23 November 2004: Congress Approves President’s Request for NASA Budget, Planetary SocietyLori Garver: “The approval of the budget was aided by strong support from The White House, which requested full […]
2004
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Launch Delays
NASA Spacecraft and Expendable Launch Vehicles Status Report 24 November 2004– Deep Impact Launch Date – No earlier than January 8, 2005– DART Launch Date – No earlier than March […]
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James Cameron on Risk
The Drive to Discover, James Cameron, Wired“If the next step is to send humans to Mars, then we must reexamine our culture of averting risk and assigning blame. We don’t […]
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Lucky Shot
24 November 2004: Meteorite ‘photographed’ hitting Earth, news.com.au“Northern Territory scientists were last night studying what could be the first photograph of a meteorite hitting Earth. The chances of an impact […]
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Don Puddy Has Died
23 November 2004: NASA Honors Memory of Mission Control Veteran Don Puddy“Donald R. Puddy, 67, whose 31-year career with NASA spanned the Apollo, Skylab and Space Shuttle programs, died Nov. […]
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Big Brother Returns at GSFC
From minutes of the November 22, 2004 meeting of the Goddard Management Council:“Proposed Rule: Anytime that a GSFC scientist/manager meets with the media, a PAO representative must be present and […]
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New Views of Distant Worlds
NASA Cassini Image: Hovering Over Titan“A mosaic of nine processed images recently acquired during Cassini’s first very close flyby of Saturn’s moon Titan on Oct. 26, 2004, constitutes the most […]
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Budget Flexibility Details
23 November 2004: Joint Explanatory Statement: (NASA Excerpts) Conference Report on H.R. 4818 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 200523 November 2004: NASA Excerpts from the Conference Report on H.R. 4818 Consolidated Appropriations […]
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Behind the scenes of the budget battle
23 November 2004: NASA will phase out 100 shuttle jobs at KSC, Orlando Sentinel“The official denials are literally accurate, despite repeated references in NASA’s own internal documents to “layoffs.” Most […]
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NASA Wins Big – Yet Supporters Hardly Take Notice
Editor’s note: NASA won an impressive legislative victory this past weekend when Congress voted to give the agency virtually everything the President asked for so as to begin the implementation […]