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Florida Travel Tips & Deals
Special CorrespondentCheck this list often as new tips, events and deals around Florida come in: Culinary features on Anna Maria Island Mainsail Beach Inn on Florida’s Anna Maria Island has partnered with the Beach Bistro to offer a number of culinary luxuries to...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Business, Fenway Park, Ralph Lauren, Apple iPod
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Cannes bidder pays $1.5 million for Leonardo DiCaprio space trip
Zap2itHow much would you pay to travel to space? Now, how much would you pay to travel to space with Leonardo DiCaprio? One lucky person at the Cannes International Film Festival paid $1.5 million for that honor. The prize was up for auction at the amfAR...Tags: Richard Branson, Angelina Jolie, Science and Technology, Auction Service, Travel
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Asteroid capture: NASA plans to drag space rock into lunar orbit
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on Thursday to outline the agency's plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around the moon. NASA...
Tags: NASA, Barack Obama, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Science and Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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NASA engineers, high school students team up to build pilot-disorientation chair
A worst-case scenario for pilots in flight is not knowing which way is up. It can happen when visual cues are gone and acceleration knocks sensory systems out of whack, leaving pilots temporarily disoriented and more prone to crash. "Public enemy No....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Dwayne Johnson, High Schools, NASA, Newport News Shipbuilding
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NASA's JPL to 'lasso' an asteroid
A proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit in the Earth-moon system is a stepping stone to sending humans to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bolden visited the La CaƱada...
Tags: NASA, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Barack Obama, Science, Science and Technology
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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...
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Private space industry can't get to Mars without NASA
While the Mars rover Curiosity is discovering the building blocks of life on the Red Planet, many are equally excited about another development: Commercial companies have finally discovered profit in space. This is no small feat, considering the...Tags: Business Enterprises, SpaceX, Neil Armstrong, NASA, John F. Kennedy
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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...
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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: Weaponry, NASA, Emergency Incidents, Science and Technology, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Astronaut flies NASA's Dream Chaser spacecraft in flight simulator | Video
Lt. Col. Jack Fischer visits NASA-Langley to fly the Dream Chaser spacecraft on the motion-based Research Flight Deck simulator. Read the whole NASA Dream Chaser spacecraft simulator story.
Tags: NASA, Science, Science and Technology
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Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore., Chris Conrad column
Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore."Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride: Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over,...Tags: Justin Bieber, Twitter, Inc., Science, Social Media, Science and Technology
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NASA greenlights UA-led mission to get bits of asteroid
The Arizona Daily Star, TucsonNASA gave the all-systems-go signal Thursday for a University of Arizona-led mission to mine samples from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. The UA's OSIRIS-REx team has passed its design-and-development test. It can now move to building the capsule and...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASA, Science, Science and Technology, Astronomy
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