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By Alan Boyle Today's first post-shuttle visit to the International Space Station by a U.S.-made spaceship won high-level praise from the White House, NASA Headquarters, Congress and other circles. Here's a sampling of the reaction: White H ...
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NASA via Reuters The SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is in free drift above the International Space Station as the Canadarm 2 robotic arm reaches out in preparation to grab it. By Alan Boyle Today's arrival of a ca ...
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Source: The Columbian
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra added extra instruments for this weekend's performance of Holst's "The Planets." Info: Visit Vancouver Symphony Orchestra or call (360) 735-7278.There were no stunning images of Mars, Jupiter or Saturn b ...
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Source: TechNewsWorld
A giant but unseen planet may lurk on the outer edge of our solar system, making its presence known only by disrupting the orbits of nearby celestial objects, according to Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the Nation ...
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Watch NASA TV's coverage of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft's berthing at the International Space Station. By Alan Boyle SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule is ever so carefully closing in on the International Space Station for the first-ever hookup of a commerc ...
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Ted Huetter / Museum of Flight Blue Origin's jet-powered Charon test vehicle is brought inside Seattle's Museum of Flight. By Alan Boyle Blue Origin , the rocket venture backed by Amazon.com billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, is sha ...
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU NASA's Opportunity rover catches its own late-afternoon shadow in a view looking eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars. Endeavour measures 14 miles across, encompassing a crater ...
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Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
NASA released this imagining in 2006, showing what another post-Pluto planet nicknamed Xena might look like. From this distance, the sun would look like a bright star. (NASA) The idea that there’s a giant planet orbiting the sun just past Pluto isn’t any ...
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Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
As the presidential campaign heats up, we should look closely at a faraway object for a lesson about polls. Billions of miles away from us, Pluto spins happily around the sun, ignoring all polls and surveys. We would be wise to adopt its at ...
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