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Chasing moonbows goes high tech
Aristotle took note of this celestial happening a couple of millennia back. Ben Franklin bagged a sighting or two, as did Mark Twain. Now, a team of astronomers from Texas State University in San Marcos has produced a computer model that can reliably predict the date and duration of moonbows at Yosemite Falls.

NASA chief doubts urgency of global warming
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, whose agency’s observations of the Earth have helped to confirm a global rise in temperature, said he doubts that global warming is an issue mankind should address.

NASA lawyer admits he destroyed DVDs of meeting
NASA’s top lawyer said Thursday that he destroyed several DVD recordings of a talk between the space agency’s boss and the staff of its internal watchdog office because he wanted to make sure the meeting details weren’t made public.

Hubble sheds light on existence of dark matter
A team of scientists say they have found the most convincing evidence so far that the mysterious stuff known as dark matter really exists: a gigantic ring of invisible material left over from the ancient collision of galaxy clusters.

China launches satellite for Nigeria
A Chinese rocket blasted a Nigerian communications satellite into orbit today, marking an expansion of China’s commercial launching services for foreign space hardware, state media said. The official Xinhua News Agency said it was the first time a foreign buyer has purchased a Chinese satellite and its launching service.

Aerospace companies targeting young recruits online
Justin Wong, an aerospace engineering student from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was schmoozing on Facebook.com last fall when he came across a sleek Boeing job ad.

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