Diaz, Marsden, Kelly's 'Box' is empty
Cameron Diaz and James Marsden have a terrible moral dilemma in Richard Kelly s The Box : Press a button on a mysterious container, they ll get $1 million, and someone they don t know will die. What button, on whose box, did Kelly push to get t...
 3.6K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 105.0 Elevator to space? They're really trying
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) Rocketing into space? Some think an elevator might be the way to go. That s the future goal of this week s $2 million Space Elevator Games in the Mojave Desert. In a major test of the concept, robotic machin...
0.9K - Nov. 4, 2009; scored 66.0 NASA needs to probe carefully
An independent panel created by the Obama administration announced last week that it (surprise!) disagrees with a plan pushed by former President George W. Bush to return to the moon with manned missions. Been there. Done that. Instead, the panel mem...
1.0K - Nov. 2, 2009; scored 902.0 Leland Wesley Sutton
A cryptside funeral service will be held for Leland Lee Wesley Sutton, 88, of Bandon at 2 p.m., Monday, Oct. 26, at Sunset Memorial Park Mausoleum, 63060 Millington Frontage Road in Coos Bay with Pastor Don Berney, of New Beginnings Christian Fello...
2.0K - Oct. 23, 2009; scored 66.0 Real, but do we really need to see it?
If your profession doesn t have a reality show, is what you do really a profession? Chefs, fashion designers, entrepreneurs, models, cab drivers, has-been rock stars, travelers, bachelors, parents, dancers, singers, comedians, comedians, businesspeo...
3.9K - Oct. 22, 2009; scored 66.0 NASA puts new rocket on launch pad
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) NASA s new rocket is on the launching pad. The experimental Ares rocket traveled from the hangar to the pad this morning. The four-mile trip took all night. It s the first time in 34 years that a rocket other than the spac...
0.7K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 747.0 NASA looks for moon ice
WASHINGTON Take that, moon! NASA smacked two spacecraft into the lunar south pole Friday morning in a search for hidden ice. Instruments confirm that a large empty rocket hull barreled into the moon at 7:31 a.m., followed four minutes later by a pr...
4.3K - Oct. 9, 2009; scored 982.0 Astronomers discover big Saturn ring
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced late Tuesday. The thin array of ice and dust particles lies at the far reac...
2.2K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 66.0 NASA: Ice melt worsening
WASHINGTON New satellite information shows that ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica continue to shrink faster than scientists thought and in some places are already in runaway melt mode. British scientists for the first time calculated c...
2.9K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 669.0 Protectionism rising despite G-20 vows on trade
WASHINGTON ” Leaders of the world s 20 top economies vowed to resist protectionism last November and again in April as they charted a joint strategy for confronting the worst global downturn in generations. As they meet again, they ll get ...
5.2K - Sep. 18, 2009; scored 66.0 Thunderstorms force launch delay for space shuttle
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Thunderstorms forced NASA to call off shuttle Discovery s launch to the international space station early Tuesday. Launch managers said they would try again Wednesday. The storms popped up unexpectedly late Monday all arou...
3.2K - Aug. 25, 2009; scored 510.0 Former migrant worker about to blast into space
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) He toiled in California's farm fields alongside his Mexican migrant worker parents and didn't learn English until he was 12. Now Jose Hernandez, NASA astronaut, is about to rocket into orbit. His parents will be in Florida...
5.5K - Aug. 22, 2009; scored 133.0 Astronauts take one last space walk
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Astronauts took the last spacewalk of their shared shuttle and station mission today, taking care of a little rewiring and some other outdoor chores. Christopher Cassidy and Thomas Marshburn were eager to get started on th...
3.0K - Jul. 27, 2009; scored 267.0 Senate opts not to vote on health care before break
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is likening overhaul of the nation's health care system to one of the government's greatest triumphs: the NASA program that landed astronauts on the moon 40 years ago. If Obama's initiative is to be anywhere near a...
4.9K - Jul. 24, 2009; scored 66.0 Australia outback includes world's longest golf course
BRISBANE, Australia Hit a few loose shots or three-putt the first green at Nullarbor Links and you ll have plenty of time to think about your errant ways before teeing off at the second. That s because No. 2 is 42 miles down the highway. Billed as ...
5.9K - Jul. 21, 2009; scored 105.0 New heading: Mars
WASHINGTON The first astronauts to walk on the moon want President Barack Obama to aim for a new destination: Mars. Today, the Apollo 11 crewmen, fresh from a Washington lecture Sunday in which two of them expressed concerns about NASA getting bogg...
4.2K - Jul. 20, 2009; scored 200.0 Space: Is the final frontier all it used to be?
MOON, Pa. (AP) On July 22, 1969, barely 48 hours after a human being first stepped onto the moon s surface, a community in Pittsburgh s western suburbs called Moon Township had a parade, as suburban communities do. Understandably, Moon had achieved...
12.2K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 267.0 NASA photos show Apollo leftovers still on the moon
WASHINGTON (AP) First-ever NASA photos of the moon show the leftovers from man's exploration 40 years ago. The photos from space pinpoint equipment left behind from Apollo landings, and even the well-worn tracks made by astronauts on the moon surfa...
2.4K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 401.0 Apollo leftovers still on the moon
WASHINGTON (AP) First-ever NASA photos of the moon show the leftovers from man s exploration 40 years ago. The photos from space pinpoint equipment left behind from Apollo landings, and even the well-worn tracks made by astronauts on the moon surfa...
2.4K - Jul. 18, 2009; scored 444.0 Damage survey starts as space shuttle docks
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Space shuttle Endeavour is closing in on the international space station following a two-day chase. Before docking at the space station Friday afternoon, Endeavour will perform a backflip so the station crew can photograph...
0.8K - Jul. 17, 2009; scored 66.0 | 
