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Multiple Dinosaur Tracks Confirmed at NASA Center
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Fossilized nodosaur footprints discovered at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. (NASA/GSFC/Rebecca Roth) At NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, where some of the worlds most advanced research in space technology is being performed on a daily basis, paleontologists have discovered ancient evidence of dinosaurs on the Centers wooded campus at least two, possibly a mother and child, crossed that way between 112 and 110 million years ago and left their muddy footprints as proof. Continue reading
NASA picks companies to build space taxis
WASHINGTON – NASA picked three aerospace companies Friday to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station. This is the third phase of NASA’s efforts to get private space companies to take over the job of the now-retired space shuttle. The companies will share more than $1.1 billion Continue reading
NASA picks space taxi manufacturers
By Seth Borenstein NASA picked three aerospace companies Friday to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station. This is the third phase of NASA’s efforts to get private space companies to take over the job of the now-retired space shuttle. Continue reading
NASA to develop space taxis
August 3, 2012 3:29 PM ET By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON (AP) – NASA picked three aerospace companies Friday to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station. This is the third phase of NASA’s efforts to get private space companies to take over the job of the now-retired space shuttle. Continue reading
NASA picks 3 private firms to develop space taxis
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA picked three aerospace companies Friday to build small rocketships to take astronauts to the International Space Station. This is the third phase of NASA’s efforts to get private space companies to take over the job of the now-retired space shuttle. Continue reading
Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 goes digital
When Oprah Winfrey, then the brightest star on daytime TV, began her book club in 1996, inexpensive e-books and e-readers seemed more futurist rumour than everyday reality. Social media could have meant friendly reporters. Continue reading
Is that really just a fly? Swarms of cyborg insect drones are the future of military surveillance
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:16 EST, 19 June 2012 | UPDATED: 11:16 EST, 19 June 2012 The kinds of drones making the headlines daily are the heavily armed CIA and U.S. Army vehicles which routinely strike targets in Pakistan – killing terrorists and innocents alike. But the real high-tech story of surveillance drones is going on at a much smaller level, as tiny remote controlled vehicles based on insects are already likely being deployed. Continue reading