“Cancel the sham program to return to the moon. Its goals are amorphous and too long term. It will not break the “government hobby” space paradigm, but extends it additional […]
2004
Posted inNews
We Owe it All to Bob Zubrin
“The Mars Underground is the incredible true tale of one scientist fighting impossible odds to change the direction of the space program, turn science fiction into science fact and lead […]
Posted inPersonnel News
Buyout Update
7 December 2004: NASA HQ Memo: NASA Early Retirement and Buyout Incentives“This process is about competency management and encouraging people to consider their options in a transformed NASA. This effort […]
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NAC Changes Ahead
7 December 2004: NASA advisory panel to split?, Huntsville Times“How the board will be transformed will be decided at its meeting today, but there has been discussion in the past […]
Posted inShuttle News
NASA Moves Closer to RTF
7 December 2004: NASA Says Shuttle Is On Track for May Flight, Washington Post“Space Shuttle Program Manager Bill Parsons said, however, that having a fully tested and certified repair method […]
Posted inHubble
Two Hubble Rescue Reports Due Soon
6 December 2004: National Academies Advisory: Dec. 8 News Conference on Hubble Space Telescope“ASSESSMENT OF OPTIONS FOR EXTENDING THE LIFE OF THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE, a new congressionally mandated report […]
Posted inAstronomy
Planets Forming Around a Sun-like Star?
2 December 2004: A Resolved Debris Disk around the G2V star HD 107146“We present resolved scattered-light images of the debris disk around HD 107146, a G2 star 28.5 pc from […]
Posted inCulture
Space Science ala Fox
6 December 2004: What if ‘Lost’ Went Lunar?, NY Post“Plans are under way at Fox – which wants to make a “Lost” of its own – for a new series […]
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Dick Keefe Has Died
Editor’s note: J. Richard Keefe, known to all of us NASA life science alumni as “Dick”, died last night of pancreatic cancer. Dick was one of the most dedicated NASA […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Why is Spirit Looking at itself?
Editor’s note: Can anyone tell me why Spirit is taking hi res pictures of its photovoltaic arrays with its micro imager? [More images]. The detail that some of these self-portraits […]