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Sightseeing helicopter crashes in Hawaii decrease following FAA regulations

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An emergency rule intended to reduce the number of deaths and injuries associated with Hawaiian air tours was followed by a 47 percent reduction in sightseeing crashes, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns ...





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Test in Development of NASA's New Crew Rocket is Successful

Test in Development of NASA's New Crew Rocket is Successful

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The development of NASA's next-generation crew launch vehicle, the Ares I rocket, took another step forward Thursday as Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, successfully tested a critical piece. ATK ...


New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica

New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific ...


Missile defense test aborted when target fails

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Missile Defense Agency says a planned test of a ground-based missile defense system in Hawaii was aborted because the target missile failed.


Invigorated muscle structure allows geese to brave the Himalayas: research

Invigorated muscle structure allows geese to brave the Himalayas: research

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A higher density of blood vessels and other unique physiological features in the flight muscles of bar-headed geese allow them to do what even the most elite of human athletes struggle to accomplish - assert ...


OSU students build and launch a sensor into space

OSU students build and launch a sensor into space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 11, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space. Carried by a helium-filled balloon 12 inches ...


European rocket hoists biggest-ever telecoms satellite

European rocket hoists biggest-ever telecoms satellite (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A European rocket placed the world's biggest commercial telecommunications satellite into geostationary orbit, launch operator Arianespace said.


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Pilots used laptop computers while straying off course

Technology / Other

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two distracted US pilots were using laptop computers against company rules last week when they overshot their destination by some 150 miles (240 kilometers), federal investigators said.


NASA's new moon rocket makes first test flight (AP)

NASA's Ares I-X moon rocket makes first test flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight.


NASA Successfully Tests Parachute for Ares Rocket

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and industry engineers successfully completed the second drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. The test took place Feb. 28 at the U.S. Army's Yuma Proving Ground near Yuma, Ariz.


Another dual launch for Ariane 5

Ariane 5 rocket places two satellites into orbit (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last night, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, NSS-12 and Thor 6, into geostationary transfer ...



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