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1. US military to step up video-game training

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   Washington (AFP) March 10, 2010 - The US military plans to step up the use of video-games, hoping to curb casualties on the battlefield by training troops through simulations, a commander said Wednes ... Wednesday, 10 March 2010

2. NASA offers communication simulation

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   Washington (UPI) Mar 9, 2009 - NASA says it is now offering the public an interactive computer program that allows virtual explorers to experience many space-related simulations. ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

3. Combat Interference With New GVF Installation Certification

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   Washington DC (SPX) Mar 10, 2010 - To strengthen VSAT-industry competitiveness, satellite operators and VSAT manufacturers recently called upon the Global VSAT Forum (GVF) to expand the reach of the ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

4. Space shuttle can fly beyond 2010, if money is there: NASA

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   Washington (AFP) March 9, 2010 - The US space shuttle fleet can continue flying beyond NASA's September 30 deadline if the money is made available to keep it going, a US space agency official told reporters ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

5. Possibility of Past Water on Mars Takes a Hit

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   ... that look very much like water-generated features," said Jim Zimbelman from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, one of the researchers. "So, we should not jump to a water-related conclusion ... Tuesday, 09 March 2010

6. Obama to host April space conference

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   Washington (AFP) March 7, 2010 - US President Barack Obama will host a space conference next month in Florida to chart his vision for the future of human spaceflight, the White House said Sunday. ... Sunday, 07 March 2010

7. From NACA To NASA: 95 Years Of Innovation In Flight

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   Washington DC (SPX) Mar 04, 2010 - Ninety-five years ago a committee of 12 volunteers with a budget of $5,000 embarked on a mission to change the face of U.S. aviation, and in doing so established a ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

8. NASA's Fermi Probes "Dragons" Of The Gamma-Ray Sky

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   Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - One of the pleasures of perusing ancient maps is locating regions so poorly explored that mapmakers warned of dragons and sea monsters. Now, astronomers using NASA's ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

9. How To Hunt For Exoplanets

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   Washington DC (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 - A new report launched by the Institute of Physics (IOP) Exoplanets - The search for planets beyond our solar system explains how new technological advances have seen ... Tuesday, 02 March 2010

10. NASA announces new satellite initiative

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    Washington (UPI) Mar 1, 2009 - The U.S. space agency says it is starting an initiative to launch small cube-shaped satellites for educational and not-for-profit organizations. ... Monday, 01 March 2010

11. NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits At Moon's North Pole

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    Washington DC (SPX) Mar 02, 2010 - Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon's north pole. NASA's Mini-SAR instrument, ... Monday, 01 March 2010

12. CORRECTED: Scientist eyes 39-day voyage to Mars

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    Washington (AFP) Feb 26, 2010 - A journey from Earth to Mars could in the future take just 39 days -- cutting current travel time nearly six times -- according to a rocket scientist who has the ear of ... Friday, 26 February 2010

13. Pluto Approach Begins

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    Washington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2010 - Another milestone passed! Today NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is 15.96 astronomical units (about 2.39 billion kilometers, or 1.48 billion miles) from the Sun - putting ... Thursday, 25 February 2010

14. NASA to host rocket-science workshop

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    Washington (UPI) Feb 24, 2009 - NASA officials say they're inviting U.S. university faculty and students to a rocket-science workshop to learn how to build and launch scientific experiments. ... Wednesday, 24 February 2010

15. Temperature Trackers Watch Our Watery World

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    Washington DC (JPL) Feb 24, 2010 - Climatologists have long known that human-produced greenhouse gases have been the dominant drivers of Earth's observed warming since the start of the Industrial Revolution. ... Tuesday, 23 February 2010

16. CSF Announces New Affiliates Program And Participating Universities

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    Washington DC (SPX) Feb 22, 2010 - At the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference Commercial Spaceflight Federation chairman Mark Sirangelo announced the creation of a new affiliates program ... Monday, 22 February 2010

17. US committed to space: Obama tells astronauts

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    Washington (AFP) Feb 17, 2010 - US President Barack Obama told astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) Wednesday that he was deeply committed to space exploration, after scrapping plans to ... Friday, 19 February 2010

18. President Speaks to Crew on Space Station

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    ... Science Adviser John Holdren, left and middle school students in the Roosevelt Room of the White House during the call on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2010 in Washington. Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls ... Tuesday, 16 February 2010

19. ISS gets room with a view as astronauts attach space cupola

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    Washington (AFP) Feb 15, 2010 - Endeavour astronauts on Monday attached a windowed cupola to the International Space Station (ISS), affording its inhabitants a spectacular view of Earth, as well as additional ... Monday, 15 February 2010

20. Meteorite Holds Millions of Unidentified Organic Compounds

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    A Murchison meteorite specimen at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC. A new analysis of the famous Murchison meteorite that crash-landed in Australia over 40 years ago shows the ... Monday, 15 February 2010