Videos
- Opening the Space Frontier
- By Robert Lemos - Thursday, November 20, 2008
- NASA’s Constellation Program plans to build spacecraft and vehicles to return astronauts to the Moon and possibly Mars.
- Video by NASA - Read the Article
 - The Shuttle Maneuvering in Space
- Thursday, November 20, 2008
- The Space Shuttle Atlantis conducts a rendezvous pitch maneuver--a backflip to reach the same orbital velocity as another spacecraft--before docking with the International Space Station. Atlantis is traveling at an orbital velocity of 17,500 miles per hour and is rotating three-quarters of a degree per second.
- • Article: Obama's NASA Dilemma Video by NASA
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 - Upwardly Mobile
- November/December 2008
- India is the fastest-growing mobile communications market in the world. The rural poor are rapidly adopting phones, so the technology could become a platform for providing banking services. Sanjay Swamy, CEO of the mobile-payment platform mChek, talks about the potential.
- • Article: Upwardly Mobile Video by David Talbot Edited by JR Rost
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