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(U.S. Defense Department graphic illustration by Jessica L. Tozer/Released)

Meet the Scientist: Dr. Richard Vaia

Posted on October 13, 2014 by jtozer

What do a tennis ball + cooked spaghetti have to do with nanoparticles? Dr. Richard Vaia explains in today’s Meet the Scientists.
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Saturday Space Sight: Hubble Eyes Golden Rings of Star Formation

Posted on June 28, 2014 by jtozer

Located in the constellation of Hydra (The Sea Serpent), NGC 3081 is located over 86 million light-years from us. It is known as a type II Seyfert galaxy, characterized by its dazzling nucleus.
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Posted in Articles, Photos, Space, Space Matters | Tagged armed with science, galaxies, Hydra, nasa, NASA photos of space, NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NGC 3081, photos from space, Saturday, saturday space sight, sight, space, space photos, supermassive black hole, the real Armed with Science, The Sea Serpent, Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 | Comments Off

Dreaming Big: Army Lt. Heidi Beemer Takes One Step Closer to Mars

Posted on May 29, 2014 by jtozer

Army Lt. Heidi Beemer made the first round of cuts in a non-profit Mars-bound mission. Will she be chosen to go where no one has gone before?
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Posted in Articles, DoDLive Science, Featured, Space, Space Matters | Tagged 1st Lt. Heidi Beemer, armed with science, Army officer becomes Mars colonist, AWS, Bas Lansdorp, Dutch, International Space Station, Jessica L. Tozer, living on Mars, Mars, Mars colonist, Mars colonists, nasa, non-profit Mars One, red planet, space, space-based operations, SpaceX, the military and space, the real Armed with Science, U.S. Army, Virgin Galactic | Comments Off

Top Tech: Scaling Back Space Debris

Posted on May 15, 2014 by jtozer

Physicists and Engineers have researched a technique to ‘sweep’ low Earth orbit debris from space using an active debris removal system of deployed micron-scale dust.
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Posted in Articles, DoDLive Science, Featured, Technology, Top Technology | Tagged Active Debris Removal, armed with science, AWS, collisional cascade, DOD Science, hubble space telescope, International Space Station, ISS, Jessica L. Tozer, Kessler effect, Low Earth Orbit, National Aeronautical and Space Administration, Naval Center for Space Technology, Orbital Debris Program Office, Pied Piper of space dust, Plasma Physics Division, space debris, space dust, the real Armed with Science, Top Tech, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | Comments Off

Holy New Technologies! The Air Force’s BATMAN Program

Posted on April 28, 2014 by jtozer

The BATMAN program, developed at the Air Force Research Lab, is working to find out if technologies like Google Glass can be utilized by service members in the field!
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