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A new frontier for space travel
For the last half-century, space flight has been the domain of the world's superpowers.
All that is set to change as soon as Saturday when SpaceX, the private rocket company in Hawthorne, will attempt to launch a spaceship with cargo into orbit and three...Tags: NASA, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Tesla Motors, Inc., Politics, Companies and Corporations
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A year of hard-to-predict weather seen for Southland
La Niņa, the demon diva of drought, has ended, but what comes next could be even more foreboding: La Nada. La Nada, or "nothing" in Spanish, is climatologist Bill Patzert's nickname for when surface sea temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean are...Tags: NASA, Weather, Weather Reports
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Computer specialist contends his views cost him his job at JPL
David Coppedge's co-workers at one of the nation's most prominent scientific institutions didn't have to guess his theory as to how the universe was created. He offered to lend them DVDs advocating intelligent design.
An evangelical Christian, he also...Tags: Lawyers, Belief and Faith, Unemployment, Science and Technology, Judges
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In cyber security contest, teens practice defending America
OXON HILL, Md. — A team of skilled teenagers from Highland Park traveled across the country recently to test its ability to protect American interests from potentially dangerous attacks. Its only weapon: laptops.
Cloaked in blue oversized hoodies,...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Computer Crime, Theft, National Security, Aerospace Manufacturing
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Man found on fire in Altadena had been bound, police say
L.A. NOWA man found burning on an Altadena sidewalk had his feet bound and a ligature on one of his wrists, authorities said Thursday. Although the autopsy on the man, who was found Sunday, has been completed, investigators with the L.A. County Sheriff's... -
Review: 'History of Space Photography' is out of this world
A cultural moment is passing. The space shuttle Discovery, strapped to the back of a Boeing 747, was recently ferried with great fanfare to its new home at a branch of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. The California Science...
Tags: NASA, Photography, Russia, Diego Rivera, Cape Canaveral
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Firm has its sight set on mining asteroids
A group of 21st-century private space entrepreneurs is expected to unveil an ambitious new venture to mine the surface of near-Earth asteroids in search of precious metals and rare metallic elements.
The plan may seem like it was torn from a science...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Science and Technology, Mining, Computing and Information Technology Industry, G.I. Joe (fictional character)
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'Titanic' director James Cameron to attempt historic ocean dive
24 Frames"Avatar" director James Cameron will attempt to dive to the world's deepest point, the Mariana Trench, in a one-man submersible over the next several days in a scientific project with the National Geographic Society.... -
Judge rejects religion expert for ex-JPL worker's lawsuit trial
L.A. NOWIn the trial of a former Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee who claims he was fired for his belief that God had a hand in shaping the universe, a judge will determine what’s dogma and what isn’t, not a religious expert....... -
On Mars, all is extreme: Witness the 12-mile-high dust devil
Mars doesn't have tornadoes. It doesn't have thunderstorms. But the Red Planet can kick up a truly unholy dust devil. Such a phenomenon -- 12 miles high in fact -- was photographed last month on the surface of the planet. "It really is the size of it...
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JPL faces $50-million budget cut; more layoffs called unlikely
L.A. NOWA $50-million budget cut for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Caņada Flintridge likely won't be enough to spur another round of mass layoffs, a legislative affairs official for the agency said. Despite massive federal deficits that have put support.... -
Man gets to spend his birthday inside Rose Parade float
L.A. NOWSome people mark their birthdays with dinner out or a slice of cake. La Caņada-Flintridge native Randy Bartos has slightly different plans for his Jan. 2 birthday — lying inside a float, surrounded by hydraulic levers and animation switches while......
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