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NASA tech chief takes to Reddit for a spacey Ask Me Anything session
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 13 hours ago
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So, you want to know why the International Space Station dumped Windows in favor of Linux ?...He's doing an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit today, and he's down to party...He oversees the agency's tech investments and also guides how future
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Ground control to 'Major Tim'
Chichester :: United Kingdom | 18 hours ago
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It takes the "right stuff" to withstand cosmic bursts of camera light and meteoric bombardments of questions, but Tim Peake is orbit-ready and passed the test of facing the massed media on Monday morning. As Britain's first official, government-
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UK Astronaut To Blast Off To Space Station
London :: United Kingdom | 1 day ago
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Major Tim Peake has undergone 14 months of rigorous training, which has included survival courses and exercises under water and underground. Now almost three years after graduating as an astronaut, the 41-year-old former major and helicopter pilot in
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UK`s first astronaut to go on space mission in 2015
London :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
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Britain's first "official" astronaut, 41-year-old Major Tim Peake, has been selected to go on a five-month mission to the International Space Station in 2015, a media report said on Sunday. Peake, a former army helicopter pilot, graduated as a
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International Space Station Transmits Live Performance of “Space Oddity”.
May 12 2013 – No this is not David Bowie. This is the real Commander Chris Hadfield on board the real International Space Station really (not lip syncing) his version of “Space Oddity”. Commander
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Astronaut Lovell to dedicate memorial garden
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 3 days ago
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James Lovell Jr. will help dedicate a Chicago memorial garden paying tribute to the 10th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia disaster. Lovell and Chicago Alderman Edward Burke will dedicate the garden and unveil a sculpture representing
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Sally Ride's educational legacy lives on 30 years after spaceflight
Williamsburg :: VA :: USA | 5 days ago
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She was a hero of mine and (her spaceflight) was one of the things that drew me to a career in space." Ride died last year of pancreatic cancer at age 61, but her legacy lives on. On Monday, her contributions to science and science education will be
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Space not the final frontier for viewing movies
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
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The three astronauts were offered a sneak peak of "Star Trek Into Darkness" days before it opens Thursday on Earth, seeing it not in 3-D, but Zero-G. Kelly Humphries said the movie was beamed up to the outpost Monday and the two Russians and American
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Houston, we have a superstar: Crooning astronaut Hadfield's enthusiasm goes viral down on Earth
Almaty :: Kazakhstan | 6 days ago
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Chris Hadfield, who crawled out of a space capsule on the plains of Kazakhstan early Tuesday, is dealing with gravity for the first time in five months and sudden global celebrity after singing a gone-viral made-in-space music video...He and two
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Ground control to Major Tux: Space station dumps Windows, now using Linux
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 10 days ago
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For reasons involving reliability which is semi-kinda important in low-Earth orbit, apparently our fellow nerds living aboard the International Space Station have made the switch from Windows to Linux for astronauts' laptops. The space nerds will get
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