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  • Programmer-turned-astronaut to lift off on NASA's Endeavour

    Mission Specialist Gregory Chamitoff settles in aboard the space shuttle Endeavour during the Terminal Countdown Demonstration Test on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Photo courtesy of NASA) One of the six men lifting off onboard NASA's space shuttle Endeavour Friday is a computer programmer who built software for spacecraft before becoming an astronaut.

  • Texas fires two tech chiefs over breach

    The Texas State Comptroller's office has fired its heads of information security and of innovation and technology following an inadvertent data leak that exposed Social Security numbers and other personal information on over 3.2 million people in the state.

  • Obama's online trusted ID plan greeted with caution

    The Obama Administration's release of the final version of the <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9204639/Obama_Administration_fleshes_out_online_trusted_IDs">National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC)</a> was greeted on Friday with caution by privacy advocates who see it as a well-intentioned effort that is still years away from fruition.

  • NASA names space shuttles' retirement homes

    NASA has announced the four facilities that will receive a <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178815/NASA_extends_shuttle_mission_schedule_into_2011">retired space shuttle</a> to display once the fleet is officially shut down.

  • Gov't shutdown could delay Endeavour launch

    NASA confirmed Friday that a government shutdown could <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215464/NASA_delays_i_Endeavour_s_i_final_launch">delay the final launch</a> of the space shuttle Endeavour.

  • NASA's Messenger grabs historic image of Mercury

    This photo taken by the Messenger spacecraft from Mercury's orbit shows an area near the planet's south pole. (Image: NASA) NASA spacecraft Messenger delivered its first photograph of Mercury -- the first image of the planet taken from its own orbit.

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