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Japan's new space shoe.
Largest map of the universe so far.
NASA searching for more funding.
Japan's new space shoe.
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"In an environment of no gravity, human muscles become atrophied and astronauts need to train themselves on machines," says Takehiro Tagawa, who developed the far-out footwear. The first samples, with a soft heel and flexible sole, weigh only 130 grams (4.6 ounces) each and incline slightly upward toward the toes. "By having the slant, the shoes would stretch a wearer's calf muscles even in the no-gravity environment," Tagawa says.
Largest map of the universe so far.
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Scientists have known since the 1920s that the universe is expanding. But it was only in the late 1990's that they realized it is doing so at an ever-increasing pace. Not sure how to explain this phenomenon, they concluded that some mysterious force, dark energy, is what's causing this acceleration.
NASA searching for more funding.
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In the U.S. House of Representatives, where annual spending legislation is starting to take shape, the appropriations subcommittee that deals with NASA's budget learned in early May that it has an extra $109 million to work with thanks to a slightly bigger-than-expected budget allocation meted out by House leaders. Not only is that amount about one-tenth of the additional money NASA would like to get, the U.S. space agency is only one of more than a dozen federal agencies the House must fund in the 2007 Science, State, Justice and Commerce Appropriations bill. And NASA supporters are far from alone in seeking money above and beyond the budget requests the White House sent Congress back in February.