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Month: September 2009
Elachi Joins Lebanese American University Board of Trustees

Distinguished Scientist Slated to Become Chairman of Lebanese American University’s Board of Trustees “Lebanese American University (LAU) will welcome Dr. Charles Elachi, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), as the new chairman of its Board of Trustees later this year. A valued member of LAU’s Board of Trustees for several years, Dr. Elachi will succeed Dr. George Faris, who has served meticulously as the chairman since 2006.”

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  • September 30, 2009
More Opinions on NASA's Value

Program brings us new technologies, Editorial by John Muratore, The Tennessean “Imagine facing security threats without stealthy aircraft made possible by fly-by-wire computer technology developed by NASA for the space shuttle using Apollo moon mission hardware. Imagine sending our troops into battle without hyper-accurate maps produced by shuttle radar mapping missions. Imagine surviving personal health-care crises without advanced medical imaging that evolved from NASA imaging of the moon and other […]

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  • September 30, 2009
Why Bother Telling People About Cool Stuff, eh?

Apollo 11: Second look, LRO “A month after LROC’s first image of the Apollo 11 landing site was acquired, LRO passed over again providing LROC a new view of the historic site. This time the Sun was 28 degrees higher in the sky, making for smaller shadows and bringing out subtle brightness differences on the surface. The look and feel of the site has changed dramatically.” Keith’s note: A press […]

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  • September 30, 2009
Virginia Commercial Space Flight Seeks a Leader

DEPUTY DIRECTOR, Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Washington Post “Virginia Commercial Space Flight (VCSFA) seeks a skilled, entrepreneurial leader willing to join a small team and assume full responsibility for all ops. including construction, design, launch manifest, grants, personnel, bus. development financial mgmt and public affairs are produced, implemented and evaluated cost effectively and in accordance with all contract requirements, federal and state laws and regulations. The ability to work […]

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  • September 30, 2009
Seeing Part of Mercury For The First Time

Unseen Mercury Revealed “Yesterday, as the spacecraft approached Mercury for the mission’s third flyby of the Solar System’s innermost planet, MESSENGER captured this striking view. This WAC image shows portions of Mercury’s surface that had remained unseen by spacecraft even after the three flybys by Mariner 10 in 1974-75 and MESSENGER’s two earlier flybys in 2008. In this image, just returned to Earth early this morning, the newly imaged terrain […]

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  • September 30, 2009
Guilty Plea in Schoeberl Case

NASA Scientist Pleads Guilty to Participating in Award of Contracts To His Wife, DOJ “Mark Schoeberl, age 60, of Silver Spring, Maryland, a senior manager and scientist at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), pleaded guilty today to a felony conflict of interest charge in connection with his participation in NASA contracts given to his wife’s company, announced United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein. When […]

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  • September 30, 2009
Expedition 21 Heads for ISS

Expedition 21 Crew Launches From Kazakhstan “Flight Engineers Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Suraev of the 21st International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 3:14 a.m. EDT Wednesday to begin a six-month stay in space. Less than 10 minutes after launch their spacecraft reached orbit, and its antennas and solar arrays were deployed shortly afterward. With Williams, a retired U.S. Army […]

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  • September 30, 2009
NASA OIG Criticizes Current JPL Contract

NASA OIG: NASA Should Reconsider the Award Evaluation Process and Contract Type for the Operation of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Redacted) “NASA can improve its management of the JPL contract: – NASA’s overall assessment of contractor performance may have been overstated because the Agency’s performance evaluations for fiscal year (FY) 2007 were incomplete or did not otherwise comply with its guidance. – The contractor’s poor performance on a large, significant […]

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  • September 29, 2009
What Is Open Innovation at JSC? Update

NASA JSC Solicitation Notice: Open Innovation Support Services “NASA/Johnson Space Center (JSC) has a requirement for an Open Innovation Service Provider with an extensive external network that can be used to introduce collaboration opportunities to the public. Specifically, NASA JSC is looking for an offeror that supports a network of experts that can facilitate solutions to a vast array of issues and challenges facing the future of human health and […]

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  • September 29, 2009
Selling NASA To The Skeptics

NASA veteran warns manned space program is a hard sell on Capitol Hill, Houston Chronicle “Supporters of NASA have to prove to Congress and the American people that NASA is “an essential part” of the nation’s scientific, educational and economic prowess, as well as milestone in U.S. history, [J.T.] Jezierski said. “A collection of mission patches may get you in the door (on Capitol Hill),” Jezierski said. “But the ability […]

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  • September 29, 2009