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New lettuce crop begins growing aboard ISSKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Oct 27, 2016 Just as farmers on Earth are planting leafy greens for the fall growing season, astronauts aboard the International Space Station are planting their third on-orbit crop of red romaine lettuce. Early this morning, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough initiated the Veg-03 experiment, one of his first science assignments as a new crew member aboard the orbiting laboratory. As Kimbrough worked, members of the Veggie team watched from their consoles in the Experiment Monitoring Area located in Space Station ... read more |
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 Beaches, skiing and tai chi: Club Med, Chinese style Tai chi, mahjong and karaoke are on the menu alongside more traditional offerings such as sailing at Club Med's new resort on the Chinese island of Hainan, as the French holiday group - now Chinese-owned - adapts its European formula for the market. ... more | .. |
 New Zealand government open-minded on space collaboration The New Zealand government is keeping an open mind on international cooperation in its nascent space program, saying it could be open to future collaboration with China and other space powers, Econo ... more | .. |
 Growing Interest: Students Plant Seeds to Help NASA Farm in Space NASA is seeking plant varieties that could grow best in space, providing food for astronauts to eat on their way to future deep space destinations, including Mars. Teachers and students in South Flo ... more | .. |
 NASA begins tests to qualify Orion parachutes for mission with crew NASA successfully kicked off a series of tests Sept. 30 to qualify Orion's parachute system for flights with astronauts, a milestone that will help the agency safely return crew to Earth from deep-s ... more |
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 Students team up with NASA for space coms and navigation Millions of students across the country take on internships every year, but not all have the chance to be part of an innovative team pushing the boundaries of space communications. Summer interns wi ... more | .. |
 Software star Google expected to flex hardware muscle A high-profile Google event Tuesday is widely expected to show a new emphasis on hardware, challenging rivals Apple and Amazon and launching a new strategy for the online giant. ... more | .. |
 Elon Musk an innovator wary of humanity's future If the future is an array of possibilities ranging from catastrophic to divine, Elon Musk is working to increase the probability of good things happening. ... more | .. |
 Space Traffic Management May Soon be Here Over the past few years there has been a dramatic increase in low orbital activities. The government is increasingly concerned with the congestion within these orbits and the growing problem of orbi ... more |
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 California dreamin' for Chinese investors in US From real estate, to high-tech firms to entertainment giants, Chinese investments in the United States, notably California, are moving at a dizzying pace and are on course to smash records again this year. ... more | .. |
 Entropy "Entropy" is defined as a thermodynamic quantity representing the unavailability of a system's thermal energy for conversion into mechanical work. Many use this term to describe the degree of disord ... more | .. |
 Indian Space Organization Gears Up for First Multi-Orbit Mission ISRO hopes to outperform other stakeholders in the lightweight satellite launcher category by exhibiting its capability to carry out multi-orbit missions. The Indian Space Research Organizatio ... more | .. |
 Yoyager's Golden Record not just for aliens anymore Flagrantly ignoring the warning of renowned cosmologist Stephen Hawking, the Voyager spacecraft is on a multi-decade journey through interstellar space carrying 12-inch golden records containing the ... more |
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 Taiwan's summer slump as Chinese visitors stay away Taiwan's tourism sector suffered the worst summer in 13 years due to a slump in Chinese visitors, officials said Friday, as ties with Beijing deteriorate. ... more | .. |
 Goddard space center mission-critical for ISS astronauts The International Space Station may bring to mind launch pads in Florida or control rooms in Houston, but humanity's longest continuously inhabited outpost in space also requires near-constant suppo ... more | .. |
 Feeding a Mars mission: the challenges of growing plants in space Plants will play a critical role in the survival of human beings on long-duration space missions, such as a mission to Mars. However, as a paper published in Botany Letters shows, many challenges ne ... more | .. |
 Every day closer to a new way to orbit Two years after selecting the next generation of American spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station, engineers and spaceflight specialists across NASA's C ... more |
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China industrial output picks up, retail sales slow in April
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 Orion heat shield for next space flight arrives at Kennedy The Orion heat shield, which will protect the Orion crew module during re-entry after the spacecraft's first uncrewed flight test with NASA's Space Launch System rocket, arrived at the agency's Kenn ... more | .. |
 NASA's black female mathematicians hit the big screen During the era of US racial segregation, a handful of black female mathematicians managed to break social barriers and propel the US space agency to new heights - and soon their story will be a major motion picture. ... more | .. |
 Pentagon push to tap tech talent in 'weird' Texas city Pentagon chief Ashton Carter on Wednesday announced the creation of a new defense innovation center in Austin, Texas - the latest expansion in an ongoing effort to connect with some of America's hippest tech communities. ... more | .. |
 'Star Trek' 50-year mission: to show the best of humanity It launched with a five-year mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before," but half a century on "Star Trek" has become a visionary blueprint of humanity at its very best. ... more |
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 Astronaut returns home after logging record-breaking 534 days in space NASA astronaut Jeff Williams returned to Earth on Wednesday with a new record. Williams' latest mission puts his days-in-space total at 534, the most by an American astronaut. ... more | .. |
 Vietnam's 'Silicon Valley' sparks startup boom Recent Vietnamese graduate looking for an English-language teacher? There's an app for that. Or hunting the best bowl of pho in your Hanoi neighbourhood? There's now an app for that, too. ... more | .. |
Taiwan tourism industry hit by drop in Chinese visitors The number of Chinese visitors to Taiwan has fallen 22 percent since the island's Beijing-sceptic government took office in May, with tourism operators saying Wednesday that the industry is in a slump. ... more | .. |
 The Deep Space Network NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN) is a world-wide network of large antennas and communications facilities. Components of this network are located in the U.S., Spain and Australia. Its primary function ... more |
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