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Commercial space flight doesn't offer too many opportunities for investors, but there is one tiny prospect.
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NASA's thermal-imaging sensor helps fight the flames.
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Fatal fridge-frag meteor space dump shocker Litterbug astronauts have hurled almost a ton of junk off the International Space Station, including an old refrigeration system weighing 1400lb, risking a fiery meteoric death for innocent Earth-dwellers. In sharp contrast to green consumers worldwide, NASA has brazenly revealed that the fly tipping spacemen hadn't even used the fridge before throwing it overboard. Outrage is expected from the sandal-wearing, lentil-friendly elements of society.â¦
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An attack utilizing a vulnerability in an ActiveX control for the popular RealPlayer media program may be spending in a more more dangerous fashion than anyone realized. Exploit code for the vuln has been found embedded in ads served up from a popular advertising site.
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Vibrations in NASAâs new rocket may cause severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.
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To: SCIENCE EDITORS  Contact: J.D. Harrington of Headquarters, Washington, +1-202-358- 5241; Chris Rink of Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., +1-757- 864-6786   HAMPTON, Va., Feb.
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The phenomenon, known as frame-dragging, is quite small, amounting to 6 feet in the distance that satellites, moving at about 18,000 miles per hour, cover in their orbits in a year, but it is within the ability of NASA&#39;s instruments to detect.
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Also: Stephen Hawking looking for assistant. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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By MARCIA DUNN    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- NASA's redesigned space shuttle fuel tanks should no longer shed dangerous pieces of foam when launches resume next spring, officials said Thursday...
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NASA engineers and their Russian counterparts are closing in on the source of a major computer glitch that afflicted the International Space Station (ISS) during last month&#39;s shuttle mission to the orbital laboratory.
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NASA is wrestling with a potentially dangerous problem in a spacecraft that has not even been built yet.
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European Space Agency -- Innovative uses for plastics, rubber and their derivatives will be on display next week in DÃÂ¼sseldorf, at the world's leading trade fair for plastics and rubber, K2004.     A team from ESA will be present to show visitors how these commonplace materials can be used in space Ã¢ÂÂ and how this can lead to new technology for use on Earth...
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By Susan Silvers, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Jun. 17--BRIDGEPORT -- When he was a youngster on the East Side, David Mestre once wrapped rubber bands around a tree, hoping he could somehow slingshot himself into space.   It didn't work.
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By JIM HEINTZ  MOSCOW - Two Russian cosmonauts spent more than five hours outside the international space station Wednesday, laying cable and installing protective panels to guard against space debris.  The walk lasted five hours and 37 minutes, about 15 minutes faster than planned.
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Looking to accomplish the most work in the shortest period of time, NASA managers have decided to test two techniques to repair heat shields during one spacewalk when the space shuttle returns to flight, agency officials said on Friday.
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Also: Nasa's Mars rovers--'biggest breakthrough' in science in 2004. [News.com Extra]
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It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever. Except, it really happened