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Month: July 2008
How is the NSSC Doing?

Reader note: “Question to all NASA managers: How do you feel about the NSSC hiring your best and brightest when they can’t even pay your center bills, can’t move new employees cross country, can’t answer basic retirement questions, and don’t return your calls? Question to the NASA Center Directors: How do you feel about not having any control over your hiring? And how do you feel about moving your credible […]

  • NASA Watch
  • July 31, 2008
Live Eclipse Coverage

NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Solar Eclipse “NASA, in partnership with the Exploratorium Science Center, San Francisco, Calif., and the University of California at Berkeley, will transmit live images of the Aug. 1, 2008, total eclipse of the sun.” Live links

  • NASA Watch
  • July 31, 2008
Lying Down To Explore Space

NASA Test Subjects Paid to Stay in Bed Three Straight Months, Fox “One way to recreate those conditions on the ground is for test participants to lie down with head slightly tilted back for 90 days. “It’s very relaxing at times. This is probably the most I’ve sat still in 10 years,” participant Heather Archuletta told MyFOXHouston.com.” Editor’s note: Check out Heather Archuletta’s blog: Pillow Astronaut

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  • July 31, 2008
Tasting Water on Mars

NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended “Laboratory tests aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander’s robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples. “We have water,” said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. “We’ve seen evidence for this water ice before […]

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  • July 31, 2008
Extend The Shuttle?

Glenn pushes for money to extend shuttle operations, Houston Chronicle “The White House blueprint, Glenn said, forced NASA to “cannibalize” existing programs such as the shuttle to finance the new direction. Chris Shank, a senior official at NASA, acknowledged in a telephone interview that NASA had not received additional funding to cover the president’s blueprint. NASA also had shouldered unforeseen return-to-flight costs after the loss of the shuttle Columbia on […]

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  • July 31, 2008
House Hearing on NASA's 50th

House Committee on Science and Technology Recognizes NASA’s Accomplishments on 50th Anniversary “Today, the House Committee on Science and Technology held a hearing to celebrate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) 50th anniversary by reviewing its accomplishments and examining its future opportunities and challenges. Committee Members questioned a distinguished panel of witnesses, including Hon. John Glenn — the first American to orbit the Earth — regarding the most influential […]

  • NASA Watch
  • July 30, 2008
Ultra High Res Phobos

Mars Express acquires sharpest images of martian moon Phobos “Mars Express closed in on the intriguing martian moon Phobos at 6:49 CEST on 23 July, flying past at 3 km/s, only 93 km from the moon. The ESA spacecraft’s fly-bys of the moon have returned its most detailed full-disc images ever, also in 3-D, using the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board.”

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  • July 30, 2008
Lakes and Beaches on Titan

NASA Cassini Instrument Confirms Liquid Surface Lake on Titan “Scientists have confirmed that at least one body in our solar system, other than Earth, has a surface liquid lake. Using an instrument on NASA’s Cassini orbiter, they discovered that a lake-like feature in the south polar region of Saturn’s moon, Titan, is truly wet. The lake is about 235 kilometers, or 150 miles, long.”

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  • July 30, 2008
The Candidates on NASA and Space Exploration

NASA’s 50th Anniversary: Statement from Sen. Obama “In recent years, Washington has failed to give NASA a robust, balanced and adequately funded mission. Though the good people of NASA who work day in and day out on new frontiers are doing amazing things, Americans are no longer inspired as they once were. That’s a failure of leadership. “I believe we need to revitalize NASA’s mission to maintain America’s leadership, and […]

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  • July 30, 2008
International Lunar Agreement Signed at ARC

NASA Hosts International Meeting for Lunar Science Discussions, NASA SMD “NASA hosted a meeting of space agencies from nine countries last week to discuss the next steps in the ongoing scientific exploration of the moon. The meeting laid the groundwork for a new generation of lunar science. Discussions, led by NASA Headquarters officials, were held at NASA’s Lunar Science Institute, located at the Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif.” […]

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  • July 30, 2008