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  • May 2007

    • Astronaut Wally Schirra Dies at 84

      Associated Press  |  May 3, 07 2:14 PM CDT

      Astronaut Wally Schirra Dies at 84

      (Newser) - Astronaut Wally Schirra, a reporter once said, geared up for space flight with "the ease of preparing for a family picnic." The third American to orbit the earth and the fifth ever to fly into space, Shirra died today. He was 84. More »

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      NASA  • obituary  • death  • astronauts  • space exploration  • Apollo

    • Final Frontier Tests Terra Firma Ethics

      CNN  |  May 1, 07 7:49 PM CDT

      Final Frontier Tests Terra Firma Ethics

      (Newser) - As NASA plans a three-year manned mission to Mars during the next three decades, Oregon Trail ethics are being updated. What do you do with bodies of pioneers who don't make it? A new document on crew health from the space agency deals with death and interment where no man has gone before. More »

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      NASA  • space  • astronauts  • Mars  • safety  • ethics  • space exploration  • cosmonaut

  • March 2007

    • NASA Shutters Ideas Factory

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 22, 07 8:47 AM CDT

      NASA Shutters Ideas Factory

      (Newser) - In a cost-cutting move, NASA is shutting down its futuristic think tank, source of way-ahead-of-the-curve ideas, many of them worthy of a Star Trek script. Closing the Institute for Advanced Concepts will save $4 million out of NASA’s $16 billion dollar budget. But former NASA scientist Keith Cowing describes the decision as “just plan stupid.. explorers without the right tools die.” More »

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      NASA  • technology  • science  • space  • genetics  • space exploration  • planet  • deep space  • think tank

    • NASA Discovers Seas On Saturn's Moon

      Space.com  |  Mar 14, 07 9:18 PM CDT

      NASA Discovers Seas On Saturn's Moon

      (Newser) - NASA's radar detected evidence of huge seas—one of them larger than any of the Great Lakes—on the surface of Saturn's moon, Titan. Although the spacecraft, Cassini, cannot confirm that the dark images are liquid until passing over the area again as scheduled in May, scientists believe they are bodies of liquid ethane or methane gas. More »

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      NASA  • space  • space exploration  • Saturn  • Cassini  • Titan

    • NASA Dumps Deranged Astronaut

      Washington Post  |  Mar 8, 07 1:16 PM CST

      NASA Dumps Deranged Astronaut

      (Newser) - Love-lorn Lisa Nowak made history again Wednesday, when she became the first astronaut ever to get a pink slip from NASA. The space agency remanded her to the U.S. Navy, for whom she was officially on assignment at NASA. More »

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