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11:40:24 PM Deep Discount on Space Shuttles
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

(AP) — Here is a recession bargain: the space shuttle. NASA has slashed the price of the 1970s-era spaceships to $28.8 million apiece from $42 million. ... [more]

10:46:11 PM Where would space shuttle land at Wright-Patt?
Dayton Daily News - Dayton,OH,USA

By John Nolan, Staff Writer Updated 5:17 PM Saturday, January 16, 2010 WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — If NASA eventually awards a space shuttle to the ... [more]

10:36:52 PM NASA cuts space shuttle price to $US28m
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

When NASA put out the call to museums, schools and others in December 2008, seeking buyers, about 20 expressed interest. NASA spokesman Mike Curie expects ... [more]

10:02:05 PM Proof of life on Mars will come by year-end: NASA expert
Times of India - India

Chunks of the third meteorite, which fell at Nakhla in Egypt in 1911, are preserved at London's Natural History Museum. [more]

9:34:25 PM In search of our own image
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

As they stare at the heavens it seems increasingly likely that astronomers will find an Earth out there, or at least something that they can plausibly claim ... [more]

8:29:06 PM If you want to watch a space shuttle takeoff, time's running out
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

"In just five more flights, a chapter of history will be forever closed," says Mike Mullane, a three-time NASA space shuttle astronaut and author of Riding ... [more]

6:20:14 PM What's On Tonight: AFC Playoffs, House of Bones, Demons, SNL
TV Squad - Santa Monica,CA,USA

At 10, Discovery has a new episode of Meteorite Men. Style has a new episode of The Dish at 10. At 11, FOX has a new Wanda Sykes Show. ... [more]

5:25:46 PM Recent reviews from Slashdot readers:
Slashdot

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Cosmos: "Astronomers have made the first direct capture of a spectrum of light from a planet outside the ... [more]

5:14:09 PM Way back when: Today in history
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA

The space shuttle Columbia and its crew of six American astronauts and an Israeli blasted off from Cape Canaveral as fighter jets patrolled overhead. .... [more]

3:09:44 PM Nasa cuts price for space shuttles
The Associated Press

Nasa has slashed the asking price for its soon-to-be-redundant space shuttles from 42 million dollars (£25.8 million) to 28.8 million dollars (£17.7 ... [more]

12:50:22 PM NASA Safety Panel: Don't extend shuttle; keep moon rocket
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

WASHINGTON — A NASA advisory panel told the agency Friday that would be “unwise” to extend the space shuttle program “significantly” beyond its planned 2010 ... [more]

11:04:16 AM Morning Minutes: Jan. 16
Taunton Gazette - Taunton,MA,USA

Jan. 16, 2003: The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107, which would be its final mission - Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. [more]

9:42:12 AM NASA finds cocaine in Space Shuttle hangar
Register - London,England,UK

NASA is trying to sniff out which employee brought a baggy of cocaine into the hangar that houses Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center in Florida ... [more]

8:44:27 AM NASA ON A MISSION TO YORKSHIRE
UK Express

By Daily Express reporter The team will take a 3D scan of the surface of the Middlesbrough Meteorite, housed at the Yorkshire Museum, York. ... [more]

8:31:14 AM Consumers feeling pinch
The Spokesman Review

Martin Crutsinger AP Here's a recession bargain: the space shuttle. NASA has slashed the price of these 1970s era spaceships from $42 million to $28.8 ... [more]

7:51:37 AM NASA scientist enlightens students
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA

Hundreds of fifth graders were mesmerized Friday as Brian Campbell, a NASA scientist and educator, dazzled them with talk of black holes, satellites and ... [more]

7:26:53 AM Hubble Deciphers Weird Galaxy's Past The space structure is relatively
Forbes

Softpedia By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Ever since last May, when astronauts aboard the space shuttle Atlantis repaired and upgraded the Hubble Space Telescope, ... [more]

6:30:01 AM Pork grown in lab showing promise
Fort Worth Star Telegram

Similar research was funded by NASA, which hoped that astronauts could grow their own meat in space. But after growing thin sheets of tissue, NASA decided ... [more]

4:34:54 AM Hubble Space Telescope looks through time at space
Florida Times-Union

Earlier this month, NASA released a panoramic view of space as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope (above image). In the image, millions of pinpoints of ... [more]

2:37:57 AM Astronomers on brink of finding planet like Earth
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand

If hints from telescope pan out, this could be the year we discover we're not alone in the universe Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets ... [more]

2:34:11 AM NASA Workers: Flying High on Cocaine?
Glob smacked

One of the space agency's employees seems to have been inspired by the space shuttle's soaring trajectory. A baggie containing a small amount of white ... [more]

1:26:24 AM Scientists, sun-watchers gather to watch ring eclipse
Monsters and Critics.com

It was the first annular eclipse visible in China for 23 years, Cheng Zhuo, an astronomer at China's Purple Mountain Observatory, told the official Xinhua ... [more]

12:53:35 AM Boeing Lays Off 36 Employees at NASA's Kenedy Space Center
Space Ref - USA

Given the current state of the economy, the end of the space shuttle program marks a one-two punch for the aerospace community. Long-time employees are now ... [more]



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