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Capture an asteroid? Piece of cake
“What could go wrong?” If you’re a woman, you’ve undoubtedly heard this phrase -- probably more than once -- from your father/grandfather/husband/boyfriend/male friends, shortly before the aforementioned types did something...Tags: The Home Depot, Jesse James, Virgin Group, Ltd., NASA
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Director of academics-focused nonprofit in Pasadena announces departure
The executive director of a nonprofit that operates a number of tutoring programs and a summer school in Pasadena is stepping down after eight years. Randy Jurado Ertll, executive director of El Centro de Accion Social – which also offers...Tags: NASA
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Dental clinic for HIV-positive, low income patients opens in Pasadena
Accessing much-needed dental care is no longer like pulling teeth for HIV-positive patients in San Gabriel Valley. A new dental clinic that recently opened in Pasadena fills a major health care gap for those who have HIV, but lack insurance. That’...
Tags: Personal Income, Root Canal, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, AIDS
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Asteroid capture: NASA plans to drag space rock into lunar orbit
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden dropped by JPL on Thursday to outline the agency's plans to capture an asteroid, and to look at a model of a powerful new ion thruster that has enough strength to drag a space rock into orbit around the moon. NASA...
Tags: Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Science and Technology, NASA, Barack Obama, Space Programs
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NASA's JPL to 'lasso' an asteroid
A proposed mission to capture an asteroid and bring it into orbit in the Earth-moon system is a stepping stone to sending humans to Mars, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said Thursday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Bolden visited the La Caņada...
Tags: Google Inc., Science, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Science and Technology, Barack Obama
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LCHS students attend conference in China
La Caņada High School students Caitlyn Seo and Mena Hanna traveled to China last month to attend an international education conference. The students were joined by English teacher Ben Powers, Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientist Benyang Tang and Lindi...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, China
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NASA chief views prototype ion engine for asteroid-capture mission; meets with engineers
AP Science WriterPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore. Bolden checked on...Tags: Science, Charles F. Bolden, Jr., Science and Technology, NASA, Orion Space Mission
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Boy Scouts lift ban on openly gay youth
GRAPEVINE, Texas — In an emotionally charged vote Thursday, the Boy Scouts of America lifted its ban on gay youth starting in January next year, the latest sign of a shift in American attitudes toward gays and lesbians. After months of debate in...Tags: Los Angeles Hotels, Gays and Lesbians, Protestant Convention, Boy Scouts of America, Social Organizations
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JPL begins work on two new missions to Mars
Less than a year after the rover Curiosity's successful landing on Mars, scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are at work on two new missions to the Red Planet. The space agency last year announced that a new lander and rover...
Tags: NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science, Science and Technology, NASA, Aerospace Manufacturing
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Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sooty black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby. Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make... -
La Caņada Library still serving its purpose
La Caņada was one of the first communities in Los Angeles County to lend books to residents, setting up a library at the back of a general store in 1913. The library was located at the intersection of Union and Michigan avenues, near the current...Tags: Arts and Culture, Human Interest, Libraries
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Local stargazers escape to the desert
They traveled more than 200 miles from the San Gabriel Valley to reach one of the darkest corners in Southern California. Three hours before sunset on Saturday, half a dozen amateur astronomers unloaded high-powered telescopes onto a concrete platform...
Tags: Saturn, Mojave National Preserve, Astronomy
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