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BBC The event was marked with a flypast of an aircraft carrying SpaceShip Two. The vehicle has been designed to take fee-paying tourists on trips to the edge of space and back. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson - whose Virgin group has backed the venture - said the first passenger trip should take place within 18 months. Continue reading ...
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WashingtonExaminer Imagine that the price of food in America was prone to volatile price increases of 50 percent or more in a given year. Now imagine that while people struggled to afford food, government bureaucrats went around setting limits on how much food some American farmers can grow, while radical anti-obesity crusaders sued other farmers across ...
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USAToday Couples often ask me how frequently they should be having sex, and, until recently, I’ve always responded that there’s no one right answer. After all, a couple’s sex life is affected by so many different factors: age, lifestyle, each partner’s health and natural libido and, of course, the quality of their overall relationship to ...
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WSJ There is a lot more water on the moon than previously believed, according to an analysis of NASA data being published Friday, a finding that may bolster the case for a manned base on the lunar surface. The discovery grew out of an audacious experiment last year, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration slammed a ...
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Ap Science Writer – Wed Oct 20, 5:17 pm ET WASHINGTON – Astronomers believe they've found the oldest thing they've ever seen in the universe: It's a galaxy far, far away from a time long, long ago. Hidden in a Hubble Space Telescope photo released earlier this year is a small smudge of light that European ...
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By Charles Q. Choi Published October 15, 2010 | LiveScience Embryonic stem cells behave very differently outside the pull of Earth's gravity, researchers suggest -- a finding leading scientists to fret that procreation in space may be fraught with peril. The "microgravity" that astronauts experience orbiting Earth on the space shuttle or International Space ...
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Space.com: A private suborbital spaceship flew its first solo test flight today (Oct. 10) from Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
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Related: Space Aliens Have Deactivated U.S. And British Nuclear Missiles, Say U.S. Military Pilots Related: Ex-Military Officers: UFO's Real AOL News: (Oct. 5) -- Space, the final frontier -- or is it? Scientists hope to find alien life forms closer to home -- in Earth's upper atmosphere. British researchers from Cranfield University, in cooperation with the European Space Agency, ...
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Arizona Republic: WASHINGTON - Armed with declassified documents and vivid details, a group of former Air Force officers gathered Monday to go public with an assertion they have kept mostly under wraps for decades: that UFOs visited the bases they were stationed at and caused nuclear-weapons systems to temporarily malfunction. The group, convened by UFO researcher ...
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – US astronomers said Wednesday they have discovered an Earth-sized planet that they think might be habitable, orbiting a nearby star, and believe there could be many more planets like it in space. The planet, found by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is orbiting in ...
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The Telegraph: Aliens have landed, infiltrated British nuclear missile sites and deactivated the weapons, according to US military pilots.
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FLAGSTAFF, Arizona (AFP) – It may not have all the creature comforts, but Aaron Hulse considers his space exploration rover a pleasant home away from home. That is crucial as he and other NASA experts spend days together in the Arizona desert, simulating the arid surface of some distant planet or asteroid -- complete with a ...
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Daily Mail: It sounds like something straight out of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. But, in a chilling echo of the computer Hal from the iconic film, scientists have developed robots that are able to deceive humans and even hide from their enemies. An experiment by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology is believed to be ...
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BBC News: The cost of old age on health services in industrialised nations may need to be re-measured, a study suggests.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - NASA says two small asteroids discovered just days ago should zip harmlessly past Earth on Wednesday, a double flyby that should be visible through a telescope.
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