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ASTRO BOB Meet the James Webb Space Telescope, time machine extraordinaire
Remember when the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Mt. Palomar in California was the biggest in the world? It's now surpassed by at least 18 other scopes, the largest of which is the Gran Telescopio Canar...
Posted on 6/16/13 at 9:49 AM
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA NEWS UND in Space: Day 9 – Winding Down
Day 9 Winding Down: by Tim OKeefe Yesterday was a day to wind down, catch up on some rest, and view some additional sights in Moscow. After arriving back in Moscow from Baikonir, Kazakhstan, on Wed...
Posted on 5/31/13 at 1:45 PM
THE DULLUM FILE Karen Nyberg
We're going to be talking soon on WDAZ News @5 with UND graduate Karen Nyberg from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia as she makes final preparations for a launch to the International Sp...
Posted on 5/4/13 at 5:30 AM
STAFF BLOG GRAND FORKS GOURMET GF 'Space Aliens' Closes
In more not-too-astonishing restaurant news, Space Aliens has closed in Grand Forks and in Minot, according to the Minot Daily News. Food Management Investors Inc., which owns the restaurants, cites ...
Posted on 11/13/12 at 2:51 PM
THE NEW FORTY Not quite as planned...
I had a brilliant idea a month or so back. Well, let me qualify brilliant - brilliant by my standards...at least in that moment. I must qualify my use of the word brilliant as I am fairly sure that ma...
Posted on 10/19/12 at 9:18 PM
Sally Ride, first US woman in space, dies at 61 
NASA confirmed her death Monday afternoon and President Barack Obama called her a national hero. Her office in San Diego said she died of pancreatic cancer.
By Associated Press , July 23, 2012
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Areavoices: The eternal twilights of northern nights
The other night while anticipating the aurora I kept looking north for signs of that familiar green glow, but twilight seemed to last forever. The sky was too bright right on through to 11:30 p.m.; only by 11:45 had it grown dark enough for that first blush of electrified air to show.
By Forum Communications , June 18, 2012
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UND team in Alaska to capture rare Venus transit
School officials say the UND duo of Tim Young and Ron Marsh will have several telescopes set up with special sun viewing filters to Webcast the once-in-a-lifetime occurrence. After Tuesday, a Venus transit won't be visible from Earth until December 2117.
By Associated Press , June 05, 2012
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Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station for a historic docking Friday, captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm. It succeeded in making the first commercial delivery into the cosmos.
By Marcia Dunn , May 25, 2012
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Space shuttle Discovery salutes nation's capital
The space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument, the White House and the Capitol in a high-flying salute to the nation's capital. The shuttle-jet combo was set to land at Dulles International Airport. On Thursday, it will be towed to its permanent installation at the Smithsonian's annex in northern Virginia.
By Seth Borenstein , April 17, 2012
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Discarded chuck of Russian rocket forces space station astronauts into escape capsules
A discarded chunk of a Russian rocket is forcing six space station astronauts to seek shelter in escape capsules early Saturday.
By Seth Borenstein , March 23, 2012
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NASA considering space station for dry run to Mars
It would be patterned after Russia's mock flight to Mars that lasted 520 days at a Moscow research center. Six men were involved in that study, which ended late last year. They were locked in a steel capsule.
By Marcia Dunn , March 20, 2012
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Man who warned of equipment quirk before Challenger disaster dies
Roger Boisjoly, who died at 73, had written an ominous memo to his supervisors at Morton Thiokol six months before the shuttle launched on Jan. 28, 1986. He told the company that cold weather could compromise the seals connecting sections of the rocket boosters they manufactured. Boisjoly and four other engineers pleaded with supervisors for a delay the night before the launch, as temperatures dipped below freezing.
By Associated Press , February 07, 2012
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Gingrich says critics don't understand power of space exploration
Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich says critics of his call to ramp up U.S. space exploration don't understand the power of science, technology and entrepreneurship to change the future.
By Associated Press , January 28, 2012
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More planets than stars in galaxy?
The more astronomers look for other worlds, the more they find that it’s a crowded and crazy cosmos. They think planets easily outnumber stars in our galaxy and they’re even finding them in the strangest of places.
By Associated Press , January 11, 2012
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NASA's Mars rover on course for August landing
Engineers closely tracked the one-ton rover nicknamed Curiosity, which has been cruising along since rocketing from Earth last November. The firing of its eight thruster engines is the most important task Curiosity will perform during its 352-million-mile flight to the red planet, but it's not unprecedented. Previous robotic explorers have had to adjust their paths several times en route to landing.
By Alicia Chang , January 11, 2012
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NASA questions Apollo 13 commander’s sale of list
Checklist from doomed mission sold for more than $388,000NASA is questioning whether Apollo 13 commander James Lovell has the right to sell a 70-page checklist from the flight that includes his handwritten calculations that were crucial in guiding the damaged spacecraft back to Earth.
By Curt Anderson , January 06, 2012
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Mars probe launched by Russia will crash to Earth in January
A Russian spacecraft bound for a moon of Mars and stuck in Earth's orbit will come crashing back next month, but its toxic fuel and radioactive material on board will pose no danger of contamination, the Russian space agency said today.
By Vladimir Isachenkov , December 16, 2011
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Plans from plane-launched commercial spaceship to bring people, cargo into orbit
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan announced today they're building a giant airplane and spaceship to zip people and cargo into orbit.
By Donna Blankinship and Seth Borenstein , December 13, 2011
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UPDATE: NASA approves February launch of capsule to deliver supplies to space station
The approval comes one year and one day after Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, became the first private business to launch a capsule into orbit and return it safely to Earth. On Feb. 7, SpaceX will attempt another orbital flight from Cape Canaveral. This time, the unmanned Dragon capsule will fly to the space station and dock with a load of supplies.
By Marcia Dunn , December 09, 2011
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