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Representatives from the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, in New York City, and the American space agency say that they've signed a contract handing over the shuttle Enterprise from NASA to the museum. Visitors will be able to see Enterprise in the new setting starting in the summer of 2012.
The Intrepid is ... |
24 November 2011
03:47 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) want to put all vertebrate specimens available around the world in the digital environment. They are considering this massive body of data in the cloud, where researchers from all over the planet could access it more easily.The goal is to promote scientifi... |
24 August 2011
06:01 GMT |
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Officials with the American space agency are expected to make an important announcement next week, which will finally clear the mystery as to where the space shuttles will be displayed after retirement.Discovery has already completed its career with the STS-133 mission earlier this year, and it's Endeavor's... |
9 April 2011
03:53 GMT |
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With Discovery having already flown its last mission, and Endeavor about to take off on its last spaceflight ever too, excitement is growing among museums ahead of a planned announcement that would finally reveal where the shuttles will be displayed. The last offers are now pouring in.Museums are competing against ea... |
30 March 2011
03:38 GMT |
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For all intents and purposes, the space shuttle Discovery is bound to be delivered to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington DC. However, before that is done, NASA engineers will have another go at the spacecraft, performing an autopsy of sorts.
The procedure is necessary because the orbiter... |
16 March 2011
03:44 GMT |
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The oldest and most flown orbiter in the American space fleet landed gracefully at a NASA spaceport yesterday, concluding nearly 27 years of continued operations. The final voyage of Discovery leaves astronauts and other personnel with a bittersweet feeling.The shuttle landed for one last time at the Kennedy Space Ce... |
10 March 2011
02:36 GMT |
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Recent developments appear to indicate that the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, in Washington DC and the NASA Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, will receive a space shuttle each, for permanent display. The soon-to-be-retired orbiters don't yet have an official home, but preparations at the two facilit... |
17 December 2010
08:59 GMT |
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Officials at NASA say that they still don't know for sure what will happen to space shuttle Discovery after it returns from its last planned flight, the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station (ISS).Discovery is now ready to fly to the orbital facility, and it is scheduled to launch on Wednesday. It w... |
1 November 2010
09:48 GMT |
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Even though there is currently a lot of talk about postponing the last planned shuttle flight, and even adding an extra mission to the flight manifest, one things remains certain – the orbiters will be retired. Even if they continue to fly in 2011, they will still need to be placed in museums after all dangerou... |
3 August 2010
10:48 GMT |
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With millions of people visiting the Intrepid every single year, it stands to reason that this would be one of the most intuitive locations to house a space shuttle in. With the NASA orbiter program scheduled to be retired this September, or early next year, the three spacecraft that fly within it – Discovery, ... |
30 March 2010
02:04 GMT |
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The American space agency announced some time ago that it planned to retire the aging space-shuttle fleet, currently made up of Endeavor, Discovery and Atlantis, by September 2010. Although it's not entirely sure at this point whether this proposal will be followed through or not, officials at NASA act according... |
16 January 2010
03:49 GMT |
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Many of us have old, treasured books that have been in our families for generations. These records of events that were, either historical or literary, are extremely important to some, who would love nothing more than to see their old books restored to their former glory. Now, scientists have discovered a new way in w... |
13 November 2009
08:32 GMT |
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Museums around the world are currently starting to introduce a new type of exhibits in their collections, and namely the 3D models of existing works. Each valuable artifact is scanned using advanced technology, and is then faithfully replicated in a three-dimensional, digital environment. This is done so that, i... |
4 November 2009
19:21 GMT |
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It would appear that, despite our best efforts, there are still those who dwell on the old habits of xenophobia and antisemitism. This was again made apparent on Wednesday, when an elderly man, apparently connected to an anti-Jewish website, shot a security guard at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, bef... |
11 June 2009
05:33 GMT |
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A US judge is expected to soon decide the faith of the artifacts that have been recovered from the RMS Titanic, after the luxury ocean liner sunk on April 14th, 1912. Considered at the time to be the largest passenger steamship in the world, the vessel was severely damaged following a collision with a large iceberg, ... |
25 March 2009
11:10 GMT |
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Every winter, the Smithsonian is host to some unusual visitors. People regularly come here to witness a compared history of evolution and to better understand how we came to be the way we are. But, for a distinct group of persons, namely for creationists or for adepts of Intelligent Design (ID), these trips are meant... |
11 March 2009
10:10 GMT |
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The television team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, has just finished its work on a new short clip, entitled “Return to the Moon,” which is scheduled to air on February 27th throughout the United States. It has also shrunk the Moon to a 6 foot-tall model, and placed it inside it... |
25 February 2009
09:09 GMT |
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A group of British museums is currently working around the clock to create a common website, on which officials, curators and museum lovers can meet and discuss various aspects of the trade, while at the same time virtually visiting some of the collections. Thus far, the group includes the British Museum and Victoria... |
23 February 2009
10:52 GMT |
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The retirement of the American space shuttle fleet, scheduled for the fall of 2010, sparks more debate than anyone would have thought. Aside from the debate on whether the decision to retire the three ships is wise or not, now numerous controversies have sparked on what to do with the ships once they are permanently ... |
31 January 2009
05:44 GMT |
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Henry is a tuatara that has been living in captivity since 1970, at the Southland Museum, in the New Zealand city of Invercargill. It's currently known that he is 111 years old, and yet, this is the first batch of eggs he's fathered in his life. Although his caretakers have no way of knowing what the very r... |
26 January 2009
08:26 GMT |
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The Antikythera mechanism, believed to be the world's oldest computer, has finally been replicated by a British museum curator, more than 100 years after it was first discovered. The original design, intricate and precise as a Swiss clock, was used to calculate dates, motions of the planets throughout our solar ... |
23 December 2008
13:01 GMT |
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The Apollo 8 mission, the historical moment when humans managed to escape the gravitational field of the Earth, orbit the Moon, and then return safely, represented a monumental achievement in many ways. Though it was only the second manned mission of the Apollo program, it managed to pave the way for the landing on t... |
23 December 2008
04:41 GMT |
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