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Webcasts push solar eclipse to the masses
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:37PM May 21, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — It was one of the best places in the western United States to watch the annular solar eclipse, and people drove for days just to get to this dusty stretch west of Albuquerque.
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Sea Launch vessels depart on Intelsat mission
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:59PM May 21, 2012 CommentLONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Sea Launch AG says its oceangoing rocket pad and command ship have departed their Long Beach, Calif., home port for the equator to launch a communications satellite for Intelsat.
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SpaceX will try 1st private cargo run again Tues.
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:38PM May 21, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Private rocket maker SpaceX aimed for a Tuesday liftoff after fixing the engine problem that caused a launch abort over the weekend, stalling the world's first commercial space station supply flight.
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Disputed dinosaur fossil auctioned for $1M in NYC
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:18AM May 21, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A dinosaur dispute is brewing between the Mongolian government and an American auction house, which sold a fossil of a fearsome T. Rex relative despite a court order not to.
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Eclipse crosses Asia, US: Millions look skyward
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:14AM May 21, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan's Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing "ring of fire" eclipse.
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AP Photos: Millions view 'ring of fire' eclipse
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:19AM May 21, 2012 CommentMillions of early risers in Asia turned their attention skyward to view a rare "ring of fire" eclipse as it crossed their skies Monday morning.
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Viewing events, eyewear urged for 'Ring of Fire'
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:25PM May 20, 2012 CommentALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Parts of eastern Asia were being treated to a solar spectacle as the moon slid across the sun, creating a "ring of fire." Sky-watchers in the western U.S. awaited their turns as the rare phenomenon was due to move over the Pacific and toward them later Sunday.
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SpaceX rocket launch aborted in last half-second
Tweet Share on Facebook 6:56PM May 19, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engine trouble led to a last-second abort of the historic flight.
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Researcher apologizes for study of gay therapy
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:41PM May 18, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — A prominent retired psychiatrist is apologizing to the gay community for a decade-old study that concluded some gay people can go straight through what's called reparative therapy.
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Mad cow quarantines lifted at 2 California dairies
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:53PM May 18, 2012 CommentFRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Quarantines were lifted on two Central California dairies associated with a case of mad cow disease after investigators found no link between the illness and food the diseased bovine might have consumed, federal officials said Friday.
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Rocket, weather look good on eve of new space era
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:27PM May 18, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA hasn't seen this much launch jitters since the space shuttle program ended last summer.
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US forecasters say heat will stay on this summer
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:41PM May 17, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — And the heat goes on. Forecasters predict toasty temperatures will stretch through the summer in the U.S. And that's a bad sign for wildfires in the West.
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CA museum gets big gift to build shuttle exhibit
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:10PM May 17, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — The California Science Center said it has raised nearly half of the $200 million needed to build a permanent exhibit for the space shuttle Endeavour.
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Commercial rocket will fly to the space station
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:54PM May 17, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's space program.
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'Ring of Fire' Eclipse Visible From China to Texas
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A ring of fire eclipse over Cleveland, Ohio, produced when the sun isn't completely covered.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sunrises and sunsets often dazzle, but they'll have a special ring to them in a few days for people in the western United States and eastern Asia: The moon will slide across the sun, blocking everything but a blazing halo of light.
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Soyuz Capsule With 3 Crew Docks With Space Station
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A picture by Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers from the International Space Station shows southern lights between Antarctica and Australia.
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Russian-made Soyuz craft carrying three astronauts has docked with the International Space Station, putting the crew in place for the imminent arrival of the first ever privately owned cargo ship to the orbiting lab.
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AP IMPACT: Evacs and drills pared near nuke plants
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:57PM May 16, 2012 CommentWithout fanfare, the nation's nuclear power regulators have overhauled community emergency planning for the first time in more than three decades, requiring fewer exercises for major accidents and recommending that fewer people be evacuated right away.
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Paralyzed woman uses her mind to control robot arm
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:17PM May 16, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.
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U.S. Sets Emergency Planning Changes for Those Near Nuclear Plants
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The Rancho Seco nuclear power plant near Sacramento, California. Decommissioned in 1989.
The U.S. government has adopted the first set of comprehensive changes in the emergency planning program for communities near nuclear power plants since its creation after the Three Mile Island accident in 1979.
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April 2012 heats up as 5th warmest month globally
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:09PM May 15, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — Unseasonable weather pushed last month to the fifth warmest April on record worldwide, federal weather statistics show.
