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Over 6,000 apply for NASA Astronaut Corps
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02/05/2012 09:00 AM
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Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA's Astronaut Corps, twice as many as the US space agency usually receives, NASA said Sunday.
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Soon, hi-speed running robots to navigate 'inaccessible' terrains
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02/05/2012 12:40 AM
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A large fraction of the Earth's surface remains inaccessible to conventional wheeled or tracked vehicles, while animals and humans traverse such terrain with ease and elegance, researchers say.
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Russia eyes mission to reach moon this decade
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02/04/2012 11:50 PM
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Russian scientists are looking forward to have a man on the moon by 2020, as it launches a new campaign to select a new team of cosmonauts to train for the special task, according to reports.
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All About the Phone with a Pen [VIDEO]
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02/05/2012 08:51 PM
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Samsung Galaxy Note is best-known for its pen, or stylus, but it alsos has a slew of other top-notch features, including a 5.3-inch, 1280x800 ...
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Asteroid Vesta Floats in Space in High Resolution 3-D
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02/05/2012 08:22 PM
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More 3-D images below The giant Asteroid Vesta literally floats in space in a new high resolution 3-D image of the battered bodies Eastern Hemisphere taken by NASA's Dawn Asteroid Orbiter. ...
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Venus Williams Helps Finish Fed Cup Shutout of Belarus
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02/05/2012 07:59 PM
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WORCESTER, Mass. - The doubles match that ended the Fed Cup tie between the United States and Belarus should have been the most irrelevant match of the day. It was the fifth contest in a ...
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NASA's big ideas for the future of flight
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02/05/2012 06:47 PM
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NASA has some pretty lofty goals for the future of commercial aviation, and in working with some of the aircraft industry's biggest players this past year, the space agency is hoping to create ...
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Aliens crave Earth wives in Chevy Volt Super Bowl ad
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02/05/2012 05:07 PM
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(Credit: Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET) Think Chevy Volt and you might not think "out of this world." It's not enjoyed the best sales ...
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Super Bowl Cities Seen From Space
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02/05/2012 03:23 PM
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Satellite image of RI and portions of southeastern Massachusetts. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Landsat 7 If you live in or are from the US, you probably know that today is Super Bowl Sunday. Whatever you ...
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Google Earth update erases 'Atlantis' error
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02/05/2012 12:46 PM
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Just a handful of the many screenshots of Google Earth that supposedly revealed the undersea civilization of Atlantis. The grid shown in most of these images is now erased from the ...
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Vote Now! Top Space Stories of the Week - Feb. 5, 2012
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02/05/2012 09:36 AM
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slide_info = [{"id":{"vote_img_src":"http://i.space.com/images/i/12599/i02/mars500-mock-mars-marswalk.JPG","sequence":1,"title":"Mars in ...
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Rare earth prices 'reflect market'
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02/05/2012 08:23 AM
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A rare earth mine in Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. China is the world's largest exporter of rare earth minerals, supplying more than 90 percent of the international market, ...
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Astronomers find massive black holes common in early Universe
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02/05/2012 08:22 AM
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Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space ...
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Chinese president visits former leaders ahead of Lunar New Year
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02/05/2012 08:22 AM
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BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders have paid visits to former leaders of the state and the Communist Party of China (CPC) to extend New Year greetings to them ...
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Mainland official extends Lunar New Year greetings to Taiwan compatriots
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02/05/2012 08:21 AM
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BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs chief extended his festive greetings for the upcoming Spring Festival to Taiwan compatriots on Friday.Wang Yi, director of the ...
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Astronomer Creates Wine from 4 Billion-Year-Old Meteorite
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02/05/2012 06:03 AM
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An astronomer from Britain has, apparently, created wine from a 4.5 billion year old meteorite! An expatriate, Ian Hutechon has labelled his astronomical-alcoholic creation - Meteorito. The wine was ...
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Scientists puzzled by region outside solar system
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02/05/2012 05:00 AM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A glimpse beyond our solar system reveals the neighborhood just outside the sun's influence is different and stranger than expected, scientists reported ...
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Over 6,000 People want to be Astronauts
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02/05/2012 04:21 AM
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NASA is currently recruiting to train astronauts for its 2013 batch. Incidentally, this number (6,372 to be exact) is the largest since 1978, when they received more than 8,000 eager ...
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Altai Republic marks Chaga Bairam – New Year according to lunar calendar
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02/05/2012 12:41 AM
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GORNO-ALTAISK, February 5 (Itar-Tass) - The capital of the Altai Republic marks this Sunday the New Year according to the oriental lunar ...
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jumper plans skydive from edge of space
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02/05/2012 12:25 AM
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IT is the ultimate parachute jump: from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 120,000ft.After 35 seconds he will break the sound barrier, and finally, at 5,000ft, ...
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