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Breaking News Sun, 8 Dec 2013
Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida is illuminated by a Falcon 9 rocket as it lifts off at 8:35 p.m. EDT carrying a Dragon capsule to orbit. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, built both the rocket and capsule for NASA's first Commercial Resupply Services, or CRS-1, mission to the International Space Station.
(photo: NASA)
SpaceX reaches milestone in rocket launch from Cape Canaveral
The Los Angeles Times
With a thunderous roar, a 224-foot rocket carrying a massive satellite launched from Cape Canaveral and blasted into outer space, hurtling over the Atlantic Ocean as it cut across the night sky. | On Tuesday, Hawthorne rocket maker SpaceX lifted the SES-8 telecommunications satellite into geostation...
The COTS 2 Dragon is berthed to the ISS by Canadarm2. On 18 August 2006, NASA announced that SpaceX had won a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract to demonstrate cargo delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) with a possible option for crew transport.
(photo: NASA / Johnson)
SpaceX plans third launch attempt today
Sun Sentinel
CAPE CANAVERAL —(Reuters) Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, plans to try again today to launch its first commercial communications satellite after its Falcon 9 rocket was twice sidelined by technical issues, officials said. | Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and a 3.5-ton com...
C. African ex-rebels and French patrol streets
Herald Tribune
BANGUI, Central African Republic - The mostly Muslim ex-rebels who control Central African Republic are patrolling neighborhoods across the capital, despite an order to return to their barracks. | President Michel Djotodia has formally dissolved the ...
Reddit's Biggest Moments of 2013
Mashable
It's been quite a year for the front page of the Internet. | Big or small, Reddit experienced a lot of change within the past twelve months. Now serving 6% of online adults and, according to internal reports, averaging 5.1 billion monthly page views,...
Air Force museum in Ohio to get new wing
Springfield News-Sun
A new wing planned for the National Museum of the United States Air Force in southwest Ohio will allow visitors to walk into a full-size replica of a space shuttle. | Museum officials say construction on the addition is set to begin in late spring 20...
Air Force museum in Ohio to get new wing
Dayton Daily News
A new wing planned for the National Museum of the United States Air Force in southwest Ohio will allow visitors to walk into a full-size replica of a space shuttle. | Museum officials say construction on the addition is set to begin in late spring 20...
NEW: Astronauts to mark space station milestone
Herald Tribune
Cape Canaveral - Some of the astronauts who helped hook up the first two pieces of the international space station are returning to Florida to mark the 15th anniversary of the orbiting structure. | Mission commander Bob Cabana will be joined by missi...
Share an astronaut's perspective: view from the space station
The Daily Telegraph
This stunning timelapse footage of the Earth from space will change how you see our planet | 10:00AM GMT 08 Dec 2013 | This compilation of mesmerising timelapse footage of the Earth taken from the International Space Station (ISS) is ... well, out of...
Space
The COTS 2 Dragon is berthed to the ISS by Canadarm2. On 18 August 2006, NASA announced that SpaceX had won a NASA Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) contract to demonstrate cargo delivery to the International Space Station (ISS) with a possible option for crew transport.
(photo: NASA / Johnson)
SpaceX plans third launch attempt today
Sun Sentinel
CAPE CANAVERAL —(Reuters) Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, plans to try again today to launch its first commercial communications satellite after its Falcon 9 rocket was twice sidelined by technical issues, officials said. | Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and a 3.5-ton communications satellite owned by Luxembourg-based SE...
Science
Health worker Xolisa Madikane, left unseen, tests blood for the HIV virus at a container lab next to the Gugulethu Community Health Clinic in Gugulethu on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, July 21, 2009. South Africa launched a high-profile trial of an AIDS vaccine created by its own researchers Monday, a proud moment in a nation where government denial, neglect and unscientific responses have helped fuel the world's worst AIDS crisis.
(photo: AP / Schalk van Zuydam)
HIV Reappears in Two Patients Thought to Be Cured
Gizmodo
Robert Sorokanich -  | The two male patients seemingly cured of HIV thanks to bone marrow transplants have both begun to show signs of the virus again, according to researchers in Boston. | Dr. Timothy Henrich of Brigham and Women’s hospital presented the disappointing news yesterday at an AIDS research conference in Florida, saying that...



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