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9 Feb 2010
Top Story: Solar Sailing
By Dauna Coulter, Science@NASA
The world's space agencies are planning to explore space with the technology of sailing ships Long ago, someone stood alone on a sandy shore and gazed longingly out at the seemingly endless expanse of ocean, over a horizon...
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> Hitching a Ride on a Magnetic Bubble
> Plastic Spaceships
The world's space agencies are planning to explore space with the technology of sailing ships Long ago, someone stood alone on a sandy shore and gazed longingly out at the seemingly endless expanse of ocean, over a horizon...
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> Super Spaceships
> Hitching a Ride on a Magnetic Bubble
> Plastic Spaceships
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An aircraft capable of bombing any target on earth within two hours...
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Standard passenger jets travel at around 900 km/h…. could you imagine flying ten times that...
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The Challenger Admission
Space shuttle design flaws have had disastrous consequences for the American space...
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Space shuttle design flaws have had disastrous consequences for the American space...
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Featured Poem
The Star-Splitter
By Robert Frost
You know Orion always comes up sideways.Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains,And rising on his hands, he...
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The Star-Splitter
By Robert Frost
You know Orion always comes up sideways.Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains,And rising on his hands, he...
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Facts
The first automobile was created on 29 January 1886, when Carl Benz patented a tricycle with a one horizontal cylinder engine that he designed and built. > More facts
Bicycles - part of the urban transport solution?
Back when I was growing up - sometime after the invention of the wheel - I rode a bicycle...
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Back when I was growing up - sometime after the invention of the wheel - I rode a bicycle...
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