The World's Wildest Skydive Requires the World's Biggest Balloon
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By Chuck SquatrigliaEmail Author This balloon, which carried Felix Baumgartner to an altitude of 13 miles in March, is 128 feet tall.
How to watch SpaceX's launch of private cargo rocket Sunday
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Launch photographer Ben Cooper captured this photo of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket making its maiden flight June 4, 2010 from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Even as ATK streamlines, more layoffs loom in 2013
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By VINCE HORIUCHI Promontory • Utah aeronautical contractor Alliant Techsystems says it has streamlined its process of making booster rockets, while also acknowledging Tuesday that it will have to lay off more workers early next year.
UW scientists team with Coast Guard to explore ice-free Arctic Ocean â€" with ...
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By Nancy Gohring With the melting ice in the Arctic, US Coast Guard crews based in Alaska have taken on a new challenge: carefully deploying scientific equipment through cracks in the ice from an airplane hundreds of feet in the air.
US Stocks On a Collision Course with Market History
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/science/hubbles-13-2-billion-light-year-squint.html
By Bob Stokes Next time you look at a clear night sky, keep in mind that what you see is the distant past. Most stars are so distant that it takes millions of years before the light is visible to us.
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