Heart attacks rise following daylight saving time, says UAB Expert
Posted by brandoniswrite on March 7, 2012
By Jennifer Lollar Daylight-saving time this year begins March 11, and while we all might look forward to another hour of sunshine a University of Alabama at Birmingham expert says the time change is not necessarily good for your health. “The Monday and Tuesday after moving the clocks ahead one hour in March is associated with a 10 [...]
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Fifth ATV named following Georges Lemaitre
Posted by brandoniswrite on February 29, 2012
Georges Lemaitre teaching at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. In 1927, Georges Lemaitre exposed a family of solutions to Einstein’s relativity equations that describe an expanding Universe quite than a static one, and provide the first observational opinion of the Hubble steady. The theory later became much improved known as the Big Bang theory. [...]
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No impact to two ULA missions following Delta Mariner accident
Posted by brandoniswrite on January 30, 2012
The Delta Mariner – carrying hardware elements targeting two future launches – collided with the Eggner’s Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake on Thursday night. However, despite extensive damage to the bridge, no serious injuries were reported. ULA have noted that there will be no mission impact to the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-2) and Radiation [...]
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Launch Pad Inspections Set For Saturday Following TCDT Conclusion Friday
Posted by brandoniswrite on August 18, 2010
Technicians and engineers on Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, will begin detailed inspections of space shuttle Endeavour and its external fuel tank Saturday afternoon. They’ll look for any possible damage from severe storms that hit Kennedy on Wednesday and Thursday. Teams began an initial survey of the launch pad Friday, [...]
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Endeavour launch not possible before “end of week;” not likely before following week
Posted by brandoniswrite on June 11, 2010
NASA has determined that the glitch that caused officials to scrub last Friday’s launch was in a switchbox and that complicates efforts to both fix the problem and schedule another launch. NASA officially ruled out Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week because fixing the switchbox problem will take at least that long. That runs [...]
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