Space Shuttle Enterprise Arrives in New York

An exciting day in New York, as the Space Shuttle Enterprise flies over. AllThingsD is there.
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Here’s How Planetary Resources Plans to Mine Asteroids (Release)

Planetary Resources is building its own spacecraft to mine asteroids for raw materials, including platinum and water.
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Viral Image: The Biggest and Bluest Marble

Our beautiful home in the deep, dark universe.
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Now Leaving Your Solar System; Welcome to Interstellar Space

The Voyager 1 spacecraft is getting awfully close to the outer edge of our solar system.
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Google’s Top Brass Willing to Pay Up to Save NASA’s Hangar One

Google’s top three executives want to save Hangar One, NASA’s iconic Moffett Field airship house. Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt are willing to pay the $33 million price tag in full, as long as they can park their eight private jets there once the revamp is done. NASA is said to be weighing the offer, according to the Mercury News.

Kepler 22-B: Earth 2.0 for Future Facebook Friending?

Hey geeks, the comics might have been right about Counter-Earth!
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Amazon Launches Government-Oriented Cloud Computing Service

Three months after America’s first chief technology officer recommended that the federal government move as much of its IT infrastructure to the cloud as possible in order to save a few billion dollars, cloud provider Amazon says it has just such a service ready to roll. Amazon announced today the launch of GovCloud, a “region” within its Amazon Web Services aimed specifically at U.S. government agencies and their security needs.

The Best Tweet From Space You’ll See Today

Sure, you can use Twitter to tell people what you had for breakfast. But you can also deliver messages that are literally out of this world.

Hewlett-Packard Lifts Off With NASA Contract

HP’s four-year, $2.5 billion contract makes it the supplier of desktops and collaboration services to the U.S. space agency. It’s taking the job just as NASA heads into a period of transition.

IBM Acquires Tririga, Real Estate Software Company

Big Blue has promised to spend $20 billion on software over the next five years. Today it grabbed a company that specializes in managing the costs associated with running big buildings.

“Soggy Pork”: The Other White Meat

Netflix Back in Business

Verizon Goes Alltel In

Microsoft Rubber, Google Glue