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Watch NASA's live chat with Chris Hadfield, ISS astronauts at noon
Streaming video by Ustream Three astronauts who recently returned to Earth after living aboard the International Space Station will answer questions from the public in a live Google Hangout on Thursday. The online chat starts at noon PDT, and you...
Tags: Science and Technology, Science, Social Media, Twitter, Inc., NASA
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Russian mice, gerbils dead in 30-day space ordeal; lizards live
A crew of Mongolian gerbils may have gone where no Mongolian gerbil has gone before, but they did not come back alive. A Russian spacecraft filled with mice, lizards and other animals has returned to Earth -- but with the majority of its furred passengers...
Tags: Science and Technology
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Watch: Space rock strikes moon with force of 5 tons of TNT
The biggest explosion ever recorded on the moon was caused by a space rock roughly the size of a beach ball. It weighed 80 pounds and was just over 1 foot wide, but it was going incredibly fast, traveling through space at speeds of 56,000 mph. And...
Tags: Explosions, Science and Technology, Emergency Incidents, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Space odyssey ends better for Chris Hadfield than for Major Tom
A Soyuz capsule has landed safely in the steppes of Kazakhstan, bringing to a safe end the space odyssey of Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, whose video of David Bowie's "A Space Oddity" has gone viral. The capsule containing Hadfield, along with...
Tags: Science and Technology, Music, Apple iPad, Music Industry, Barenaked Ladies (music group)
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Space plane arrives at NASA facility for flight testing
A white-and-black space plane, very much resembling the now-retired space shuttle, was trucked to a NASA flight center in the Mojave Desert to begin a round of testing to see if it has the right stuff to carry astronauts one day. Tucked under a white...
Tags: Science and Technology, Technology, Rocketry, Boeing Co., Science
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'Star Trek' crew meets Space Station crew in live Google Hangout
Free live streaming by Ustream "Star Trek" fans, set your alarms. And fans of the astronauts who live and work on the International Space Station, set your alarms too. At 9 a.m. Pacific time Thursday, the filmmakers behind "Star Trek Into Darkness"...
Tags: Science and Technology, Star Trek (movie, 2009), Alice Eve, Chris Pine, Star Trek into Darkness (movie)
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Is Kepler dead? NASA to give update on planet-hunting telescope
Is NASA’s Kepler planet-hunting telescope dead? That was the rumor circulating Wednesday, nearly a week after the space telescope went into safe mode. NASA will host a news conference at 1 p.m. Pacific time “to discuss the status of the...
Tags: Science and Technology, Science, NASA
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Chris Hadfield first in-space viral music video star with 'Space Oddity'
The cover of "A Space Oddity" by Chris Hadfield, International Space Station commander, is going galactically viral Monday. But it was a decidedly terrestrial affair. And it centered on a Silver Lake producer and a Canadian singer who once did vocals...
Tags: Music, Science and Technology, Apple iPad, Music Industry, Barenaked Ladies (music group)
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Third-grader names asteroid that is focus of NASA mission
Asteroid (101955)1999 RQ36 doesn't really roll off the tongue, but asteroid Bennu? That's an asteroid that a person, a country and the world can get excited about. This week, NASA announced that 9-year-old Michael Toler Puzio of North Carolina had won...
Tags: Science and Technology, Barack Obama, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Satellite Technology
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Ground control to Major Tom: ISS commander sings David Bowie
This post has been corrected, as noted below.International Space Station Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield returns to Earth, and eventually Canada, on Monday. So, what better way to end the mission than doing a personalized rendition of David Bowie's classic "A Space Oddity," in the first music...Tags: Science and Technology, Science, Awards and Prizes, NASA
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Astronauts end spacewalk after fixing coolant leak
Astronauts replaced a leaking component on the International Space Station after a 5-hour, 30-minute spacewalk, NASA reported. Engineers Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn completed their spacewalk at 11:14 a.m. PDT Saturday, after gingerly gliding out...
Tags: Science and Technology, NASA
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Spacewalk underway at International Space Station to fix leak
This post has been corrected. See note below.In a spacewalk, Astronauts Chris Cassidy and Tom Marshburn replaced a pump component that has been gushing ammonia coolant, NASA reported Saturday. The spacewalk got underway at 5:44 a.m. PDT and was expected to last more than six hours, according to...Tags: Science and Technology, NASA
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