASA employees hugged, laughed and cried after the shuttle Atlantis landed one final time. ... more |
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 Commander, NASA savor moment as Atlantis lands The commander who brought shuttle Atlantis to a final homecoming Thursday said US space exploration would carry on, as he lauded the vessel for changing "the way we view the world." ... more | .. |
 Russia declares 'era of Soyuz' after shuttle Moscow on Thursday declared it was now "the era of the Soyuz" after the US shuttle's last flight left the Russian system as the sole means for delivering astronauts to the International Space Station. ... more | .. |
 End of an era for US spaceflight as Atlantis lands The shuttle Atlantis cruised home for a final time Thursday, ending its last mission to the International Space Station and closing a 30-year chapter in American space exploration. ... more | .. |
 NASA Deputy Administrator Is Keynote Speaker At NewSpace 2011 NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver will provide opening keynote remarks at the Space Frontier Foundation's annual NewSpace Conference at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 28. Media are invited to atten ... more |
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Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like
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 US shuttle, the most complex flying machine ever built The US space shuttle is the most complex and costly flying machine ever built. It helped build a pioneering space outpost but also kept Americans confined to low Earth orbit for 30 years. ... more | .. |
 Major moments in the US shuttle program The US space shuttle is part cargo truck, part passenger bus, part airplane built for orbit, and has known soaring highs and devastating lows during its 30-year career. ... more | .. |
 Space shuttles will soon be museum pieces The end of the US space shuttle program brings the start of a new chapter for the remaining orbiters, which will soon take up residence as museum pieces in Florida, Virginia, California and New York. ... more | .. |
  Cambridge Pixel, Navtech to work together Britain's Cambridge Pixel, a developer of primary radar solutions, said it is working with Navtech Radar, a manufacturer of millimeter wave radar sensors and solutions. ... more |
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  Movement of black holes powers the universe's brightest lights Whether on their own or orbiting as a pair, black holes don't typically sit still. Not only do they spin, they can also move laterally across their host galaxy. And according to astrophysicists at B ... more | .. |
 A cosmic superbubble The Large Magellanic Cloud is a small neighbouring galaxy to the Milky Way. It contains many regions where clouds of gas and dust are forming new stars. One such region, surrounding the star cluster ... more | .. |
  DOD Space Program Broadens Industry, Foreign Partnerships The Defense Department is expanding partnerships with spacefaring companies and nations to maintain the strategic advantage it gains in space, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for space pol ... more | .. |
  Spitzer Sees Spider Web of Stars Those aren't insects trapped in a spider's web - they're stars in our own Milky Way galaxy, lying between us and another spiral galaxy called IC 342. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this pic ... more |
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Conventional photon entanglement reveals thousands of hidden topologies in high dimensions
Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
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  Romantis and iSat signed distribution agreement Romantis GmbH, as a part of an international group of companies specializing in space segment sales and VSAT network solutions, has announced it has entered into a new distribution agreement with iS ... more | .. |
  Gilat Provides Turnkey Broadband SatComms for Russian Yakutia Ministry of Finance Gilat has announced that it has been selected by Russian Yakutia Ministry of Finance to provide a full turnkey SkyEdge II broadband satellite network to serve new Ministry of Finance locations acros ... more | .. |
 KARI joins International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), part of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST), has become the newest member of the International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters' (Th ... more | .. |
 Weather forecast favorable for last shuttle landing Weather forecasts are favorable for the last landing under the Space Shuttle program, mission control official Leroy Caine said. The Atlantis shuttle, which undocked from the International Spa ... more |
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  NASA's Hubble Discovers Another Moon Around Pluto Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered a fourth moon orbiting the icy dwarf planet Pluto. The tiny, new satellite - temporarily designated P4 - was uncovered in a Hubble survey sear ... more | .. |
 Hubble telescope spots tiny fourth moon near Pluto Astronomers using NASA's powerful Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a tiny fourth moon around Pluto, the smallest ever glimpsed around the icy dwarf planet, the US space agency said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 NASA fends off tears with shuttle end in sight NASA astronauts and engineers fought off tears Wednesday as Atlantis made its final approach toward Earth, bringing an end to the 30-year shuttle program and closing a chapter in human spaceflight. ... more | .. |
  'Bloom is off the rose' for 3D: DreamWorks CEO DreamWorks Animation chief executive Jeffrey Katzenberg said Tuesday that Hollywood "greed" is responsible for a glut of lousy 3D movies and weak ticket sales. ... more |
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