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Obama: Five-year freeze on NASA budgetWashington (AFP) Feb 14, 2011 President Barack Obama on Monday proposed reining in expenses at NASA, sending a 2012 budget blueprint to Congress that calls for a five-year freeze on spending levels at the US space agency. Obama would restrict NASA's budget to last year's levels, $18.7 billion annually through fiscal 2016. The figure represents a 1.6-percent decrease from the spending total the agency had sought for fiscal 2011, which ends in September. "This budget requires us to live within our means so we can invest in our ... read more |
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  Experiment volunteers 'walk on Mars' Two volunteers cut off from the rest world for eight months stepped out on a mock-up of Mars on Monday, reaching the dramatic half-way point of their experimental "voyage" to the Red Planet. ... more | .. |
 Mars, Brought To You By Corporate Sponsors NASA scientists and their colleagues are now proposing corporate financing for a human mission to Mars. This raises the prospect that a spaceship named the Microsoft Explorer or the Google Search En ... more | .. |
  The Astrobiology Of Cancer Despite decades of research and billions of dollars, cancer remains a major killer, with an uncanny ability to evade both the body's defenses and medical intervention. Now an Arizona State Universit ... more | .. |
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  Ariane 5 Ready For Launch Of Automated Transfer Vehicle Johannes Kepler An Ariane 5 with the heaviest payload ever for this workhorse Arianespace launcher is poised for liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana on an historic mission to service the International Space ... more | .. |
 Ariane 5 Ready To Receive Yahsat 1A And Intelsat New Dawn The 57th Ariane 5 to be launched from French Guiana has completed the initial build-up process, preparing it to receive a dual-payload of commercial telecommunications satellites. This heavy-l ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Catching The Rays During Solar Conjunction Opportunity continues to be in the period of solar conjunction. Solar conjunction is the period when communications between Earth and Mars are disrupted because the Sun is directly in between the tw ... more | .. |
 NASA Announces Fiscal Year 2012 Budget NASA announced Monday an $18.7 billion budget request for fiscal year 2012 that supports a reinvigorated path of innovation, technological development and scientific discovery. The budget supports a ... more |
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North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined'
ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent
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 Walking On Mars Three crewmembers of the virtual flight to Mars have 'landed' on their destination planet and two of them today took their first steps on the simulated martian terrain. The highlight of the Mars500 ... more | .. |
  University of Ulster Launches Rocket Project with Japan Space Agency An international project to improve safety and enhance the performance of rocket launchers is underway between two University of Ulster academics and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ... more | .. |
 NASA Names Winning Experiments In Kids Micro-G Challenge Astronauts aboard the International Space Station this spring will conduct six experiments designed by middle school students from across the country. The winning proposals of the "Kids in Micro-g" ... more | .. |
 NASA Deputy Administrator Visits Colorado Innovation Sites NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver visited Boulder, Colo. recently to meet with entrepreneurs and discuss innovations in space exploration and technology development critical to America's future ... more |
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  Astro_Paolo And Views From Space Paolo Nespoli, ESA's astronaut working and living on the Space Station, is sharing his experience with the world via a constant flow of beautiful photos and tweets. Let's hear from Paolo what he thi ... more | .. |
  NASA's NPP Satellite Undergoing Flight Environmental Testing The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate/weather satellite is undergoing flight environmental testing at Ball Aerospace ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Ships Out First Orion Spacecraft The Lockheed Martin Orion team shipped out the first Orion crew module spacecraft structure from NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, La. The spacecraft is headed to Lockheed Marti ... more | .. |
 Cosmonauts To Perform 28th Russian Space Station Spacewalk For the second time in less than a month, two Russian cosmonauts will venture outside the International Space Station on Feb. 16 to install a pair of earthquake and lightning sensing experiments, an ... more |
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New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea
Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands
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  IBM computer, Jeopardy! champ tied after first day An IBM computer displayed a few quirks but played to a draw on the opening day on Monday of a man vs. machine showdown with two human champions of the popular US television game show Jeopardy!. ... more | .. |
IBM computer, Jeopardy! champ tied after first day An IBM computer displayed a few quirks but played to a draw on the opening day on Monday of a man vs. machine contest against two human champions of the popular US television game show Jeopardy!. ... more | .. |
IBM's 'Watson' to take on Jeopardy! champs It's man vs. machine as an IBM computer takes on two human champions of the popular US television quiz show Jeopardy! on Monday. ... more | .. |
  Second Last Shuttle Launch Campaign Grinds On During space shuttle Discovery's final spaceflight, the STS-133 crew members will take important spare parts to the International Space Station along with the Express Logistics Carrier-4. Stev ... more |
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 Powerful New Ways To Electronically Mine Research May Lead To Scientific Breakthrough The Internet has become not only a tool for disseminating knowledge through scientific publications, but it also has the potential to shape scientific research through expanding the field of metakno ... more | .. |
  Iran claims 'nuclear fusion mastered' Iran's atomic body claimed on Thursday it has mastered the technology of nuclear fusion, in a declaration on the eve of the 32nd anniversary of the Islamic revolution. ... more | .. |
 Volunteers begin virtual Mars 'space walk' Two volunteers from Italy and Russia on Monday stepped out for their first virtual "space walk" on Mars, which came as part of an experiment to study the effects of a mission to the Red Planet. ... more |
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'A better future is possible': Youths sue Trump over climate change
Durham scientists validate superconducting wires for ITER fusion project
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 Astronaut's space tales aim to inspire When NASA astronaut Leland Melvin thinks back on his 12-year career, he estimates he must have read to a half million children, sometimes in classrooms, sometimes via videolink from space. ... more | .. |
 NASA readies Discovery shuttle for launch NASA says it is stepping up countdown preparations at Kennedy Space Center for the planned Feb. 24 launch of space shuttle Discovery. ... more | .. |
 LightSail-1 On NASA Short List For Upcoming Launch NASA announced this week that the Planetary Society's LightSail-1 solar sail mission is on their short list for upcoming launch opportunities. The missions selected are Cubesats destined for piggyba ... more | .. |
 For Robust Robots, Let Them Be Babies First Want to build a really tough robot? Forget about Terminator. Instead, watch a tadpole turn into a frog. Or at least that's not too far off from what University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bonga ... more |
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Mars 500: Landing On The Simulated Red Planet 'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at t ... more | .. |
 Tool Makes Search For Martian Life Easier Finding life on Mars could get easier with a creative adaption to a common analytical tool that can be installed directly on the robotic arm of a space rover. In a recent paper published onlin ... more | .. |
 Rocket Team Hot Fire AJ26 Flight Engine For Taurus II Aerojet, a GenCorp company, along with NASA and Orbital Sciences Corporation, conducted the acceptance hot-fire test of the second AJ26 flight engine that will power the first stage of Orbital's Tau ... more | .. |
 Azorean Station To Track Ariane Launch When ATV Johannes Kepler is lofted into space on 15 February, an ESA tracking station on Portugal's Santa Maria island will watch closely, gathering crucial data as Ariane 5 streaks overhead. ... more |
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