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11:55:40 PM Home prices down in all ZIP codes in 2009
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH From affluent suburbs to inner-city neighborhoods, no part of Las Vegas was left unscathed by the precipitous drop in home values last year. ... [more]

10:36:52 PM Space shuttle's landing in question, bad weather expected on both US
The Associated Press

The Canadian Press NASA pressed ahead with a Sunday night landing for space shuttle Endeavour, but poor weather on both coasts made any touchdown attempts unlikely. ... [more]

9:56:45 PM Bad weather puts shuttle landing in question
CTV - Canada

NASA pressed ahead with a Sunday night landing for space shuttle Endeavour, but poor weather on both coasts made any touchdown attempts unlikely. ... [more]

8:11:21 PM Space race no longer being run
Walton Tribune - Monroe,GA,USA

Later this year, we will retire the space shuttle, the space taxi that has taken our astronauts into orbit and back again countless times. ... [more]

7:43:46 PM NEVADAN AT WORK: Architect revels in pursuing possibilities
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH Education: Boulder City High School, 1997; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, bachelor's and master's degrees in architecture, 2003. .... [more]

7:38:16 PM Space Station Computer Failure Knocks Out Communications Briefly
Space.com - USA

Engineers currently suspect the computer problem may be due to commands sent from Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. ... [more]

5:53:52 PM Farewell to NASA's Glory Days
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The new NASA budget unveiled this month calls for the US space agency to outsource rocket development for manned space flights — historically a NASA ... [more]

1:46:34 PM Shuttle's Chances Cloudy For Florida Landing Tonight
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- NASA will try to get space shuttle Endeavour back home Sunday night, but the weather may not cooperate on both sides of the country. ... [more]

11:43:39 AM Space shuttle Endeavour may have a delayed landing
ABH News

Endeavour, the NASA space shuttle, that kicked took off with the six member crew is all set to land on earth tonight at 10.16 pm at the Kennedy Space Center ... [more]

11:43:03 AM 3 girls killed by train
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

The train stopped soon after striking the pedestrians, and for several hours, its cars blocked intersections from Line Street on the south to NASA Boulevard ... [more]

11:41:29 AM The Kansas City Star, Mo., Robert W. Butler column: Kansas Silent Film ...
California Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA

When a school event presents the opportunity to meet fellow astronomy fan and heartthrob Prince Edouard of Luxembourg, Nelly turns to her mentor, ... [more]

11:25:06 AM Fermi to Focus on Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
Forbes

By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Astronomers operating the NASA Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope have recently announced that they will turn the observatory ... [more]

10:31:12 AM South Jersey Skies: Supermodels and heavenly bodies
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

Even I, as an astronomy educator, had trouble developing a mental picture of sizes and distances in the universe, until I started hosting planetarium shows ... [more]

10:09:58 AM Vancouver Olympics | Five-ring circus Figure skating in space? Astronauts
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

Detroit Free Press The crews of the linked space shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station held their own weightless Winter Games this week. ... [more]

9:57:07 AM Climate alarmists feeling more heat
Edmonton Journal

Or take the assertion, recently very common among alarmists, that NASA's climate scientists are still finding global warming occurring, so it must still be ... [more]

9:20:07 AM Astronaut brings sky to Gazan kids
Ynetnews - Israel

Baraka told Palestinian news agency Maan that he strikes to get Gazan children interested in astronomy to help them overcome what he called the "stereotype" ... [more]

8:51:49 AM Endeavour to land on Earth tonight
The Money Times - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India

Endeavour, along with its six-member crew, is expected to return on Sunday night at 10:16 pm in NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. .... [more]

8:28:24 AM Shuttle update day 13: Endeavour undocks from space station
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

The space shuttle crew awoke at 3:25 pm EST on Friday and began preparations for Endeavour's undocking, which took place at 7:54 pm EST later that evening. ... [more]

6:52:34 AM Arabians fall short of regional title
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA

No Arabian hit more than one long-range jumper and only Jamie Hubble's 1-of-2 was up to their usually shooting percentage. Douglas scored 14 points to go ... [more]

6:41:58 AM First space shuttle motor tested at then-Thiokol Chemical in 1977
StandardNet - Ogden,Utah,USA

By Charles F. Trentelman (Standard-Examiner staff) Jay Newman said one of many worries about the first test of a space shuttle booster motor was that the ... [more]

5:38:41 AM Officials stress vaccine for all
Suffolk News-Herald - Suffolk,VA,USA

“We tend to think of the flu as we do about the space shuttle. It goes up; it goes down; it's not a big deal anymore. But there have been tremendous ... [more]

3:20:05 AM NASA To Preview April Flight Of Space Shuttle Discovery
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA

HOUSTON -- NASA will preview the next space shuttle mission during a series of news briefings on Tuesday, March 9, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston ... [more]

2:47:29 AM Weather May Delay Shuttle's Sunday Landing
CBS 4 - Miami,FL,USA

Meanwhile, crews on the ground were trying to determine if the shuttle had suffered any micro meteorite damage. Two of the shuttle's windows suffered small ... [more]

2:18:15 AM NASA: Florida weather iffy for space shuttle Endeavour's return Sunday ...
The Associated Press

Space shuttle Endeavour aimed for a Sunday night landing back at NASA's spaceport, but rainy and cloudy weather threatened to delay the astronauts' .... [more]

1:48:53 AM Shuttle Endeavour Undocks From Space Station
Space.com - USA

By Tariq Malik NASA's space shuttle Endeavour cast off from the International Space Station late Friday, capping more than a week of orbital construction to ... [more]

12:46:12 AM Gaza's youngest generation to see to the moon
Ma'an News Agency

He said he wants to get children interested in astronomy in order to help them overcome what he calls a "stereotype" of the sky as a source of death, .... [more]



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