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Month: May 2006
Futuristic Belgian Station To Be Built in Antarctica

Belgium’s Antarctic research station a global sustainability benchmark“The International Polar Foundation (IPF) unveiled today the final plans for Belgium’s Princess Elisabeth Antarctic research station, to be built during the International Polar Year 2007-08 (IPY). The station will enable Belgium, and other nations participating in its science program, to carry out important research on climate change and Antarctica’s key role as part of the global climate system. This research will contribute […]

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  • May 31, 2006
Fly Your Stuff In Outer Space With Bigelow

Editor’s note: According to the revamped Bigelow Aerospace website: “Want to Take a Ride? Once the domain of only the privileged, Bigelow Aerospace is now offering to the public an exciting new opportunity. For the first time, you can actually send an item of your own into space. Your personal selection will be floating inside a spacecraft hundreds of miles above the Earth. If all systems function properly, your personal […]

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  • May 31, 2006
Help These Kids See Their Experiment Reach Space

Editor’s 31 May update: I just got this note Pamela Ghaffarian at Franke Park Elementary. Well Done, NASA Watch readers! “Thank you! You did it!! The boys will be going on Sunday!! They are not even complaining (too much) about the 5 a.m. arrive at the airport time. Thank you so much!!”In addition to NASA Watch reader generosity, Phil Plait aka “The Bad Astronomer”, saw this posting on NASA Watch […]

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  • May 31, 2006
What Lisa Porter Said – And What NASA Wants You To Think She Said

Editor’s 30 May 2006 5:42 pm EDT note: At an all hands meeting at LaRC today, NASA AA for Aeronautics, Lisa Porter, told the audience that NASA “does not need research aircraft”. She then specifically cited LaRC’s Boeing 757 as “no longer needed.” Editor’s 31 May 2006 4:02 pm EDT note: NASA LaRC just posted this summary of Porter’s all hands talk yesterday. Alas, the summary is mostly fluff and […]

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  • May 31, 2006
Griffin Warns JPL About Trying to Grow Its Workforce

NASA Administrator Griffin Vists Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Sees Stable Future“In the future he expects JPL to continue to attract new business by competing for missions, but, “If I think JPL is in danger of falling below having the right amount of work to cover the JPL staff, then I will do as I have done at other places I will find you a mission. If you can win enough to […]

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  • May 31, 2006
Time for PAO to Ignore Yet Another Earthbound Astronaut

What’s The Link Between Astronauts and Osteoporosis?, International Osteoporosis Foundation“Though most people may not think of it, bedridden patients and astronauts share something in common: progressive bone loss. Immobile patients lose bone density because they don’t exercise muscles that would otherwise build skeletal strength through motion. Astronauts also face long periods of immobility, in addition to zero gravity, which negatively affects bone cell function.”NASA’s bed rest subjects have lot of […]

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  • May 31, 2006
The Evaporation of US Space Station Science

Europe’s Columbus lab, saviour of the space station, arrives in US, The Guardian“But the ISS project hit problems from the outset. The first piece of the ISS was launched in 1998 but, as costs mounted, Nasa began to cut its once-ambitious plans. The Columbia space shuttle accident in 2003 stalled progress, as all flights to add components to the ISS were put on hold. “Flash forward, the US has cut […]

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  • May 31, 2006
Putting a Happy Face on Space Science Cuts

NASA’s science programs in jeopardy, Cleveland Plain Dealer“The space agency insists its support for science remains strong. “With the growth in science over the last 15 years to almost 33 percent of NASA’s budget, we feel good about the robustness of the program going forward,” press secretary Dean Acosta said. Griffin recently dismissed as “almost hysterical” the notion from scientists and some lawmakers that the cuts endanger America’s space supremacy.”

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  • May 28, 2006
Dave King's Less Than Accurate Statement About RLEP

NASA chooses MSFC for moon mission work, Huntsville Times“We are gratified to be selected by NASA headquarters to lead this important program that paves the way back to the moon,” MSFC Director Dave King said in a statement.” Editor’s note: C’mon Dave. Be honest. You told Sen. Shelby that you needed/wanted to take RLEP away from ARC. Sen. Shelby then made it very clear to NASA HQ that he wanted […]

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  • May 28, 2006
NASA's First Official Blog

NASA ARC Internal Memo: Message from the Director – Ames Creates a New Blog“I am pleased to announce that the Office of the Center Director has created a blog. The purpose is to have a new and (we hope) effective tool for communication at the Center. The Deputy Director, the Associate Director for Institutions and Research, and I will use the blog to periodically convey information and to share important […]

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  • May 26, 2006