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Strauss' 'Blue Danube' waltz is launching into space to mark his 200th birthday
Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose “Blue Danube” graced Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi opus “2001: A Space ...
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab ending telework policy for nearly 5,500 employees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has told more than 5,500 hybrid and telework employees that they must return to on-site work ...
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NASA Engineers Revive Long-Dormant Thrusters on Voyager 1, the Farthest Spacecraft From Earth, in a ‘Miracle Save’
In the nick of time, NASA teams addressed clogging issues in the probe’s backup roll thrusters, before the only antenna ...
University of Arizona scientists unveil breakthrough petahertz-speed transistor
A team of scientists has unveiled a breakthrough that could one day propel computers to operate at speeds millions of times ...
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Laurie Leshin stepping down as director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab
Laurie Leshin announced today (May 7) that she'll step down from her role as director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California in June, after more than three years in charge.
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft hits a speed bump on the way to a metal asteroid
NASA's Psyche spacecraft, located nearly 150 million miles from Earth on the way to an unexplored metal asteroid, has stopped firing its engines after detecting a problem in its propulsion system.
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'ELVIS' has left the planet: PSU-built microscope arrives at International Space Station
The project started in 2014 when the principal investigator, Jay Nadeau, teamed up with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop a submersible ...