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July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon 1958: President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They were steady, almost metronomic, signals coming from a tiny radio b Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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July 29, 1958: Ike Inks Space Law, NASA Born in Wake of Russ Moon 1958: President Eisenhower signs the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The plot had thickened months before. Beep … beep … beep … They were steady, almost metronomic, signals coming from a tiny radio b Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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July 25: Four Women Who Made a Difference July 25: In science and technology, spheres of society where women are woefully underrepresented, this day in history offers a bountiful exception. Here are the milestones: In 1865, "James Barry," the first woman physician in modern times, compelled to disguise herself as a man in order Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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July 25: Four Women Who Made a Difference July 25: In science and technology, spheres of society where women are woefully underrepresented, this day in history offers a bountiful exception. Here are the milestones: In 1865, "James Barry," the first woman physician in modern times, compelled to disguise herself as a man in order Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gallery: The Space Suit Makes the NASA Astronaut : Photo: NASA"Form follows function." Nowhere is that dictum more inflexible than in the hostile reaches of outer space. So nothing hews to that dictum more closely than the space suit. Even as it has evolved over NASA's 50 years to adapt to increasingly sophisticated missions and changing spacec Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: The Space Suit Makes the NASA Astronaut : Photo: NASA"Form follows function." Nowhere is that dictum more inflexible than in the hostile reaches of outer space. So nothing hews to that dictum more closely than the space suit. Even as it has evolved over NASA's 50 years to adapt to increasingly sophisticated missions and changing spacec Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Gallery: Next-Gen Space Gear for Humanity's Return to the Moon : Photo: Ingrid Barrentine/Wired.comBefore you can take your rover to the moon, you need to test it on Earth. This week, NASA engineers did just that at Grant County ORV Park in Moses Lake, Washington, which they chose for its similarity to the moon's terrain. As NASA takes i Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gallery: Next-Gen Space Gear for Humanity's Return to the Moon : Photo: Ingrid Barrentine/Wired.comBefore you can take your rover to the moon, you need to test it on Earth. This week, NASA engineers did just that at Grant County ORV Park in Moses Lake, Washington, which they chose for its similarity to the moon's terrain. As NASA takes i Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Finish Line for the Next Space Race: Planet Earth NASA's heated space race with the Russians resulted in Americans orbiting the Earth, landing on the moon, creating new constellations of satellites and building a space station. And NASA accomplished it all in 50 short years. But what has NASA done for us lately? Wi Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The Finish Line for the Next Space Race: Planet Earth NASA's heated space race with the Russians resulted in Americans orbiting the Earth, landing on the moon, creating new constellations of satellites and building a space station. And NASA accomplished it all in 50 short years. But what has NASA done for us lately? Wi Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Senate delays vote on surveillance bill until July The U.S. Senate has delayed a vote on a controversial surveillance bill that would allow a U.S. National Security Agency spying program to continue and would likely result in the dismissal of dozens of lawsuits against telecom carriers that participated in the program Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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July 11, 1979: Look Out Below! Here Comes Skylab! 1979: The Skylab space station reenters Earth's atmosphere after six years in orbit. It is perhaps the most highly anticipated return of any spacecraft ever, save Apollo 13. America's first space station, launched in May 1973 as a science and engineering laboratory, was not a success. Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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July 11, 1979: Look Out Below! Here Comes Skylab! 1979: The Skylab space station reenters Earth's atmosphere after six years in orbit. It is perhaps the most highly anticipated return of any spacecraft ever, save Apollo 13. America's first space station, launched in May 1973 as a science and engineering laboratory, was not a success. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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NASA inks deal for ISS plasma drive tests Keeping the station out of this world Plans to test a super-efficient plasma space drive aboard the International Space Station (ISS) have been confirmed. The Ad Astra Rocket Company, which is developing the Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR), has announced the signing of an Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Measures Focus on US Ability to Go to Space Station - Washington Post BBC NewsMeasures Focus on US Ability to Go to Space StationWashington Post - 21 hours agoBy Marc Kaufman As it prepares to adjourn, Congress is close to passing and sending to President Bush two bills aimed at keeping American astronauts flying to the international spa Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Carnival cancels cruises out of Galveston in wake of Hurricane Ike - USA Today Calgary HeraldCarnival cancels cruises out of Galveston in wake of Hurricane IkeUSA Today - 1 hour agoCarnival is canceling two cruises scheduled to leave Monday out of storm-damaged Galveston, Texas. The line says passengers scheduled to sail out of the city on the 297 Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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NASA inks commercial ISS cargo deals Going rate - $87,000 per kilo NASA has announced the award of two multibillion dollar contracts for commercial companies to lift cargo to the International Space Station (ISS) in the post-Shuttle era. Deals have been inked with former PayPal kingpin Elon Musk's SpaceX venture, and with Orbital Sc Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Smaller Companies Win NASA's Space Race - Washington Post People's Daily OnlineSmaller Companies Win NASA's Space RaceWashington Post - 51 minutes agoBy Dana Hedgpeth NASA yesterday gave two companies the job of resupplying the International Space Station after the space shuttle retires, picking Orbital Sciences of Dulles and Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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NASA to broadcast The Beatles into deep space - Christian Science Monitor RTE.ieNASA to broadcast The Beatles into deep spaceChristian Science Monitor - 4 hours agoThe transmission of the Fab Four's 'Across the Universe' to the North Star marks the US space agency's 50th anniversary.NASA Says, ‘Hello, Universe. Meet the Beatles.ââ Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Howard Hughes' Nightmare: Space May Be Filled With Germs Fans of extraterrestrial life may have been disappointed when internet-fed rumors of Martian life ended in a NASA press conference on soil composition. But they can take solace in a newly popular theory that suggests the rest of space may teem with microbes. This on Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |