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• In Brief: “Report: NASA Employee Stole More Than ...

  Published: July 26, 2007, 6:19 pm

  Tags: Crime, Drunk Criminals All Of Them, Nasa, Theft, Wtf

  “Report: NASA Employee Stole More Than $150,000” — ok, NASA, are you too incompetent to do a newsdump correctly? It’s only Thursday, guys! [Local6]

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• Game Over, Man Dept.: WTF NASA

  Published: July 26, 2007, 5:29 pm

  Tags: Alcohol, Astronauts, Drunks, Game Over Man Dept, Nasa, Sabotage, Space

  Is NASA trying to cause as many terrible space disasters as they can? First, we learned NASA is letting all the astronauts drunk-drive whenever they feel like it. An independent panel found at least...

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• NASA Investigates Possible Sabotage by Worker

  Published: July 26, 2007, 7:32 pm

  Tags: Nasa

  mytrip writes "NASA said today it is investigating suspected sabotage of a recorder placed on the shuttle Endeavour for delivery to the space station where it will track physical stresses on the orbiting lab."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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• Dept. Of Unsafe At Any Speed: NASA Also Lost $94 Million -- Possibly In Space, Probably Drunk

  Published: July 27, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Astronut, Dept Of Unsafe At Any Speed, Diapers, Graft, Losers, Nasa

  This week we’ve learned that some NASA dork sabotaged a computer bound for the International Space Station, another NASA crook stole $150,000 from the space agency, and that the astronuts at...

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• Houston, We Have a Drinking Problem

  Published: July 28, 2007, 9:21 am

  Tags: Nasa

  to throttle" rule applied to NASA flight crew members. Dr. Jonathan Clark, a former NASA flight surgeon, says it's a tradition for crew members to gather for a barbecue on the eve of a shuttle launch, and these gatherings sometimes include alcohol and a toast but that the greater problem is that preparation before a flight can leave astronauts

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• The Right Stuff: First Flight of X-48B Blended Wing Body Aircraft Prototype

  Published: July 28, 2007, 11:40 am

  Tags: Aircraft, Blended Wing Body, Boeing, Nasa, Plane, Prototype, The Right Stuff, Top, U S Air Force Research Laboratory, Virtual Presence, X 48b

  Works with cooperation from NASA and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, flew for 31 minutes, reaching an altitude of 7,500 feet. Check the sexy gallery and jump for more details about the BWB. Boeing is at it again with one of their fantabolous X-designated planes. The plane flew from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air

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• Spaced Out: Space Walk Gallery Makes Us Burn With Envy

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Nasa, Space, Space Walk Gallery, Spaced Out

  The guys over at Fogonazos have compiled a list of the 'Top 10 Best Spacewalks in History' and the images are absolutely stunning. The pictures are so inch perfect we thought they were photo-shopped; amazingly, they are all genuine. If you've never looked back on your decision to become a full time gaming-bum instead of a spaceman, then the

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• Bring It, Space: Our Plan for Destroying the Asteroid

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:54 am

  Tags: Bring It Space, Digitalspace Commons, Gadgets, Nasa, Space

  day kill us all. That's why NASA asked a 3D imaging company named DigitalSpace Commons to simulate a landing on an asteroid with modified spacecraft, pictured here. I'm partial to the production levels of Armageddon, but we're guessing this simulation is a bit more accurate. We still recommend NASA brings along Bruce Willis because, as we all

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• Bring It, Space: Our Plan For Landing On An Asteroid

  Published: July 30, 2007, 8:54 am

  Tags: Bring It Space, Digitalspace Commons, Gadgets, Nasa, Space

  day kill us all. That's why NASA asked a 3D imaging company named DigitalSpace Commons to simulate a landing on an asteroid with modified spacecraft, pictured here. I'm partial to the production levels of Armageddon, but we're guessing this simulation is a bit more accurate. We still recommend NASA brings along Bruce Willis because, as we all

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• DigitalSpace shows off proposed asteroid mission plans

  Published: July 30, 2007, 11:59 am

  Tags: Asteroid, Digitalspace, Nasa, Near Earth Object, Nearearthobject, Neo, Space

  of robots to asteroids, but NASA apparently still has plenty more plans for dealing with near-Earth objects (or NEOs), with it recently asking Santa Cruz-based DigitalSpace Commons to develop a simulation for a manned mission. The company's plans, officially unveiled today, are based on NASA's own Constellation exploration crew vehicle, which

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• In Brief: NASA has declared the iPhone not suitable ...

  Published: July 31, 2007, 7:23 pm

  Tags: Apple, Apple We Have Problem, Blackberry, Iphone, Nasa, Palm, Treo

  NASA has declared the iPhone not suitable for business use by their employees. Instead, they're planning on supporting the Blackberry 8800 or Palm Treo 750. [InformationWeek]

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• Apple, We Have A Problem: NASA Says iPhone Is Not A Suitable Business Tool

  Published: July 31, 2007, 7:23 pm

  Tags: Apple, Apple We Have Problem, Blackberry, Iphone, Nasa, Palm, Treo

  NASA has declared the iPhone not ready for business use by their employees. Instead, they're planning on supporting the Blackberry 8800 or Palm Treo 750. [InformationWeek] Image via Wired

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• Speed Read Feed for August 2, 2007

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:32 am

  Tags: Speed Read Feed, Barack Obama, Bridge Collapse, Bumpshack, Elton John, Fisher Price, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Internet, Iraq, John Edwards, Lead Paint, Michael Vick, Mississippi River, Nasa, O J Simpson, Pakistan, Rape, Ron Goldman, Rudy Giuliani, Sex

  Argentina presidential candidate says she’s no Hillary- Reuters Barack Obama talks about sending troops into Pakistan- Yahoo! News Couple arrested for having sex in front of daycare center- Smoking Gun John Edwards says Rudy Giuliani is Bush on steroids- Rolling Stone Iraq war costs $4,000 dollars every second- Daily Mail Fisher-Price

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• Digitized Apollo Flight Films Available Online

  Published: August 4, 2007, 10:07 am

  Tags: Nasa

  "SpaceRef reports that NASA and Arizona State University have teamed up to offer all of NASA's Apollo lunar films online at no charge. The images are scanned from the original films at high resolution, then offered as 16-bit TIFF or 8-bit PNG or ISIS files. The project is expected to take 3 years, but some images are already available. The

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• Reborn: The Cool Gadgets of the Phoenix

  Published: August 4, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Digital Cameras, Gadgets, Lockheed Martin, Nasa, Phoenix, Phoenix Mars Mission, Reborn, University Of Arizona

  This small red-eyed thing is MARDI, the Mars Descent Imager. It will use a 1,024 x 1,024 pixels CCD and refractive optics to capture 66 wide-angle color images of the landing site —all with a 4 milliseconds exposure while falling at full speed from 5 miles above the planet's surface. This amazing gadget is only one of many, so jump to see

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