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  • With all of Weiler's HST background you would think that he would be a proponent of any well-run astronomy program, whether it was ground, air, or space-borne.

    Weiler Seeks to Cut NASA Access to Keck Observatory - NASA Watch 2009

  • Usually tasked to providing a controlled environment for space-borne science, MERLIN was adopted as the first space refrigerator for the International Space Station.

    Mmm Good Space Food - NASA Watch 2009

  • After Deej tortured us by making us watch the entire 1978 Battlestar Galactica, I couldn't help but notice some similarities between the two shows: both are about space-borne aircraft carriers fighting relentless alien assaults as they make their ways, along with a lot of civilian hangers-on, toward Earth.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • After Deej tortured us by making us watch the entire 1978 Battlestar Galactica, I couldn't help but notice some similarities between the two shows: both are about space-borne aircraft carriers fighting relentless alien assaults as they make their ways, along with a lot of civilian hangers-on, toward Earth.

    The Super Dimension Fortress Macross vs. Battlestar Galactica 2009

  • More than one hundred years after his climate work, and hundreds of thousands of observations later including from space-borne platforms and the use of sophisticated computer models, the basic climate findings of Arrhenius have been confirmed.

    Bill Chameides: Svante Arrhenius: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad Bill Chameides 2011

  • But that doesn't mean the old show doesn't have something worth repeating; I certainly think it does, particularly the incredible idea of a mobile, space-borne refugee camp containing the entire remnant of the human race, trying to escape an inexhaustible army of merciless robots.

    Archive 2008-09-01 2008

  • Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope (SOT) is the first space-borne instrument to measure the strength and direction of the sun's magnetic field in the sun's low atmosphere, also called the photosphere.

    The Sun - Granulation Bente Lilja Bye 2008

  • Or beam a space-borne message to radio operators in North Korea?

    Nanosatellites Take Off Andy Greenberg 2010

  • Addition of a new satellite gives Israel the capability of sending space-borne cameras over sensitive areas more frequently.

    Ofek-9: Israel Launches New Spy Satellite 2010

  • But that doesn't mean the old show doesn't have something worth repeating; I certainly think it does, particularly the incredible idea of a mobile, space-borne refugee camp containing the entire remnant of the human race, trying to escape an inexhaustible army of merciless robots.

    Battlestar Galactica: Season 1 2008

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