Topic: Lunar Exploration
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20 essential Android tips and tricks
Several weeks ago, we highlighted 20 useful iPhone tricks everyone should know. We got such good feedback from that feature that we wanted to share the love with Android users – who, after all, make up the largest proportion of the smart phone community.
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Newt Gingrich: 8 of the GOP idea man's more unusual ideas
Newt Gingrich is a big ideas guy. Ask anybody. Some of the ideas end up working, while others are a little out there.
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Top 10 real-life adventure stories
What’s the best way to enjoy the summer: A cookout in the backyard? A trip to the beach? These are nice, but look no further than reading a non-fiction adventure book. It’s by far the best way to immerse yourself in another world. Check out this list to see some of the best titles in this excellent genre.
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Looking deeper
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Astronauts of the Past
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NASA asks future moon explorers to keep away from Apollo landing site
NASA has asked that any future astronauts or rovers visiting the moon refrain from disturbing the artifacts left behind by past US lunar missions.
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20 essential Android tips and tricks
Several weeks ago, we highlighted 20 useful iPhone tricks everyone should know. We got such good feedback from that feature that we wanted to share the love with Android users – who, after all, make up the largest proportion of the smart phone community.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos to search for sunken Apollo 11 engines (+video)
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says that his deep-sea sonar expedition in the Atlantic has located the five engines used to launch Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon in 1969, and he plans to bring at least one of them to the surface.
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How did the moon get there? NASA videos explain.
Images captured by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been used to create an animated 4-billion-year history of the moon.
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Moon may contain magma, say scientists (+video)
Although the Earth's crust is still shifting, driven by the churning semimolten rock underneath it, researchers had thought the moon had cooled off much too long ago to still have any such tectonic activity.
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NASA probe shoots video of the dark side of the moon (+video)
One of NASA's twin Grail probes circling the moon has captured a video of the side that perpetually faces away from Earth.
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The Vote
Is moon base really the 'weirdest' Newt Gingrich idea? Maybe not.
Newt Gingrich once wrote a bill that proposed to clarify when a moon base could apply for statehood. He admitted the bill was a bit odd Wednesday. But it might now prove to be a stroke of brilliance.
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Do we need spaceflight for the perspective?
An astronaut's life-changing lesson from a moment in orbit.
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NASA's twin moon probes renamed by children: 'Ebb' & 'Flow'
The probes' new names were offered by fourth grade students in Bozeman, Mont., who were chosen as the winners of NASA's naming contest.
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NASA questions Apollo 13 cmdr's right to sell list
Greg Rohan, president of Dallas-based Heritage, said Thursday the sale has been suspended pending the outcome of the inquiry. The checklist, he said, is being stored for now in the company's vault.
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NASA Grail probes circling the moon on New Year's Day
After a 3½-month journey, a NASA spacecraft flew over the moon's south pole, fired its engine and dropped into orbit in the first of two back-to-back arrivals over the New Year's weekend.
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Newt Gingrich: 8 of the GOP idea man's more unusual ideas
Newt Gingrich is a big ideas guy. Ask anybody. Some of the ideas end up working, while others are a little out there.
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Apollo 13: James Lovell's checklist sells for $388,375
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions sold the Apollo 13 checklist Wednesday as part of a batch of US space program artifacts being offered during its 'Space Signature Auction.'
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NASA sting terrifies elderly woman
NASA sting: At the end of the sting operation, agents were left holding a speck of lunar dust smaller than a grain of rice and a 73-year-old suspect who was terrified by armed officials.
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Top 10 real-life adventure stories
What’s the best way to enjoy the summer: A cookout in the backyard? A trip to the beach? These are nice, but look no further than reading a non-fiction adventure book. It’s by far the best way to immerse yourself in another world. Check out this list to see some of the best titles in this excellent genre.
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Moon dust from Apollo 11 mission discovered at St. Louis auction house
Moon dust that had returned to earth from the historic flight that brought Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon was set to be auctioned off at a St. Louis auction house, say NASA officials.
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Looking deeper
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Astronauts of the Past
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Massive craters
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Final shuttle launch for Discovery: Was shuttle program worth it?
Feb. 24 will mark the last shuttle launch of Discovery, with the final flight of Endeavour to follow in April and – if there's enough money – Atlantis's last flight of the entire program in June. Here are five questions about what the shuttles have – and haven't – accomplished.
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Zero-G
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The 10 weirdest uses for a smartphone
If you're using your smartphone only to make calls, check your email, surf the Web, manage your schedule, take photos, shoot video, listen to music, watch movies, navigate via GPS, play video games, and update your Twitter and Facebook statuses, then you're really nothing more than a Luddite.
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Horizon
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What's inside the moon? A fresh look at Apollo-era data offers clues.
Moonquake data collected in the Apollo era were supposed to help scientists understand what lay beneath the moon's crust. But only now do scientists have the know-how to unravel the answers.
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In Pictures: Space photos of the day: Moonwalking
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