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Bright Minds: Danielle Hilliard, air and missile defense
“The combat system is the brain that helps you fire ‘the bullet,’ which is actually an extremely complex missile,” Danielle Hilliard says of her highly technical job in air and missile defense. She uses simple visual images to...
Tags: Missile Systems, Science and Technology, Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Four Board of Education members leaning toward the purchase of former Allegheny Energy
julieg@herald-mail.comRecalling his first tour of the former Allegheny Energy headquarters on Downsville Pike, Washington County Board of Education member Wayne D. Ridenour said he thought of the possibility the office building could house the school system’s...Tags: Government, The Herald-Mail, Renovation, Business Enterprises, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Angry Birds nest at Kennedy Space Center
Now it can be said: The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is for the birds. Make that the Angry Birds. The attraction has just opened Angry Birds Space Encounter, which brings the fowl characters from the digital-gaming world to real life in hopes of...
Tags: Entertainment, Science and Technology, Finland, Kennedy Space Center, Halloween Horror Nights
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SpaceX capsule set to return from orbit, splash down in Pacific
After spending more than three weeks docked with the International Space Station, SpaceX’s Dragon space capsule is ready to return to Earth and splash down Tuesday in the Pacific Ocean. NASA Television will provide coverage of Dragon's departure...
Tags: Orbital Sciences Corporation, Science and Technology, Cape Canaveral, Satellite Technology, NASA
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SpaceX splashdown: Capsule returns 2,668 pounds of science samples
Less than 250 miles west of Baja California, SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully splashed down Tuesday after spending more than three weeks in outer space on a NASA mission. When the cone-shaped unmanned capsule hit the water at 9:34 a.m. PDT, it...
Tags: Port of Long Beach, Orbital Sciences Corporation, Science and Technology, Cape Canaveral, Satellite Technology
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Video KSC Angry Birds attraction aims to inspire science, technology
The feathers are officially flying at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, which has introduced its Angry Birds Space Encounter attraction. The attraction, based on a digital game in which animated birds are flung via slingshot toward intergalactic...
Tags: Entertainment, Science and Technology, Kennedy Space Center, Science
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Video/Q&A: 'The Host' stars Max Irons and Jake Abel
Because their movie “The Host” comes from “Twilight” author Stephenie Meyer, Max Irons and Jake Abel have received plenty of questions about Team Edward and Team Jacob. The new film’s story, however, isn’t as basic as,...
Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, William Hurt, Movies, Science and Technology, Trips and Vacations
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Naval Academy astronauts return to inspire next generation
The course is Human Space Flight. The subject for today: analogues — the scenarios found in the world or contrived in the laboratory that NASA uses to simulate work and life aboard a space ship. Naval Academy professor Ken Reightler leads the...
Tags: Neil Armstrong, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Science and Technology, Robert Heinlein, United States Naval Academy
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Planck: Big Bang's afterglow reveals older universe, more matter
The universe has hidden its age well. The European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope has scanned the skies for the Big Bang’s fingerprint and discovered that the universe is about 100 million years older than thought, and that there’...Tags: Cosmology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology, University of Cambridge, NASA
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos hails recovery of some Apollo F-1 engines
Jeff Bezos: founder and CEO of Amazon.com, and now, bona fide ocean explorer. A year after vowing to send a team into the ocean to find F-1 engines from the historic Apollo 11 moon launch, Bezos announced Wednesday that the team had recovered F-1 engine...
Tags: Oceans, Neil Armstrong, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Science and Technology, Petroleum Industry
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Shouldn't heroes last forever?
In late February, the House cast a 394-0 vote to rename NASA's cutting-edge flight research center in Southern California after the late astronaut Neil Armstrong. What could possibly be wrong with that? In their advocacy, the bill's sponsors pointed out...
Tags: Neil Armstrong, Johns Hopkins University, Science and Technology, World War II (1939-1945), Human Interest
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30 Seconds to Mars launches song with gravity-free spin on ISS
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesRock band 30 Seconds to Mars has launched its new single, “Up in the Air,” in a memorable way — ......
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