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NASA Helps Make Guinness World Record for Largest Astronomy Lesson at SXSW

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Newswise Looking up through hundreds of colored filters and spectral glasses, 526 people shattered the record for the Largest Astronomy Lesson. Under the Texas night sky, students were instructed on the lawn of the Long Center for the Performing Arts at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin on Sunday, March 10, 2013. In the spirit of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education Coalition outreach at SXSW, NASA, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), and Northrop Grumman organized the record-breaking event which was arbitrated by the Guinness World Records organization. Continue reading →

Sunita Williams Returned Back on Earth after 4 Months in Orbit – Video

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Sunita Williams Returned Back on Earth after 4 Months in Orbit The Indian-American Sunita Williams, 47, set the record by returning to Earth on 20 November 2012 from the International Space Station (ISS) from Russian Soyuz capsule after having spent 4 months in the orbit. She touched the grasslands of Arkalyk, Kazakhstan after living months in the orbit. This was the perfect landing for Williams as well as flight engineers Aki Hoshide and Yuri Malenchenko, when they touched down earth in the chilling expanses of Kazakhstan from the Russian Soyuz capsule Continue reading →

Stig Severinsen – Guinness World Record – Longest Freedive Under Ice (236 feet) – in SPEEDOS! – Video

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Stig Severinsen – Guinness World Record – Longest Freedive Under Ice (236 feet) – in SPEEDOS! Stig Severinsen, PhD in Medicine breaks the Guinness World Record for the longest freedive under ice on a single breath of air – (72 meters/236 feet) in Speedos! Guinness World Record Validation: www.guinnessworldrecords.com Learn more about freediving, safety, breathing techniques and mind control here: www.breatheology.comFrom:breatheologyViews:3 0ratingsTime:03:19More inSports Continue reading →

Spacewalking Astros Fix ISS Ammonia Leak – Video

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Spacewalking Astros Fix ISS Ammonia Leak Expedition 33 spacewalkers Suni Williams and Akihiko Hoshide completed a 6-hour, 38-minute spacewalk at 3:08 pm EDT to repair an ammonia leak in one of the station's radiators. It was the 253rd spacewalk by US astronauts and the seventh for Williams, whose cumulative spacewalk time now totals 50 hours and 40 minutes Continue reading →

Romney: Massachusetts health care law is proof of empathy

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By NBC’s Garrett Haake TOLEDO, OH — Mitt Romney on Wednesday pointed to the health care reform law he enacted as governor of Massachusetts as proof of his empathy and care for the American people. In an interview with NBC News, Romney referenced an element of his record he almost never invokes on the campaign trail to answer a question about how he can better connect with Americans and prove he understands the lives and trials of middle class Americans Continue reading →

Sunita Williams takes fifth spacewalk

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Washington, Aug 31 (IANS) Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams, who holds the record of the longest space flight (195 days) for a woman, has completed her fifth spacewalk lasting a near record eight hours and 17 minutes. Continue reading →

Summer Olympics go for the green as London prepares to host the world

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Public release date: 11-Jul-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Cathia Falvey cfalvey@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News New Rochelle, NY, July 11, 2012As athletes from around the world compete for medals at the Summer Olympics in London, the city will be striving to meet Olympic-level sustainability goals. A fascinating first-person view of how these sustainability targets were developed and will be achieved is featured in Sustainability: The Journal of Record, a publication of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers (www.liebertpub.com) The article is available free online at the Sustainability: The Journal of Record (www.liebertpub.com/sus) website. The central location of the Summer 2012 Olympics is the East End neighborhood of Stratford, once known as an industrial wasteland Continue reading →

NASA Surpasses Test Facility Record With J-2X Powerpack Test

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June 10, 2012 Image Caption: During a record-breaking test on June 8, 2012, engineers throttled the J-2X powerpack up and down several times to explore numerous operating points required for the fuel and oxidizer turbopumps. Continue reading →