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Air Force's X-51 Scramjet Sets Record for Longest Hypersonic Flight
By Tariq Malik

An experimental aircraft has set a new record for the longest hypersonic flight after streaking across the sky Wednesday for more than three minutes while flying at Mach 5 – five times the speed of sound — the United States Air Force has announced.

The vehicle, called the X-51A Waverider, dropped from a B-52 Stratofortress mother ship while flying over the Pacific Ocean just off the southern California coast. It successfully ignited an air-breathing scramjet engine than accelerated up to Mach 5, Air Force officials said in the announcement. 

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/x-51a-scramjet-sets-hypersonic-flight-record-100527.html

E Construtores de Foguetões Privados juntam-se para fazerem um Módulo de Aterragem Robot...

Two California companies, one a rocket engine builder and the other a mock moon lander champion, have teamed up to develop new private unmanned vehicles that NASA could send to the moon, Mars and asteroids.

 http://www.space.com/news/rocket-builders-private-robot-landers-100527.html

...E algo que parece tirado do Parque Jurássico, DND foi tirado de Ovos Fossilizados!!!

THE GIST:

• For the first time, scientists have successfully extracted DNA from fossilized eggshells.
• Since many of the eggshells belonged to extinct birds, it may now be possible to learn more about mysterious prehistoric species.
• Eggs retrieved from cold climates could lead to recovery of very ancient DNA.

http://news.discovery.com/animals/eggshells-fossils-dna.html