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Month: July 2009
Sloppy NASA IT: Someone Needs To Update NED (update)

Keith’s 26 July note: According to http://people.nasa.gov the NASA Enterprise Directory or “NED”, Mike Griffin, Shana Dale, Chris Shank, Scott Horowitz, Alan Stern, Eric Sterner, Paul Pastorek, Bill Readdy, Sean O’Keefe (spelled as ‘okeefe’ in the database) Fred Gregory, Scott Hubbard, Eileen Collins, Glenn Mahone, Lee Forgsgren, John D. Rummel, Ken Bowersox, Eileen and Steve Hawley, Paul Shawcross, Steve Isakowitz, Jeff Hoffman, John Schumacher, Charles Horner, Robert “Moose” Cobb, – […]

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  • July 31, 2009
We do what we do because we believe in what we do

Forty Years Later, Rekindling The Character Of A Generation, Calvin Turzillo, SpaceRef “Everyone who works for the United States Space Program always feels a certain sense of pride about what we do. We definitely don’t do what we do for the money, we are probably some of the lowest paid scientific professionals in the country. We don’t do what we do for job security, congress cuts our budgets and we […]

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  • July 31, 2009
Endeavour Is Home

Space Shuttle Endeavour Returns to Earth “Space shuttle Endeavour touched down at 10:48: a.m. EDT. at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Commander Mark Polansky is expected to make a brief statement on the runway after the post-landing walk-around of the shuttle. The post-landing news conference is set for approximately 1 p.m. and will air live on NASA Television. The crew’s news conference is set to begin at about 3:15 […]

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  • July 31, 2009
Human Space Flight Plans Committee Meets at KSC

Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee Meeting: KSC You can track Twitter posts on this meeting here Panel Wants Deep Space, Not Landings as U.S. Goal, NY Times “A panel examining the future of the United States’ human spaceflight program will suggest that the Obama administration may want to skip the part about landing on other worlds. That could, panel members said Thursday, enable the National Aeronautics and […]

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  • July 31, 2009
Russia Is Complaining Again

Russia says U.S. shuttle delays create a burden, Reuters “A senior Russian space official said delays in U.S. shuttle launches to the International Space Station (ISS) meant extra work for Russian rocket crews without any financial compensation, RIA news agency reported. Russia and the United States are the main contributors to the 16-nation $100 billion ISS project, but Russia has borne the brunt of sending crews and cargo there since […]

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  • July 30, 2009
Two Research Ships Named Endeavour Are Returning Home to Port

Space Shuttle Crew Set To Return To Earth Friday “Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven-member crew are scheduled to return to Earth on Friday after a 16-day mission. There are two landing opportunities at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:48 a.m. and 12:23 p.m. EDT.” Endeavor returns from research mission, WPRI “The main goal of the 13-member crew was to measure ocean currents. Endeavor, which spends an average […]

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  • July 30, 2009
Augustine Committee Meets at MSFC Today

Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee Meeting: MSFC Keith’s note: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. CDT. Watch it on USTREAM TV and the NASA TV Media Channel You can track Twitter posts on this meeting – live – here Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin presents case for Ares rockets and NASA moon program to review panel, Huntsville Times “Former NASA Administrator Mike Griffin made a private pitch this morning to […]

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  • July 29, 2009
Is NASA Accepting Casino Ads on MSL?

Buzzluck.com, the World’s First Online Supercasino, Adds a Live DJ and a Trip to Mars “Having conquered Europe with their innovative new online supercasino, the boys at Buzzluck.com set their eyes on a new heavenly body to make their mark on: Mars. Kindly, the boffins at NASA offered to take Buzzluck’s registered trademark and “Never Bored” tagline on the Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in 2011. Back on […]

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  • July 29, 2009
HMP Research Station Webcams Live From Devon Island

Keith’s note: These webcams are now online at the Haughton Mars Project Research Station on Devon Island. They wiill be online until the first week of August. These webcams make use of new PlanetNet wireless technology, a Canadian Space Agency funded experiment, led by Simon Fraser University. These webcams are sponsored by NASAWatch’s sister website, SpaceRef.com. Webcam 1 inside the HMP office tent. Note that large coolers are used as […]

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  • July 29, 2009
Today's Interesting Tweets

bnjacobs On this day in 1958 President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA. NASAHurricane The Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean get another “Clean bill of Health” with no tropical storm formation expected in the next 48 hours AlanStern is about to spend 2 long, long days in one small room helping some dreamers bring human space flight into the 21st century. alias_amanda Results of […]

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  • July 29, 2009