Space Science News
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Half of NASAs new astronaut class are women
NASA announced Monday that it has selected its first new contingent of potential astronauts in four years and half of them are women. The four men and four women who were chosen from among more than 6,100 applicants "will receive a wide array of technical training at space centers around the globe to prepare for missions to low-Earth orbit, an asteroid and Mars", NASA said in a statement. The ...
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4 women among 8 candidates selected to be NASAs newest astronaut trainees
After an extensive year-and-a-half search, NASA has picked eight new potential astronauts who will help the agency push the boundaries of exploration and travel to new destinations in the solar system, including an asteroid and Mars. The 2013 astronaut candidate class comes from the second largest number of applications NASA has received-more than 6,000. Half of the selectees are women, making ...
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Chinese Female Astronaut’s Birth Date Altered
Many Chinese newspapers also reported in March that Wang Yaping was born in April 1978, the same year as Liu Yang, the first female astronaut, was born. (Screenshot via NTD ...
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Patty Griffin performs songs from her new album American Kid Wednesday at the Neptune
Singer-songwriter Patty Griffin recently kicked off a tour in support of her seventh album, "American Kid," featuring the song "Don't Let Me Die in Florida." The album "was written to honor my father," Griffin says. It's her first collection of mostly new songs since "Children Running Through" in 2007. Before "American Kid," Griffin ...
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Selma Blair abruptly exits Anger Management
Charlie Sheen sitcom "Anger Management." In a statement Tuesday, producer Lionsgate says the actress won't be returning to the FX comedy. The company says it wishes her "the very best" but has no further comment. Blair's departure comes while the comedy is about halfway through completing its 90-episode order from FX. The actress's publicist didn't ...
Movie Review
The Interpreter
Current global anxieties -- terrorism, despotism, third-world genocide -- are writ large in Sydney Pollacks The Interpreter, a sharply drawn thriller that has the distinction of being the first film ever shot inside the United Nations (not even Hitchcock could get permission whe ... ...
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NASA’s New Class of Astronauts Gives Parity to Men and Women
The new class of trainees includes four women and four men. From left, Josh A. Cassada, Victor J. Glover, Tyler N. Hague, Christina M. Hammock, Nicole Aunapu Mann, Anne C. McClain, Jessica U. Meir and Andrew R. ...
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NASA Humans Could Visit Asteroid in 2021
The U.S. space agency says its proposed asteroid capture mission takes several of NASA's ongoing initiatives and aligns them for one major mission. These chunks of ancient space rocks hold clues about the formation of the universe, pose threats to our planet, and present new territory for explorers. NASA's proposed asteroid mission is a logical next leap for the space agency, says ...
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CBO Senate Immigration bill would help economy
People shout out against the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act in the hall outside the House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP ...
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10 Things to Know for Wednesday
New York Stock Exchange was foiled by the agency's surveillance programs. 4. TOP GENERAL WORRIES ABOUT WOMEN AND SPECIAL OPS Men might not accept women in units that have long operated as small, male-only teams, he says. 5. IN BRAZIL, COMPLAINTS OF A GOOD-FOR-NOTHING GOVERNMENT Protests grow, with demonstrators from all walks of life voicing a central lament: The government provides ...
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‘We’re trying to peer at the remnants of the Big Bang’
Michael J. Holstine, business manager at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, W.Va., tells NBC's Kevin Tibbles that the steerable radio telescope, which is the largest in the world, can "peer back to just after the big ...