NASA’s Flying Fish: Riding Aboard the Super Guppy Aircraft
TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — On Saturday (June 30), visitors to The Museum of Flight in Seattle will get an up-close look at a very unusual NASA aircraft. In fact, it’s not uncommon for air traffic controllers and even fellow pilots who spot the "Super Guppy" to ask a simple but telling question: “What are you?” full story 
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Strange visitor, the Super Guppy, lands at Hanscom
A massive cargo aircraft known as the Super Guppy landed Tuesday at Hanscom Air Force Base to deliver a heat shield for the NASA spacecraft Orion. The heat shield is in the area to have a protective coating known as Avcoat applied to it at Textron Defense Systems in Wilmington, according to NASA. It will arrive at Textron on Wednesday, said Brandi Dean, a NASA spokeswoman.
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NASA's 'Super Guppy' swallows supersonic NASA jets
Two supersonic NASA jets were swallowed whole by the space agency's outsized Super Guppy Transport plane in California this month so that they could be ferried to Texas.
yahoo.com (1 month and 25 days ago)
Why having a few ugly friends helps fish catch a mate
New research published by the Royal Society has found that male guppy fish prefer to associate with their drab-colored counterparts when females were around.
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NASA discovers new thin lightweight super-insulator
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Ugly Guppies Put Familiar Mating Strategy In Spotlight
LONDON -- When it comes to mating, guppies treasure their ugly friends - because they look so good by comparison. An article published Wednesday by Britain's Royal Society says that male guppies prefer to associate with their drab-colored counterparts when females are around. "Males actively choose the social context that maximizes their relative attractiveness," the article...
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NASA's goggle-eyed SPHERE robots create 3D maps on the fly
Take the little floating ball that gave Luke Skywalker so much trouble during lightsaber practice, slap a pair of huge welder’s goggles on it and you start to get a picture of NASA’s latest foray into flying robots. Currently being tested aboard the International Space Station (ISS), MIT Space Systems Laboratory’s SPHERES-VERTIGO system is a free-flying robot with...
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Darius Guppy: 'That element of madness was always there'
Back in the spotlight this week after a bizzare defence of Boris Johnson, Darius Guppy still courts controversy, finds Peter Stanford
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Big Pic: What A Supersonic Aircraft Model Looks Like In A Wind Tunnel
Take a look into a supersonic wind tunnel at NASA This is a 1.79 percent scale model of a concept supersonic aircraft designed by The Boeing Company. You're seeing it through a window in the supersonic wind tunnel at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Ohio. Researchers recently wind tunnel-tested the model's performance while changing the amount of air streaming through inlets...
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PHOTOS: NASA captures images of Alaska's Pavlof volcano
Gallery: Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) photographed Pavlof Volcano on May 18, 2013. For more on NASA's images go to earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Click to Continue »
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U.S. launches drone from aircraft carrier
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH (AP) - A drone the size of a fighter jet took off from the deck of an American aircraft carrier for the first time Tuesday in a test flight that could eventually open the way for the U.S. to launch unmanned aircraft from just about any place in the world.
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