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Radiation Exposure Is A Challenge for Houston’s Medical And Aerospace Workers

Carrie Feibel

Posted on December 14, 2015 · Pumps & Pipes is an annual Houston for engineers and innovators from the city’s top three industries: energy, medicine and aerospace. At the 9th annual conference, there was a special focus on an occupational hazard shared by both astronauts and heart surgeons: radiation.

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Pumps And Pipes: Industry Leaders Present Innovative Collaborations At Conference

Syeda Hasan, KERA News

Posted on December 8, 2014 · The annual event draws hundreds of experts from the energy, oil and gas and aerospace industries to Houston.

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Posted on January 26, 2023 · Family and guests paid respects to lost lives at the Johnson Space Center’s Astronaut Memorial Grove today with a focus on the Columbia accident that occurred on February 1, 2003.

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Houston stargazers can see green comet in the sky during January, early February

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Posted on January 18, 2023 · The comet is not expected to be visible to the naked eye, but those with binoculars and away from Houston's city lights can try to spot it in the overnight hours.

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Posted on January 11, 2023 · Episode: 2628 When traveling into space, how do you know you’re there? Today, astronaut Michael Barratt asks, where exactly is the border of space?

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