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Cool futuristic animation of night launch into satellite orbit with an original electronic score.   The THEMIS mission plans to unravel the tantalizing mystery behind auroral substorms, an avalanche of magnetic energy powered by the solar wind that intensifies the northern and southern lights. Learn more at www.nasa.gov/themis Technorati Tags: nasa themis, nasa satellite, nasa [...]

  A Buffalo Bills cap & candles at Millard Fillmore Gates hospital in Buffalo, N.Y. Whether you like sports of not, this is just cool.  Kevin Everett is showing some movement in both hands and greater strength in his leg muscles, further positive signs for the Buffalo Bills tight end following a life-threatening spinal-cord injury. [...]

  Google is bankrolling a $30 million contest that could significantly boost the commercial space industry and spur the first non-governmental flight to the moon. It’s called Google Lunar X Prize. The bulk of the prize will go to the first private company that can land a robotic rover on the moon and beam back [...]

  The Space Shuttle, the most complex machine ever built, is the only spacecraft with its robust capability.  The shuttle’s capacity enables humans today to build the world’s largest orbiting laboratory, paving the way to the moon, on to mars and further into the universe.  It allows us to see things like never before. A [...]