Science
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How to Display a Retired Space Shuttle
Tuesday, August 3, 2010 NASA has stated that it intends to put up its three space shuttle orbiters — Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour — on museums for public display after the fleet is retired. The agency requested interested museums submit statements of interest, including details for how they plan to meet the requirement of exhibiting an orbiter in an environmentally-controlled, enclosed display. NASA has reserved Discovery for the Smithsonian but the fates of Atlantis and Endeavour, as well as the prototype Enterprise have yet to be decided. In the interim, some of the 20 organizations vying for an orbiter have released concepts for how they plan to exhibit a retired…
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World’s First Dog
Reported By Jennifer Viegas on 10/17/2008 the world’s first known dog was identified. A team of international scientists believe they have successfully discovered the earliest known dog. This pushes back the date, by 17,700 years, from the previous discovery, of what is now the second oldest, whose remains were found in Russia. The newly discovered, oldest known canine, lived 31,700 years ago. It was large and toothy; subsisted on a “diet of horse, musk ox and reindeer”. Its remains were found during an excavation at Goyet Cave in Belgium. Researchers believe this discovery suggests that “Aurignacian people of Europe from the Upper Paleolithic period first domesticated dogs”.