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his photo provided by SpaceX shows an unmanned Dragon freighter during its splashdown, after leaving the International Space Station with a stash of precious medical samples and aimed for a Pacific to end the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station used a giant robot arm to release the commercial cargo ship 255 miles up. The California-based SpaceX companysteered its capsule back to Earth via parachutes on Sunday afternoon, a couple hundred miles off the Baja California coast.
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SpaceX Dragon capsule completes first successful Space Station resupply mission
Related topics | SpaceXinternational space stationFalcon 9 rocketElon Musk | Advertisement | A reusable SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California ... (photo: AP / SpaceX)
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The planned NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. China plans to land the rover Chang'e 3 on the Moon in 2013, and to conduct a sample return mission in 2017.
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>Around the Moon in 80 Hours (1958)
| Image: NASA | The Soviet Union declared in 1955 that it would place a satellite into Earth orbit during the 18-month International Geophysical Year (1957-1958). Few in the West took this claim serio... (photo: NASA / GDK)
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Sun shining - solar wind Earth’s magnetosphere allows solar wind to leak into it
Washington: Data from European Space Agency’s Cluster mission has revealed that it is easier for the solar wind to penetrate Earth’s magnetic environment, the magnetosphere, than had previously be... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Zeenews
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Kuala Lumpur International Airport ERL station Kuala Lumpur International Airport: The power of platinum
Related topics | TravelMalaysia AirlinesFirst class | Advertisement | When Kuala Lumpur International Airport opened in 1998, it was actually met with a certain degree of skepticism. Malaysia wasn’t... (photo: Creative Commons / Pizzaboy1) The Examiner
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Entrance to Garland Scout Ranch of the Boy Scouts of America is located in Stonewall Do we still need the Boy Scouts?
October 20, 2012 -- Updated 1257 GMT (2057 HKT) | Boy Scouts of America is an organization that says it is focused on mentoring young men and helping them develop life sk... (photo: Creative Commons / Billy Hathorn) CNN
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A Standard Missile Three (SM-3) is launched from the guided missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG 67) during a joint Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Navy ballistic missile flight test. Obama's New 'Star Wars' Initiative Threatens To Reignite Cold War
Article By WN.com Guest Writer Sherwood Ross | President Obama is continuing developmental work on the controversial Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars") plan begun... (photo: US Navy) WorldNews.com
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The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh with the Defence Minister, Shri A. K. Antony during the Combined Commanders -in-Chief Conference, in New Delhi on October 19, 2012.	The Defence Secretary, Shri Shashikant Sharma, the Chief of Army Staff, General Bikram Singh, the Chief of Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal N.A.K. Browne and the Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral D.K. Joshi are also seen. Increase capabilities in new areas of threat like cyber and space: PM
| Tweet | New Delhi, Oct 19 (ANI): Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh today said there is a need to increase the country's capabilities in emerging areas like cyber and sp... (photo: PIB of India / Photo Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India ) Newstrack India
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Commercial building - office building in the city of India Demand for office space picks up across India
| BANGALORE: The demand for commercial office space in India is on a rebound after witnessing negative growth in the first two quarters of calendar year 2012. The seven m... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) The Times Of India
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Surrounded by press photographers, Gary McKinnon, 40, accused of mounting the largest ever hack of United States government computer networks _ including Army, Air Force, Navy and NASA systems_ gestures as he arrives at the Bow Magistrates Court for the last hearing of his extradition case, in central London Wednesday May 10, 2006. Gary McKinnon extradition: hacker to learn fate after 10 years
Computer hacker Gary McKinnon will find out today whether Home Secretary Theresa May will end his 10-year battle against extradition to the United States. | Gary McKinnon... (photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis) The Daily Telegraph
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Eine Hand zeigt in Berlin fuer eine Fotoillustration auf einen Computer-Bildschirm mit der Startseite der Videotauschboerse "Youtube" (Foto vom 06.11.06). Felix Baumgarter breaks YouTube record as 8 million viewers watch his space jump (video)
| Felix Baumgartner might not have broken Joe Kittinger's world record for the longest time spent in freefall, but he did smash a fourth milestone during his dive. In add... (photo: AP / Clemens Bilan) Engadget
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Moon - natural satellite of Earth - nature - space Moon water could have solar source
Paris - Scientists on Sunday said they had found water molecules in samples of lunar soil, and their unusual signature points to the Sun as the indirect source. | Samples... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Independent online
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Felix Baumgartner, of Austria, gestures prior to speaking with the media after successfully jumping from a space capsule lifted by a helium balloon at a height of just over 128,000 feet above the Earth's surface, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012, in Roswell, N.M. Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner smashes sound barrier
Zeenews Bureau | Roswell: Diving at a speed faster than the sound, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner has become the first man in history to make the highest jump ever â... (photo: AP / Ross D. Franklin) Zeenews
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File - Gary McKinnon, accused of hacking into U.S. military computers and facing extradition to the U.S. to stand trial, leaves the High Court in London after a hearing to prevent his extradition, in this July 14, 2009 file photo. UK hacker to learn extradition fate
| Gary McKinnon, a British computer hacker who has been fighting a ten-year battle against extradition to the United States is set to learn his fate. | McKinnon was a Sco... (photo: AP / Sang Tan, File) Al Jazeera
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Skydiver Felix Baumgartner lands safely on Earth after skydiving fom 24 miles Skydiver Felix Baumgartner lands safely on Earth after skydiving fom 24 miles
| Update: | Extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner has landed on Earth after a jump from the stratosphere in what could be the world's first supersonic skydive. | Baumgartner ... (photo: AP / Predrag Vuckovic) Detroit Free Press
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Backdropped by Earth's horizon and the blackness of space, the International Space Station is featured in this image photographed by an STS-130 crew member as space shuttle Endeavour and the station approach each other during rendezvous and docking activities. Space Shuttle Endeavour Move
| Tweet | 0 Email | Report | Advertisement | Photo 1 of 9 | The space shuttle Endeavour is seen as it is maneuvered through the streets of downtown Los Angeles on Friday,... (photo: NASA) The Examiner
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FILE - In this April 20, 2009 file photo, people enter the Bank of New York building in New York's Financial District. Bank of New York Mellon Corp., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and American Express Co. will not be asked to raise more capital when federal officials announce the test results Thursday, May 7, 2009, according to people briefed on the results. The people requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the results. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, file) What Your Business Needs to Know About Mobile Payments
| This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small bu... (photo: AP / Richard Drew, file) Mashable
Business   Mobile Payments   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Mobile payment  
The space shuttle Endeavour is seen atop the Over Land Transporter (OLT) after exiting the Los Angeles International Airport on its way to its new home at the California Science Center in Los Angeles, Friday, Oct. 12, 2012. Shuttle inches toward retirement home at LA museum
| LOS ANGELES — At every turn of Endeavour's stop-and-go commute through urban streets, a constellation of spectators trailed along as the space shuttle ploddingly ... (photo: NASA / Bill Ingalls) Lexington Herald-Leader
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his photo provided by SpaceX shows an unmanned Dragon freighter during its splashdown, after leaving the International Space Station with a stash of precious medical samples and aimed for a Pacific to end the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station used a giant robot arm to release the commercial cargo ship 255 miles up. The California-based SpaceX companysteered its capsule back to Earth via parachutes on Sunday afternoon, a couple hundred miles off the Baja California coast.
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his photo provided by SpaceX shows an unmanned Dragon freighter during its splashdown, after leaving the International Space Station with a stash of precious medical samples and aimed for a Pacific to end the first official shipment under a billion-dollar contract with NASA, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Astronauts aboard the International Space Station used a giant robot arm to release the commercial cargo ship 255 miles up. The California-based SpaceX companysteered its capsule back to Earth via parachutes on Sunday afternoon, a couple hundred miles off the Baja California coast.
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