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Nasa IBEX Probe to Go Where Only Voyager Has Gone Before [IBEX]

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2008-10-13 08:40:00 by Jack Loftus in Gizmodo
...NASA will launch the IBEX, or Interstellar Boundary Explorer, into a 130 mile earth orbit to begin mapping the very edge of our solar system. This region of space, also known by the kick ass scientific name "termination shock," is rife with mystery. Only the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have ventured there, but they weren't armed with the right...
 
Tags: ibex, ibex-lo, voyager, record particle counts, ibex-hi, solar system, solar, particle counts, nasa
 
 
 
 
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NASA Cooks Up Plans for Nuclear Reactor Under the Surface of the Moon [Space]

2008-09-11 19:40:00 by Adam Frucci in Gizmodo
 
...NASA knows what's up, which is why they're working on plans for an underground nuclear reactor buried under the surface of the moon. Badass. Hit the jump for NASA's full press release, which describes the plan in more precise terms NASA Developing Fission Surface Power Technology CLEVELAND NASA astronauts will need power sources when they...
 
Tags: reactor, power conversion, power conversion units, system, power system, heat source unit, nuclear reactor, heat source, heat
 
 
 
 
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NASA to Fly You to the Moon for Free, Sinatra Style [Papernauts]

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2008-05-04 02:30:00 by posted by Pantha in
NASA is opening the door to anyone wanting to go to the moon as part of their next lunar missionall without requiring years of tests, training, or smoking astroturf. Sadly, only your name will go, which is actually good because the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiterset to select landing and outpost sites for the Constellation programis not returning....
 
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NASA to Fly You to the Moon for Free, Sinatra Style [Papernauts]

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2008-05-03 22:30:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
NASA is opening the door to anyone wanting to go to the moon as part of their next lunar missionall without requiring years of tests, training, or smoking astroturf. Sadly, only your name will go, which is actually good because the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiterset to select landing and outpost sites for the Constellation programis not returning....
 
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NASA showsoff the worlds highest resolution visualisation system: Hyperwall-2

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2008-06-28 17:52:06 by Sharon in GadgetLite Blog
...NASAs highest ever resolution visualisation system. The hyperwall-2 is 23 feet high and 10 feet wide and consists of 128 screens driven by 128 graphic processing units with a total of 1,024 processor cores capable of displaying a quarter billion-pixel graphics Compared to NASAs original system, which was developed over six years ago in 2002...
 
Tags: hyperwall, hyperwall-2, mini hyperwall, hyperwall-2 visualisation system, nas supercomputers, nas, nas visualization team, visualization team, nasas original system
 
 
 
 
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NASA to Doomsday Asteroid Student: "Shut Up, Dimwit" [Rumor Smashed]

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2008-04-16 19:37:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...NASA is saying that "doomsday" asteroid Apophis doesn't have any significant chance of impacting Earth in 2036, and basically called the 13-year-old German student who reported this a moron. In fact, even if it hit, it wouldn't have been the end of the world, as reports have suggested NASA said in a statement today that they haven't talked...
 
Tags: asteroid, probability, apophis impact probability, impact, student asteroid calculations, student, nasa, apophis, 13-year-old german student
 
 
 
 
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NASA to Broadcast Earth Views in High Definition [Major Tom To Ground Control]

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2008-04-18 06:20:00 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...NASA is going to start transmitting crystal-clear HD video of Gaia taken from orbitboth totally silent and also with commentary Unfortunately for Adam, Addy, and David Bowie, however, it won't be a 24/7 Live Earth channel, but an hour-long broadcast that is going to be repeated from April 18. The film has been edited from high quality HD...
 
Tags: nasa, earth, earth views, hour-long broadcast, special hour-long broadcast, broadcast, special, visit nasa tv, earth day
 
 
 
 
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Google Signs 40-Year Lease to Build New Campus on NASA Land [Nasa]

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2008-06-06 07:40:00 by AddyDugdale in Gizmodo
...NASA seems to be getting ever deeper. Alongside the parking rights for the Google company jet at Moffat airfield, and using NASA data for Google, the Mountain View-based company is to build a brand new empire on 42.2 acres of land owned by the space agency at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View. The high-tech campus will have around 1.2...
 
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NASA Engineers Team Up With Retirees to Secretly Develop Alternative Moon Rocket [Nasa]

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2008-07-16 19:30:00 by Sean Fallon in Gizmodo
...NASA engineers have gone underground and spent their spare time from the Constellation program working on a rocket dubbed "Jupiter"an alternative that they believe will be "safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle." Jupiter is being developed with the help of a team that includes...
 
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