Space / Astronomy
Nov 15, 2011
By articleman 
Views : 5 NASA Begins Re-purposing Space Shuttle Facilities
With the retirement of the space shuttle fleet there is a lot of underutilized space at Florida's Kennedy Space Center. So NASA is making an effort to re-purpose some of ...
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Nov 11, 2011 By articleman Views : 6 Russian Probe Fails to Escape Earth's Pull
The Russian probe Phobos-Grunt that was launched on Tuesday has failed to escape its orbit around Earth.
A major malfunction has doomed the probe, that was headed for the tiny Mars ...
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Nov 08, 2011 By articleman Views : 4 Asteroid to Pass by Earth Tonight
Asteroid 2005 YU55 is set between the Earth and Moon tonight, November 8, 2011.
If you are interested, and have a telescope at least 6-inches in aperture, you can track the ...
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Nov 07, 2011 By articleman Views : 3 New Discovery Challenges Theory on Formation of Millisecond Pulsars
I've been on a bit of a gamma-ray kick lately. Sure I'm a little biased, that being my primary area of research and all, but there have also been some ...
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Nov 03, 2011 By articleman Views : 4 Could Tractor Beams Become Reality?
I have to admit I was surprised by the headlines touting the funding of tractor beam technologies by NASA.
I've written about this kind of technology before, specifically in the broader ...
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