The 'Missile Woman' behind Indian test launch

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New Delhi (AFP) April 24, 2012
Hailed as a trail blazer in male-dominated India, Tessy Thomas juggles domestic duties with her day job - as the country's top ballistic missile expert. Thomas was project director for the Agni V long-range nuclear-capable missile which was test-fired last week in a major military advance that will give India the ability to hit all of rival China's cities for the first time. Celebrated

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SpaceX delays first private launch to space
station

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Washington (AFP) April 24, 2012
SpaceX has postponed by a week its bid to become the first private company to attempt to launch an unmanned cargo vessel to the International Space Station. "After reviewing our recent progress, it was clear that we needed more time to finish hardware-in-the-loop testing and properly review and follow up on all data," SpaceX spokeswoman Kirstin Brost Grantham said late Monday. "While it

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Google unzipped

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Today, Google honours the inventor of the zip fastener, more commonly known in the common vernacular, as the zip (or zipper if you live on the other side of the pond that is The Atlantic. The Google Doodle shows an embroidered Google logo waiting expectantly for its tab to be pulled down…go on unzip Google, [...]

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Breaking: Private company does indeed plan to
mine asteroids and I think they can do it

post from Bad Astronomy on 24 April 2012 02:01:45 AM. © Bad Astronomy

Planetary Resources, Inc. is not your average startup: its mission is to investigate and eventually mine asteroids in space!Last week, the company issued a somewhat cryptic announcement saying they “will overlay two critical sectors ? space[...]

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Destroying Invaders- One DNA Strand at a Time

post from CR4 - Recent Blog Entries on 24 April 2012 01:00:00 AM. © CR4 - Recent Blog Entries

I was very surprised to learn today that doctors and scientists didn't (until this month) know how antibodies really worked. Antibodies have been a common medical treatment for 70 years and have been cures for common and not so common diseases. With the ever increasing list of antibody resistant

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Mary's Monday Metazoan: Needs shortcake

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100 Year Starship Site Launches

You’ll want to bookmark the 100 Year Starship Initiative‘s new site, which just came online. From the mission statement: 100 Year Starship will pursue national and global initiatives, and galvanize public and private leadership and grassroots[...]

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