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UND NEWS UND in Space: Day 2
Time to be a Tourist by Tim o'Keefe Breakfast after a fitful, jet-lagged, maybe five hour sleep was just the start of one of the most exceptional interesting days I've experienced. Moscow surprises m...
Posted on 5/24/13 at 2:59 PM
ASTRO BOB 3-D Ring Nebula reveals its "inner jelly doughnut"
After the moon and planets, the Ring Nebula must be one of the top three deep sky objects sought out by astronomers of all stripes. Many a spring and summer night I've made my "pilgrimage to the Rin...
Posted on 5/24/13 at 2:14 PM
STAFF BLOG THE DULLUM FILE Karen Nyberg
We're going to be talking soon on WDAZ News @5 with UND graduate Karen Nyberg from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Russia as she makes final preparations for a launch to the International Sp...
Posted on 5/4/13 at 5:30 AM
GRAND FORKS GOURMET GF 'Space Aliens' Closes
In more not-too-astonishing restaurant news, Space Aliens has closed in Grand Forks and in Minot, according to the Minot Daily News. Food Management Investors Inc., which owns the restaurants, cites ...
Posted on 11/13/12 at 2:51 PM
THE NEW FORTY Not quite as planned...
I had a brilliant idea a month or so back. Well, let me qualify brilliant - brilliant by my standards...at least in that moment. I must qualify my use of the word brilliant as I am fairly sure that ma...
Posted on 10/19/12 at 9:18 PM
UND team in Alaska to capture rare Venus transit
GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — A University of North Dakota astronomy team has traveled to Alaska to capture Tuesday's rare event of Venus passing between the Earth and the sun.
June 05, 2012
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Get a filter and look up: That dot is Venus
HONOLULU (AP) — Stargazers around the world are setting up special telescopes and passing out cardboard eclipse glasses to view the once-in-a-lifetime celestial cameo of Venus passing in front of the sun.
By OSKAR GARCIA , June 05, 2012
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SpaceX Dragon leaves space station for trip home
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The SpaceX Dragon capsule left the International Space Station on Thursday and aimed for a Pacific splashdown to end its historic flight.
By MARCIA DUNN , May 31, 2012
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Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space station astronauts have captured the Dragon.
By MARCIA DUNN , May 25, 2012
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Meteorites found in California along path of fireball
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Robert Ward has been hunting and collecting meteorites for more than 20 years, so he knew he'd found something special in the Sierra foothills along the path of a flaming fireball that shook parts of Northern California and Nevada with a sonic boom over the weekend.
By SCOTT SONNER , April 26, 2012
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Solar storm shakes Earth magnetic field
WASHINGTON (AP) — A solar storm shook the Earth's magnetic field early Friday, but scientists said they had no reports of any problems with electrical systems.
By SETH BORENSTEIN , March 09, 2012
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US-Russian crew blasts off for space station
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians blasted off Monday from the snow-covered Kazakh steppes in a faultless launch that eased anxiety about the future of U.S. and Russian space programs.
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV , November 14, 2011
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Russians desperately try to save Mars moon probe
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian space probe aiming to land on a Mars moon was stuck circling the Earth after equipment failure Wednesday, and scientists raced to fire up its engines before the whole thing came crashing down.
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV , November 09, 2011
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Maryland professor shares Nobel over faster growing universe
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Johns Hopkins University professor was one of three scientists awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discovering that the universe is expanding at a faster and faster rate, contrary to science's conventional wisdom.
By JESSICA GRESKO , October 04, 2011
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NASA: 6-ton satellite hits Earth; location unknown
WASHINGTON (AP) — NASA's dead 6-ton satellite plunged to Earth early Saturday, but more than eight hours later, U.S. space officials didn't know just where it hit. They thought the fiery fall was largely over water and the debris probably hurt no one.
By SETH BORENSTEIN , September 24, 2011
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Soyuz lands safely in Kazakhstan, rattles nerves
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three returning astronauts from the International Space Station touched down safely Friday in the central steppes of Kazakhstan, but not without rattling nerves after a breakdown in communications.
By PETER LEONARD , September 16, 2011
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Wind delays NASA launch of twin moon spacecraft
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — High wind has forced a one-day launch delay for NASA's newest moon spacecraft.
By MARCIA DUNN , September 08, 2011
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Russian supply ship for space station crashes
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The failed launch of a Russian supply ship may have ripple effects at the International Space Station.
By MARCIA DUNN , August 24, 2011
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