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NASA signs over shuttle title to California museum

(AP) -- NASA has transferred ownership of the retired space shuttle Endeavour to a California museum.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

From airports to ocean: Anti-terror patrol randomizing system begins trials in Boston Harbor

It began with work on randomizing airport security police patrol routines at Los Angeles International Airport while still maintaining the same level of protection. The example spread across the nation, and is now methodically ...

Technology / Other

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Small aftershock rattles downtown Los Angeles

(AP) -- A small but widely felt aftershock jolted the Los Angeles region Tuesday, two days after a magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck. An apartment building in Long Beach was evacuated due to roof damage but there were no reports ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Latest quake highlights Los Angeles seismic danger

(AP) -- The latest earthquake to hit the nation's second-largest city was a garden-variety temblor by California standards, rumbling through on a Sunday evening when most residents were home eating dinner ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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CA museum gets big gift to build shuttle exhibit

(AP) -- The California Science Museum said it has raised nearly half of the $200 million needed to build a permanent exhibit for the space shuttle Endeavour.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Shuttle Enterprise to fly over New York

The US space shuttle Enterprise on Friday leaves the US capital atop a Boeing 747 jet for a final flyover of New York City as it heads toward a museum where it will go on display.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Space shuttle Discovery lands at new museum home

(AP) -- The space shuttle Discovery went out in high-flying style.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Space Shuttle Discovery headed to the Smithsonian

(AP) -- The Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum is preparing to welcome the space shuttle Discovery into its collection.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study establishes importance of tracking diseases associated with illegal wildlife trade

An article released today in PLoS ONE entitled, Zoonotic Viruses Associated with Illegally Imported Wildlife Products, from a collaborative study led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), identified ev ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Airlines cut small jets as fuel prices soar

The little planes that connect America's small cities to the rest of the world are slowly being phased out. Airlines are getting rid of these planes — their least-efficient — in response to the high cost of fuel. ...

Technology / Business

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Weightless US teachers eye giant science leap

"Excited," "nervous," "terrified" -- just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why shuttles are being retired, what's next

Thirty years of flight by NASA's space shuttles will end once Atlantis returns home from this last mission. The space agency will be looking to deeper space exploration, but the future is still somewhat unclear.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Talent show mulled for Timberlake's Myspace

(AP) -- Justin Timberlake's longtime manager Johnny Wright said Friday that a talent show or some other way of developing new artists will be core to the revamp of Myspace.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Why space shuttle fleet is retiring, what's next

As the space shuttle program winds down, questions are flying about what's happening and why. The launch countdown began Friday for the second-to-last flight. Some answers about the end of the space shuttle:

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 4


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