Count your weather forecasts among the possible victims of automatic federal budget cuts set to begin this week. The cuts would hit two troubled government satellite programs and potentially exacerbate a coverage gap that’s already expected to leave forecasters with...
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Hurricane Irene is seen from space from the International Space Station, as it churns off the east coast of the United States in the Atlantic Ocean, in this file photo.
Weather Report? Sequestered
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President Barack Obama listens to Japan's new conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe following their bilateral meeting in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Feb. 22, 2013.
Washington Daybook: Governors Gathering
Trade is at the top of the agenda when President Barack Obama meets with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House today. Aides said removing Japanese barriers for U.S. automakers is “an important pre- condition” to Japan’s potential entry into...
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The International Space Station (ISS) over Miami, taken from the Space Shuttle Endeavour.
NASA: May the Best Kids’ Code Win
NASA plans to upload code developed by teens to control bowling ball-sized satellites aboard the International Space Station. The off-the-wall experiment tomorrow is part of a contest sponsored by the elite Pentagon research unit known as the Defense Advanced Research...
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Space Shuttle Atlantis rolls down Kennedy Parkway on its way to its new home at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida.
NASA to Shed Old Shuttle Sites
With its shuttle fleet retired and on display at museums around the country, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is looking to shed its shuttle facilities and equipment. NASA is in talks with a handful of space companies and partnerships...
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Colleagues celebrate a successful landing inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Aug. 5, 2012 in Pasadena, California.
Best and Worst Workplaces: Government Plum-Jobs and Prunes
At NASA, they get to launch rockets. Little wonder it tops the list of big federal agencies where employees are happiest — at the top of the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government in 2012, according to the...
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Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s (SpaceX) Falcon 9 rocket takes off in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Legacy-Conscious Obama Sure to Act on Deficit: Silicon Valley’s Musk
Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur who splits his time between running the electric car-making Tesla Motors Inc. and rocket-making Space Exploration Technologies Corp., sees “good economic times ahead” for the U.S. His Tesla, which received $465 million in federal...
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President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney are seen at the Lavanderia coin laundry in Miami during their televised debate.
Washington Daybook: The Whole World is Watching
OK. The whole world wasn’t watching, though President Barack Obama can be forgiven for thinking it was. Some 67.2 million viewers tuned in Wednesday to watch his subdued — many say weak — debate performance, 28 percent more than watched...
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