NASA Launches Ares I-X Test Rocket

NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. All told, the flight test lasted about six minutes: the launch from the newly modified Launch Pad 39B, a two-minute powered flight, and then a splashdown of the rocket’s booster stage nearly 150 miles downrange. The Ares I-X [...]

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Solar Projects Battling for Water

Construction of renewable energy projects has revealed some serious environmental issues that will have to be dealt with as we speed toward a clean energy future.  We recently wrote about the conflict between land conservation efforts and renewable energy projects in deserts out west.  Land that is ideal for solar energy production is also pristine [...]

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Eco Homes: Solar-powered Honeycomb is home away from home

Eco Factor: Temporary abode designed to run on solar energy. The overuse of land has long been overlooked in an effort to reduce the dependence on polluting fossil fuels for energy. Industrial designer Eric Zhang has proposed Honeycomb, a temporary abode that is designed to provide an alternative choice between a tent and a house for [...]

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Loft Style Axel Bed in a Bag

Update your decor with this savvy and stylish Loft Style Axel Bed in a Bag. The face of the comforter and the standard flanged pillow shams features an all over geometric pattern of interlocking stylized chain links in shades of mocha, white and leaf green on a sage green ground; the comforter reverses to a [...]

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