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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, pronounced /ˈnæsə/) is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established on July 29, 1958, by the National Aeronautics and Space Act.

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Moon Explosion Visible on Earth

Moon Explosion Visible on Earth
An explosion of a meteorite on the moon caused a brief but bright explosion that was visible from the earth. The moon explosion was caused by boulder-sized meteorite and was monitored by an observatory set up by NASA.
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Aerojet rockets to propel crew vehicle in Orion space program

Source: Sacramento Bee

When a rocket carrying a new crew vehicle lifts off at Cape Canaveral next year it will be the first big step in a decades-long odyssey to see humans travel farther into space than ever before. That ambitious program, called Orion, has goals th ...
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Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Spotted on Google Nexus 4 at Thai Mobile Expo
Google is tinkering away trying to create a new version of its Jelly Bean system. For all we know it may have just completed the Android 4.3 since it was spotted running on Nexus 4 at the Mobile Expo held in Thailand.
 
UFO Photographed Over Historic Barn
UFO Photographed Over Historic Barn
What was basically a photograph taken in innocence turned out to reveal a UFO in the background. Ellen Henry photographed the sky over Edgemoor Barn, a historic building in San Diego which was supposed to be haunted, and found an unusual speck in the picture she had just taken.
 
Microsoft and Google Cooperate on New Windows Phone YouTube App
Microsoft and Google Cooperate on New Windows Phone YouTube App
The two technology titans have buried the hatchet. After a long feud that took them to court Google and Microsoft have decided to let bygones be bygones. They will cooperate on the creation of a new YouTube app for Windows Phone.
 

Government v3.0, Confidence and Preference Cascades

Source: The Smallest Minority

In 1776 Thomas Jefferson, at the urging of the other Founders, wrote the Declaration of Independence - the fundamental philosophical document underlying the creation of these United States. As a fundamental philosophical document it was, in par ...
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New space stethoscope helps assess astronauts in noisy spacecrafts

Source: Albequerque Express

Students from The Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering has designed a new stethoscope for NASA to deliver accurate heart- and body-sounds to medics, who are try to assess astronauts' healt ...
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NASA creates the first topographic map of Titan, Saturn's largest moon

Source: Engadget

Scientists observing Saturn's moon Titan with NASA's Cassini spacecraft have boldly gone where no man has gone before -- visually, anyway. Using radar imagery collected from nine years of Cassini flybys, researchers were able to ...
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Inside Google's Secret Lab - Businessweek

Source: Maoxian

(Corrects to reflect that Edward Teller did not win a Nobel Prize; also corrects Astro Teller's relationship to Sebastian Thrun) Last February, Astro Teller, the director of Google’s (GOOG) secretive research lab, Google X, went to ...
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No. 2 moonwalker talks ‘Mission to Mars’

Source: Standard-Examiner

NEW YORK — Buzz Aldrin was the second man to step onto the lunar surface, 19 minutes behind the late Neil Armstrong. That was July 20, 1969, nearly 44 years ago. Two years later, the Apollo 11 astronaut retired fro ...
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Gerbils gave their lives for science

Source: Standard-Examiner

Somber words out of Russia this week: “Unfortunately, because of equipment failure, we lost all the gerbils.” The Bion-M1 biosatellite that returned to earth last Sunday also carried various microorganisms, plan ...
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