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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
SPACE.com - After
more than six years roaming the surface of Mars, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity
has spotted its first dust devil on the red planet.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
SPACE.com - A
piece of Chinese space junk expected to zoom by the International Space Station
Thursday will pass harmlessly by, NASA officials said
after scrambling to determine whether the six people aboard the outpost would
have to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats as a precaution.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
SPACE.com - NASA is tracking a piece of Chinese space junk that is
headed uncomfortably close to the International Space Station and may force the
outpost's crew to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats as a precaution.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
SPACE.com - Some scientists have thought that the Earth's Ice Age
conditions 12,900 years ago were triggered by a meteor or comet. But a recent
study suggests that the evidence pointing to the ancient impact is nothing more
than fungus and other matter.
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
AP - The private contractor that handles the bulk of the work servicing NASA's space shuttle fleet is notifying 1,400 employees in Florida, Texas and Alabama that they will be laid off in the fall.
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Wednesday, July 28th, 2010
SPACE.com - Astronomy
has come a long way in the 401 years since Galileo turned his first primitive
telescope to the sky, so it may be no surprise we see a very different solar
system than the field's earliest pioneers did.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
SPACE.com - More than 1,300 space shuttle workers received layoff notices this week from United Space Alliance a NASA contractor that is cutting 15 percent of its 8,100-person workforce
ahead of the shuttle fleet's retirement next year.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
SPACE.com - A giant black hole spouting energy from inside a galaxy is
acting like a cosmic magnifying glass, giving astronomers a clear view of an even
more distant galaxy behind it.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
Reuters - NASA's prime space shuttle contractor, United Space Alliance, sent layoff notices this week to more than 15 percent of its 8,100-member shuttle work force, officials said on Tuesday.
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2010
SPACE.com - A large asteroid in space that has a remote chance of
slamming into the Earth would be most likely hit in 2182, if it
crashed into our planet at all, a new study suggests.
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