~ 7.5 Earth-Mass Planet Orbiting the Nearby Star, GJ 876“High precision, high cadence radial velocity monitoring over the past 8 years at the W. M. Keck Observatory reveals evidence for […]
2005
Posted inExploration
Hubble Scouts For Lunar Base Resources
NASA’s Hubble Reveals Moon’s Secrets (with additional background material)“NASA hosts a news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, Oct. 19, to discuss new Hubble Space Telescope images of the moon’s […]
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Space Advocacy Groups Start To Scatter When it Comes to the VSE
Griffin Seeks to Break Shuttle Blockade of Moon-Mars Exploration, Offical Mars Society Rant by Bob Zubrin“Set the goal, and go for it: Moon by 2012, Mars by 2016.” Editor’s note: […]
Posted inPersonnel News
ARC RIF Update: Notes From the Trenches
NASA ARC Reader note: “Last Friday (October 14th) was the final day on the “back side” of the WARN Act invoked here on the Lockheed Martin contract in August (reported […]
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Babs in Space
Editor’s note: From the October 2005 issue of Washingtonian magazine – interviews with local luminaries. Senator Mikulski’s profile includes her admission:“I’d be a Trekkie in two hot seconds,” she says. […]
Posted inAeronautics
AIA Pushs Congress on Aeronautics
NASA’s first ‘A’ is still important to U.S. economy , OpEd, The Hill“I urge conferees to embrace the $906.2 million figure for NASA aeronautics research in the 2006 science, state, […]
Posted inISS News
Swapping ISS Centrifuge for Lunar Nukes
NASA In Talks With Japanese About Nuclear Reactors on the Moon“NASA Administrator Mike Griffin made a trip to Japan this week. Topics under discussion include NASA’s new exploration architecture and […]
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UK Interest in Human Spaceflight is Strong
Royal Astronomical Society Commission Supports The Scientific Case for Human Space Flight“In summarising their findings, the Commissioners state: “We find that profound scientific questions relating to the history of the […]
Posted inSpace & Planetary Science
Rethinking Planetary Exploration
Interdisciplinary Scientists Propose Paradigm Shift in Robotic Space Exploration, California Institute of Technology“Just ask any geologist. If you’re studying the history of a planet and the life forms that may […]
Posted inShuttle News
Griffin's Lunch With Andy Card
Editor’s note: Mike Griffin recently had lunch with the President’s Chief of Staff, Andrew Card. According to a number of poeple, in his retelling of that lunch, Griffin has told […]