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 California-based SpaceX Friday ...
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Teachers and students may need a refresher course in civics

Source: The Province Daily News

British Columbia has 18,000 real estate agents - 14,000 of them who work in the Greater Vancouver and Fraser Valley areas. And if you've ever bought or sold a home you've come to know one of those agents... MILAN, Italy — R ...
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Sunglint and Clouds off Western South America

Source: NASA

The setting sun highlights cloud patterns—as well as the Pacific Ocean surface itself—in this photograph taken by an astronaut on the International Space Station. The ISS was located over the Andes Mountains of central Chile at the time. The camera view ...
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Source: The Province Daily News

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Astronauts to Spend Memorial Day Unpacking

Source: TLC

Rather than kick their feet up this Memorial Day weekend, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be unloading cargo from the first private spacecraft ever to visit the orbiting lab. SpaceX's unman ...
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B.C. needs provincewide approach to gang prevention: Dianne Watts

Source: Victoria Times Colonist

Ryder Hesjedal of Victoria became the first Canadian to win a Grand Tour cycling event with a tension-laden finish Sunday in the Giro d'Italia that captured even the attention of Prime Minister Stephen... Thumbs up To cyclist Ry ...
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Heads up, Michigan: See why NASA says you'll want to catch Venus' once-in-a-lifetime show

Source: MLive.com

View full sizeNASAVenus, the small black dot, transits the Sun on June 8, 2004. What appears to be perforated lines across the Sun is the International Space Station also transiting the Sun. Oh, the irony: Next week, a space phenomenon that happen ...
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Franchitti wins Indianapolis 500, his third

Source: WFIE-TV

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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 possib ...
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