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Thursday, 23 June 2016 11:52
HPE HPC goes SD
HPE has unveiled a new software-defined platform for high-performance computing (HPC), along with updates to its Apollo server family.
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Thursday, 03 July 2014 17:46
HP advocates'New Style of IT'
HP has announced a raft of products and services aimed at helping its customers move to what the company calls the 'New Style of IT' driven by big data, cloud, mobility, and security. That contrasts with the position of most vendors and analysts who think the 'S Factor' is social rather than security.
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Monday, 05 March 2012 23:29
RIP Ralph McQuarrie
Following complications due to Parkinson's Disease, Ralph McQuarrie, the artistic inspiration for pretty-well all of George Lucas' Star Wars world passed away on March 3rd.
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Wednesday, 07 September 2011 13:42
Photographic proof: the Apollo moon landings were real
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken the clearest images yet of the various Apollo landing sites. Memo to the nay-sayers: the landings really did happen - here's photographic proof.
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Tuesday, 04 May 2010 03:13
Long lost Lunokhod 1 rover found on Moon
The NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has reestablished contact with the long-lost Soviet robot Lunokhod 1. After nearly forty years without a signal between it and Earth, the Lunokhod 1 lunar rover is once again helping humans learn more about the Moon.
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Monday, 07 September 2009 19:16
Bangladesh papers confirm truth: Apollo did land on Moon
After years of conspiracy theories trying to convince people that the U.S. government faked the Moon landings, two Bangladeshi newspapers confirm indirectly that, indeed, the United States did land on the Moon in July 1969.
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Friday, 17 July 2009 18:14
Partially restored videos of Apollo 11 mission available
NASA is making available some partially restored videos of the Apollo 11 mission to the Moon that occurred in July 1969. Included in the 40-year-old videos is the broadcast of Neil Armstrong’s and Buzz Aldrin’s moonwalk on the lunar surface.
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Friday, 17 July 2009 17:41
Orbiting lunar probe has new images of Apollo Moon landings
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, on a current mission to map the Moon for upcoming lunar missions, has taken images of Apollo lunar landing sites. UPDATE: NASA has released these pictures on Friday, July 17, 2009.
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Thursday, 16 July 2009 18:41
NASA busy with STS-127 and Apollo 11
It's a busy week for NASA as they launch the space shuttle Endeavour (STS-127) to the International Space Station and celebrate the fortieth anniversary of its first mission (Apollo 11) to land astronauts on the Moon.
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Wednesday, 15 July 2009 17:51
NASA plays back 40-year old Apollo 11 Moon landing
The U.S. space agency, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), will observe the fortieth anniversary of the historic first human landing on the Moon when it plays the entire audio from the Apollo 11 mission at the exact time and date it was broadcast in 1969. This time, however, it will be streamed on the Internet.
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Monday, 13 July 2009 17:18
Watch re-creation of Apollo 11 Moon landing
The Kennedy Presidential Library will begin coverage of the first Moon landing by the NASA Apollo 11 mission on Thursday, July 16, 2009, forty years after Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins were launched into space with their Saturn V rocket. It’s all on WeChooseTheMoon.
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Saturday, 11 July 2009 19:01
Help track lunar LCROSS spacecraft for NASA
NASA is asking all backyard astronomers to help track its Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) spacecraft, which is orbiting Earth in a big loop. Your reward in the end is to see it crash into a deep crater in the south pole of the Moon.
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Thursday, 09 April 2009 19:37
Moon1 vs. Moon2: Differences in U.S. manned lunar programs
Although general aspects of the second program to send U.S. astronauts to the Moon in the 2010s may seem similar to the first program in the 1960s, it’s really a whole new ball game out there in space when you compare Apollo to Constellation.
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Friday, 27 March 2009 21:44
NASA celebrates Apollo's 40th Anniversary to Moon
With July 20, 2009 fast approaching, NASA announces it will be celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the first Moon landing by the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins, and the entire Apollo Program by the United States of America.
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Sunday, 18 January 2009 22:22
Moon magnetic discovery shows how much we don't know
MIT astronomers have discovered that a lunar liquid core, which existed about 4.2 billion years ago, generated the Moon’s current magnetic field. Concerning why we should go back to the Moon, one of the MIT scientists said we have literally "only scratched the surface."
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Saturday, 22 November 2008 20:23
NASA fires successfully Orion abort motor
The Orion team at NASA successfully tested for the first time its abort motor, which will be used in case the crew encounters an emergengy during launch of its Orion crew exploration vehicle. The major milestone brings the U.S. manned space program one more step closer to landing astronauts on the Moon by 2020.
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Friday, 18 July 2008 22:23
Japanese SELENE confirms Apollo 15 landing spot on Moon
According to a press release of the Japanese space agency, a “halo” has been photographed by the Terrain Camera onboard its SELENE (Kaguya) spacecraft, which shows the exact location of the NASA Apollo 15 Moon landing. Skeptics of the NASA Apollo missions to the Moon four decades ago may have to eat moondust!
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Friday, 18 July 2008 21:03
Apollo 11 was flying to the Moon thirty-nine years ago
On July 18, 1969, 39 years ago, the three astronauts aboard the NASA Apollo 11 spacecraft were winging their way to the Moon for humankind's first manned landing on an extraterrestrial body. Their remarkable journey is recorded in an old NASA document with interesting names for their space vehicles.
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Sunday, 29 June 2008 21:46
NASA's launch pad repairs will be finished in time for Hubble trip
A $2.7 million repair job is being performed on Launch Pad 39A after the NASA space shuttle Discovery damaged it when it lifted off May 31, 2008, for its STS-124 mission to the International Space Station.
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Wednesday, 07 May 2008 19:35
Discovery Channel puts 'œGlory Days' of NASA on HD
Over one hundred epic hours of classic NASA footage from the 1960s and 70s have been upgraded to high definition (HD) for the fiftieth anniversary of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). See them soon on Earth!
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