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NASA plans to invite some of its @NASA Twitter followers to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida next month to view the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis in person.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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NASA trots out tired old "weather balloon" excuse for latest UFO attack
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Front row seats to NASA's lunar impact
NASA uses Unix to track asteroid's close call to Earth
Astronauts say "yipee!" to urine drinking
NASA: Discovery dodges space junk on its way home
'Government cloud' coming from Google next year
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NASA's Mars Lander tweets and blogs about its death
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