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Rocket launchers turned in to LAPD apparently were from military
L.A. NOWTwo rocket launchers turned into the Los Angeles Police Department as part of the city's gun buyback event appear to be antitank weapons from the military, experts said. Police said the people turning them in at the buyback told officers...... -
LAPD investigating rocket launchers taken at gun buyback
L.A. NOWTwo rocket launchers turned into the Los Angeles Police Department as part of the city's gun buyback event this week and displayed by the police chief and mayor did not have the capacity to fire. But the department will examine the origins of the... -
Travel medicine for the zero-gravity set
Virgin Galactic is already offering $200,000 tickets to intrepid tourists who want to take a suborbital flight on a craft called SpaceShipTwo. Start-up Golden Spike announced earlier this month that it would offer round trips to the moon for two...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Physiology, Science and Technology, Asthma, Heart Disease
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Air Force set to blast off another secretive space drone
An experimental robotic space plane developed for the Air Force is slated to launch Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, fueling an ongoing mystery about its hush-hush payload and overall mission. Air Force officials offered few details about the mission....
Tags: Satellite Technology, Military Equipment, Science and Technology, Rocketry, Landforms
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NASA chief touts 'Gangnam' parody, 'NASA Johnson Style'
NASA’s purpose and vision might be a mystery to some, but the agency’s top official says there’s a quick primer on the space agency’s mission and accomplishments. And it’s done Gangnam style. “I find, as I travel...
Tags: YouTube, Human Interest, NASA, Telecommunication Service, Science and Technology
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Cleanliness is key for robotic space explorers
WATERTON CANYON, Colo. — The concrete-floored room looks, at first glance, like little more than a garage. There is a red tool chest, its drawers labeled: "Hacksaws." "Allen wrenches." There are stepladders and vise grips. There is also, at one...
Tags: Nuclear Power, Science and Technology, Apollo Moon Mission (1961-1975), Science, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Trips to the moon for sale soon? Wait and see
It's been exactly 40 years since NASA's last manned lunar mission, Apollo 17, launched from the Kennedy Space Center. This week, the National Research Council released a report that said that the space agency was losing its edge and needed to hone its...
Tags: George Washington University, Trips and Vacations, Kennedy Space Center, Science and Technology, NASA
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'Round About the Earth' traces a history of ambition and colorful personalities
-------------------- Round About the Earth Circumnavigation From Magellan to Orbit Joyce E. Chaplin Simon & Schuster: 560 pp., $35 -------------------- A trip on a 140-foot sailboat helped inspire Harvard professor Joyce E. Chaplin to write...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Satellite Technology, Transportation Industry, Joseph Pulitzer, Sailing
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Bill Nye, the (planetary) science guy, on NASA's future
What should the future of our space program be? The National Research Council had unpleasant medicine for NASA in its just-released report on the vision and direction of the agency. A panel of 12 independent experts concluded, among other things, that...
Tags: George Washington University, Bill Nye, Satellite Technology, U.S. Congress, NASA
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NASA goes 'Gangnam Style' in the name of PSY-ence
Oppa NASA style? Just when we thought we couldn't take any more "Gangnam Style" parodies, a group of intern scientists (PSY-entists?) at NASA put out "NASA Johnson Style" and if you're anything like me--you can't look away. "Eyyyy...science daily,"...
Tags: YouTube, Human Interest, NASA, Science and Technology, Science
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Shuttle Endeavour readied for voyage to final home in Los Angeles
L.A. NOWFinal preparations are under way in Florida for NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavor to leave the East Coast on Monday and begin its voyage to its permanent home in Los Angeles.... -
Shuttle Endeavour's final journey is carefully choreographed
A diva requires special handling and an entourage. Whatever the stage, the space shuttle Endeavour gets both. A constellation of engineers and assembly line workers designed and built the shuttle in Southern California. A universe of scientists hurled it...
Tags: California Science Center, Nuclear Power, Arts, Science and Technology, Rocketry
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