Articles filed under Science
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'This was a true shock': Scientists almost didn't detect approach of 'city-killer asteroid'Jul 29, 2019 1:00 am - Alan Duffy was confused. On Thursday, the astronomer's phone was suddenly flooded with calls from reporters wanting to know about a large asteroid that had just whizzed ...
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SpaceX launch sends 3D bioprinter, supplies to space stationJul 25, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - A space capsule carrying a 3D printer to make human tissue and about 5,000 pounds of other experiments and supplies is on its way to the I...
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Weather postpones SpaceX launch of supplies to space stationJul 24, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - Storm clouds forced SpaceX to postpone its Wednesday launch of a capsule carrying supplies to the International Space Station. The private...
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Eastern U.S. cities spewing more methane into air than thoughtJul 22, 2019 7:00 am - WASHINGTON - Older U.S. east coast cities are leaking nine times as much natural gas into the air - from homes or pipes heading into houses - than the federal government...
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The Latest: Pence marks Apollo 11 anniversary at launch siteJul 21, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The Latest on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (all times local): 2 p.m. Vice President Mike Pence is marking the 50th anni...
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Moon back in NASA's court 50 years after 1st lunar landingJul 21, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Fifty years after humanity's first lunar footsteps, the moon is back in NASA's court. The White House wants U.S. astronauts on the moon pront...
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Nation marks 50 years after Apollo 11's 'giant leap' on moonJul 20, 2019 7:00 am - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - A moonstruck nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's "giant leap" by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at parties, races, ball gam...
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Tet and My Lai. Amid turmoil, moon landing united a nation.Jul 20, 2019 5:00 am - Still reeling from the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the violent Democratic convention in Chicago, racial struggles, riots, Cold W...
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'Space exploration is hard. We make it look easy,' says longtime NASA director from SchaumburgJul 20, 2019 5:00 am - With her family having just moved to Schaumburg in the summer of 1969, 3½-year-old Cathy Larson watched the moon landing on a black-and-white television in the new famil...
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Lombard astronaut's first flight: a pretend trip to moonJul 20, 2019 1:00 am - Astronaut Dan Tani, who grew up in Lombard, was 8 years old when NASA put a man on the moon 50 years ago. “I was doing what everybody else was doing,” remembers Tani, w...