SpaceX is first private company to deliver cargo to space station

Source: Lebanon Daily Star

WASHINGTON: SpaceX’s Dragon cargo vessel smells like a new car, said astronauts at the International Space Station after opening the hatches Saturday following the spacecraft’s landmark mission to the orbiting lab. The Ca ...
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An Invitation of Honor

Source: Patheos Blogs

Several of my friends are headed to the White House in the morning. They are having breakfast with President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.The invitation to breakfast belongs to an inclusive group.This g ...
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Space X: The Final Frontier of Investing

Source: Mint Life Blog

Are we ready for the final frontier of investing? The successful launch this week of the first commercially owned and operated passenger spacecraft has the media all atwitter. There has been talk of possible passenger flights to the Moon ...
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The Met Sets Critics Free

Source: The American Interest

Good news from the Metropolitan Opera, sort of. In a moment of stark idiocy, the powers that be at the Metropolitan Opera decreed that Opera News, a magazine published by the Met and sent to its patrons and donors, would no longer run revie ...
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Astronauts to spend Memorial Day unpacking private space capsule

Source: MSNBC

When NASA's space shuttle fleet retires in 2011, the space agency will have to rely on Russian spacecraft and the private sector to taxi cargo and humans to and from the International Space Station, even as it t ...
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Best Space Photos of the Week - May 27, 2012

Source: Space.com

Two of Saturn's moons affect the planet's rings visibly. Daphnis, at lower left, orbits in the Keeler Gap of the A right, creating waves in the edge of the gap. Pan, in the top right, orbits in the Encke Gap of the A ring, creating wakes that are se ...
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Space station astronauts enter SpaceX capsule

Source: The Alexandria Town Talk

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts swung open the hatch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule Saturday, literally opening the door on a new era in commercial spaceflight. "Smells like a brand new car," reported Don Pettit, who on Friday grap ...
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Source: Sify

In 1915, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement with President Woodrow Wilson over U.S. handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. In 1953, the Supreme Court ruled that restaurants in the District of Columbia could not refus ...
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The Black Keys play in a new arena

Source: Quad-Cities Online

MINNEAPOLIS — Sometimes the good bands do win. Hard-working, underground rock groups can come up through the grimy ranks of small clubs, put 300,000 miles on a tour van and wind up breaking through to mass audiences. Case in point: The Black ...
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