Space Shuttle Discovery Comes Home

Published on April 21, 2010 by Technology Slice

Space Shuttle Discovery Comes Home – The space shuttle Discovery safely returned to Earth after bad weather caused NASA Mission Control to postpone the shuttle’s landing three times. Discovery and its seven astronauts landed at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center runway 33.

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Chile Earthquake, Days Shorter

Published on March 3, 2010 by Technology Slice

Chile Earthquake, Days Shorter – The earthquake that struck Chile was so powerful that it appears to have jolted Earth’s axis into a new position and increased our planet’s rotation speed. Calculations by a research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory indicate the earthquake shortened the length of a day on Earth by more than [...]

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Chile Earthquake Changes The Earth’s Axis

Published on March 3, 2010 by Technology Slice

Chile Earthquake Changes The Earth’s Axis – Chile Earthquake Earth Axis 2010 and a Bizarre Chance of Shortened Days. NASA scientists have revealed a fact that is shocking the world. Saturday’s earthquake in Chile, which also prompted a small tsunami in Hawaii, moved the earth off its axis. What does it mean? Well, moving earth [...]

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Chile Earthquake Earth Axis

Published on March 3, 2010 by Technology Slice

Chile Earthquake Earth Axis – We’ve all heard about the size of the earthquake in Chile last week, but a new finding takes it to new levels: the Chile earthquake has shifted the Earth’s axis. According to NASA scientists, the quake shifted the axis of the earth by about 3 inches (7.6 cms), which might [...]

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University of Alabama Huntsville

Published on February 13, 2010 by Technology Slice

A woman opened fire in a biology department meeting at the University of Alabama’s Huntsville campus yesterday, killing three people and injuring three others, two of them critically, officials said. The woman was caught outside the Shelby Centre, a science building, , according to university spokesman Ray Garner. He said he could not identify her [...]

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