Space Science News
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SpaceX mission to space station scrubbed for now
SpaceX's first attempt to send its Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station ended abruptly Saturday morning when computers aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket shut off the ...
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Transgender Miss Universe Canada contestant loses
TORONTO--The first-ever transgender contestant to compete in the Miss Universe Canada pageant strutted the runway Saturday night, making it to the penultimate round before losing her bid to win the ...
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For NY farmers fracking could mean salvation -- or ruin
Pennsylvania gas wells, he thinks bitterly of the riches beneath his own land locked up by the heated debate that has kept hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, out ...
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Movie Review Bland BATTLESHIP Makes Game Effort
- from director Peter Berg to star Taylor Kitsch to the various members of the cast and crew - deserves credit. It can't be easy to make a movie out of a board game; especially this board game, ...
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SpaceX replaces faulty rocket valve for space station flight
SpaceX engineers have replaced a faulty engine valve on a private rocket carrying the first commercial space capsule bound for the International Space Station following the last-second abort during ...
Movie Review
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Three Colors: Blue [Blu-Ray]
Blue, the first entry in Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colors trilogy, explores a mourning woman’s desire to live without ...
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What to look for at the NATO summit
NATO alliance at the summit meeting for heads of government in Chicago on Sunday and Monday.THE PLAYERSAn alliance formed in 1949 to deter Soviet aggression. The central principle is that an attack ...
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Lockerbie bomber dies in Libya hospital
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, seated, in a Tripoli hospital in 2009. (AP/File) Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence official who was sentenced to life in prison in the bombing ...
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NATO chief insists no rush to exits in Afghanistan
Afghanistan fighting coalition will remain whole despite France's plans to yank combat troops out early, but leaders wary of plummeting public support for the war are using an alliance summit ...
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Protesters stream into Chicago park for NATO march
NATO summit.Peace activists joined with war veterans and people more focused on the economy for the protest, which was expected to draw thousands of participants. Marchers arrived at Grant Park with ...
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Two more activists hit with charges related to NATO summit
Taylor Hall , who was arrested during Saturday night protests and is charged with aggravated battery to a police officer. Authorities did not immediately release Hall's age or hometown.The ...
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