Monday 6 May 2013

Press Pass Press Release May 2 2013 New dark matter detector ...

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COUPP60 is a darkmatter experiment funded by DOE's Office of Science Fermilab managed the assembly and installation of the experiment's detector ...

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NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition

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Practice sessions for the fourth annual Lunabotics Mining Competition will take place May 20 - 21, followed by the official competition. Media representatives are invited to cover the event on Wednesday, May 22 from 12 - 4 p.m. EDT, at the Kennedy ...

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Lafayette Science Museum new space travel exhibit

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The Lafayette Science Museum "Leaving Earth - The Story of Space Travel" exhibit explores the epic adventure of international space flight, from the earliest attempts at rocketry to current plans for space tourism. The exhibit takes you on a journey ...

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It's space, man

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With the recent successful test flight of the VSS Enterprise, the flagship of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic space tourism venture, it looks like space will no longer be just for governments and billionaires, but - with seats costing US$200,000 ...

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NASA to Mark 40th Anniversary of Skylab and Life Off Earth

NASA will commemorate the 40th anniversary of America's first space station Monday, May 13, with a televised roundtable discussion featuring Skylab astronauts, a current astronaut and agency managers planning future space missions.

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NASA's Asteroid Mission Hopes to PreventLarge Scale Destruction US ...

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The mission is designed to test NASA's spacecraft, with side benefit of creating an asteroid defense capability.

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NASA Invites Media to Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition

Fifty teams of undergraduate and graduate students from around the world will demonstrate their lunar excavator robots May 20 - 24 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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How will space tourism work? | Tnooz

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In December 2009, Virgin Galactic unveiled its first commercial spaceship – the VSS Enterprise – based on the SpaceShipTwo spacecraft model.

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Graphene/TMDC Combination For Next-Gen Solar Cells

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By combining the wonder material graphene with other one-atom-thick materials, such as TMDC, to make stacks/2D-crystals, it becomes possible to produce an enormous range of superlative properties, and likely to create the “next generation” of solar ...

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New Experiment Seeks Mysterious Dark Matter Underground ...

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A new hunt for dark matter — an invisible but bountiful constituent of the universe — is under way inside an underground laboratory a mile and half below ...

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Space science image of the week: solar storm heading for Earth

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How graphene and friends could harness the Sun's energy | The ...

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Combining wonder material graphene with other stunning oneatom thick materials could create the next generation of solar cells and optoelectronic devices ...

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Rooms in Space.

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At Virgin Galactic, everything runs according to plan: end of the year, the first flight into zero gravity should be completed. Time is short for Branson's enterprise, because already 500 space tourists have made down payments for the spaceflight which ...

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