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April 12, 2011, marked the anniversaries of two extraordinary historical events. One hundred fifty years ago, on April 12, 1861, rebels in Charleston, S.C., fired on Fort Sumter, igniting the American Civil War. That war had complex economic, political and social origins, but taking seriously the Declaration of Independence's premise that "all men are created equal" was definitely one of those complexities.
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin's space flight on April 12, 1961, is the other extraordinary anniversary. Fifty very short years ago, Gagarin, in a Vostok 1 spacecraft, made a one-orbit trip around the Earth, and became the first human being to fly into space and return.
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PROMONTORY, Box Elder County -- Standing at the businesses of the new Ares I rocket, ATK Rocket Systems Chief Engineer Gary Bates is every bit the proud papa. This is the baby that's going to carry mankind faster and deeper into space -- way beyond the mere 250,000 miles to the moon.
That trip is just a few days," Bates said. "This is how we'll get to Mars." That's a journey that takes three months, one way.
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Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965. By Francis French and Colin Burgess. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Phot...
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NEW YORK, July 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Despite negative markets in June, hedge funds were able to attract new assets, with an estimated $5.6 billion flowing into the space during the month.
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The kitchen is the heart of many homes, an all-purpose area where much of life happens. But in the end, it has just one function that makes it unique among rooms: It's where you cook.
Clutter, distractions, poor workflow - sometimes a kitchen's layout can hinder the cooking process more than it helps. Decorating can create similar pitfalls. "We get too caught up in color palettes and soft fabrics, and we overthink it," says Genevieve Gorder, co- host and judge of HGTV's "Design Star.
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A Mexican restaurant will be moving into a Biddeford Crossing building that has been vacant for nearly three years.
El Santo Coyote Mexican Restaurant will be moving into the space formerly used by T.G.I. Friday's, said New England Development property manager Tom Bowen.
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Out here by an apple orchard just off Highway 97 in Brewster, Wash., is one of the Hubble Space Telescope's ignored cousins, an 82-foot dish painted all white that weighs in at 240 tons.
Yet it is part of a telescope system that produces images that are hundreds of times more detailed than what the Hubble can do.
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Sally Ride is never satisfied. She learned early in life that while she may have to try harder than her male counterparts to prove it, she can do anyt...
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Scotty will be blasted into space - not beamed up - and Gordo is returning for his third flight.
The planned launch sometime in March of a rocket carrying the ashes of actor James Doohan, who played chief engineer Montgomery Scott on "Star Trek," and Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper will give a fitting send-off to two men who helped popularize human space exploration.