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Space Telescope Science InstituteJoins the Search for Other Earths in Space (SpaceRef) |
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More info... The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md., is partnering on a historic search for Earth-size planets around other stars. STScI is the data archive center for NASA's Kepler mission, a spacecraft that is undertaking a survey for Earth-size planets in our region of the galaxy.
Surprise reaches out to professional conference market (The Arizona Republic)
Two years ago, persuading a private hotel developer to build a convention center in Surprise seemed within city officials' grasp. Now that development has slowed to a crawl, the city is using other methods to grab a piece of metro Phoenix's professional conference market.
First US economic espionage trial winds down (AP via Yahoo! Singapore News)
The fate of a Chinese-born engineer accused of passing critical trade secrets on the U.S. space program to China for decades was in the hands of a federal judge Wednesday after closing arguments ended in the nation's first economic espionage trial. Federal prosecutors said Dongfan "Greg" Chung used his 30-year career at Boeing Co. and Rockwell International to steal 300,000 pages of sensitive ...
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