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Month: December 2018
Meanwhile OSIRISREx Is Now Orbiting A Tiny Asteroid

It's official! I'm in orbit around #asteroid Bennu — now the smallest body ever orbited by a spacecraft. My snug path around the asteroid also sets a new record for the closest orbit of a planetary body by any spacecraft. #HappyNewYear, indeed! More ?? https://t.co/fwL3FEVU9m pic.twitter.com/ceavR7ju6i — NASA's OSIRIS-REx (@OSIRISREx) December 31, 2018

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  • December 31, 2018
Pale Blue Dot 2.0?

Question: "Can @NASANewHorizons reproduce the famous "Pale Blue dot" image? @AlanStern: Yes we think we can but there is a risk of burning the cameras out – permanently – so we would want to do all flybys first. #UltimaThule pic.twitter.com/Rzmreuo1af — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 31, 2018

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  • December 31, 2018
New Horizons Flyby Of Ultima Thule
New Horizons Flyby Of Ultima Thule

Media Briefings, Online Coverage of Ultima Thule Flyby “NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is on track to perform the farthest flyby in history, when it zips past a Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule — more than four billion miles from Earth — at 12:33 a.m. EST on Jan. 1. Flyby activities are taking place at the home of New Horizons operations, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, […]

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  • December 31, 2018
Space Scientists Have More Impact Than You Think
Space Scientists Have More Impact Than You Think

The Most Famous Person To Die In 2018, According To Data Science, Huffington Post “What this graph doesn’t tell us, however, is who specifically was the most famous person to die in 2018. To calculate this, we need a means to measure an individual’s level of fame. And this is where we can borrow a trick from Google. The search engine ranks results by counting the number of pages linking […]

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  • December 30, 2018
Nancy Grace Roman
Nancy Grace Roman

Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer celebrated as ‘mother’ of Hubble, dies at 93, Washington Post “Undeterred by the barriers to women in the sciences, Dr. Roman found a professional home at NASA. Even there, she recalled in an interview years later, she felt compelled to use the honorific “Dr.” “Otherwise,” she said, “I could not get past the secretaries.” After joining the fledgling space agency in 1959, Dr. Roman became the […]

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  • December 29, 2018
Shutdown: NASA Employees Ordered Not To Do Any Space Exploration
Shutdown: NASA Employees Ordered Not To Do Any Space Exploration

Planning for a Government Shutdown, NASA “During the Shutdown Furlough, you will be in a nonpay, nonduty status. During this time, you will not be permitted to serve NASA as an unpaid volunteer. You must remain away from your worksite, and may not work at home, in another location, or participate in events hosted by non-NASA entities in your official capacity like speeches or speakers bureau engagements, unless and until […]

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  • December 28, 2018
Shutdowns And History (Update)

If the #Apollo8 mission had happened during a #GovernmentShutdown there would not have been any Christmas Eve broadcast from the Moon by @NASA#UltimaThule #UltimaFlyby pic.twitter.com/vUnEzR05wd — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) December 27, 2018 Update. Now the @NASA home page points to https://t.co/OzINGBtqnc – it used to point to https://t.co/VoKf8YqIRc As such, it would seem that @NASANewHorizons #UltimaThule events will be on NASATV after all. Good news! #Governmentshutdown pic.twitter.com/E7kGVGh5I6 — NASA Watch […]

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  • December 27, 2018
Why Did JPL Shut Down Half Of A Website? (Update)

Keith’s 9:30 am ET note: Apparently the NASA Deep Space Network Now website only operates with human intervention – NASA civil servant intervention, to be specific. If you visit the site now it is online but it does not show any activity on the DSN. There is a clock in the upper former that shows that it is updating. Obviously the DSN is still talking to spacecraft such as New […]

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  • December 23, 2018
Space Frontier Act Passes Senate But Fails In The House
Space Frontier Act Passes Senate But Fails In The House

Keith’s update: S. 3277 failed passage on the House on a 239 -137 vote under a suspension of the rules wherein debate is limited, no amendments allowed, and a 2/3 majority is required for passage. Bill Nelson’s last big space bill approved by U.S. Senate, Florida Politics “Senate Bill 3277, which was introduced in July with Texas Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz as primary sponsor and Nelson and Democratic U.S. […]

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  • December 22, 2018