News Predator - Science News Archive 10/5/2008

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US scientists find oldest fossil tracks of legged animal (AFP)

AFP - US scientists have found the oldest fossilized tracks of a tiny legged animal, from 570 million years ago, that push back the advent of more complex creatures on Earth by some 30 million years, a report said Sunday.

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Recordings aim to capture calls of the wild West (AP)

AP - Rattlesnakes aren't to be trifled with, but if you're trying to collect the sound of every creature in the West that slithers, hops, flies or flops, distance isn't a luxury you can afford.

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Oldest 'Footprints' on Earth Found (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The oldest-known tracks of a creature apparently using legs have been discovered in rock dated to 570 million years ago in what was once a shallow sea in Nevada.

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Gut Reaction: Digestion Revealed in 3-D (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

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AP Investigation: Ike environmental toll apparent (AP)

AP - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

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Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat (AP)

AP - Laura Gadd pauses at the edge of a pristine savanna, delicately lifting her feet to avoid trampling any venus flytraps hidden underfoot.

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International Space Station changes orbit awaiting tourist: report (AFP)

AFP - The orbital path of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world's sixth space tourist in eight days time, Interfax reported citing Russian space programme officials.

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Fossett plane recovery might not resume this year (AP)

AP - California officials say recovery efforts around the site of adventurer Steve Fossett's downed plane might not resume until summer.

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Bacteria Think Ahead (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Bacteria may be humble single-celled creatures, but they're sophisticated enough to anticipate regular events, such as the arrival of day, thanks to their internal circadian clocks. A new study shows that they can also anticipate and prepare for sporadic events, as long as the events are reliably preceded by a signal.

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Grief: The Price of Love (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Years ago while observing a troop of Barbary macaques for behavioral research, I was surprised to see a new mother holding on to her obviously stillborn baby. She clutched the corpse to her chest and made soft cooing sounds, obviously in distress. More remarkable, she held on to that dead baby for more than a week as it began to decompose. Eventually, the mother showed up alone, but then it got even sadder. She began to haunt other mothers, those with live babies. She would sit close to them and try to grab those babies and hug them, as if to make up for her loss...

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Beaches once thick with birds quiet thanks to Ike (AP)

AP - One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent.

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World of Warcraft Video Game Succeeds in School (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - It's not unusual for video game players to speak of a routine that involves ordering pizza, getting a sugar jolt, and then playing "World of Warcraft" for hours. But the person talking in this case is Constance Steinkuehler, an educational researcher who organized an afterschool group for boys to play, for educational purposes, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

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Some facts adrift in veep debate (AP)

AP - Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn't exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two clashed in the vice presidential debate Thursday.

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Tropical Storm Marie strengthens slightly (AP)

AP - The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Marie has strengthened slightly as it churns out in the Pacific.

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Pollution Makes Oceans Noisier (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The ocean may soon begin to sound more like New York City to dolphins and whales.

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What Does the Vice President Do, Anyway? (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - In the vice presidential debate Thursday, Republican candidate Sarah Palin differed from Democratic pick Joe Biden on the topic of exactly what the vice president's job is or ought to be.

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NTSB: Remains found at Steve Fossett wreckage site (AP)

AP - Federal investigators said Thursday they found human remains amid the wreckage of missing adventurer Steve Fossett's airplane in the mountains of eastern California. The remains were found among a field of debris that stretched 400 feet long and 150 feet wide in a steep section of the Sierra Nevada.

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Navy confirms lost WWII sub has been found (AP)

AP - The Navy has confirmed the wreckage of a sunken vessel found last year off the Aleutians Islands is that of the USS Grunion, which disappeared during World War II.

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Big fossil found in paleontologist's yard post-Ike (AP)

AP - A paleontologist whose beachfront home in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size tooth in the debris.

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Tax breaks big and small sweeten financial bailout (AP)

AP - Millions of taxpayers, thousands of businesses and groups as diverse as solar power developers and natural disaster victims will see tax relief with the House vote Friday to approve and send to the president a $700 billion financial rescue plan.

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Rich and Poor Have Same Economic Views (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - With the financial crisis weighing on everyone's minds, many debate whether our government's economic policies cater to the rich over the poor.

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Genes pinpoint people at risk for gout: study (Reuters)

Reuters - Scientists have pinpointed three genes related to the high blood levels of uric acid that cause gout in a step that could help identify people at special risk for this common and painful type of arthritis.

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Strippers, armadillos inspire Ig Nobel winners (AP)

AP - Deborah Anderson had heard the urban legends about the contraceptive effectiveness of Coca-Cola products for years. So she and her colleagues decided to put the soft drink to the test. In the lab, that is.

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Australian boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc (Reuters)

Reuters - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

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Chinese pandas fed chicken soup for health (AP)

AP - Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul ? even pandas.

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Boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc (Reuters)

Reuters - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

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Tropical Storm Marie in the Eastern Pacific (weather.com)

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Exxon-led project faces Russian lawsuit over endangered whales (AFP)

AFP - Russian environmental groups launched Friday legal action against an oil and gas project led by US energy giant Exxon for threatening critically endangered whales in Russia's far east.

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Southern States Ranked Worst for Seriously Sick (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The South is the worst place to live if you're seriously ill, according to a new report that graded each U.S. state for residents' access to palliative care, a fairly new specialty that focuses on patients' quality-of-life issues rather than elusive cures for diseases.

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Catastrophe Killed Dinosaur Herd, New Species Emerges (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago left a herd of giant, horned dinosaurs buried to become fossils. Now scientists have identified the extinct creatures as a new species.

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Lobbyists use new provisions to hunt bailout votes (AP)

AP - Lobbyists for restaurants, the solar power industry and other businesses hunted votes Wednesday for the $700 billion financial industry bailout package, touting new provisions that leaders added in hopes of finally pushing the bill through Congress.

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TV Ads Grab Attention in Fast-Forward (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - NBC's "Heroes" remains a marketer's delight after its third season premiere drew 10 million viewers. But the network worried about one glaring anomaly - almost a third of the show's viewers use DVRs to record the program and possibly fast-forward through commercials.

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Fraudsters prosecuted in Hurricane Katrina's wake (AFP)

AFP - The US Justice Department has charged 907 people with cheating the federal government out of relief funds or other assistance following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, officials announced Thursday.

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Second delay for European science satellite launch (AFP)

AFP - The launch of a satellite to monitor Earth's gravitational field, which had been postponed from September 10 to October 5, has been delayed for a second time, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.

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Palin vs. Biden: How Sex May Change the Debate (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - If history repeats itself, the vice presidential candidates will pull no punches at Thursday night's debate.

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Natural gas for winter heating should be plentiful (AP)

AP - Despite supply interruptions caused by Hurricane Gustav, there should be plenty of natural gas available for heating this winter and prices are likely to stay about the same as last winter, natural gas producers said Thursday.

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NASA spacecraft to soar over Mercury (AFP)

AFP - A US space probe will fly over Mercury next week to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, NASA announced on Wednesday.

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Vietnam's death toll from storm rises to 8 (AP)

AP - The bodies of two children and three fishermen were recovered in central Vietnam, raising the death toll from Tropical Storm Mekkhala to eight with eight others still missing and feared dead, disaster officials said Thursday.

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Group seeks protection for ugly New England fish (AP)

AP - A ferocious-looking denizen of the deep that can gobble up whole urchins and crabs in a few swift chomps needs protection, according to a petition filed with the federal government.

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Researchers find that tuna swim across Atlantic (AP)

AP - Bluefin tuna from both sides of the Atlantic get together as juveniles, a discovery that could affect how the tuna fishery is managed. While North American and Mediterranean bluefin return home to spawn, a study published in Friday's edition of the journal Science reveals that as youngsters the fish travel long distances to intermix.

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Cincinnati wants to lead green roof movement in US (AP)

AP - Officials want to see more green roofs on building tops in Cincinnati.

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Ancient Microbes Hint at Life's Limits (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Looking for fossils in old rocks is a tough job. Body parts degrade over the years, and the older the rock, the less likely it will be that you will find any evidence that life was once there. One question facing scientists is: Just how far back in time can we go before the traces of life are completely lost?

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Animal Instincts: Main Street Seeks Revenge on Wall Street (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The outrage expressed by many so-called Main Street folks over the proposed Wall Street bailout is based on more than a sense of injustice.

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Radiation shut down EU test satellite for two weeks: ESA (AFP)

AFP - A second test satellite for Galileo, Europe's rival to the US Global Positioning System (GPS), closed itself down for more than two weeks last month because of space radiation, concurring sources said Thursday.

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Americans Clueless About Plans to Create New Life Forms (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - If you've never heard of the exciting field of synthetic biology, you're not alone, but you might want to get wise to the field's controversial promise to create life from scratch.

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Capsule that caught comet dust goes to Smithsonian (AP)

AP - The capsule that brought the first comet samples back to Earth is going on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

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Lawsuit seeks Species Act protection for wolverine (AP)

AP - Environmental groups sued the federal government Tuesday to protect wolverines under the Endangered Species Act, saying the Interior Department disregarded scientific conclusions that the species was in jeopardy.

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Tropical Storm Laura Weakening (weather.com)

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In Baseball, Head-first Slides Are Best (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A player's slide to beat the throw at home plate is one of baseball's big thrills, especially during the postseason, which begins today. But of the two sliding styles - head-first and feet-first - which is faster?

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How Much is $700 Billion? (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The short answer: a lot. The long answer: depends on how you look at it. Whatever your viewpoint, here's how $700 billion - the figure inked in the initial dead-in-the-water government bailout bill for Wall Street - compares to other vast sums. NASA in fiscal year 2009 will launch several missions into space and pay for hundreds of people to operate a host of space telescopes and even remote robots on Mars and run a PR and media department that puts most large corporations to shame...

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Comet Capture Capsule Goes On Display (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A NASA capsule that collected the first samples from a comet has become part of a collection itself.

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Astronaut's diary goes on display in Jerusalem (AP)

AP - Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem.

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Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm.

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ATV: the next step

Europe's ATV - the Jules Verne - ended its first mission with a controlled break-up over the Pacific. Its developers are already thinking about the future of Automated Transport Vehicles, and hope to develop a craft that can not only return to earth intact, but can also carry a crew of astronauts.

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10/3/2008 7:45 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA Moves Up November Shuttle Launch (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The space shuttle Endeavour is set to blast off two days early next month while engineers on Earth continue to study a Hubble Space Telescope glitch that added months of delay to a separate orbiter flight, NASA officials announced Friday.

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Two Companions Found Near Dog-bone Asteroid (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A team of astronomers led by F. Marchis, PI, at the SETI Institute and at UC-Berkeley, and P. Descamps from Paris Observatory announced recently the discovery of two moons around an intriguing asteroid. The main-belt asteroid 216 Kleopatra has two companions.

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GOCE team gearing up for new launch date

ESA and European industries have updated the planning of the preparatory activities for a new tentative launch date of 27 October 2008 for the GOCE satellite.

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NASA Selects Science Teams For Astrobiology Institute

NASA has awarded five-year grants to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.

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NASA at 50: The Shuttle, Space Station and Beyond (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - One vehicle's operative life is coming to a close, while the other's is still in its formative stages. Their legacies will be inexorably linked: Without the space shuttle, delivery and assembly of the International Space Station's (ISS) key components would have been difficult at best, and probably could not have happened.

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NASA to Discuss Mission to Explore the Edge of the Solar System

NASA will hold a media teleconference on Monday, Oct. 6, at 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss the upcoming launch of the first spacecraft that will image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space.

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NASA Extends International Space Station Contract

NASA has awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. to continue engineering support of the International Space Station to Sept. 30, 2010.

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NASA TV Coverage Set For Space Station Crew Exchange

NASA Television will broadcast the launch of the next International Space Station crew Oct. 12.

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Listening In: Lander to Record Mars Sounds (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA scientists hope to hear what it sounds like on the surface of Mars for the first time when they attempt to switch on the Phoenix Mars Lander's microphone in the next week or two, mission leaders announced on Monday.

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NASA'S Messenger Spacecraft Returns To Mercury

A NASA spacecraft will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on Oct. 6.

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Planck update in pictures

The Planck spacecraft has almost completed its final testing phase and is on its way to being launch-ready. The testing phase began in late March this year, and has taken the spacecraft all over Europe, making it go hot, cold and shaky to test its robustness.

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Hubble enters safe mode

At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, 28 September, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.

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U.S. spacecraft poised to fly past Mercury next week (Reuters)

Reuters - A NASA spacecraft will whiz over Mercury's crater-scarred surface next Monday, getting a look at the third of the planet closest to the sun that has never been seen close-up before.

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Jules Verne re-entry video

Video showing the destructive re-entry of Jules Verne ATV at the end of a successful mission to the International Space Station. The re-entry took place over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean after two deorbit burns. (Credits: ESA/NASA)

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NASA Assigns Crew For Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-129 Mission

NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle Discovery's STS-129 mission

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Cabana to Succeed Parsons as Kennedy Space Center Director

NASA announced Tuesday that William Parsons, director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is leaving the agency in mid-October to pursue opportunities in the private sector.

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NASA extends Phoenix mission as snow falls on Mars (Reuters)

Reuters - NASA extended the mission of the busy Phoenix lander Monday, saying it will operate the lander until it dies in the cold and dark of the Martian winter.

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'Smog Blog' For Central America And Caribbean Debuts

NASA and its partners today unveiled a new way to connect satellite air quality data with communities in Central America and the Caribbean.

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U.S. Billionaire to Make Second Private Spaceflight (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON ? American billionaire Charles Simonyi, a computer software executive who paid more than $20 million to fly to the International Space Station aboard a Russian-built Soyuz capsule in spring 2007, will train for a second Soyuz trip to the space station in spring 2009.

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Software billionaire plans 2nd space station trip (AP)

AP - A Virginia space company says a software billionaire plans to become the first private traveler to make a second trip to space

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ESA at space forum in Glasgow

The 59th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2008, is taking place between 29 September and 3 October in Glasgow, Scotland. HRH Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, visited IAC 2008 and opened the exhibition at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC).

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Is the Broken Hubble Telescope Worth Saving? (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - In light of the most recent glitch on the Hubble Space Telescope, a serious equipment failure that means the observatory is unable to send data back to Earth, some are beginning to wonder, is Hubble still worth saving?

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NASA Challenges Students To Design Tools For Moon Rovers

A new NASA contest challenges college-level students to design tools for moon rovers.

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NASA to Discuss Hubble Anomaly and Servicing Mission Launch Delay

NASA will host a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT today to discuss a significant Hubble Space Telescope anomaly that occurred this weekend affecting the storage and transmittal of science data to Earth.

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NASA Updates Aviation Safety Data Web Site

NASA will update its National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service, or NAOMS, Web site Tuesday to add more information from pilot survey responses.

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NASA to Preview Second Mercury Flyby

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 1, to preview the Oct. 6 flyby of Mercury by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft.

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Successful re-entry marks bright future for ATV

ESA PR 41-2008. Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne successfully completed its six-month ISS logistics mission today with its controlled destructive re-entry over a completely uninhabited area of the South Pacific.

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Hubble Space Telescope Suffers Serious Failure (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A serious equipment failure aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is preventing it from relaying data and images to scientists on Earth and will likely delay a shuttle mission to overhaul the observatory next month, NASA officials said Monday.

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ATV re-entry: First pictures (updated)

Taken at approximately 15:36 CEST (13:36 UT) from the DC-8 aircraft. Click on 'Full story' for more images received overnight.

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NASA Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.

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Hubble Telescope Glitch May Delay Shuttle Launch (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A serious equipment failure aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is preventing it from relaying data and images to scientists on Earth and may impact plans to launch a shuttle mission to overhaul the orbital observatory next month, NASA officials said Monday.

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Trouble on Hubble telescope delays space shuttle launch: NASA (AFP)

AFP - NASA on Monday delayed the upcoming launch of the Atlantis space shuttle to allow time to repair a "significant anomaly" that occurred at the weekend on the Hubble space telescope.

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China's first spacewalk team feted with parade (AP)

AP - Three Chinese astronauts arrived Monday in Beijing to a homecoming parade after completing China's first spacewalk and putting the country closer to building a space station and landing a man on the moon.

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Scientists Eager to See European Spacecraft's Death Dive (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A European space freighter the size of a London double-decker bus is headed for a fiery death on Monday with a team of scientists hoping for a ringside seat.

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China's first spacewalk team returns to Earth (AP)

AP - Three Chinese astronauts emerged from their capsule Sunday after a milestone mission to carry out the country's first spacewalk, showing off China's technological know-how and cementing its status as a space power and future competitor to the United States.

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9/27/2008 4:43 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Chinese cheer as astronauts makes first spacewalk (AP)

AP - Chinese celebrated their nation's first spacewalk Saturday, gathering at outdoor TV screens to cheer live video of the milestone for a program that has ambitions of building a space station and challenging the U.S. and Russia in offworld exploration.

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9/27/2008 4:36 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Chinese astronauts in final spacewalk countdown (AP)

AP - Astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft were making final preparations for the country's first-ever spacewalk planned for Saturday afternoon.

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Chinese astronaut takes historic walk in space (Reuters)

Reuters - Astronaut Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese man to walk in space on Saturday, clambering out of China's Shenzhou VII spacecraft in a technological feat that Beijing wants the world to marvel at.

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Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A Chinese astronaut has completed his nation's first ever foray into space beyond the confines of a spacecraft.

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NASA Reauthorization Cleared for President (CQPolitics.com)

CQPolitics.com - The House cleared a NASA reauthorization Saturday by voice vote.

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9/26/2008 10:38 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Ministers meet to take forward the European Space Policy

ESA PR 40-2008. Ministers in charge of space activities within ESA and European Union Member States met in Brussels today for the fifth Space Council(*).

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9/26/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA Ames Awards Contract For Intelligent Systems Support

NASA's Ames Research Center Friday awarded a contract with a maximum value of $300 million to Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT Inc.), of Greenbelt, Md., for intelligent systems research and development support.

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9/26/2008 1:07 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Congress set for new talks to salvage economic deal (AFP)

AFP - US leaders braced for a new day of drama Friday over an enormous financial rescue plan after White House campaign politics intruded into round-the-clock deliberations in Congress.

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9/26/2008 5:47 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Signs of Underground Plumbing Seen on Mars (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A NASA probe has spotted hundreds of small surface fractures near Mars' equator that may have acted as underground natural plumbing to channel groundwater billions of years ago.

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9/26/2008 3:45 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Chinese astronauts prepare suits for spacewalk (AP)

AP - Astronauts aboard China's Shenzhou 7 spacecraft prepared for the country's first-ever spacewalk on Friday by readying the space suits to be used the following day.

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9/26/2008 8:10 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Arctic sea ice annual freeze-up underway

After reaching the second-lowest extent ever recorded last month, sea ice in the Arctic has begun to refreeze in the face of autumn temperatures, closing both the Northern Sea Route and the direct route through the Northwest Passage.

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10/5/2008 11:14 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Anderson's rocket not enough to rescue Saints' blasted hopes but switch in play-off format might help

A top-eight series will remove the dilemma about whether to rest before the Old Trafford finale

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10/5/2008 11:14 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hull frustrate Bale and Spurs with their contain-and-break game

'Simplicity is genius'. Tottenham must return to basics in order to move forward

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Premier League: West Bromwich Albion 1-0 Fulham

Bednar strike gives back-to-back wins to a Baggies team starting to find their feet

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Scottish Premier League: St Mirren 1-0 Rangers

Stephen McGinn produced a moment of brilliance to give St Mirren their first home victory over Rangers in 22 years

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Premier League: Everton 2-2 Newcastle United

Newcastle United came from 2-0 down to earn a draw against Everton at Goodison Park

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Resurgent Derby defy the odds

Derby and Barnsley overcame the loss of key players to record wins against the odds

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: No room for Owen as Capello recalls Crouch

Fabio Capello has recalled Peter Crouch to the England side but there is still no place for Michael Owen

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Premier League: West Ham United 1-3 Bolton Wanderers

Robert Green left Upton Park red-faced after comedy of errors gifted victory to Bolton Wanderers

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Premier League: Portsmouth 2-1 Stoke City

Peter Crouch and Jermain Defoe both scored as Portsmouth beat Stoke City 2-1

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Premier League: I'll not quit, says defeated Juande Ramos

Juande Ramos has said that he will not walk away from his role as Spurs manager

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Women's Football: Rovers see red in Pompey revival

Four players were sent off as Blackburn Rovers eventually succumbed to a battling Portsmouth side on penalties

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10/5/2008 9:58 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Angels top BoSox in 12, trail series 2-1 (AP)

After 11 consecutive losses and two straight playoff sweeps, the Los Angeles Angels had grown tired of being a bump in Boston's road to the World Series. "I don't ever want to hear about that streak again. Ever. It's over," center fielder Torii Hunter said Sunday night after the Angels beat the Red Sox 5-4 in 12 innings to force their first-round AL playoff series to a fourth game.

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Premier League: Tottenham Hotspur 0- 1 Hull City

Hull City heaped more pressure on Spurs manager Juande Ramos after they won 1-0 at White Hart Lane

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Premier League: Wigan Athletic 0-1 Middlesbrough

Jérémie Aliadière's late winner ensured that Middlesbrough left Wigan with all three points

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10/4/2008 9:03 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Pryor's late TD gets Buckeyes by Badgers (AP)

Terrelle Pryor passed his first big test for No. 14 Ohio State. The freshman quarterback ran 11 yards for a touchdown with 1:08 left, and Chris "Beanie" Wells had 168 yards rushing and a TD, as the Buckeyes' new double-threat backfield shined in a 20-17 victory over No. 18 Wisconsin on Saturday night. The last time the Buckeyes (5-1, 2-0 Big Ten) played a marquee game under the lights, they got...

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10/4/2008 9:41 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

No. 4 Missouri ends 30-year Lincoln skid (AP)

Missouri's misery in Lincoln is over. Chase Daniel threw three touchdown passes, Derrick Washington ran for 139 yards and scored three times and the fourth-ranked Tigers beat overmatched Nebraska 52-17 on Saturday night for their first road win against the Cornhuskers in 30 years. The 35-point defeat was the Huskers' most lopsided home loss in 53 years and fifth-worst in Lincoln in the program's...

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10/4/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cricket: Changing the guard as Aussies go Krazy

The selection of Shane-like Jason Krejza suggests Australia's selectors are either geniuses, blindly optimistic or desperate

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10/4/2008 11:06 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Eddie Butler: Danny must learn from Jonny's lack of direction

Danny Cipriani must stay in space and out of trouble to avoid an injury-plagued, Wilkinson-esque career

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10/4/2008 11:12 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Biarritz and not the ref must feel the heat at Kingsholm

Marco Bortolami recounts a frustrating last season, and explains how he and his Gloucester team-mates are dealing with ELVs

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10/5/2008 12:06 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Ian Winwood: Pittsburgh Penguins versus Ottawa Senators in Sweden demonstrates NHL's global appeal

The Stockholm crowd had their imagination captured by the Pittsburgh Penguins overtime defeat of the Ottawa Senators

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10/5/2008 12:11 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Texans' Ike campaign raises $2.45M (AP)

A charitable campaign set up by the Houston Texans to benefit victims of Hurricane Ike has raised $2.45 million. The campaign was announced prior to the Texans' Sept. 21 game against Tennessee. Texans owner Bob McNair donated $500,000 and the NFL and its players' association matched McNair's contribution with a $500,000 donation to the league's disaster relief fund.

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10/5/2008 1:26 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Titans stay unbeaten, top Ravens 13-10 (AP)

Facing a rugged Baltimore Ravens defense that still conjures unpleasant memories, Kerry Collins trotted onto the field needing to mount an 80-yard touchdown drive to keep the Tennessee Titans unbeaten. His first big play was to get hit in the helmet. Soon after that, Collins threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to Alge Crumpler with 1:56 left to rally Tennessee to a 13-10 victory Sunday.

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10/5/2008 2:36 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Premier League: Round-up of Sunday matches

Goals by Kevin Davies, Gary Cahill and a stunning Matthew Taylor free-kick earned Bolton a surprise 3-1 win at West Ham

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10/5/2008 4:11 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Premier League: Chelsea and Liverpool stay top while Tottenham are humbled by Hull

Chelsea and Liverpool retain a share of the Premier League lead after wins of differing difficulty, while Tottenham lost again to Hull

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10/5/2008 7:17 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: No room for Owen as Capello sticks with winning formula

Michael Owen was overlooked again as Fabio Capello named his 23-man England squad to face Belarus and Kazakhstan

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10/4/2008 10:16 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Dodgers advance to NLCS, sweep Cubs (AP)

It's a century and counting for the Chicago Cubs. Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers shoved Chicago into another long winter Saturday night, completing a three-game sweep of their first-round playoff series with a 3-1 victory. The Cubs' latest flameout has to be among the most galling, considering they fell flat against the Dodgers after their best regular season since 1945.

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10/4/2008 10:42 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Formula one: Ferrari president's men play the clowns in Singapore's night circus

The Marquis Luca Cordero di Montezemolo's criticisms of the Singapore Grand Prix smacked of sour grapes after Ferrari's pit-stop debacle

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10/4/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

A1GP: Netherlands seize day in Zandvoort

The Netherlands have secured pole position for the A1GP season four opening race with New Zealand in second

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10/4/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

EDF Energy Cup: Bath 15-19 Leicester

The Premiership's leading teams battled it out with Leicester taking the honours in their EDF Energy Cup group match away to Bath

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10/4/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

EDF Energy Cup: Gloucester 24-19 Wasps

Danny Cipriani was absent as the season only got worse for Wasps with defeat in the EDF Energy Cup at Gloucester

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10/4/2008 11:06 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Paul Wilson: The sour side of Fergie and Wenger

Joe Kinnear is not the only top-flight football manager to spit the dummy in public

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10/4/2008 11:29 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Reading put three past Burnley

Reading maintained their excellent recent goal-scoring record in a comfortable home win over Burnley

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10/5/2008 10:49 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Chiefs' Gonzalez sets TE yardage record (AP)

Kansas City's Tony Gonzalez broke the NFL's career record for yards receiving by a tight end Sunday. Gonzalez entered the Chiefs' game at Carolina 3 yards shy of Shannon Sharpe's 5-year-old record of 10,060 yards. He surpassed the mark on Kansas City's second offensive series by catching a 6-yard pass from Damon Huard late in the first quarter.

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10/5/2008 11:36 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Saints brace for Vikings' Peterson (AP)

Power running, anyone? Adrian Peterson and Deuce McAllister both have a knack for inflicting pain on tacklers, turning nothing into something and wearing down defenses. Whether their teams rely on them to the same extent when the Minnesota Vikings visit the New Orleans Saints on Monday night is another matter.

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10/5/2008 2:31 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Hamlin taken to hospital after accident (AP)

Denny Hamlin was taken to a Birmingham hospital Sunday after a tire failure led to a hard crash at Talladega Superspeedway.

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10/4/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Golf: Kaymer keeps cool in the cold

Martin Kaymer emerged as joint-leader of the Dunhill Links after a torturous and bitterly cold third round at St Andrews

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10/4/2008 11:04 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Boxing: Hard-hitting Hide still has hunger

Veteran Herbie Hide KO'd sparring partner Aleksejs Kosobokovs to confirm his status as a cruiserweight world title challenger

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10/5/2008 9:07 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Injured Brewer Weeks off playoff roster (AP)

Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks tore cartilage in his left knee and was replaced on the postseason roster Sunday with top prospect Alcides Escobar. Assistant general manager Gord Ash said an MRI on Weeks showed a meniscus tear. Weeks would be eligible to return for the World Series if he can play through the injury.

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10/5/2008 11:09 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Goodell hasn't gotten a Kiffin grievance (AP)

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has not received a grievance from former Raiders coach Lane Kiffin in the wake of his bitter split with team owner Al Davis last week. Davis said Tuesday that Kiffin was fired for cause, meaning the Raiders will not pay him for the remainder of the three-year deal worth about $6 million.

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10/5/2008 12:27 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Rangers sweep opening series in Prague (AP)

Wade Redden and Scott Gomez each scored second-period goals and the New York Rangers rallied to beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 Sunday to sweep their two-game, season-opening series in Europe. The Lightning had only three shots on goal in the opening period, but went up 1-0 when Adam Hall scored after Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist partially blocked Andrej Meszaros' shot with 1:43 remaining.

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10/5/2008 1:10 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Dolphins hold on, beat Chargers 17-10 (AP)

With the Miami Dolphins threatening to score, running back Ronnie Brown waited in the single wing for a direct snap, his grin visible through his face mask. Winning can be fun, as the Dolphins are discovering. Brown was still grinning moments later when he reached the end zone. And he wore a smile in the locker room after Miami pulled off its second successive upset by beating San Diego 17-10.

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10/5/2008 1:18 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Portis powers Redskins by Eagles on road (AP)

A few of the Washington Redskins were walking off the field, high-fiving, hugging and celebrating another road victory when they looked up at disgruntled fans and gave them another reason to pout. "There's a new Beast of the East," players shouted. That's no exaggeration. Clinton Portis ran for 145 yards and one touchdown, wide receiver Antwaan Randle El threw a TD pass and the Redskins beat the...

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10/5/2008 1:20 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Colts rally past stunned Texans 31-27 (AP)

Headed for another early-season loss, Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts staged a stunning comeback thanks to a colossal collapse by the Houston Texans. Manning's late-game poise -- and the lack of it for Houston quarterback Sage Rosenfels -- helped the Colts scored 21 points in a late span of 2:10.

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10/5/2008 2:53 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Ryan guides Falcons past Pack at Lambeau (AP)

With every rock-solid read and on-target spiral, Matt Ryan takes another step toward making everybody forget Michael Vick, Bobby Petrino and everything else in the Atlanta Falcons' ugly recent past. The rookie quarterback turned in another sharp performance as the Falcons beat the Green Bay Packers 27-24 at Lambeau Field on Sunday, upstaging a gritty showing by Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers.